[Conferences-discuss] oscon 2003 call for participation

[Kevin Altis]

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I would be willing to serve on the conference committee or somehow volunteer
time, but I won't volunteer to act as a conference chair or something like
that since it would be my first time involved in organizing a conference. I
live in Portland, so that may be of some benefit in organizing things. I'm a
pretty good Nag ;-)

I'm thinking that it would be useful to extend the theme of "Embracing and
Extending Proprietary Software" to papers and presentations on how to
successfully transition away from proprietary software too, at least in the
context of Python. I assume we have more control over the Python track
topics. So a presentation or paper or tutorial that shows the steps of
moving from the proprietary tool would be a good thing. This would broaden
the appeal of our track to people that are currently using proprietary
languages, databases, and tools, but would like to move away from them with
the least amount of pain.

ka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: conferences-discuss-admin@python.org
> [mailto:conferences-discuss-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of Guido van
> Rossum
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:53 PM
> To: Kevin Altis
> Cc: conferences-discuss@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Conferences-discuss] oscon 2003 call for participation
>
>
> > I was quite surprised to receive this email from O'Reilly yesterday. The
> > conference deadline for submissions (February 15th) is indeed
> listed on the
> > Python conferences web page, but I seriously doubt many Python
> people are
> > aware of the deadline.
> >
> > http://www.python.org/workshops/
> >
> > If anything, they are still focused on PyCon in March or one of
> the other
> > upcoming Python conferences coming up before Python 11 in July.
> There hasn't
> > even been a Python 11 announcement on c.l.py or c.l.py.announce AFAIK.
> >
> > Given that Python has such strong capabilities within the theme of the
> > conference "Embracing and Extending Proprietary Software" it
> would be nice
> > to have a lot of topics around the DB-API, win32com, PyObjC and
> other Mac OS
> > X efforts, to name just a few. This is a great opportunity for Python to
> > shine.
> >
> > So, is the deadline for submissions in the Python track really February
> > 15th? I would like to put together a variety of proposals, but
> that is going
> > to be pretty tough to do in less than three weeks. Whatever the real
> > deadlines are, they need to be posted on c.l.py...
> >
> > On a related note, there is a Python User Group in Portland,
> Oregon. At our
> > last meeting I brought up the idea of people volunteering to
> help with the
> > conference in exchange for free or reduced admission, since the cost of
> > attending OSCON will likely be high. Is that a possibility? If
> so, I would
> > like to discuss the matter further either here on the list or privately.
>
> Thanks, Kevin.  I'm aware of the deadline, but I'm entirely swamped.
> I am hoping that we can put off the deadline a bit, but not too much
> (O'Reilly needs to be able to schedule tracks).
>
> Can you help by giving this a wide circulation?  c.l.py.a and c.l.py
> at the least; probably also some of the larger mailing lists like the
> jython list.  And don't forget the Zope lists.
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>
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