[pycon-za] Draft schedule up

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Simon Cross
<simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Gustav <gustav at praekelt.com> wrote:
>> 1. Lightning Talk. Happy to oblige. Have we finalised what the format is?
>
> No. :) The PyCon US 2012 lightning talks were 5 minutes long with 4 or
> 5 slides per talk. That gives us 9 talks in 45 minutes.
>
>> 2. Django. That really is a glaring omission. A lot of the attendees will be
>> either planning to use it or actively using it, I would think at least an
>> advanced and intermediate/beginner level talk would be useful (or maybe a
>> have a beginner tutorial?
>
> If we don't get Alex Gaynor we'll definitely need to get someone to
> fill that dap.
>
>> 3. Mobile. Do we have no potential talks on mobile development, especially
>> on Android. I know Python isn't heavily used in this arena, but given the
>> importance/relevance in Africa would be great to have a specific talk around
>> that? Where google not interested in maybe doing this?
>
> Google have promised me a talk on Python on Android but I haven't got
> a speaker's name from them yet.
>
>> 4. The two SKA back-to-back talks look a bit weird, any particular reason
>> for scheduling them together?
>
> It seemed like they would fit thematically but there wasn't a super
> strong reason.
>
>> 5. Twisted or Gevent. Do we not have someone who can talk about event-driven
>> stuff (given the interest level in node.js especially).
>
> This is definitely a gap I'd like to cover. I've prodded the Vumi team
> a bit. Other suggestions of local Twisted devs I could prod welcomed.

idnar also known as mithrandi, he's from joburg, I hope he's coming.