Hey crew, Registration: It looks like about 30 of the registered attendees have paid. If you haven't already done so, please do this as soon as possible. http://www.scipy.org/site_content/scipy02/scipy02_pay.htm BoFs: We currently only have one BoF planned. It is for astronomy. We should really have more of these -- especially on the bioinformatics side of the house. Please send me a topic if you are interested in leading the discussion. Lightning Talks: As far as lighting talks go, we have 7 confirmed, and two more potential talks. I am still interested in more talks, so send me topics if you have them. The format will be 10-15 minutes per talk. LCD data projectors will be available for computer based presentations. You can also give a "chalk talk" on overheads or on a white board (I assume we will have one...). This is not a "formal" setting, so don't feel that you need a spit and polished presentation (although those are welcome too...). Workshops are all about the exchange of information to stimulate discussion. If you have a project/topic that will do that, send it my way. Here are the talks I have confirmed: PyMOL -- A Molecular Visualization tool. Warren DeLano Molecular Visualization Justin Gullingsrud PyQuante -- An open-sourced quantum chemistry suite written in Python Rick Muller Integrating Python into monolithic legacy Fortran codes Robert Ferrell Analyzing X-ray astrophysics data with Python (www.xassist.org) Andrew Ptak Weather vs. ground echo discrimination in radar data with a Numeric based fuzzy logic package. Joe Van Andel Biggles -- A scientific plotting package for Python Michael Nolta If Fernando Perez is able to attend, he'll give a couple of talks, one on iPython, a interactive python shell for scientists, and the other on MayaVi, a 3D visualization tool based on VTK written by Prabhu Ramachandran. Thanks, eric