PyCon UK News
Mon, 16 Jun 2008
Ted Leung at PyCon UK
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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Wed, 11 Jun 2008
Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Django 1.0
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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Sun, 04 May 2008
PyCon 2008 - Call for Papers, Talks and Tutorials
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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