From davidjensen at usa.net Tue Sep 6 11:28:01 2011 From: davidjensen at usa.net (David Jensen) Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:28:01 -0400 Subject: [Conferences] PyGotham Sept 16-17 Message-ID: <227PiFJbB3296S03.1315301281@web03.cms.usa.net> The PyGotham conference takes place Sept 16-17 at the Executive Conference Center in Manhattan. www.pygotham.org David Jensen Apartment 412 414 West 120th Street New York, New York 10027 212-866-7094 preferred:: cell: 646-282-6355 davidjensen at usa.net From cris.pascual.gonzalez at gmail.com Tue Sep 20 17:22:43 2011 From: cris.pascual.gonzalez at gmail.com (Cristina Pascual) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:22:43 +0200 Subject: [Conferences] 2nd CfP: MMEDIA 2012 || April 29 - May 4, 2012 - Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France Message-ID: <201109201522.p8KFMhHR024396@smtp.upv.es> INVITATION: ================= Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to MMEDIA 2012. The submission deadline is set to December 5, 2011. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== MMEDIA 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS MMEDIA 2012: The Fourth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia April 29 - May 4, 2012 - Chamonix / Mont Blanc, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/MMEDIA12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPMMEDIA12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: hhttp://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitMMEDIA12.html Submission deadline: December 5, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html MMEDIA 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Fundamentals in multimedia Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications; New multimedia platforms; Multimedia architectural specification languages; Theoretical aspects and algorithms for multimedia; Multimedia content delivery networks; Network support for multimedia data; Multimedia data storage; Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems; Multimedia signal coding and processing (audio, video, image); Multimedia applications (telepresence, triple-play, quadruple-play, ?); Multimedia tools (authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, ?); Computational multimedia intelligence (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, ?); Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis; Multimedia networking; Wired and wireless multimedia systems; Distributed multimedia systems; Multisensor data integration and fusion; Multimedia and P2P; Multimedia standards Multimedia content and modeling Interfaces for multimedia creation; Multimedia streaming and services; Image modeling and editing; Audio modeling and transformation; Video modeling and transformation; Image recognition; Multimedia databases; Multimedia coding and encryption; Multimedia modeling for learning content; Multimedia description languages; Image clustering; Media fusion for communication and presentation Self-organizing multimedia architectures Self-organization in multimedia systems; Self-organization in multimedia communities; Self-organized multimedia networks; Multimedia content distribution and consumption; Adaptive multimedia interfaces; Multimedia retrieval Multimedia content-based retrieval and analysis Multimodal data analysis; Multimedia databases; Semi-automatic and automatic methods for multimedia annotation; Image/video/audio databases; Content-based image retrieval; Semantics-based search and integration of multimedia and digital content; Multimedia data modeling, indexing, and mining; Statistical modeling of multimedia data; Multimedia extraction and annotation; Content search/browsing/retrieval; Internet imaging and multimedia; Multimodal content analysis; Multimedia abstraction and summarization; Semantic analysis of multimedia data; Media assimilation and fusion Perception and cognition for multimedia users Quality of experience; Relevance feedback; Human-computer interaction; Multimodal interaction; Multimodal user interfaces; Mobile user-centered interfaces; Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming; Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems (digital TV, mobile systems, gaming,?); Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks; Visualization and virtual reality; Intelligent browsing and visualization; Perception and cognition; Perception and modeling of the environment; Multimedia collaboration; Social networking Multimedia ontology Multimedia semantics; Emergent semantics; Media ontology learning; Ontology for media web mining; Multimedia ontologies; Multimedia information management; Approaches using metadata standards; Conceptual clustering; Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for multimedia mobility; Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in intelligent transportation systems; Enabling platforms for mobile multimedia; Roaming and limited bandwidth; Intermittent connectivity; Streaming mobile multimedia; Mobile multimedia software architectures; Mobile multimedia applications and services; Communication and cooperation via mobile multimedia; Business models for mobile multimedia; Provisioning of mobile multimedia services; Context-aware mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment; Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in ad hoc networks; Personalization, privacy and security in mobile multimedia; Social and regulatory aspects of mobile multimedia; Multimedia in the Extended Home; Ubiquitous/Seamless content sharing Multimedia services Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services; Multimedia content distribution services; Real-time multimedia services; Audio-visual multimedia services; Multimedia signal processing and communications; Media representation and algorithms; Audio, image, video processing, coding and compression; Multimedia database, content delivery and