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This year at PyCon UK we are running a photograph competition.

So bring along your camera and try to win the prize by capturing the spirit of the conference.

Rules and instructions for the competition can be found on the wiki page.

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Now you may register for PyCon UK 2008, please use the Booking Form. once again we have an Extra Early Bird rate, this is available for one week only, when the Early Bird rate will apply until 4th August.
There are exhibitions at the National Exhibition Centre during PyCon UK, so it would be a good idea to book your hotel room early. The Society has a block booking at the Etap Hotel, which you can book at the reduced rate of £38, otherwise the Etap will be charging £43 during the exhibition period.
This year we are having a Tutorials Day on Friday 12th September. There is a fee for the Tutorials, and while details of the Tutorials are being finalised, there is a special Early Bird rate of £35 for the day. For that you will be able to attend any tutorial, subject to places being available. Later there will be a tutorials booking form and priority will be given to early bookers.
Book early now - PyCon UK 2008 will be a great conference!

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We're really pleased that Mark Shuttleworth will be giving a keynote speech at PyCon UK 2008. Mark is the founder of Ubuntu and a fan of Python and his keynote will be a highlight of our conference.
Mark's company, Canonical, will be taking an active part in PyCon UK as well and we can expect to see and meet Ubuntu developers. Steve Alexander will be giving a talk on on how to write Python programs that interface with Bazaar and Launchpad and Matthias Klose, who is in charge of getting Python libraries and programs into Ubuntu, will tell us how to get our Python code into Ubuntu effectively.

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This news page (or 'blog') will keep you up to date with the run-up to PyCon UK 2008 which will happen on the 12th/14th September 2008 at the Birmingham Conservatoire.

Its pretty early days but we are already planning talks, lightning talks and tutorials as well as social events, and sprints.

So if you think you might be able to give a talk then you need to start thinking about it now.

Perhaps you are part of a distributed programming project in the UK, such as an open-source project that uses Python, but have never met your co-developers, then consider meeting up at PyCon UK.

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