From brian at python.org Thu Jul 11 20:15:20 2013 From: brian at python.org (Brian Curtin) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:15:20 -0000 Subject: [Texas] PyCon 2014 Call for Proposals, New Website Message-ID: Hi Texas Python Users Group! It's that time of year again! The PyCon website received a beautiful refresh and we're ready to accept proposals for the 2014 conference taking place April 9-17 in Montreal. Check out the new site at http://us.pycon.org/2014 and create your account today! Registration will open in September, so mark your calendars and get ready to head into Canada for another great PyCon. We've received record numbers of proposals over each of the last several years, and we expect this year to be no different. For 2012 we received over 500 proposals for talks, tutorials, and posters, and for 2013 we received over 600. This community's excellent submissions have made for schedules where there is just too much good stuff to take in without cloning yourself, which is a problem we're proud to have. Thankfully you can catch up with the talks you missed at http://pyvideo.org/. If you're interested in submitting a proposal, take a look at our Call for Proposals at http://us.pycon.org/2014/speaking/cfp/ and poke around the site for advice and resources to help you create a great proposal. New for this year are the addition of Lightning Talk proposals, from which we'll be pre-selecting some of the slots that make up the Lightning Talk sessions. If your company is interested in sponsorship, we need you. Sponsors are what make PyCon a possibility, and sponsorship offers some great values to the generous organizations who support the conference. Check out https://us.pycon.org/2014/sponsors/whysponsor/ to find out what you get out of sponsorship, with a prospectus at https://us.pycon.org/2014/sponsors/prospectus/. Contact Jesse Noller at jnoller at python.org with any sponsorship inquiries. Keep an eye out for news on our blog at http://pycon.blogspot.com/ and follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/pycon Diana Clarke, Chairwoman diana.joan.clarke at gmail.com Brian Curtin, Publicity Coordinator brian at python.org From opritche at gmail.com Mon Jul 15 18:42:55 2013 From: opritche at gmail.com (Osye Pritchett) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:42:55 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas 2013 Message-ID: Everyone remember, early registration for PyTexas 2013 ends today. There is more information about the conference on the blog ( http://blog.pytexas.org/) and the website (http://www.pytexas.org/2013/). Also you can follow @pytexas on Twitter for announcements. To register for the conference go here: http://www.pytexas.org/registration/login/?next=/2013/register/ Instructions on registering can be found in this announcement on the blog http://blog.pytexas.org/2013/06/announcements-for-pytexas-2013.html Also we are looking for more talks and have extended the deadline for submissions, so get those talk proposals to us! You can email the conference organizers at conference at pytexas.net with any questions or comments. Thank you, Osye Pritchett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From boydjj at gmail.com Tue Jul 23 05:49:21 2013 From: boydjj at gmail.com (Jeremy Boyd) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 22:49:21 -0500 Subject: [Texas] PyTexas Sponsorships and Registration Message-ID: Hi all, Just a quick update on PyTexas 2013. This year is shaping up to be a good one. We've had some great successes with sponsorships -- announcements on those are forthcoming this week. Importantly, there are only TWO Platinum-level sponsorships left for this year. In case you're wondering, Platinum-level is the get-my-logo-on-the-t-shirt level. So if you want your logo on this year's t-shirt, I urge you to check out our prospectus[1] and get in touch with me A.S.A.P. We're going to need to get the final design to our printer in early August, so there's not much time left. I also wanted to point out that we already have ~75 attendees registered, and historically about half our attendees sign up within the last 2 weeks or so, so we may well have record attendance this year. This means sponsors stand to benefit from greater exposure than in previous years if our projections are right. And, a bit of a personal plea: if you're planning on attending, you can help make the organizers' lives easier by registering[2] sooner rather than later. This will help us plan on various logistics. Thanks. We hope to see many of you in College Station next month! [1]: http://www.pytexas.org/2013/sponsor/ [2]: http://www.pytexas.org/2013/register/ -- Jeremy Boyd boydjj at gmail.com 512-586-4587 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: