Mailman 3 October 2007 - Pycon-interest

PyCon 2008: Call for Talk & Tutorial Proposals
by David Goodger Oct. 16, 2007

Oct. 16, 2007

Proposals for PyCon 2008 talks & tutorials are now being accepted. The deadline for proposals is November 16. PyCon 2008 will be held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from March 13-20. http://us.pycon.org/2008/ Tutorial Day: Half-Day Tutorials ================================ Do you enjoy teaching classes or tutorials? Are you good at it? PyCon is looking for proposals for tutorials. The PyCon Tutorial Day will be March 13, 2008 (Thursday). There will be morning and afternoon tutorial … [View More]sessions (3 hours each, plus a 30-minute break); presenters may request two sessions in order to make up a full day. Tutorials may be on any topic, but obviously should be instructional in nature. Full details and instructions here: http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/proposals/ Conference Days: Scheduled Talks ================================ Want to share your experience and expertise? PyCon is looking for proposals to fill the formal presentation tracks. The PyCon Conference Days will be March 14-16, 2008 (Friday-Sunday). Previous PyCon conferences have had a broad range of presentations, ranging from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. We hope to continue that tradition this year. As long as the presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program. We're especially interested in short tutorial presentations that will teach conference-goers something new and useful. Can you show attendees how to: use a module? explore a Python language feature? package an application? Full details and instructions here: http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/proposals/ Development Sprints =================== Four days of development sprints will follow the conference days, March 17-20 (Monday-Thursday). Start thinking about sprints you'd like to lead or join. We'll have an announcement about these soon! http://us.pycon.org/2008/sprints/ Lightning Talks & Open Space ============================ If you don't want to make a formal presentation, you can still bring your new project or idea to PyCon. There will be several sessions of Lightning Talks (five minute mini-talks, scheduled at the conference). http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/lightning There will also be several Open Space rooms for informal and spur-of-the-moment presentations. Open Space slots are allocated during PyCon on a first-come first-served basis. These slots can be used for presentations, round table discussions, hands-on tutorials, follow-up discussions after scheduled talks, or anything else you wish to present. http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/openspace/ Help Out! ========= PyCon 2008 planning is in full swing, but we can still use more help, *your* help! http://us.pycon.org/2008/helping/ [View Less]

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Pycon-Tech IRC meeting tomorrow, Oct 16th. 2pm EST (#pycon@freenode.net)
by Douglas Napoleone Oct. 15, 2007

Oct. 15, 2007

Sorry for the short notice, There will be a PyCon-Tech meeting tomorrow at 2pm EST, held on IRC in the #pycon channel on freenode.net. The proposal system is now live, and it is time to shift focus to other areas of the conference software. The agenda is here: https://pycon.coderanger.net/wiki/Meetings The Agenda for those like me who hate leaving a perfectly good e-mail client: 1. revamp the roadmap dates/times due to the late proposal start This includes getting fixed times for … [View More]

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PyCon-Tech meeting starting now.
by Douglas Napoleone Oct. 2, 2007

Oct. 2, 2007

Just a friendly reminder that the meeting is starting now. http://pycon.blogspot.com/2007/10/next-pycon-tech-meeting-2-october.html -Doug

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PyCon-Tech Meeting Tomorrow, Oct. 2nd, 2pm EST
by Douglas Napoleone Oct. 1, 2007

Oct. 1, 2007

There will be a PyCon-Tech Meeting tomorrow. The meeting will be held on irc in #pycon(a)freenode.net, at 2pm Eastern Standard Time (1pm Central) . This is a public meeting and all are invited to attend. `PyCon <http://us.pycon.org/>`_ is a volunteer conference for the python community, by the community, and we need all the help we can get. We have missed the Oct. 1st deadline for getting the proposal system live, and we need to focus on the remaining issues. The meeting agenda with … [View More]

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