From info at pycon.it  Wed Jan 11 12:02:26 2012
From: info at pycon.it (info at pycon.it)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:02:26 -0000
Subject: [EuroPython] The future of Europython
Message-ID: <20120111110226.2417.88285@python.it>

Europython has become a primary python community event thus some
considerations and decisions should be made. We'd like to share our thoughts
openly and receive your feedback.

## PREAMBLE


In the last 3 years Europython has had a considerable positive trend both by
attendees number and public interest. It has grown so much that it's quite
hard to organize that kind of event keeping the same service quality and
capacity cap that we've all enjoyed recently.


**It's not a job for unexpert teams** dealing with their first conference
organization experience. Even teams with experience organizing small sized
could potentially face many troubles organizing a conference the size of
Europython. On the other hand it brings so much positive value that probably
nobody inside the Python community would like to loose what Europython has
become due to a single year failure or a simple wrong estimate of the event
complexity.


Europython is **a community conference organized and runned by volunteers**
that work on it without any payback during their free time (that they could be
spending with their families and friends). As a matter of fact it's not all:
**they assume big responsabilities** and are fully responsible for the
financial scenario of the conference organization as well.


This translates to one simple statement: if things go wrong and there are
economic losses they will be responsible for this. This have happened to us
(_Python Italia Association_) some years ago during our [local Pycon
organization][1]. We did pay and we did learn from our mistakes. Fortunately
the numbers were rather different from a conference like Europython and we are
still here, organizing conferences and doing a good (at least I hope) job
organizing Europython.


What I'm trying to highlight at this point is that **Europython is getting big
and can probably reach numbers very close to Pycon US** if we all want but,
unlike it, Europython is not organized and managed by the PSF ( wich acts just
as sponsor ). There's no big organization protecting your back in case of
financial losses. The organizers are completely and lonely exposed. I'm not
trying to say that Pycon US organizers have any advantages when compared ( on
contrary! they have a big responsability to handle and are doing an
outstanding job all from volunteers. Every single person within the python
community should thank and learn from ) but at least they are not financialy
exposed ( as far as i know ).


## THE FUTURE


The near future of Europython is quite well known and will take place in July
in Florence, once again. It's the second italian edition happenning in
Florence. But then what? **Who's willing to organize 2013/2014 editions?**
Where will it move to?


At the time I'm not aware of any concrete and convincing hosting proposal. To
be honest I'm not aware of any proposal as well. As current organizers we are
somehow concerned about it. We should have some of the next organizers helping
us with the current edition organization, acquiring information and experience
for their own that will hopefully help them when organizing 2013 and 2014
editions.


## THE PRESENT


With those premises we decided to take a public position towards the future of
the Conference. **We would like to publicaly expose our openness to organize
and run 2013/2014 edition**. At the moment I didn't hear about any real and
concrete proposal that is convincing enough about the fact that we won't have
any slowdown in our conference growth, credibility and quality as well as not
compromising the work that has been done by many people over the past 10
years.


In any case we'd like to send a strong message the community and to all the
bidders: we do care about it and we'd like to be completely sure that we are
passing the baton to a group of people that care and wish to do great things.


### The Biggest Python European Conference Ever


2011 edition was the biggest Python european conference ever with something
like 670 attendees. It could have been more but we decided to put a limit on
it. The reasons for that cap limit were mainly related to the venue and
lunches. The number of attendees is a topic by itself and should be discussed
openly within the community in order to understand if we want to keep this
number "managed" in the near future or want just to scale (somehow like Pycon
US). **We should be handling around 700 in 2012** and are able to consider
scaling a little bit more if needed in 2013/2014.


Last year we have delivered a healthy conference. That's one the concepts I'd
like to stress the most and that I really care about.


**First of all the budget** (yeah, though it's a community no-profit
conference ran by volunteers money is still a critical, if not the most, part
of whole system). Since the beggining we worked on a strategy to have enough
space to provide and scale extra services as we scale on sponsors.


_Note:_ I'm not including tickets revenue in this consideration as we decided
that we wanted a conference affordable to everybody keeping the prices as low
as we could. Thus tickets average revenue was almost 0.


