PyCon India 2009

PyCon India 2009, first Python Conference in India, is being organized by the Python user and developer community in India. The conference will consist of a number of full length presentations, lightning talks, sprints and BoFs.

Venue: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Dates: 26th and 27th September 2009

How to register:

Register online at http://in.pycon.org/2009/ register before 1st August and get an early-bird discount or register directly at the conference.

Call for Proposals:

PyCon India is looking for proposals on all aspects of Python programming. We will accept a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. As long as the presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the conference.

All the talks will be within 45-60 minutes. There will also be a dedicated Lightning Talk session for talks no longer than five minutes.

More information about the conference can be found from the conference website http://in.pycon.org/2009/.

PyOhio schedule posted

The preliminary schedule of talks for PyOhio has been posted, with twenty-five talks and tutorials planned on a variety of Python programming topics. PyOhio 2009 takes place July 25-26 in Columbus, OH, and is free of charge. See pyohio.org for more information and to register (registration opening soon).

EuroPython Starts Next Week

EuroPython 2009 starts next week, on Tuesday 30th June in Birmingham, and is preceded by two days of Python tutorials.

If you have not already booked your place there is still time to get in if you register although hotel rooms are disappearing fast.

With over 400 delegates registered already and more than 100 talks and other events this is the biggest European Python event ever and is not to be missed by anyone interested in Python.

There are keynotes by Professor Sir Tony Hoare, Cory Doctorow and Bruce Eckel, and a talk on Bletchley Park from Dr Sue Black, not to mention prizes including an Xbox and a Dell Studio laptop.

The social side has not been forgotten, with a Conference Dinner on Wednesday 1st and other evening socials, and...

a Partners' Programme so you can bring your nearest and dearest and be sure that s(he) will be happy while you are immersed in things Pythonic.

Win Brownie points for a change: bring your partner!

Early Bird registration is over, although there is a concessionary rate for students, pensioners and the unwaged.

Don't miss out, book your place.

EuroPython Talk Schedule Online

EuroPython 2009 is fast approaching. EuroPython is the official
community conference for Python Programmers across Europe. This year it is being held in the Birmingham Conservatoire, United Kingdom, where previous UK Python events have been held. We are expecting 300-400 delegates from across Europe.

The first two days, Sunday 28th June 2009 and Monday 29th June 2009, are tutorial days, including an introductory tutorial for those who have never programmed in Python before.

The main conference, from the 30th June to 2nd July, has talks from the leading Python programmers from across Europe. Speakers include Professor Sir Tony Hoare, Cory Doctorow, Jim Hugunin, Bruce Eckel, Simon Willison, Christian Tismer, Emily Bache, Stani Michiels and Michael Foord. Tutorial and talk abstracts are available on the website. The full talk schedule has also now been posted:

• EuroPython 2009 Timetable
  

The final two days, the 3rd and 4th of July, are 'sprint' days, where delegates splint into groups for collaborative computer programming, improving open source Python software.

Altogether, the conference consists of over one hundred talks, tutorials, plenary sessions and social events. To come for the whole week costs 290 pounds, but our booking form allows you to book for the parts you want, see the registration page for more details. There is also a concessionary rate which applies to over 60s, full-time students, unwaged and nurses.

"conferences" new mailing list created

The conferences@python.org mailing list is for open discussion of issues related to Python conferences. All conferences are welcome: established and planned, worldwide. The archive is open to all.

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Please spread the word to conference mailing lists and to anyone who would be interested.

PyCon France at the Cyberbase de la Villette

The French Speaking Python user group (Afpy) is organizing Pycon FR again this year on May 30/31.

Come to Paris, at the "Cyberbase de la Villette" and meet the French Speaking Python community!

A lot of talks, tutorials and lightning talks will be given during this week-end, on all kind of topics.

And the great news is that the whole conference is free, thanks to our sponsors.

• Schedule : http://pycon.fr/sessions
• Cyberbase location : http://pycon.fr/acces.html
• The French Python user group : http://afpy.org
• Follow the event on Twitter : #pycon-fr
• Sponsors : http://pycon.fr/partenaires.html

2009 PyCon talks now appearing on PyCon podcast

Talks from PyCon 2009 are now appearing on the PyCon podcast feed, at the rate of roughly 15 talks per day.

I'm trying to select the talks for each day in a balanced fashion: one keynote per day, at least one three-part tutorial per day, a certain number of talks with audio problems (so that we don't have an entire day of hard-to-listen-to talks at the end).

The feed URL for subscribing to the podcast is http://advocacy.python.org/podcasts/pycon.rss.

Video and audio material from PyCon 2009 is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA license. This means you can incorporate excerpts or entire recordings in your own non-commercial projects, as long as you credit the speaker and you CC-license the finished project.

For example, the 5/2 episode of Ron Stephen's Python 411 podcast [MP3 link] contains Collin Winter's explanation of the Unladen Swallow project from the Python Virtual Machines panel discussion.