transport; Multimedia service protocols; Mobility of multimedia services; Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems; Media enabled eCommerce service; Case studies, field trials and evaluation of new multimedia services Multimedia applications Real-time interactive multimedia applications Adaptive and context-aware multimedia applications; Ambiance multimedia applications; Media applications on mobile devices; Multi-modal interaction; Virtual environments; Personalization; Collaboration, contextual metadata, collaborative tagging; Web applications; Multimedia authoring; Multimedia-enabled new applications (eLearning, entertainment,?..); Cooperative networks and applications; Mobile multimedia applications & services; Semantic metadata for mobile applications; Semantics enabled multimedia applications; Semantics enabled networks and middleware for multimedia applications; Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks/RFID applications Industrial use-cases and applications Multimedia security and content protection Multimedia security (watermark, encryption,? ); Mobile multimedia systems and services; Security, privacy, and cryptographic protocols; Network security issues and protocols; Key management and authentication; Authentication and access control; Intrusion detection and prevention; Content protection and digital rights management; Trusted computing; Information hiding; Protection of user-generated content Multimedia control and management Wireless and mobile multimedia network management; Multimedia measurement, control, and management; Content management and delivery; IP multimedia system operations and management; Managing the quality of experience and quality of service; Measuring the quality of performance in multimedia systems; Mobile multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization; Monitoring and managing mobile multimedia; Resource reservation for multimedia services; Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management; Management of service oriented architectures; Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComMMEDIA12.html ==================== From whykay at gmail.com Fri Sep 23 18:54:12 2011 From: whykay at gmail.com (Vicky Twomey-Lee) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:54:12 +0100 Subject: [Conferences] Post-conference survey examples? Message-ID: Hi All, Is there a generic post-conference survey people use for PyCons, I'm asking as many of you would have organised many Python conferences and would have written many post-conf surveys and honed in to improve the type of feedback to make the next conference a more enjoyable experience. Thanks, /// Vicky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lara.o at interplanet.mx Tue Sep 27 02:16:42 2011 From: lara.o at interplanet.mx (Omar Lara) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:16:42 -0500 Subject: [Conferences] PyCon Mexico Message-ID: <4E8115EA.7080901@interplanet.mx> Hi everybody, currently i work as CTO of the 2nd largest hosting company in Mexico and i am promoting the organization for a good Python Conference cycle with the support of my company and the Python community around Mexico, i noticed the only Latam editions are in Argentina and Brazil, and i would like to include a Mexican edition for PyCon, is it possible? I would like to know what are the requirements or the suggestions to deploy PyCon in Mexico. I would appreciate any comments. Thanks in advance, Omar L. -- ------------------------------------- Omar Lara Chief Technology Officer InterPlanet, S.A. de C.V. t: +52(55) 24.55.50.45 f: +52(55) 24.55.50.07 m: +521(55) 52.17.72.10 Twitter: @elchito http://www.interplanet.mx The Internet Company ------------------------------------- From facundobatista at gmail.com Tue Sep 27 04:03:28 2011 From: facundobatista at gmail.com (Facundo Batista) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:03:28 -0300 Subject: [Conferences] PyCon Mexico In-Reply-To: <4E8115EA.7080901@interplanet.mx> References: <4E8115EA.7080901@interplanet.mx> Message-ID: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Omar Lara wrote: > Hi everybody, currently i work as CTO of the 2nd largest hosting company in > Mexico and i am promoting the organization for a good Python Conference > cycle with the support of my company and the Python community around Mexico, > i noticed the only Latam editions are in Argentina and Brazil, and i would > like to include a Mexican edition for PyCon, is it possible? It's always possible... but maybe not recommendable. Two things are most than desired for a successful PyCon, I'd say they're absolutely needed: - A striving local community. How is the Python community in Mexico? Do you know each other? Do you meet regularly? Etc. - Experience of the organisers in other smaller conferences. What works really great, to start, is to do PyDays in Universities... being a PyDay means that is one day, maybe one only track, very good starting point... and if you do it in an University, you already have part of the audience. Regards, -- .? ? Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ From cris.pascual.gonzalez at gmail.com Thu Sep 29 16:14:20 2011 From: cris.pascual.gonzalez at gmail.com (Cristina Pascual) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:14:20 +0200 Subject: [Conferences] Deadline Extension: DBKDA 2012 || February 29 - March 5, 2012 - Reunion Island Message-ID: <201109291414.p8TEEJus008596@smtp.upv.es> INVITATION: ================= Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to DBKDA 2012. The submission deadline has been extended to October 16, 2011. A video of the 2011 event is available on the conference front page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/DBKDA12.html In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== DBKDA 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS DBKDA 2012: The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications February 29 - March 5, 2012 - Reunion Island General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/DBKDA12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPDBKDA12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitDBKDA12.html Submission deadline: October 16, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html DBKDA 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Advances in fundamentals on databases Foundations and architectures; Design features (data quality, performance, robustness, scalability, security, privacy, parallel and distributed approaches, mobility, etc.); Data quality, data structures, and data modeling; Advanced indexing methods; Advanced ranking algorithms and uncertainty; Physical organization and performance; Federated choreographies; Temporal conformance; Evolutionary clustering and dynamic hierarchical clustering Databases and other domains Leading-edge database technology and applications; Heterogeneous databases interoperability and mediation; Databases and Web services; Databases and artificial intelligence; Databases and agents; Advances in database management systems; Advanced transaction and workflow management; Advances on XML and databases Database technologies Self-managing databases; Mobile databases; Database access; Embedded databases; Very large scale databases; Spatial and spatio-temporal databases; Data warehousing; Multimedia databases; Semantic databases; Data integration resources on the Internet; Object-oriented databases; Web-based databases; Deductive and active databases Databases content processing Mining for complex data; Mining for text, video, and pictures; Knowledge discovery and classification; Process mining; Scalable data extraction; Query processing and optimization; Query rewrite rules; Navigational path expressions; Load-balancing in accessing distributed databases; Incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty; Storage and replication; Patterns and similarities in data streams; Fast matching; Multiple views Knowledge and decision bases Knowledge representation and management; Knowledge discovery (business intelligence); Semantic information; Ontology and advanced knowledge search; Heuristics and meta-heuristics; Intelligent knowledge querying; Feature sampling and feature selection; Context-aware knowledge base; Blogs and social relationship search; Deductive reasoning; Reasoning databases; Ontology-based reasoning Specifics on application domains databases Database applications in Life Sciences; Advanced database applications; Bioinformatics databases; Healthcare databases; Finance and marketing databases; Telecom databases; Geospatial databases; Census databases; Meteorological databases; Business intelligence databases; e-Business databases XML-driven data, knowledge, databases Data /dissemination, distributed, processing, management/; XML-data /storage, exchange, compress, metadata/; XML-data and metadata management; XML repositories; Knowledge discovery from XML repositories; XML-data processing /queries, indexing, management, retrieval, mining/; XML data and knowledge /representation, discovery, mining, orchestration/; XML-data in advances environments /clouds, P2P, multimedia, mobile, finance, biotechnologies, geospatial, space/; XML-data and process /data warehouse, workflow, web, learning, control/; Data privacy Privacy models; Privacy metrics; Privacy preservation; Watermarking; Data Hiding; Background knowledge; Privacy /data streams, social networks, databases, semantic web/; Privacy mechanisms /cryptography, privacy-aware access control, generalization-based algoritm, perturbation-based algorithm, preservation, sequental releases/; Practical studies /privacy leaking, privacy breach, threats to privacy, privacy in outsourcing/ Data quality and uncertainty Models, frameworks, methodologies and metrics for data quality; Quality of complex data /documents, semi-structured data, XMLs, multimedia data, graphs, bio-sequences/; Uncertain and noisy data; Uncertain data representation; Processing uncertain data /querying, indexing, mining/; Mining uncertain data/probabilistic, spatially- and temporally- uncertain, uncertain streams/ Data lineage and provenance; Data profiling and measurement; Data integration, linkage and fusion; D uplicate detection and consistency checking; D ata mining and data quality assessment; Quality methods and algorithms / data transformation, reconciliation, consolidation, extraction, cleansing/; User perception on data quality and cleansing; Data query, access, mining, and correlation Data access technologies, Query optimisation, Discovering multi-modal correlations; Mining structural data from non-structural mixed-media documents; Data stream mining /frequent patterns, bursty event detection/; Profile mining; Corelation and anomaly in multi-modal-data /social networks, web traffic logs, sale transactions/; Information retrieval on a mixed collections; Multimedia data mining; Data mining system for medical multimedia data; Contents-based image/video retrieval systems Data and process provenance Provenance architectures and algorithms; Provenance modelling; Information management for provenance data; Provenance ontology and semantic; Provenance querying; Provenance annotation; Security, trust, and privacy for provenance information; Case studies and practice; Reasoning over provenance; Provenance analytics, mining and visualization Data management Distributed Query Languages; Query processing and optimization; Adaptive query processing; Management of mobile data; Managing data privacy and security; Data storage and management; Data stream systems; Data locating; Data warehouse management; Management of dynamic data; Workload adaptability; Transaction management; Performance evaluation and benchmarking or data management ---------------------------------- Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComDBKDA12.html ====================