Hi Simon This is looking really great. Some comments: 1. Lightning Talk. Happy to oblige. Have we finalised what the format is? 2. Django. That really is a glaring omission. A lot of the attendees will be either planning to use it or actively using it, I would think at least an advanced and intermediate/beginner level talk would be useful (or maybe a have a beginner tutorial? 3. Mobile. Do we have no potential talks on mobile development, especially on Android. I know Python isn't heavily used in this arena, but given the importance/relevance in Africa would be great to have a specific talk around that? Where google not interested in maybe doing this? 4. The two SKA back-to-back talks look a bit weird, any particular reason for scheduling them together? 5. Twisted or Gevent. Do we not have someone who can talk about event-driven stuff (given the interest level in node.js especially). G * GUSTAV PRAEKELT* | CEO *PRAEKELT*.COM | *PRAEKELTFOUNDATION*.ORG *Mobile *+27.82.459.3656 | *Skype* gustav.praekelt On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Simon Cross < simon.cross@praekeltfoundation.org> wrote:
Greetings
The draft schedule is up at
https://docs.google.com/a/praekeltfoundation.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArtGEj... .
Now is the time to give feedback. There's still quite a lot of work to be done to firm up the draft and confirm everything with the speakers.
Thank you Jeremy, Neil, Adrianna and Maciej for helping me hash it out on Saturday.
Notes:
* Gustav: We'd like you to give an example of a lightning talk so people know what the format is like. Probably during the opening. Maybe we should get some of the other sponsors to do one too. Ideally should just be fun and inspiring. * We're a little short on scientific talks that cover numpy and scipy. I'm hitting people up for them but assistance with that would be helpful. * We're short a proper talk on Django and web talks in general (I'm trying to get Alex and maybe St James Software to give a talk). * There are potentially about ten talk slots still available. * All the organizers should wear funny hats so they're easily identifiable (although Wendy is getting shirts made for them).
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