OSCON 2007 in Portland, Oregon from July 23-27 is fast approaching. This is a professional conference that can give Python a lot of visibility in the IT world and draws a different crowd from our community-run conferences like PyCon. There looks to be a good set of talks on the Python track, with several positioned to promote the use of Python by telling its story: - Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python - SQLAlchemy: Taming ORM with Python - Super-sizing YouTube - How to Write a Killer Sugar Activity - Exploiting Multicore Capabilities from Python - Python 3000 - Programming for Everybody: CP4E - Coding with Dynamic Confidence There also is the opportunity to reach out by holding Python birds-of-a-feather gatherings. The Python community is a friendly group and face-to-face contact is important to convey the human aspect of Python. BoFs can be scheduled by visiting the OSCON page: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/bof.html I will not be attending this year, so we need one or more who are willing to step forward and loosely organize a bit. Let's discuss this on the Python advocacy mailing list and make it happen this year. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy Jeff Rush Python Advocacy Coordinator