Mailman 3 January 2006 - Pycon-interest

Reminder: reserve PyCon hotel rooms today
by A.M. Kuchling 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Last reminder: reserve your PyCon hotel rooms today! Go to http://us.pycon.org/Addison/Hotels for a link to the reservation page. After today, you can still try to book rooms at the conference rate. The hotel, however, doesn't guarantee that rooms will be available at that rate, and you may end up having to stay somewhere else, or pay the hotel's full price. --amk

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Where to sign up
by Greg Lindstrom 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hello- I just got word that I will be able to attend PyCon this year (thank-you PSF and Novasys Health) and was looking for where I could sign up to help out with registration or act as a room chair. Can you tell me where to go (so to speak)? --greg -- Greg Lindstrom 501 975.4859 (office) Programmer 501 219-4455 (fax) NovaSys Health greg.lindstrom(a)novasyshealth.com Little Rock, Arkansas "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." W.W. Confidentiality Notice ---------------------- This email and any attachments to it are privileged and confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, any use, distribution, or copying of this communication, or disclosure of all or any part of its content to any other person, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and destroy this message and delete any copies held in your electronic files. Thank you.

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Re: [Pycon-interest] share a ride/car rentals
by Brett Hoerner 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

On 1/19/06, w chun <wescpy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > also, yahoo! maps says 19 miles and half-hour driving time. > brett, how is traffic on a wednesday late afternoon, say 4pm? I can't say I've been between DFW and Addison at that time, but I used to drive to Addison (I'm NE in Richardson, at UTD) everyday around those times for work... 4pm is nothing compared to when people get out of work (5:30-7 is pretty miserable on any Dallas highways)... I'd say 30-40 minutes is a good estimate. Brett

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share a ride/car rentals
by w chun 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

anyone just need a ride DFW to/from the venue and feel that 260 individuals renting a car is a waste? i'd be glad to drive to in either direction if there's room in my car. i'll take a small donation to cover for the gas since i'm on my own (read as: not getting reimbursed by my company) -- if you don't feel like it, that's fine too. i'm just trying to take another car off the road. i'll be arriving at DFW on wed, feb 22 around 3:30p (AA1352), and will be departing the marriott on sun, feb 26 around 4:30-4:45p right after the sprint intros -- my departing flight is AA847 which takes off at 6:53pm. let me know if any part of our schedules match, and if you're interested in hitching a ride. cheers, -wesley ps. i got my car on priceline -- if u need a car, fyi, i bid $23, which was accepted, so it's possible u can go lower... if u dare.

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Open space activities at PyCon
by A.M. Kuchling 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

One PyCon tradition is leaving blank spaces on the schedule for attendees to fill in with their own events, such as birds-of-a-feather discussions, presentations, or brainstorming sessions. Many open space events are arranged on the spur of the moment at the conference, but you can also start setting things up now. For instructions on how to set up an event in this open space in the schedule, please see the instructions at <http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/OpenSpace>. --amk

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Sharing rooms
by A.M. Kuchling 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

If you're trying to reduce your hotel costs for PyCon, there's a wiki page at <http://us.pycon.org/Addison/RoomSplitting> for listing yourself as a potential roommate. (Of course, PyCon and the PSF take no responsibility for the outcome if you share a room with someone you don't know well.) A.M. Kuchling amk(a)amk.ca Chair, PyCon 2006 http://us.pycon.org

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PyCon: last day for early bird registration
by A.M. Kuchling 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Sunday, January 15th, is the last day on which you can obtain the lower early-bird registration price. The cost of registration will be going up on Monday; I'm quite sure that the early bird period will *not* be extended again. Another reminder: if you're coming to PyCon and staying in the conference hotel, you *must* reserve your hotel rooms before February 1st in order to get the lower conference rate; if you reserve after the 1st, you'll be stuck paying the hotel's standard room rate. Go to http://us.pycon.org/Addison/Hotels for hotel information and a link to the reservation page for PyCon. A.M. Kuchling amk(a)amk.ca Chair, PyCon 2006 http://us.pycon.org

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Schedule data now available
by A.M. Kuchling 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

(This is also an entry in my weblog, at <http://www.amk.ca/diary/2006/01/pycon_schedule_data_now_availa_1>.) One complaint at the last PyCon was that it was difficult to find out what was going on in the Open Space sessions. The board for writing up sessions was pretty small, so it became a traffic jam. It didn't help that I added some of the sessions, and my handwriting is bad. For this year, I want to do better. The idea is to store the schedule in the Python wiki, and have a script that parses the wiki source for this page to produce the HTML schedule. During the conference, attendees can modify the page to record their Open Space events. Every morning, I'll run the script to generate an updated version of the schedule and print out a few copies to be posted at the registration desk and elsewhere. A bonus feature is that this will make it easy to support other calendar formats, or to build some application on top of the schedule data. The master data for the schedule is on the PyCon2006/FinalSchedule wiki page. The data is simple, a 4-column table of (room, start time, duration, description): || Room || Time || Duration (min) || Content || || ---|| 8:00 || 30 || Registration opens || || --- || 9:00 || 90 || Plenary: GvR keynote || || --- || 10:30 || 20 || Break || || Ballroom A-E || 10:50 || 45 || #73 || || Ballroom F-J || 10:50 || 45 || #23 || || Preston Trail || 10:50 || 45 || #45 || || Bent Tree || 10:50 || 45 || Open || The parsing script is in the Python SVN repository, in the sandbox/pycon directory. Instructions for using the script, and links to the ViewCVS version of the repository, are on the PyCon2006/ScheduleData wiki page. It can output the data as HTML or as a Python data structure. Any volunteers to implement iCal, RDF, or XML output? --amk

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PyCon: Plone, Python, BitTorrent keynotes
by A.M. Kuchling 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

The keynotes at PyCon 2006 can now be announced. Alan Runyan and Alexander Limi will open the conference with a keynote about Plone. I haven't received a title yet, but I expect it will provide an overview of Plone's current status, how it's developed, and where the Plone project is headed. On the middle day of the conference (Saturday), Guido van Rossum will give his traditional State of Python talk that will presumably cover the new features that were introduced in Python 2.4 and the features coming in Python 2.5. On the final day, we'll have Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent. The format won't be a conventional keynote; instead, Cohen has requested to be interviewed. An interviewer hasn't been chosen yet, but you can suggest questions on a wiki page at <http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/BramCohenInterview>. A.M. Kuchling amk(a)amk.ca Chair, PyCon 2006 http://us.pycon.org

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PyCon TX 2006: Early-bird registration ends Jan. 15!
by A.M. Kuchling 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Early bird registration for PyCon TX 2006 ends on January 15th, so there's only a week left. To register, please go to: http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/Registration You can still register after Jan. 15th, but the cost will go up by US$65 (US$25 for students). This year PyCon will feature a day of tutorials before the three days of regular presentations. Course outlines for all the tutorials have been posted; see http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Tutorials All of the PyCon tutorials are still open for new registrations, but space is limited. Don't forget to book your hotel room, too. PyCon TX 2006 is being held at a Dallas/Addison hotel, and we have negotiated a special low rate of $79 plus applicable taxes: http://us.pycon.org/Addison/Hotels We hope to see you in Texas! Regards, A.M. Kuchling amk(a)amk.ca Chair, PyCon 2006 http://us.pycon.org

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