The Python UK conference is taking place on Friday and Saturday 16th and 17th of April, as part of the ACCU Spring Conference at the Randolph Hotel in the centre of Oxford. The impressive list of speakers includes David Ascher, Alex Martelli, Armin Rigo of Psyco and PyPy fame, Duncan Booth, Chris Withers, and core CPython and Jython developers Michael Hudson and Samuele Pedroni. The Python conference follows a 2-day Open Source event with well-known open-source leader and Pythonista Eric Raymond, co-founder of Zope corp Paul Everitt, and a host of other interesting speakers. http://www.accu.org/conference/ http://www.accu.org/conference/python.html http://www.accu.org/conference/opensource.html Though all the official speakers are invited, there will be considerable space during breaks and after hours for Python mini-talks, Birds of a Feather meetings and sprints (possibly including a PyPy sprint). There are also very reasonable sponsorship options (starting from £200 for a lunchtime stand and talk) for Python companies wishing to promote themselves; see the 'sponsorship' page of the site for details. John