The PyCon US Blog

Planning for PyCon US 2010 is in full swing but we are woefully short on officially filling staff positions! If you're interested, please sign up at http://us.pycon.org/2010/about/staff/ and be sure to join the PyCon US organizers mailing list: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers In particular, we need to fill the Registration Manager role very soon as we're planning to open registration earlier this year than ever before. (More on that in a future posting!) If you have any questions about any of the staff roles, feel free to ask on the organizers list or email any of the organizers individually!

RuPy is a conference on the Python and Ruby programming languages, held in Poznan Poland. RuPy 2009 will be on the 7-8th November and they have just announced their call for speakers: RuPy 2009 Call for Speakers RuPy 2009 committee is looking for speakers willing to present a Python, Ruby, Groovy or any other related subject. If you have an interesting talk in mind go ahead and submit a talk proposal. The talk proposal should include a talk title, brief introduction and your short resume/biography. To our invited speakers we offer free accommodation, full board and possibility to interact with a very lively IT community. You are also free to participate in all the extra events - ‘Geek party’ always turns out great! You can also support us by linking to our site and informing all your friends about the event and the possibility to submit a talk proposal. Potential speakers should submit an abstract using the following form: RuPy ‘09 :: Speaker Submission Form by September

SciPy 2009, the 8th annual Python for Scientific Computing Conference is open for registration. The conference is in Pasadena, CA, August 18-23. The early bird rate ends July 22nd. SciPy 2009 Registration SciPy 2009 Schedule This conference provides a unique opportunity to learn and affect what is happening in the realm of scientific computing with Python. Attendees have the opportunity to review the available tools and how they apply to specific problems. By providing a forum for developers to share their Python expertise with the wider commercial, academic, and research communities, this conference fosters collaboration and facilitates the sharing of software components, techniques and a vision for high level language use in scientific computing. The conference is hosted by the CACR (Center for Advanced Computing Research), on the Caltech Campus, Passadena, CA.

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 abo