[Inpycon] [Final Draft] CFP : Changes and suggestions needed.

[Ramakrishna Reddy]

Hi
Here is the final draft of the call for proposals for the PyCon India
2011. http://in.pycon.org/2011/cfp. Any changes and suggestions are
welcome. The plan is get it out by the 9th of May or earlier.


The accompanying Email to be circulated to the mailing  list is as follows ::
The Indian Python Software Society is proud to the present the annual
python conference 2011. Pycon India 2011 will be held from September
16 through the 18th in Pune.
The organizers of PyCon India 2011 are looking for talk and tutorial
proposals to fill the formal presentation and tutorial tracks. We
accept proposals on a very broad range of topics related to Python
programming.

Please follow the instructions below carefully before preparing a
proposal and submitting it.
Contents

    Important dates
    Permission to record/release presentations
    Topics for PyCon India
    Talk Format
    Proposal submission

Important Dates

    Call for proposals opens: May 9, 2011
    Proposal submission deadline: June 15, 2011
    Proposal acceptance: August 1, 2011
    First presentation upload: Aug 12, 2011
    Final presentation upload (with changes if any): Aug 31, 2011

Permission to record/release presentations

In PyCon India, we intend to record all presentations live and release
the recordings for free on the Internet so as to benefit the wider
Python community. When you are submitting a proposal, you
automatically give the Indian Python Software Society, the organizers
of PyCon India, the permissions to record/edit and release the
audio/video of your presentation.

No exceptions will be made in this regard. If you do not want a
recording of your presentation to be made, don't submit a proposal.

The released media will be licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution License, version 3.0.

Topics for PyCon India

Topics for presentations for PyCon India include but is not limited to,

    Core Python (including Python 3.x)

    Python standard library

    Other Python libraries and extensions

    Other Python implementations (such as PyPy, IronPython etc)

    Concurrency

    Databases

    Data Analysis/ Engineering in Python

    Scientific Programming

    Network programming

    Game programming

    Education and Training

    Embedding/extending

    GUI programming

    Packaging Python Code

    System administration

    Business applications

    Documentation

    Software development tools

    Testing

    Web programming

    Mobile computing

    Open source Python projects

Talk Format

The typical length of a talk should be no more than 45 minutes. The
presentation style should be concise, to the point with sufficient
examples to clarify the discussion to the audience, if needed. After
every talk there will be time reserved for questions from the audience
(10 minutes). We will be providing a buffer of 5-10 minutes between
talks so that the presenters get sufficient time to set-up their talk
and attendees can move between the halls.
Tutorial Format

The typical length of the tutorial should be no more than 3 hours. All
the classes run in PyCon India are volunteered. If you like to propose
a tutorial, The submission of the tutorials also follow the same time
lines as the talks.

Proposal submission

Talk and tutorial proposals should be submitted to
http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/submit.



regards
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