From catherine.devlin at gmail.com Fri Jun 5 19:01:39 2009 From: catherine.devlin at gmail.com (Catherine Devlin) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:01:39 -0400 Subject: [Conferences] Python Magazine article Message-ID: <6523e39a0906051001l5cca067ct81af1a5dbd3f073a@mail.gmail.com> There's an article in the May 2009 Python Magazine that should be of interest... PyOhio: Planning and Running a Regional Python Miniconference http://pymag.phparch.com/c/issue/view/98 *toot, toot, toot; bang, bang, bang* Yes, I was the author; that was, indeed, the sound of me tooting my own horn and banging my own drum. -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ *** PyOhio * July 25-26, 2009 * pyohio.org *** From goodger at python.org Fri Jun 5 19:05:52 2009 From: goodger at python.org (David Goodger) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:05:52 -0400 Subject: [Conferences] Python Magazine article In-Reply-To: <6523e39a0906051001l5cca067ct81af1a5dbd3f073a@mail.gmail.com> References: <6523e39a0906051001l5cca067ct81af1a5dbd3f073a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4335d2c40906051005l5515f993x237995c06838f39b@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 13:01, Catherine Devlin wrote: > There's an article in the May 2009 Python Magazine that should be of interest... > > PyOhio: Planning and Running a Regional Python Miniconference > http://pymag.phparch.com/c/issue/view/98 When will your article be freely available on the web? -- David Goodger From catherine.devlin at gmail.com Fri Jun 5 19:13:00 2009 From: catherine.devlin at gmail.com (Catherine Devlin) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:13:00 -0400 Subject: [Conferences] Python Magazine article In-Reply-To: <4335d2c40906051005l5515f993x237995c06838f39b@mail.gmail.com> References: <6523e39a0906051001l5cca067ct81af1a5dbd3f073a@mail.gmail.com> <4335d2c40906051005l5515f993x237995c06838f39b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6523e39a0906051013h14981e80p6919ee845a938d75@mail.gmail.com> I don't think PyMag contents ever become freely downloadable from PyMag itself. However, looking at the author's contract, it looks like their exclusive rights last four months from publication, so I could web-publish my article on my blog in, hmm, October. I'll do that and post a link when the time comes. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:05 PM, David Goodger wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 13:01, Catherine > Devlin wrote: >> There's an article in the May 2009 Python Magazine that should be of interest... >> >> PyOhio: Planning and Running a Regional Python Miniconference >> http://pymag.phparch.com/c/issue/view/98 > > When will your article be freely available on the web? > > -- > David Goodger > -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ *** PyOhio * July 25-26, 2009 * pyohio.org *** From paul at boddie.org.uk Fri Jun 5 20:44:02 2009 From: paul at boddie.org.uk (Paul Boddie) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 20:44:02 +0200 Subject: [Conferences] Python Magazine article In-Reply-To: <6523e39a0906051013h14981e80p6919ee845a938d75@mail.gmail.com> References: <6523e39a0906051001l5cca067ct81af1a5dbd3f073a@mail.gmail.com> <4335d2c40906051005l5515f993x237995c06838f39b@mail.gmail.com> <6523e39a0906051013h14981e80p6919ee845a938d75@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200906052044.02620.paul@boddie.org.uk> On Friday 05 June 2009 19:13:00 Catherine Devlin wrote: > I don't think PyMag contents ever become freely downloadable from > PyMag itself. However, looking at the author's contract, it looks > like their exclusive rights last four months from publication, so I > could web-publish my article on my blog in, hmm, October. I'll do > that and post a link when the time comes. On the subject of articles about conferences, I already posted to the EuroPython groups about my article in The Python Papers, "EuroPython in Vilnius and Beyond": http://ojs.pythonpapers.org/index.php/tpp/article/view/77/75 Here's the full issue: http://ojs.pythonpapers.org/index.php/tpp/issue/view/12 The Python Papers has an "open access" policy and is available for redistribution under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence: http://ojs.pythonpapers.org/index.php/tpp/about/submissions#copyrightNotice I am not affiliated with The Python Papers, although I admit to having two articles published there, but I certainly encourage people to submit