[Edu-sig] [PyCON-Organizers] Interest in Newby lecture at PyC on?

[Michael Tobis]

OK. So I think people should not need to be registered for the conference to
attend. Is that possible?

I imagine Python 101 is for professionals learning Python as an nth
language. I don't intend to compete with that.

I would like to call the presentation "Python as a First Language", and
would like attendees to have a working copy of Idle on a laptop.

The intended audience will be in town (locals or accompanying family) but is
unlikely to pony up for the conference. If it is OK with you all and the
hotel I will be happy to proceed on the basis that it is free of charge and
doesn't require conference registration.

Alternatively I could offer sort of a dress rehearsal, and edu-sig types can
attend but it would probably be of little interest to other badge carrying
conference attendees. This would be much shorter.

My current plan is to be arriving Friday and leaving Sunday so I'd much
prefer early on Saturday evening.

Michael

On 1/31/07, Napoleone, Doug <Doug.Napoleone at nuance.com> wrote:
>
>
> Please feel free to give this presentation as an Open Space talk or a BoF:
> http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/OpenSpace
>
> We have the conference rooms the entire weekend, and this type of talk
> would
> be perfect for one of the evenings.
> We have 5 Open space rooms for use durring the day when other talks are
> given, and all the rooms will be available in the evenings.
> (space listed on the floorplan:
> http://us.pycon.org/uploads/TX2007/HotelFloorPlan07.png)
>
> We recommend that people giving talks along side the scheduled talks also
> keep them to the 30, 45, or 60min slot they will be running in parallel
> with. That way people will not be leaving early or arriving late you the
> open space talk due to wanting to see other presentations. This is only a
> recommendation.
>
> It is too late to get this on as an official presentation (especially as
> presentations are 30 or 45min long and the deadline for submission was
> October.) This sounds more like a tutorial, a Pre-Python101 tutorial if
> you
> will; (We have a 3 hour Python 101 tutorial already:
> http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/TutorialsAM#AM5). Please consider giving this
> talk as a tutorial next year, possably as a pre-cursor to the python 101
> tutorial.
>
> I am working with Jeff Rush to try to get the schedule system to be more
> flexible and include evening BoF/Meeting and fun social activities. We
> have
> some things planned and some unofficial stuff we would like to see on
> there,
> your talk could be one of those. I will let you know if we can get that to
> happen.
>
> I am working on a call for proctors for the Python Lab
> (http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/PythonLab). Please consider helping out with
> that as well. It would be nice if people could attend your talk before
> going
> to the lab, unfortunatly it is running Friday evening, so I doubt that
> will
> happen.
>
>     -Doug
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pycon-organizers-bounces at python.org
> > [mailto:pycon-organizers-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Vern Ceder
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:47 PM
> > To: Michael Tobis
> > Cc: edu-sig at python.org; pycon-organizers at python.org
> > Subject: Re: [PyCON-Organizers] [Edu-sig] Interest in Newby
> > lecture at PyCon?
> >
> > I don't know if we would have the newbies around who would
> > benefit from the presentation, but I would be interested in
> > getting at least an overview of your presentation.
> >
> > Is there any interest in having that sort of presentation be
> > one of the main topics we discuss as a BOF? Maybe Michael
> > could get us started with an outline of what he does and the
> > rest could offer their apporoaches?
> > Just thinking out loud here...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vern
> >
> >
> > Michael Tobis wrote:
> > > I guess it's a bit late to try to put this together, but is
> > there any
> > > interest in putting together a Python for Newbies presentation at
> > > PyCon for friends and family?
> > >
> > > I have a two-hour presentation I've given a few times, so
> > it would not
> > > take much prep for me to do this. It has some nice
> > features, in that
> > > it gives people the flavor of programming in just one session.
> > >
> > > best
> > > Michael Tobis
> > >
> > >
> > >
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