[Edu-sig] Pycon 2008

[Jeff Rush]

DeanG wrote:
> Although I haven't seen any details yet I would like to encourage you
> to contact the Python Conference Committee regarding details of
> scholarships and other financial aid for the conference.
> http://us.pycon.org/2008/helping/

Certainly there is (or will be soon) financial aid available, but I imagine
that will be mostly for the standard 3-day registration and maybe a tutorial.
   It will help, but the key question is whether the existing slate of talks
has anything to offer your particular students.

Vern, how many high school students might you bring, and at what programming
level are they?  Can they benefit from the level of talks we had last year,
for example?

I don't really think it is the money aspect, but whether there are sufficient
numbers of potential students to justify a special effort on their behalf.  If
there aren't, a handful of students is peanuts financially for the conference
financial aid committee to just cover and move on.  But if some critical mass
of students can be found, then there is a stronger case re asking for
conference concessions in content and scheduling.

-Jeff