From amk at amk.ca  Thu Nov 10 14:29:38 2005
From: amk at amk.ca (A.M. Kuchling)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:29:38 -0500
Subject: [Pycon-announce] PyCon 2006 Call for Tutorials
Message-ID: <20051110132938.GB28116@rogue.amk.ca>

PyCon 2006 Call for Tutorials
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Enjoy teaching classes or tutorials? PyCon 2006 is looking for
proposals for a pre-conference tutorials day.  PyCon 2006 will be held
February 24-26 in Addison, Texas (near Dallas).  Tutorials will be held
on February 23, at the same location.

Tutorial sessions will be a half day (3 hours, with a 15-minute break);
presenters may request two sessions in order to make up a full day.
Tutorials may be on any topic, but obviously should be instructional in
nature. Providing take-home materials for attendees is encouraged, and
tutorial presenters will receive $50 per student registered for theirsession (with a minimum payment of $500, and a maximum of $1500).

Extra consideration will be given to presenters with prior experience
teaching classes or giving conference tutorials. Please provide one
reference or evidence of such prior experience (sessions taught at
OSCON, EuroPython, local user groups, etc.).

PyCon attendees will register for tutorials.  We reserve the right to
cancel tutorials with low attendance; presenters will not be paid for
cancelled tutorials.

Example tutorial topics can be found at:
http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/Tutorials

Important Dates
===============

* Submission deadline: November 15, 2005
* Acceptance deadline: November 22, 2005
* Cancellation date: January 15, 2006  (for inadequate attendance)

Submission Format
================================

Proposals should be 250 to 1000 words long (i.e., one to four pages in
manuscript format), containing the following information:

* Author name(s)
* Contact Information
* (Recommended) At least one previous presentation/teaching engagement
reference
* Summary of proposed presentation
* Presentation outline
* Intended audience (non-programmers, beginning programmers, advanced
  users, CPython developers, etc.)

E-mail your proposal to <pycon at python.org>.

ASCII format is preferred (plain or reST), with HTML as a secondary
alternative. If you have any questions about submission, please send
mail to the conference organizers at pycon at python.org.

From amk at amk.ca  Sat Nov 19 16:22:35 2005
From: amk at amk.ca (A.M. Kuchling)
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:22:35 -0500
Subject: [Pycon-announce] Help sponsor Pycon
Message-ID: <20051119152235.GA9610@rogue.amk.ca>

PyCon is now looking for sponsors to help fund the conference; please
see <http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/HowToSponsor> for more information.

Sponsors help ensure that PyCon remains a low-cost conference.
Several levels of sponsorship are available to match your company's
budget.

Sponsoring is also a good targeted way to reach a large set of Python
users.  If you want to advertise something -- a product, a book, a job
opening -- to the PyCon community, it costs only $200 to include your
marketing material in the tote bag given to all conference attendees.

For more details, see <http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/HowToSponsor>.


A.M. Kuchling
Chair, PyCon 2006
amk at amk.ca