From doug.napoleone at gmail.com Mon Oct 1 23:15:49 2007 From: doug.napoleone at gmail.com (Douglas Napoleone) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:15:49 -0400 Subject: [Pycon-interest] PyCon-Tech Meeting Tomorrow, Oct. 2nd, 2pm EST Message-ID: There will be a PyCon-Tech Meeting tomorrow. The meeting will be held on irc in #pycon at freenode.net, at 2pm Eastern Standard Time (1pm Central) . This is a public meeting and all are invited to attend. `PyCon `_ is a volunteer conference for the python community, by the community, and we need all the help we can get. We have missed the Oct. 1st deadline for getting the proposal system live, and we need to focus on the remaining issues. The meeting agenda with details is here: https://pycon.coderanger.net/wiki/Meetings The minutes from the last meeting are now published: https://pycon.coderanger.net/wiki/Meetings/2007-09-18 All the action items have been completed with the exception of the proposal system, and a few remaining static content issues: http://us.pycon.org/2008/site/ -Doug Napoleone From doug.napoleone at gmail.com Tue Oct 2 20:01:55 2007 From: doug.napoleone at gmail.com (Douglas Napoleone) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:01:55 -0400 Subject: [Pycon-interest] PyCon-Tech meeting starting now. Message-ID: Just a friendly reminder that the meeting is starting now. http://pycon.blogspot.com/2007/10/next-pycon-tech-meeting-2-october.html -Doug From doug at dougma.com Mon Oct 15 20:57:33 2007 From: doug at dougma.com (Douglas Napoleone) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:57:33 -0400 Subject: [Pycon-interest] Pycon-Tech IRC meeting tomorrow, Oct 16th. 2pm EST (#pycon@freenode.net) Message-ID: Sorry for the short notice, There will be a PyCon-Tech meeting tomorrow at 2pm EST, held on IRC in the #pycon channel on freenode.net. The proposal system is now live, and it is time to shift focus to other areas of the conference software. The agenda is here: https://pycon.coderanger.net/wiki/Meetings The Agenda for those like me who hate leaving a perfectly good e-mail client: 1. revamp the roadmap dates/times due to the late proposal start This includes getting fixed times for the registration system. https://pycon.coderanger.net/roadmap 2. go over the work left on the proposal system: https://pycon.coderanger.net/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=Talk+Review+System 3. Flesh out the social network ideas: What social networks should we be integrating with? How? what are the benefits? A wiki page on the subject has been started here: https://pycon.coderanger.net/wiki/PyCon08/SocialNetworks 4. The site is still missing lots of content: https://pycon.coderanger.net/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=website&order=priority -Doug Napoleone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pycon-interest/attachments/20071015/42ad6b3a/attachment.htm From goodger at python.org Tue Oct 16 02:37:04 2007 From: goodger at python.org (David Goodger) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:37:04 -0400 Subject: [Pycon-interest] PyCon 2008: Call for Talk & Tutorial Proposals Message-ID: <471407B0.2060500@python.org> Proposals for PyCon 2008 talks & tutorials are now being accepted. The deadline for proposals is November 16. PyCon 2008 will be held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from March 13-20. http://us.pycon.org/2008/ Tutorial Day: Half-Day Tutorials ================================ Do you enjoy teaching classes or tutorials? Are you good at it? PyCon is looking for proposals for tutorials. The PyCon Tutorial Day will be March 13, 2008 (Thursday). There will be morning and afternoon tutorial sessions (3 hours each, plus a 30-minute break); presenters may request two sessions in order to make up a full day. Tutorials may be on any topic, but obviously should be instructional in nature. Full details and instructions here: http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/proposals/ Conference Days: Scheduled Talks ================================ Want to share your experience and expertise? PyCon is looking for proposals to fill the formal presentation tracks. The PyCon Conference Days will be March 14-16, 2008 (Friday-Sunday). Previous PyCon conferences have had a broad range of presentations, ranging from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. We hope to continue that tradition this year. As long as the presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program. We're especially interested in short tutorial presentations that will teach conference-goers something new and useful. Can you show attendees how to: use a module? explore a Python language feature? package an application? Full details and instructions here: http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/proposals/ Development Sprints =================== Four days of development sprints will follow the conference days, March 17-20 (Monday-Thursday). Start thinking about sprints you'd like to lead or join. We'll have an announcement about these soon! http://us.pycon.org/2008/sprints/ Lightning Talks & Open Space ============================ If you don't want to make a formal presentation, you can still bring your new project or idea to PyCon. There will be several sessions of Lightning Talks (five minute mini-talks, scheduled at the conference). http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/lightning There will also be several Open Space rooms for informal and spur-of-the-moment presentations. Open Space slots are allocated during PyCon on a first-come first-served basis. These slots can be used for presentations, round table discussions, hands-on tutorials, follow-up discussions after scheduled talks, or anything else you wish to present. http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/openspace/ Help Out! ========= PyCon 2008 planning is in full swing, but we can still use more help, *your* help! http://us.pycon.org/2008/helping/