PyCon 2009 Python community conference Chicago, IL March 27-29, 2009 http://us.pycon.org/ PyCon 2009, the seventh annual community conference for the Python programming language, will take place March 27-29 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare Hotel in Chicago, IL. The pre-conference tutorials have been expanded to two days (March 25-26), and the conference will be followed by four days of development sprints (March 30 - April 2). As Python usage has grown rapidly, PyCon has grown as well. PyCon 2008's attendance topped 1000, up from 410 just two years before. Organizers expect this PyCon to be the biggest and most active ever. All community members are invited to help make PyCon great. Supply input to the planning process by joining the pycon-organizers mailing list: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers Volunteers are needed at all levels of skill and time commitment for the program committee (talk selection), conference committee, and a variety of offices: http://us.pycon.org/2009/helping/ See you in Chicago, - Catherine Devlin, PyCon publicity chair