But when I talk about healthy environment I'm not talking only about the
budget: I mean the whole conference. I'm speaking about caring about social
events, delivering pleasant outdoor spaces for the attendees to socialize,
caring and promoting diversity topics, deploying handy services for foreign
attendees (such as [pre-charged local SIMs][2] or a rich [partners program][3]
to enjoy such graceful city like Florence) and last but not least, managing to
end up with **a quite positive balance** that we can use to be improve next
year conference and reduce any risk.


Another topic I'd like to talk about is **sponsors**. Sponsors are essential
for a conference that aims to have high quality standards. Sponsors don't
knock at your door offering you money just because Python is cool and you are
organizing a big european conference. Sponsors need to be found, you need to
"sell" your conference (aka your product), convince them that they are not
giving their money away to a bunch of people just having fun. You need to
convince them that they need it and they are investing their money on an
activity that potentialy has big benefits and their investment will payback
greatly.


I like to think that we do not sell anything but just inform sponsors about
possibilities. **I really believe that Europython is a great opportunity for
many companies so far.** As I mentioned earlier we had great feedback on our
efforts to collect sponsors and work with them to find out the best
sponsorship cut for their needs. Almost all sponsors told us that they were
very satisfied about the conference and the service we provided. Actualy, many
asked us to keep them updated for the next year. I may be biased and maybe
wrong but I can't remember so many sponsor and related activities during the
last editions so far (and I've been attending Europython for while).


### The Best Python Conference Ever


In 2012 we forecast that it'll be even bigger and we have worked on a strategy
to handle it fixing also the issues we had in 2011.


One thing that we can garantee is that **we are willing to make Europython
2012 the best Python conference ever!**


See you in Florence.

   [1]: http://www.pycon.it/

   [2]: http://ep2011.europython.eu/blog/2011/05/07/smartphone-dependent-buy-
italian-sim

   [3]: http://ep2011.europython.eu/blog/2011/04/15/ep2011-partner-program-
released

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From fabio.pliger at s3srl.com  Wed Jan 11 13:50:19 2012
From: fabio.pliger at s3srl.com (Fabio Pliger)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:50:19 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] The future of Europython
In-Reply-To: <20120111110226.2417.88285@python.it>
References: <20120111110226.2417.88285@python.it>
Message-ID: <CAFh33WLoJf5CTqy=e7iFum1N9L7kt7sn3aBDmFyz7J5fv0cxgg@mail.gmail.com>

The microblog app that forwarded the post to the list didn't append the
author name ( me ). Sorry.