articles to the journal and to support the worthy community-oriented project that it is. Paul From catherine.devlin at gmail.com Tue Jun 30 13:17:34 2009 From: catherine.devlin at gmail.com (Catherine Devlin) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:17:34 -0400 Subject: [Conferences] Resources for recruiting speakers Message-ID: <6523e39a0906300417g4bc31a64n69276dcc99c293d9@mail.gmail.com> I'm carrying this bit of conversation over from the pycon-organizers' mailing list. In general, it would be nice to have a great way to connect conferences to potential speakers. I introduced the wiki page (below) in a lightning talk at PyCon 2008, but so far it's not the awesome resource I dreamed of. Maybe it just needs more publicity... or maybe there's a better way to do it. I would *love* to hear ideas. (... though, as it turns out, speakers were not a problem for PyOhio at all - we got about 10 for our first year, and for this July, 25!) On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Filip K??bczyk wrote: > We are in the middle of composing PyCon PL agenda. It would be good to > have at least one speaker from abroad who is expert on some topic - it > makes conference more attractive. Maybe subscribers of this mailing list > could help us to find someone? On the general topic of helping conferences and speakers find each other, that's the intent of this wiki page: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeakers ... which, granted, hasn't really achieved critical mass yet. I'd planned to spam all this year's PyCon speakers with invitations to sign themselves up, but... uh. Another resource, for women speakers specifically, is geekspeakr.com - presently dominated by (gasp) Rubyists. Powodzenia! -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ *** PyOhio * July 25-26, 2009 * pyohio.org *** From facundobatista at gmail.com Tue Jun 30 14:51:14 2009 From: facundobatista at gmail.com (Facundo Batista) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:51:14 -0300 Subject: [Conferences] PyCon Argentina 2009 Message-ID: Hi all! The Python Argentina [0] group proudly announces that we will have a PyCon Argentina [1] this year! This is our first national conference, and it's also the first Spanish-spoken PyCon in the world, :) The conference will be held Buenos Aires, on September 4th and 5th. These two days will have the "talk format" only (normal talk, lightning ones, and plenaries), no tutorial (this is our first conference, we wanted to keep it simple), and no sprints (for this we have another yearly event, PyCamp [2]). We'll have two great international keynotes, Collin Winter, and Jacob Kaplan-Moss (and we're doing what's possible to bring also Gustavo Niemeyer). We're very happy, :) Regards, [0] http://python.org.ar/pyar/ [1] http://ar.pycon.org/2009/about/ [2] (in spanish but with pictures) http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/post/1/404 -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ From goodger at python.org Tue Jun 30 16:49:45 2009 From: goodger at python.org (David Goodger) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:49:45 -0400 Subject: [Conferences] PyCon Argentina 2009 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4335d2c40906300749y600c9452pe1aa671b828272fe@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:51, Facundo Batista wrote: > The Python Argentina [0] group proudly announces that we will have a > PyCon Argentina [1] this year! ... > [1] http://ar.pycon.org/2009/about/ You may want to update your graphics, especially the photos in the page header. I am certain that *I* have never been to Argentina! ;-) -- David Goodger From facundobatista at gmail.com Tue Jun 30 16:51:42 2009 From: facundobatista at gmail.com (Facundo Batista) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:51:42 -0300 Subject: [Conferences] PyCon Argentina 2009 In-Reply-To: <4335d2c40906300749y600c9452pe1aa671b828272fe@mail.gmail.com> References: <4335d2c40906300749y600c9452pe1aa671b828272fe@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:49 AM, David Goodger wrote: > You may want to update your graphics, especially the photos in the > page header. I am certain that *I* have never been to Argentina! > ;-) Yes, yes, and finish translating half of the pages that still are in English... but this is our first, and we have *so many* stuff to do... Hope you could come to Argentina some day, though. Regards, -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/