From tommy.trussell at gmail.com Tue Sep 13 03:16:19 2011 From: tommy.trussell at gmail.com (Tommy Trussell) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:16:19 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] OT: Software Developer, Little Rock, October 11th. Message-ID: A friend from High School, Mark Dalrymple, a Mac OS X and iOS programmer, will be visiting in October. He plans to present at the AppleRock meeting at 7pm on Tuesday October 11th. Mark travels worldwide training programmers, and is known for two books: Advanced Mac OS X Programming Guide, and Learn Objective-C on the Mac. Check out his blog at http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/ I've been trying to think of folks who might be interested beyond the usual AppleRock attendees. http://www.applerock.org/ Are you interested? Is there a specific programming topic that would especially bring you in? Let me know. *** ---> I know this is OT so please reply to me off-list. <--- *** --Tommy Trussell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chad at cast.uark.edu Thu Sep 22 20:31:16 2011 From: chad at cast.uark.edu (Chad Cooper (CAST)) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:31:16 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] pyArkansas 2011 - Announcement and Call For Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *ANNOUNCEMENT* Plans for the pyArkansas 2011 Python conference are underway. The 4th annual conference will be held October 22 on the campus of UCA (Computer Science Department). The conference is totally *FREE* and anyone interested in, using, wanting to learn, or just curious about the Python programming language is encouraged to attend. For more information about the conference and to register to attend, go to http://www.pyarkansas.org *CALL FOR PAPERS* Talks are 50 minutes (40 minutes of you talking and then 10-minutes for questions) and can be on anything Python. Are you using a standard library module that's really cool? Perhaps a third party package that you think other people should know about? What about that killer project where you did something interesting or fun using Python? This is a chance for you to share your knowledge with an audience that wants to hear what you have to say! Don't think you have to be a "Python heavyweight" to present; if you are doing something interesting, we want to hear from you (and we're bringing in a couple of heavyweights to give tutorials and talks of their own). We want a wide selection of topics and skill levels for the conference. Do you have a paper you would like to present? This year, we have a special track for students (High School and College/University) to present academic papers (25-minute slots). How cool is that? Without talks, there is no pyArkansas. You don't want that, do you? If you are interested, please email the following information to pyar2-organizers at python.org (don't "reply" to this). - Talk Title - A brief (a paragraph or two) description of your talk - Intended audience (beginner, intermediate, advanced, web developer, gamer, astronomer, etc.) - A brief blurb about you (that we can put on the website) - Length (papers are 25-minutes, talks are 50-minutes. There are a few longer talks slots available if you feel you need a little more time) We'll look them all over and make the selections by October 1 to give you time to prepare. We're looking forward to seeing you speak this year! _______________________________________________ PyAR2-Organizers mailing list PyAR2-Organizers at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyar2-organizers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brian.curtin at gmail.com Wed Sep 28 01:17:53 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:17:53 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] PyCon 2012 Proposals Due October 12 Message-ID: The deadline for PyCon 2012 tutorial, talk, and poster proposals is under 15 days away, so be sure to get your submissions in by October 12, 2011. Whether you?re a first-timer or an experienced veteran, PyCon is depends on you, the community, coming together to build the best conference schedule possible. Our call for proposals (http://us.pycon.org/2012/cfp/) lays out the details it takes to be included in the lineup for the conference in Santa Clara, CA on March 7-15, 2012. If you?re unsure of what to write about, our recent survey yielded a large list of potential talk topics (http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/09/need-talk-ideas.html), and plenty of ideas for tutorials (INSERT TUTORIAL POST). We?ve also come up with general tips on proposal writing at http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/08/writing-good-proposal.html to ensure everyone has the most complete proposal when it comes time for review. As always, the program committee wants to put together an incredible conference, so they?ll be working with submitters to fine tune proposal details and help you produce the best submissions. We?ve had plenty of great news to share since we first announced the call for proposals. Paul Graham of Y Combinator was recently announced as a keynote speaker (http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/09/announcing-first-pycon-2012-keynote.html), making his return after a 2003 keynote. David Beazley, famous for his mind-blowing talks on CPython?s Global Interpreter Lock, was added to the plenary talk series (http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/09/announcing-first-pycon-2012-plenary.html). Sponsors can now list their job openings on the ?Job Fair? section of the PyCon site (http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/09/announcing-pycon-2012-fair-page-sponsor.html). We?re hard at work to bring you the best conference yet, so stay tuned to PyCon news at http://pycon.blogspot.com/ and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/pycon. We recently eclipsed last year?s sponsorship count of 40 and are currently at a record 52 organizations supporting PyCon. If you or your organization are interested in sponsoring PyCon, we?d love to hear from you, so check out our sponsorship page (http://us.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/). A quick thanks to all of our awesome PyCon 2012 Sponsors: - Diamond Level: Google and Dropbox. - Platinum Level: New Relic, SurveyMonkey, Microsoft, Eventbrite, Nasuni and Gondor.io - Gold Level: Walt Disney Animation Studios, CCP Games, Linode, Enthought, Canonical, Dotcloud, Loggly, Revsys, ZeOmega, Bitly, ActiveState, JetBrains, Caktus, Disqus, Spotify, Snoball, Evite, and PlaidCloud - Silver Level: Imaginary Landscape, WiserTogether, Net-ng, Olark, AG Interactive, Bitbucket, Open Bastion, 10Gen, gocept, Lex Machina, fwix, github, toast driven, Aarki, Threadless, Cox Media, myYearBook, Accense Technology, Wingware, FreshBooks, and BigDoor - Lanyard: Dreamhost - Sprints: Reddit - FLOSS: OSU/OSL, OpenHatch The PyCon Organizers - http://us.pycon.org/2012 Jesse Noller - Chairman - jnoller at python.org Brian Curtin - Publicity Coordinator - brian at python.org