Fabio Pliger


2012/1/11 <info at pycon.it>

> Europython has become a primary python community event thus some
> considerations and decisions should be made. We'd like to share our
> thoughts openly and receive your feedback.
> PREAMBLE
>
> In the last 3 years Europython has had a considerable positive trend both
> by attendees number and public interest. It has grown so much that it's
> quite hard to organize that kind of event keeping the same service quality
> and capacity cap that we've all enjoyed recently.
>
> *It's not a job for unexpert teams* dealing with their first conference
> organization experience. Even teams with experience organizing small sized
> could potentially face many troubles organizing a conference the size of
> Europython. On the other hand it brings so much positive value that
> probably nobody inside the Python community would like to loose what
> Europython has become due to a single year failure or a simple wrong
> estimate of the event complexity.
>
> Europython is *a community conference organized and runned by volunteers*that work on it without any payback during their free time (that they could
> be spending with their families and friends). As a matter of fact it's not
> all: *they assume big responsabilities* and are fully responsible for the
> financial scenario of the conference organization as well.
>
> This translates to one simple statement: if things go wrong and there are
> economic losses they will be responsible for this. This have happened to us
> (*Python Italia Association*) some years ago during our local Pycon
> organization <http://www.pycon.it/>. We did pay and we did learn from our
> mistakes. Fortunately the numbers were rather different from a conference
> like Europython and we are still here, organizing conferences and doing a
> good (at least I hope) job organizing Europython.
>
> What I'm trying to highlight at this point is that *Europython is getting
> big and can probably reach numbers very close to Pycon US* if we all want
> but, unlike it, Europython is not organized and managed by the PSF ( wich
> acts just as sponsor ). There's no big organization protecting your back in
> case of financial losses. The organizers are completely and lonely exposed.
> I'm not trying to say that Pycon US organizers have any advantages when
> compared ( on contrary! they have a big responsability to handle and are
> doing an outstanding job all from volunteers. Every single person within
> the python community should thank and learn from ) but at least they are
> not financialy exposed ( as far as i know ).
> THE FUTURE
>
> The near future of Europython is quite well known and will take place in
> July in Florence, once again. It's the second italian edition happenning in
> Florence. But then what? *Who's willing to organize 2013/2014 editions?*Where will it move to?
>
> At the time I'm not aware of any concrete and convincing hosting proposal.
> To be honest I'm not aware of any proposal as well. As current organizers
> we are somehow concerned about it. We should have some of the next
> organizers helping us with the current edition organization, acquiring
> information and experience for their own that will hopefully help them when
> organizing 2013 and 2014 editions.
> THE PRESENT
>
> With those premises we decided to take a public position towards the
> future of the Conference. *We would like to publicaly expose our openness
> to organize and run 2013/2014 edition*. At the moment I didn't hear about
> any real and concrete proposal that is convincing enough about the fact
> that we won't have any slowdown in our conference growth, credibility and
> quality as well as not compromising the work that has been done by many
> people over the past 10 years.
>
> In any case we'd like to send a strong message the community and to all
> the bidders: we do care about it and we'd like to be completely sure that
> we are passing the baton to a group of people that care and wish to do
> great things.
> The Biggest Python European Conference Ever
>
> 2011 edition was the biggest Python european conference ever with
> something like 670 attendees. It could have been more but we decided to put
> a limit on it. The reasons for that cap limit were mainly related to the
> venue and lunches. The number of attendees is a topic by itself and should
> be discussed openly within the community in order to understand if we want
> to keep this number "managed" in the near future or want just to scale
> (somehow like Pycon US). *We should be handling around 700 in 2012* and
> are able to consider scaling a little bit more if needed in 2013/2014.
>
> Last year we have delivered a healthy conference. That's one the concepts
> I'd like to stress the most and that I really care about.
>
> *First of all the budget* (yeah, though it's a community no-profit
> conference ran by volunteers money is still a critical, if not the most,
> part of whole system). Since the beggining we worked on a strategy to have
> enough space to provide and scale extra services as we scale on sponsors.
>
> *Note:* I'm not including tickets revenue in this consideration as we
> decided that we wanted a conference affordable to everybody keeping the
> prices as low as we could. Thus tickets average revenue was almost 0.
>
> But when I talk about healthy environment I'm not talking only about the
> budget: I mean the whole conference. I'm speaking about caring about social
> events, delivering pleasant outdoor spaces for the attendees to socialize,
> caring and promoting diversity topics, deploying handy services for foreign
> attendees (such as pre-charged local SIMs<http://ep2011.europython.eu/blog/2011/05/07/smartphone-dependent-buy-italian-sim>or a rich partners
> program<http://ep2011.europython.eu/blog/2011/04/15/ep2011-partner-program-released>to enjoy such graceful city like Florence) and last but not least, managing
> to end up with *a quite positive balance* that we can use to be improve
> next year conference and reduce any risk.
>
> Another topic I'd like to talk about is *sponsors*. Sponsors are
> essential for a conference that aims to have high quality standards.
> Sponsors don't knock at your door offering you money just because Python is
> cool and you are organizing a big european conference. Sponsors need to be
> found, you need to "sell" your conference (aka your product), convince them
> that they are not giving their money away to a bunch of people just having
> fun. You need to convince them that they need it and they are investing
> their money on an activity that potentialy has big benefits and their
> investment will payback greatly.
>
> I like to think that we do not sell anything but just inform sponsors
> about possibilities. *I really believe that Europython is a great
> opportunity for many companies so far.* As I mentioned earlier we had
> great feedback on our efforts to collect sponsors and work with them to
> find out the best sponsorship cut for their needs. Almost all sponsors told
> us that they were very satisfied about the conference and the service we
> provided. Actualy, many asked us to keep them updated for the next year. I
> may be biased and maybe wrong but I can't remember so many sponsor and
> related activities during the last editions so far (and I've been attending
> Europython for while).
> The Best Python Conference Ever
>
> In 2012 we forecast that it'll be even bigger and we have worked on a
> strategy to handle it fixing also the issues we had in 2011.
>
> One thing that we can garantee is that *we are willing to make Europython
> 2012 the best Python conference ever!*
>
> See you in Florence.
>
> _______________________________________________
> EuroPython 2011 - Florence June 20-26
> http://ep2011.europython.eu/
> EuroPython mailing list
> EuroPython at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
>
>
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From work.walter at gmail.com  Sun Jan 15 20:00:55 2012
From: work.walter at gmail.com (Walter)
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:00:55 +0000
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2012
Message-ID: <CAGdCD=sH8qMg6r+rg_uKAWt2LHH7sgSO1Od+gDfxqrLnDA88Pg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I would like to attend EuroPython this year. To do so I should book my
holiday for it asap before one of my colleagues takes the time off before
me and then I have no chance to come.

