From nicholas.farrell at gmail.com  Sun Nov 15 03:13:20 2015
From: nicholas.farrell at gmail.com (Nick Farrell)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:13:20 +1100
Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Call for Special Events @ PyCon AU 2016
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PyCon Australia 2016 is being held in Melbourne from Friday August 12 to
Tuesday August 16. The first day of the conference is the Specialist Day
(previously called miniconfs).

Email the organising committee at contact at pycon-au.org to register your
interest as soon as possible, just let us know who you are and what you
might be interested in running. We?ll then send you the information pack
which contains more information on key questions and some helpful pointers
for running the events.

In previous years, special events associated with PyCon Australia have been
organised by invitation of the main conference organising committee. This
year, an open call will be issued so that any group wishing to organise a
special event may apply (including to organisers of special events in
previous years). The organising committee will then review and select the
events to include in the PyCon Australia 2016 program. Special event
organisers will then be brought on as an event organising team, working
with the main organising committee and other special event organisers to
put together a great community driven event.

Examples of special events that could be included in the program:

   -

   Up to 4 specialist tracks (aka "miniconfs") for Friday's Specialist Day
   (e.g. DjangoCon AU, Python in Education seminar)
   -

   Workshops running in parallel with the sprints (e.g. DjangoGirls, Young
   Coders)
   -

   Associated events run independently, but take advantage of the presence
   of a large contingent of Pythonistas in Melbourne (e.g. Software Carpentry
   workshops)
   -

   Icebreaker events for Friday evening or social events during the sprints


These events are all hailed as a major highlight by conference attendees
and rely on community members coming forward to help organise them. It?s
also our chance to help out these groups, as  organisers can take advantage
of the gathered forces of the Australian Python community without the full
burden of organising a national event.

This is our call to the community: please put up your hand and make
yourself known.
Schedule:

Call for expressions of interest: 15 November - 20 December

Shortlisting of submissions: 20 December 2015 - 15th January

Finalising of shortlisted bids: 30 January 2015

Special event list finalised: 5 February 2015

In previous years, some special events have been organised late in the
piece. This schedule is a nominal time-frame to encourage people to engage
earlier, however the committee will consider late submissions if they will
improve the conference. Early submissions will have priority for rooms and
other support.
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From ele.wil at gmail.com  Tue Nov 24 02:15:06 2015
From: ele.wil at gmail.com (Elena Williams)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:15:06 +1100
Subject: [Canberra-PUG] Fwd: [melbourne-pug] PyCon 2016 CFP Deadlines and
 Overview Info - Melbourne Python Users Group
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Elena :)
@elequ

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From: Betsy Waliszewski <betsy at python.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:36 AM
Subject: [melbourne-pug] PyCon 2016 CFP Deadlines and Overview Info -
Melbourne Python Users Group
To: melbourne-pug at python.org


Fellow Pythonistas and enthusiasts:

Roughly a week from today PyCon US 2016 *TUTORIALS* call for proposals will
close. To be precise, we'll close the system at 2015-11-30 23:59 GMT
-12:00. For more information, please check out
https://us.pycon.org/2016/speaking/tutorials/
<https://www.evernote.com/OutboundRedirect.action?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fus.pycon.org%2F2016%2Fspeaking%2Ftutorials%2F>
.

A quick overview of PyCon 2016:

   - The conference (us.pycon.org) is for everyone interested in Python!
   Registration is open[1].
   - May 28?29 - Two days of Tutorials
   - May 30-June 1 - Three days of Conference
   - June 2-5 - Four days of Sprints
   - Tutorial proposals[2] due in one week, on November 30.
   - Talk and poster proposals[3] due on January 3.
   - The 3 main conference days also include lunch, a vendor expo hall,
   free-form Open Spaces, lightning talks, and a job fair!
   - Childcare will be available.
   - Sponsorships are still available![4]


Check us out on Twitter[5] and our blog[6]!

Best wishes -
PyCon 2016 Staff

[1]  https://us.pycon.org/2016/registration/
[2] https://us.pycon.org/2016/speaking/tutorials/
[3] https://us.pycon.org/2016/speaking/talks/
[4] https://us.pycon.org/2016/sponsors/prospectus/
<https://www.evernote.com/OutboundRedirect.action?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fus.pycon.org%2F2016%2Fsponsors%2Fprospectus%2F>
[5] https://twitter.com/pycon
[6] http://pycon.blogspot.com/
-- 
Betsy Waliszewski
Python Software Foundation
Event Coordinator / Administrator
@betswaliszewski

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From gavin.jackson at gmail.com  Tue Nov 24 16:07:16 2015
From: gavin.jackson at gmail.com (Gavin Jackson)
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:07:16 +1100
Subject: [Canberra-PUG] December Meeting Details (Thursday 3 Dec,
 6pm @ peoplebank)
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Hello Canberra Pythonistas, wow - this year went quick!

Please join us for the last CPUG meeting of the year - we will have pizza
and beer and Hugh talking about the state of his Python to  C converter. If
time permits I'll also do a quick overview of combining simplesamlphp and
mod_shib to provide a great Open Source SAML2 SSO implementation. Please
remember to RSVP below to assist with seating and catering.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ccukkqnfob6n2m29bhs41fbm1ps

I'll probably kick off 2016 on the first Thursday of Feb. Please let me
know if you wish to speak! Don't forget that Redhat have kindly donated a
$50 gift voucher for CPUG speakers.

Big thank you to Jetbrains, Redhat and Peoplebank for their generous
sponsorship of CPUG through 2015 - it has been a terrific year!?


Cheers,
Gav

{e} gavin.jackson at gmail.com {mb} 0422 443 980
{skype} gavin6252 {twitter} @gavz {blog} www.gavinj.net
{g+} profiles.google.com/gavin.jackson
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