[pycon-za] Official call for speakers

[Wendy Griffiths]

Great from my side, thank you Neil


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On 22 August 2012 10:17, Neil Muller <drnlmuller at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 August 2012 12:14, Neil Muller <drnlmuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 20 August 2012 15:59, Neil Muller <drnlmuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Since the website is now running, and we seem to have settled on a
> >> final submission deadline, we need to send out a call for speakers
> >> real soon now (tm).
> >>
> >> I'd like to see that sent out no later than Wednesday.
> >>
> >> We probably need a quick go-round on the actual text beforehand - I
> >> expect we can lift a lot of the details from other pycon call for
> >> speakers and just fill in a few pycon-za specific bits, so that should
> >> not be too hard to do.
> >
> > Based of the PyCon Finland Call for proposals
> > (http://mail.python.org/pipermail//conferences/2012-June/000370.html),
> > which I think is a nice, compact version, I have currently:
> >
> >
> >    PyCon ZA 2012 - Call for Speakers
> >
> >    PyCon ZA will take place October 4-5 in Cape Two, South Africa.
> > There will be 2
> >    days of talks, and we will also hold sprints on the 6 and 7th of
> October.
> >
> >    We are currently accepting proposals for talks. If you would like to
> give a
> >    presentation, please submit you proposal at http://www.za.pycon.org/.
> The
> >    deadline for proposals is the 15th of September. Accepted presenters
> will be
> >    notified by no later than the 20th of September. The presentation
> > slots will be
> >    45 minutes + 10 minutes of discussion at the end. Shared sessions are
> also
> >    possible. The language for the presentations should be English.
> >
> >    If you wish to coordinate a sprint on a specific topic, please
> > contact team at
> >    za dot pycon dot org with the details.
> >
> >    See you in PyCon ZA 2012!
> >
> >    --
> >    On behalf of the PyconZA organising committee
> >
> >
> > Anything editing suggestions?
> >
> > I don't want to make the final acceptance date too close to the actual
> > conference - is the 20th September reasonable? We're going to have
> > accept some talks as they're submitted rather than reviewing stuff
> > after all the submissions are closed, otherwise we're going to run
> > into serious timing issues.
>
> So, other than the "Two" typo fix, and shorting the suggested slot to
> "30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions", any further comments before
> we start sending this out?
>
>
> --
> Neil Muller
> drnlmuller at gmail.com
>
> I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool?
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