Can you please tell me when EuroPython is planned this year? So far I only
found a mailing list posts from late December 2011 that the date will be
announced early Jan. 2012 but I found nothing so far.

Many thanks!


Best regards,

Walter
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From paul at boddie.org.uk  Sun Jan 15 20:30:45 2012
From: paul at boddie.org.uk (Paul Boddie)
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:30:45 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAGdCD=sH8qMg6r+rg_uKAWt2LHH7sgSO1Od+gDfxqrLnDA88Pg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAGdCD=sH8qMg6r+rg_uKAWt2LHH7sgSO1Od+gDfxqrLnDA88Pg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <201201152030.45539.paul@boddie.org.uk>

On Sunday 15 January 2012 20:00:55 Walter wrote:
>
> I would like to attend EuroPython this year. To do so I should book my
> holiday for it asap before one of my colleagues takes the time off before
> me and then I have no chance to come.
>
> Can you please tell me when EuroPython is planned this year? So far I only
> found a mailing list posts from late December 2011 that the date will be
> announced early Jan. 2012 but I found nothing so far.

A few weeks ago, Giovanni wrote that the dates would be "July 2nd-8th 2012". 
Apparently, we all knew this as long ago as November 2010, but some of us 
were obviously not paying attention or didn't get that mail. I'm using the 
latter excuse. ;-)

I guess we should all be booking time off as soon as we can...

Paul

From fabio.pliger at s3srl.com  Sun Jan 15 23:02:29 2012
From: fabio.pliger at s3srl.com (Fabio Pliger)
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:02:29 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2012
In-Reply-To: <201201152030.45539.paul@boddie.org.uk>
References: <CAGdCD=sH8qMg6r+rg_uKAWt2LHH7sgSO1Od+gDfxqrLnDA88Pg@mail.gmail.com>
	<201201152030.45539.paul@boddie.org.uk>
Message-ID: <CAFh33WK9Wk8j5=OZfNP3EohbQiS7L78HEVkpz8NBy2cQbMoWWg@mail.gmail.com>

2012/1/15 Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>

> On Sunday 15 January 2012 20:00:55 Walter wrote:
> >
> > I would like to attend EuroPython this year. To do so I should book my
> > holiday for it asap before one of my colleagues takes the time off before
> > me and then I have no chance to come.
> >
> > Can you please tell me when EuroPython is planned this year? So far I
> only
> > found a mailing list posts from late December 2011 that the date will be
> > announced early Jan. 2012 but I found nothing so far.
>
> A few weeks ago, Giovanni wrote that the dates would be "July 2nd-8th
> 2012".
> Apparently, we all knew this as long ago as November 2010, but some of us
> were obviously not paying attention or didn't get that mail. I'm using the
> latter excuse. ;-)
>
> I guess we should all be booking time off as soon as we can...
>
>
Well... Yes dates *should* be from July 2nd to 8th. We didn't make any
annoucements as we didn't have a signed confirmation from the venue. We'll
be announcing on the website as soon as we get it.
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From mal at egenix.com  Mon Jan 16 21:45:09 2012
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:45:09 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] The future of Europython
In-Reply-To: <20120111110226.2417.88285@python.it>
References: <20120111110226.2417.88285@python.it>
Message-ID: <4F148C55.8010406@egenix.com>

