All,
Ivan and I were chatting tonight and we are both concerned that we have
not received enough proposals. We will get more over the week, but it will
be quite shy of what we would like to see for the friday deadline. I believe
the primary reason for this is a lack of advertising. We need your help to
get the word out.
Blogs/PodCasts:
If you have a blog or poscast, please post about the deadline. If you have
given a talk in the past, please post about the experience.
IRC:
I have started making regular announcements in the following irc channels on
freenode.net:
python
django
turbogears
plone
What others should be included? Anyone can make announcements in these
channels, the more the better.
Mailing lists/user groups:
If you are a user group member, please get the word out, and consider having
a group meeting dedicated to practice talks.
We should make a list of mailing lists and make posts (python-users,
django-users, etc.)
Local Schools:
For those in the Chicago area, please try to contact professors at local
colleges and institutions.
Undergrads, Grads, and especially Doctorate students are a prime source of
interesting presentations.
Focusing on local schools has a greater ROE, as students do not have much
cash for travel.
Anything else you can think of.
We need to do a grass roots blitz to get the word out to the greater
community. Anything you can do to help will be greatly appreciated.
It does not take any special knowledge or skills to give a presentation.
Even the most basic users can present on something, and we like these types
of beginner proposals.
The call for proposals contains more details:
http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/proposals/
-Doug Napoleone
There is only one week left for PyCon tutorial & scheduled talk proposals. If
you've been thinking about making a proposal, now's the time!
Tutorial details and instructions here:
http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/proposals/
Scheduled talk details and instructions here:
http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/proposals/
The deadline is Friday, November 16. Don't put it off any longer!
PyCon 2008: http://us.pycon.org
--
David Goodger
PyCon 2008 Chair
