[pycon-za] Official call for speakers

[Simon de Haan]

Looks great,

another small nitpick on the email address. I prefer spelling it
team at za.pycon.org so mail clients will highlight it and readers will
more easily spot it.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Graeme Glass <graemeglass at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Neil Muller <drnlmuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 20 August 2012 15:59, Neil Muller <drnlmuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Since the website is now running, and we seem to have settled on a
>>> final submission deadline, we need to send out a call for speakers
>>> real soon now (tm).
>>>
>>> I'd like to see that sent out no later than Wednesday.
>>>
>>> We probably need a quick go-round on the actual text beforehand - I
>>> expect we can lift a lot of the details from other pycon call for
>>> speakers and just fill in a few pycon-za specific bits, so that should
>>> not be too hard to do.
>>
>> Based of the PyCon Finland Call for proposals
>> (http://mail.python.org/pipermail//conferences/2012-June/000370.html),
>> which I think is a nice, compact version, I have currently:
>>
>>
>>    PyCon ZA 2012 - Call for Speakers
>>
>>    PyCon ZA will take place October 4-5 in Cape Two, South Africa.
>> There will be 2
>>    days of talks, and we will also hold sprints on the 6 and 7th of October.
>>
>>    We are currently accepting proposals for talks. If you would like to give a
>>    presentation, please submit you proposal at http://www.za.pycon.org/. The
>>    deadline for proposals is the 15th of September. Accepted presenters will be
>>    notified by no later than the 20th of September. The presentation
>> slots will be
>>    45 minutes + 10 minutes of discussion at the end. Shared sessions are also
>>    possible. The language for the presentations should be English.
>>
>>    If you wish to coordinate a sprint on a specific topic, please
>> contact team at
>>    za dot pycon dot org with the details.
>>
>>    See you in PyCon ZA 2012!
>>
>>    --
>>    On behalf of the PyconZA organising committee
>>
>>
>> Anything editing suggestions?
>>
>> I don't want to make the final acceptance date too close to the actual
>> conference - is the 20th September reasonable? We're going to have
>> accept some talks as they're submitted rather than reviewing stuff
>> after all the submissions are closed, otherwise we're going to run
>> into serious timing issues.
>>
>> --
>> Neil Muller
>> drnlmuller at gmail.com
>>
>> I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool?
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>
> Looks good.
> A typo: Cape Two -> Cape Town
>
> Nitpick, are we using http://www.za.pycon.org/ or http://za.pycon.org/
> I know they redirect to the same place, but it is nice to standardise on 1 URL.
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