[Inpycon] Draft of the CFP and Proposed Dates for the Talks

[Ramakrishna Reddy]

Hi

I have proposed the following days with respect to the proposals, Lets
discuss this out as soon as possible, so that Anand Chitipothu or I
can send out the CFP by Friday 12:00 AM. Also, any changes to the CFP
are also welcome.

  - Call for proposals opens: June 22, 2012
  - Proposal submission deadline: August 10, 2012
  - Proposal acceptance: August 20, 2012
  - First presentation upload: September 15, 2012
  - Final presentation upload (with changes if any): September 20, 2012



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Call for Proposals for Pycon India 2012 :: 28 - 30 September, Bangalore, India.
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The Fourth edition of PyCon India is being held in Bangalore,India from 28th
September 2012 to 30th September 2012. The organisers of PyCon India
2012 are looking for talk and tutorial proposals to fill the formal
presentation and tutorial tracks. We accept proposals on a very broad
range of topics related to Python programming.

Important Dates
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  - Call for proposals opens: June 22, 2012
  - Proposal submission deadline: August 10, 2012
  - Proposal acceptance: August 20, 2012
  - First presentation upload: September 15, 2012
  - Final presentation upload (with changes if any): September 20, 2012


Permission to record/release presentations
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In PyCon India, we intend to record all presentations live and release
the recordings for free on the Internet so as to benefit the wider
Python community. When you are submitting a proposal, you
automatically give the Indian Python Software Society, the organizers
of PyCon India, the permissions to record/edit and release the
audio/video of your presentation.No exceptions will be made in this
regard. If you do not want a recording of your presentation to be
made, don't submit a proposal. The released media will be licensed
under the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 3.0.

Topics for PyCon India
----------------------
We encourage high quality proposals in all the areas involving Python
: the language, its implementation, uses, and the community behind it.
Each proposal will be judged according to its correctness, clarity,
and elegance. We invite everyone interested in Python to participate.
    - Core Python (including Python 3.x)

    -  Python standard library

    -  Third Party Python libraries and extensions

    -  Python implementations (such as PyPy, IronPython etc)

    -  Concurrency

    -  Databases

    -  Data Analysis/ Engineering in Python

    -  Scientific Programming

    -  Network programming

    - Game programming

    - Education and Training

    - Embedding/extending

    - GUI programming

    - Packaging Python Code

    - System administration

    - Business applications

    - Documentation

    - Software development tools

    - Testing

    - Web programming

    - Mobile computing

    - Open source Python projects

Talk Format
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The typical length of a talk should be no more than 45 minutes. The
presentation style should be concise, to the point with sufficient
examples to clarify the discussion to the audience, if needed. After
every talk there will be time reserved for questions from the audience
(10 minutes). We will be providing a buffer of 5-10 minutes between
talks so that the presenters get sufficient time to set-up their talk
and attendees can move between the halls.


Tutorial Format
---------------
The typical length of the tutorial should be no more than 3 hours. All
the classes run in PyCon India are volunteered. If you like to propose
a tutorial, The submission of the tutorials also follow the same time
lines as the talks.

Proposal submission
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Talk and tutorial proposals should be submitted to
http://in.pycon.org/2012/# #funnel link to be inserted here

regards
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