From pycon at python.org  Fri Jan 21 01:06:01 2005
From: pycon at python.org (Steve Holden)
Date: Fri Jan 21 01:06:02 2005
Subject: [Pycon-interest] PyCon Preliminary Program Announced!
Message-ID: <20050121000601.5D0791E4009@bag.python.org>


Dear Python Colleague:

You will be happy to know that the PyCon Program
Committee, after lengthy deliberations, has now
finalized the program for PyCon DC 2005. I can tell
you that the decision-making was very difficult, as
the standard of submissions was even higher than
last year.

You can see the preliminary program at

  http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/schedule.html

and it's obvious that this year's PyCon is going
to be even fuller than the last.

On innovation is that there will be activities of
a more social nature on the Wednesday (and perhaps
the Thursday) evening, as well as keynote speeches
from Guido and two other luminaries.

Remember that the early bird registration rates end
in just over a week, so hurry on down to

  http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/register.html

to be sure of your place in what will surely be the
premier Python event of the year.

As always, I would appreciate your help in getting
the word out. Please forward this message to your
favorite mailing lists and newsgroups to make sure
that everyone has a chance to join in the fun!


regards
Steve Holden
Chairman, PyCON DC 2005
-- 
PyCon DC 2005: The third Python Community Conference
http://www.pycon.org/   http://www.python.org/pycon/
The scoop on Python implementations and applications
From pycon at python.org  Sun Jan 23 22:06:54 2005
From: pycon at python.org (Steve Holden)
Date: Sun Jan 23 22:06:55 2005
Subject: [Pycon-interest] Microsoft to Provide PyCon Opening Keynote
Message-ID: <20050123210654.6ED991E4009@bag.python.org>


Dear Python Colleague:

The PyCon Program Committee is happy to announce that
the opening keynote speech, at 9:30 am on Wednesday
March 23 will be:

    Python on the .NET Platform, by
    Jim Hugunin, Microsoft Corporation

Jim Hugunin is well-known in the Python world for his
pioneering work on JPython (now Jython), and more
recently for the IronPython .NET implementation of
Python.

Jim joined Microsoft's Common Language Runtime team
in August last year to continue his work on Iron Python
and further improve the CLR's support for dynamic
languages like Python.

I look forward to hearing what Jim has to say, and
hope that you will join me and the rest of the Python
community at PyCon DC 2005, at George Washington
University from March 23-25, with a four-day sprint
starting on Saturday March 19.

Early bird registration rates are still available for
a few more days. Go to

    http://www.python.org/moin/PyConDC2005/Schedule

for the current schedule, and register at

    http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/


regards
Steve Holden
Chairman, PyCON DC 2005
-- 
PyCon DC 2005: The third Python Community Conference
http://www.pycon.org/   http://www.python.org/pycon/
The scoop on Python implementations and applications