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Tutorial proposals for PyCon 2016 are due today.  The submission form will close once it has passed midnight in every time zone. If you have dreamed of giving an in-depth 3-hour class to your fellow PyCon attendees, it is time to write up a description and get it submitted! What is a Tutorial? https://us.pycon.org/2016/speaking/tutorials/ The main CFP. https://us.pycon.org/2016/speaking/ The “Submit a new proposal” button is on your dashboard. https://us.pycon.org/2016/dashboard/

There are only two weeks left before PyCon tutorial proposals are due! If you have ever dreamed about delivering a valuable 3-hour tutorial in front of dozens of fellow PyCon attendees, you can read more about the proposal process here: https://us.pycon.org/2016/speaking/tutorials/ You might have been pondering a question as you finished reading my post last week. It celebrated PyCon 2016’s more aggressive schedule, which moves the proposal deadlines closer to the date of the conference. But you might have been puzzled that there are now two separate dates: Tutorial proposals are due:  2015 November 30 Talk and poster proposals are due:  2016 January 3 The difference between the two dates is more than a month. Why aren’t talks and tutorial proposals simply due on the same day? The answer is that the tutorial selection process is not as compressible as the process for talks. To understand the difference, first consider the task faced by the talk committee: Talks...

“Why does PyCon make us submit proposals six whole months before the conference? They expect us to start thinking of topics for PyCon 2016 while it is still 2015!” To be honest, I used to ask the same question about PyCon myself. Now that I am the conference chair, I have the privilege of working directly with the volunteers who make the conference possible! They have been generous with their time in bringing me up to speed on how each of their committees operate, helping me see the big picture of how the conference schedule is negotiated each year. And better yet, they have proved willing to accept a challenge: we have made the schedule more aggressive this year, to close some of the gap between the close of the Call for Proposals and the start of the conference itself! I am excited about the results of their hard work: Tutorial proposals are due on 2015 November 30, which is 25 days closer to the conference than the same deadline last year. Talk proposals are due on...