Hi Fabio,

info at pycon.it wrote:
> Europython has become a primary python community event thus some
> considerations and decisions should be made. We'd like to share our thoughts
> openly and receive your feedback.
> 
> ...
>
> With those premises we decided to take a public position towards the future of
> the Conference. **We would like to publicaly expose our openness to organize
> and run 2013/2014 edition**. 

Yeah :-) Thank you very much for making that offer !

> At the moment I didn't hear about any real and
> concrete proposal that is convincing enough about the fact that we won't have
> any slowdown in our conference growth, credibility and quality as well as not
> compromising the work that has been done by many people over the past 10
> years.

I haven't heard of any proposal either - I guess the size of the
conference is starting to frighten people who would otherwise not
have a problem with organizing it.

I certainly hope that some day PyCon DE will be able to host
EuroPython as well, but there's still a long way ahead.

> ...
>
> _Note:_ I'm not including tickets revenue in this consideration as we decided
> that we wanted a conference affordable to everybody keeping the prices as low
> as we could. Thus tickets average revenue was almost 0.

I think there's still some room to ramp up the tickets prices in
order to make the budget look healthier. EuroPython is the second
most important Python conference we have, right after PyCon US,
so you can safely use their (low) prices are guideline:

https://us.pycon.org/2012/registration/

Capping the number of attendees as you've done in 2011 and starting
registration early is also a good way to make you feel more secure about
the numbers.

I also wonder how we could help in getting the number of sponsors
bumped up to higher levels. A lot of companies are looking for Python
developers, so recruiting is certainly one of the key arguments for
sponsors to invest in EuroPython. Another is product announcements
and presentation. Perhaps you could make those two aspects (even) more
interesting for sponsors in order to attract more sponsors.

Another argument I often hear from smaller companies is that
manning a booth at the conference is too costly for them
(not because of the booth signup fee, but because of the
staffing costs). Perhaps having a poster session or some
flat panel LCDs in the conference halls for unmanned
presentation would help make sponsoring more interesting to
those companies ?!

Thanks for keeping up the good work,
-- 
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From work.walter at gmail.com  Wed Jan 18 08:26:53 2012
From: work.walter at gmail.com (Walter)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:26:53 +0000
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2012
Message-ID: <CAGdCD=tZGU69ikD-enczgRnCc1s21O=-4UPZ-qd745fkFm0Jsw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

Some days ago I sent a mail to this mailing list without subscription but I
am not sure if it was delivered correctly as I got no reply yet.

I would like to attend EuroPython this year. To do so I should book my
holiday for it asap before one of my colleagues takes the time off before
me and then I would have no chance to come. :(

Can you please tell me when EuroPython is planned for 2012? So far I only
found a mailing list posts from late December 2011 that the date will be
announced early Jan. 2012 but I found nothing so far.

Many thanks!


Best regards,

Walter
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From rasky at develer.com  Wed Jan 18 11:52:49 2012
From: rasky at develer.com (Giovanni Bajo)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:52:49 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAGdCD=tZGU69ikD-enczgRnCc1s21O=-4UPZ-qd745fkFm0Jsw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAGdCD=tZGU69ikD-enczgRnCc1s21O=-4UPZ-qd745fkFm0Jsw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <B38230F2-3CDC-4B7C-9DD6-8D394319F2F5@develer.com>

Il giorno 18/gen/2012, alle ore 08:26, Walter ha scritto:

> Hi all,
> 
> Some days ago I sent a mail to this mailing list without subscription but I am not sure if it was delivered correctly as I got no reply yet.
> 
> I would like to attend EuroPython this year. To do so I should book my holiday for it asap before one of my colleagues takes the time off before me and then I would have no chance to come. :(
> 
> Can you please tell me when EuroPython is planned for 2012? So far I only found a mailing list posts from late December 2011 that the date will be  announced early Jan. 2012 but I found nothing so far.
> 
> Many thanks!


