Mailman 3 December 2002 - Pycon-interest

hotel group rate.
by Chris Johnson 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

OK: Are there any plans for any group rates any where. I called the sales dept at George Washington university inn http://www.gwuinn.com . They said a block of ten rooms could hold until Until feb 28 at 196.00 a night. If reservation for the block are not filled by then they will let them go. I have looked on the web and there are several nice hotels around the area or close to the blue train line for around 125.00 a night. That is a much better rate. That week I understand is "cherry blossom" week. I suppose Washington has events year round so I don't know how early reservations typically need to be made. chris j

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I'm interested.... kinda
by Matt Payne 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

This morning I received Steve Holden's email alerting a bunch of people to the low cost Python conference coming this March. Thank you Steve! I'm numb to conferences because they are traditionally priced at the corporate level. I had missed previous announcements of http://www.python.org/pycon/... perhaps my head was in the sand. Is this the first time a low cost Python conference has been held in the USA? My main interest in Python is Jython. The wiki (http://www.python.org/cgi- bin/moinmoin/PyCon) mentions that others are interested in this as well. Great! Perhaps there could be a Jython track? There's a call for Volunteers on the wiki. What would the Volunteers do? I live in Nebraska. What might I be able to do? Are you looking for volunteers before the conference or to do things during? Or both? Is it ok to post talk and paper ideas to the wiki? To the mailing list? Only send them into the committee? -- Matt Payne, Payne(a)MattPayne.org \|/ (o o) ------------------------------oOo--(_)--oOo-------------------------------- Slow down to go faster.

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Re: [Pycon-interest] sprint
by Steve Holden 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

Brett Cannon > [Steve Holden] > > > Christian Tismer wrote: > > > Chris Johnson wrote: > > > > I am interested in attending a sprint. > > > > > > Ditto here. How is this going to be handled? My impression from reading > about the Zope sprints was that people came in and did XP-style hacking on > the core code. I assumed that meant you had to already know a good amount > about the core, but this little discussion has led me to think I was wrong > about that assumption. > > Obviously not everyone can do the sprints. This is going to be a queue > sign-up? Or is Jeremy going to decide who gets to do it? If the word is > spread that anyone can do them regardless of abilities then the sprints > might have a rather large inflow of people wanting to do it. > > And if anyone can do it regardless of skill base, then I want to be on the > list behind Chris. =) > Jeremy? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/ Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/ Bring your musical instrument to PyCon! http://www.python.org/pycon/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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sprint
by Chris Johnson 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

I am interested in attending a sprint. Why: I am a newbie to python and programming. I have played with asp and php and taken vb classes so I get the basics of programming. I bet i could learn a lot just watching the code come out and hearing discussion about the app. I am coming to pycon just hopeing to learn more becouse greping from books is not a learning style I utilize well. Watching others and listening is the way I learn best. I have no python mentors here where I live. Are newbie's welcome ? Is this a cool way to learn the pythonic way ? Chris Johnson 713-996-1619 QE NetIQ

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i wanna go.
by Chris Johnson 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

All: Just posting so ya'll know i am gonna come , if can afford it.I requested vacation days today. Lodging. Maybe we can get a group discount some where in foggy creek. cj Chris Johnson

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DC Weblogger
by Matt Croydon 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hello, My name is Matt Croydon and I dabble in Python, I'm a compsci major, a weblogger, and I live near DC. I've already announced the con on my weblog (http://postneo.com), but I'd like to know what else I can do to help. --Matt ... matt(a)ooiio.com http://postneo.com

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Rich Bowen: [Oscon] Useful comments about conferences
by Guido van Rossum 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

>From another list on conferences... --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:45:58 -0500 From: Rich Bowen <rbowen(a)rcbowen.com> To: <oscon(a)labs.oreilly.com> Subject: [Oscon] Useful comments about conferences This blog reiterates things that I've often thought. Worth considering: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000750 - -- Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the sky on laughter-silvered wings --High Flight (John Gillespie Magee) _______________________________________________ Oscon mailing list Oscon(a)labs.oreilly.com http://labs.oreilly.com/mailman/listinfo/oscon ------- End of Forwarded Message

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