PyCon Argentina 2012 - Community Voting & Registration Open!

We're glad to announce that Community Voting Process has started for PyCon Argentina 2012. You can select your preferences among more than 82 talks proposed and 11 tutorials/workshops. This year, we're opening the Scientific and Extreme tracks, with more than 12 proposals each!

Please help us voting your prefered talks for the conference following the next link (registration required): http://ar.pycon.org/2012/activity/vote

Admittance is free of charge (gratis), to register, please complete the following form: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/user/register


PyCon Argentina 2012 Keynotes


This year, the pre-confirmed keynote presenters are:

• Massimo Di Pierro (US) - De Paul University: web2py / FermiQCD
• Andrea Gavana (DK) - Maersk Oil: wx.lib.agw & 2D/3D visualization
• Brett Cannon (CA) - Google: python core developer: importlib py3k pypy
• Christophe Pettus (US) - PostgreSQL Experts: Django & ORMs
• Craig Kerstiens (US) - Heroku: Tools, django, Postgres

We also have talks submitted from speakers around the world (Chile, Peru, Brasil, Spain, US), with many attendees already pre-registered from neighbour countries (including Venezuela, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico).

For more information please see our main webpage: http://ar.pycon.org/2012?lang=en


PgDay Argentina 2012 - in parallel!


This year, the the Argentina's PostgreSQL mini-conference will be held in parallel to PyConAR sprints for first time, trying to share resources and bringing the communities closer. For details please see: http://www.pgday.com.ar


PyCon Argentina 2012 Sponsors


We wish to thank the following Sponsors that made PyCon Argentina possible:

• Diamond: MSA Group and Machinalis
• Gold: Urban Station
• Silver: Fierro, Onapsis, Core Security, Datatec
• Bronze: Thymbra, Liricus, WingWare

Our special thanks goes to the Python Software Fundation, the PostgreSQL community, Google Inc., Maersk Oil, 10gen, Heroku, Packt Publishing and Python Brazil, who make possible to bring the renowned speakers to the conference and provide several other facilities.

Call for sponsors is still open, for more information see: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/prospectus?lang=en


PyCon Argentina 2012 Important Dates:

• 20-Jul-2012 to 27-Jul-2012: Community Voting
• 1-Ago-2012: Notification of talk/tutorial acceptance
• 12-Ago-2012: Schedule Publication
• 12-Sep-2012: Deadline for Call for Posters and Workshops
• 12-Oct-2012: Deadline for Call for Sponsors, Stands, etc.

PyCon Argentina 2012 Main Events:

• November 12th - 14th, 2012: Sprints and Workshops!
• November 15th, 2012: Tutorials
• November 16th - 17th, 2012: Main Conference talks and keynotes 

November 18th (Sunday) will be a tourist day with social activities.


About PyCon Argentina 2012:

PyCon Argentina is the largest annual worldwide community gathering of Spanish-speaking users and developers of the Python programming language. This year we expect around 500 attendees, with +250 already pre-registered.
It is a community conference organized by volunteers of Python Argentina users group (PyAr), lasting several days which will bring short courses and lectures related to this language that incipiently makes its place among the developers.
We intended to make a space where anyone interested can come to ask, learn and experiment with these tools.
This is our 4th conference, again in Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital and one of the most important cities in Latin America.

Mariano Reingart - PyCon Argentina 2012 Chair