Hi Walter,

It's July 2nd-8th. The website will be updated as soon as possible.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo   ::  rasky at develer.com
Develer S.r.l.  ::  http://www.develer.com

My Blog: http://giovanni.bajo.it





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From rasky at develer.com  Wed Jan 18 20:03:08 2012
From: rasky at develer.com (Giovanni Bajo)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:03:08 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2012
In-Reply-To: <B38230F2-3CDC-4B7C-9DD6-8D394319F2F5@develer.com>
References: <CAGdCD=tZGU69ikD-enczgRnCc1s21O=-4UPZ-qd745fkFm0Jsw@mail.gmail.com>
	<B38230F2-3CDC-4B7C-9DD6-8D394319F2F5@develer.com>
Message-ID: <A8201418-CC6D-40CE-870A-ED4FBEC6C39D@develer.com>

Il giorno 18/gen/2012, alle ore 11:52, Giovanni Bajo ha scritto:

> Il giorno 18/gen/2012, alle ore 08:26, Walter ha scritto:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Some days ago I sent a mail to this mailing list without subscription but I am not sure if it was delivered correctly as I got no reply yet.
>> 
>> I would like to attend EuroPython this year. To do so I should book my holiday for it asap before one of my colleagues takes the time off before me and then I would have no chance to come. :(
>> 
>> Can you please tell me when EuroPython is planned for 2012? So far I only found a mailing list posts from late December 2011 that the date will be announced early Jan. 2012 but I found nothing so far.
>> 
>> Many thanks!
> 
> 
> Hi Walter,
> 
> It's July 2nd-8th. The website will be updated as soon as possible.


Just to clarify: that's the central week. We are not 100% sure on the structure of the conference yet (trainings, talks, etc.), so it might slide a couple of days earlier or later, but that's it.
-- 
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My Blog: http://giovanni.bajo.it






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From funthyme at gmail.com  Fri Jan 27 10:36:51 2012
From: funthyme at gmail.com (John Pinner)
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:36:51 +0000
Subject: [EuroPython] One day course : Google App Engine with Python
Message-ID: <CAB-vKOQUrPxYf=2V3F7oSRc1NiFfhpJy2oynmQDboQFwg_QWWw@mail.gmail.com>

O?Reilly UK and FLOSS UK are offering a new course

Hello!

I thought that you'd like to know about a one day course being offered
by FLOSS UK and o'Reilly. It's one of a regular series of courses
organised by FLOSS UK throughout the year see http://flossuk.org. This
is an organisation well worth joining and its events have a very high
signal to noise ratio. Disclaimer: I am a member!

Here are the details:

Explore what Google App Engine has to offer web developers, with Paul Barry

Intensive Introduction to Google App Engine with Python

This course is aimed at web developers looking to learn what Google
App Engine brings to the web development table.  In addition to
exploring Python?s Google App Engine API, course attendees will build,
upload and deploy a complete working webapp to Google?s cloud service
during this one-day, hands-on session.  Course
attendees should note that prior knowledge of Python is useful, but
not essential.


Further information including course content and booking form can be
found on: http://www.flossuk.org/Events/Googleapp

Venue: Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London
Date: 12th April 2012.

Note: The Imperial is very convenient: a brisk 10 minute walk from
Euston station.

Tutor:

Your tutor, Paul Barry, is a lecturer at The Institute of Technology,
Carlow in Ireland, where he has taught advanced undergraduate
computing courses for the last 15 years.  Paul is also a Contributing
Editor at Linux Journal, and is a regular speaker at the PyCon Ireland
conferences. Paul has a number of technical books to his credit,
including his most recent ?Head First Python? (2011), which is part of
the hugely popular brain-friendly series of books from O?Reilly Media.

Best wishes,

John
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