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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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The menu for the Conference Dinner has been published, there is a link from the timetable. For those staying over on Thursday night ready for the Friday tutorials, there is a social planned, but we need you to reserve your place - see the Wiki for details. Another event is being arranged for Friday as well, details coming soon.

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We're planning on having a Code Clinic on the afternoon of Tutorials Day, 12th September. It will be run by David Jones and Raymond Hettinger et al. The idea is that you bring in some of your own code, maybe something you've been having trouble with, and have it reviewed by the group. You'll come away with some ideas for improving speed, clarity, technique, etc, and be able to look at other people's code as well. This can be quite an eye-opener.

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The Talks Schedule has been published. There is a full and interesting programme.

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Mano Marks of Google will be giving a half-day tutorial on Google AppEngine on Friday 12th September.

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We have published the list of Accepted Talks. We are still accepting last minute talk submissions, and the talks schedule will be published later. Friday 12th September is Tutorials Day, with six half-day tutorials: here is the Tutorials Schedule. There will be other shorter tutorials on Saturday and Sunday.
If you wnat to be sure of a place on the tutorials, you should Book Now.

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Ted Leung is coming to PyCon UK, amongst other things he'll be giving a major keynote talk. Ted is currently Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems, responsible for Dynamic Languages and Tools, Python and Jython in particular. Previously he was Developement Manager at the OSAF on Chandler, and he is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, with a particular interest in XML. Ted's presence at PyCon UK is being supported by Sun (thank you, Sun!) and will make for an even more interesting conference.

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We're pleased to announce that Jacob Kaplan-Moss will be giving a talk on "What's New in Django 1.0". Jacob is one of the lead developers of the Django web framework and with version 1.0 being due around the time of PyCon UK, this is an opportunity to find out all about it from the horse's mouth.

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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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PyCon UK 2008 is an independent, community-run, community-controlled and not-for-profit conference dedicated to the Python programming language, Python applications, toolkits and frameworks. It also features social events and a chance to meet fellow Python users. It is organised by members of Python User Groups from across the United Kingdom.

Last Year, PyConUK 2007 was attended by over 200 delegates and featured around 50 talks and tutorials, as well as a conference dinner and two pub events.

PyCon UK 2008 will be taking place in Birmingham City Centre from the 12th-14th September. We are after Talks, Tutorials and Other events. To submit a talk, please visit our submissions page: http://www.pyconuk.org/submit

We're looking for proposals on all aspects of Python - programming from novice to advanced levels; applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organisation.

We especially welcome first-time speakers; we are community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience. If you have friends or colleagues who have something valuable to contribute, twist their arms to tell us about it! Please also forward this Call for Papers to anyone that you feel may be interested.

For more information about PyCon UK 2008, please visit our homepage at http://www.pyconuk.org/.

To submit a talk, please visit http://www.pyconuk.org/submit.html

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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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