Year of the Snake

[June Kim]

"chas" <panda at skinnyhippo.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.978426843.19321.python-list at python.org...
> June Kim wrote:
> > This is the year of the snake according to the 12 zodiacal animal
> > signs largely used in most of Asia  including Japan, China, and Korea.
> > Taking it as a metaphor, Python Users Group in Korea(PyKUG) is pleased
> > to announced that  this year is "the year of Python" in Korea.
> >
> > As one way to raise the public interest in Korea, we are planning to
> > have the 2nd Python Seminar on Feb/2/2001. Having more than 1,000
> > members joined in last year, we expect to have a larger number of
> > audience in the seminar than the first one.
>
> It's been a lonely few years as I've gone from Malaysia/Singapore
> to China/Taiwan and now find myself in HK .... meeting very few
> Python guys along the way. So to hear that you've had 1,000 members
> join in the last year alone is exciting stuff...

We also were very surprised at the large number, when most of us had
expected that the number would not go over, at best, a few hundreds. What is
more optimistic is almost all of the magazines for developers in Korea are
carrying Python articles regularly as if they are competing with each other.

>
> As luck would have it, I'll be in Korea at that time and would love
> to attend  ... but with very little Korean language skills, wonder
> if it's going to be a problem....

The seminar will be mostly in Korean, but we do have one speech in English:
"How Hostway is Using Python" by Lucas Roh, CEO of Hostway. And the most of
the presentation will be given visually in English -- but audially in
Korean. In addition to that, you could find some evangelists and enthusiasts
for Python who speak English, if not as well as their mother tongue though.

Best regards,

June.