[Edu-sig] Pycon talk: advice?

[Andre Roberge]

Hi everyone,

I have a question for you...

I've just finished going through the first draft of my Pycon talk "out
loud" to ensure that I didn't talk for too long and find out that I
could easily stretch it to one hour... while I only intend to talk for
25 minutes at the most, making sure there is time for questions.
Here's a "revised" outline of what my talk could include

1. Defining/demo-ing what is meant by an interactive tutorial (i.e.
executing Python code from Firefox).
2. Why VLAM?  (Very Little Added Markup) - with simple examples
3. Features of the embedded Python interpreter
 * including support for input()/raw_input()   :-)
4. The new editor.
5. Built-in graphics support (drawings and plots)
6. Doctests as a learning tool.
7. Launching an external applications (2 quick examples)
8. Demo of the new "crunchyfier" - point and click to add VLAM

I also need to demonstrate Johannes' latest work which simplify the
graphics support, extend input/raw_input, simplifies communication
between the browser and the Python backend and is generally a much
better approach.

Another topic I probably need to slip in there is the issue of security.

A feature I will most likely not cover at all is the user
customization (style [css] and language [i.e. English and French at
the moment).

Now comes the question :-)

Does anyone have any suggestion/preference as to which topic(s) I
should spend more time on?

André