Pycon UK Talks
PyCon UK will include formal Talks and Tutorials, Lightning Talks and Open Space.
Talks
We'll be running the conference in four streams, with
full tutorials on the first day, Friday 12th September, and
Talks, shorter Tutorials, Lightning Talks and Open Space on
Saturday and Sunday.
Here are the abstracts of Accepted Talks, we are still accepting and reviewing talks, so the schedule will be published later: to give you a flavour of what to expect, look at the PyConUK 2007 Talks Schedule.
Tutorials
Friday 12th September will be a Tutorial Day,
with half-day tutorials, including:
- Generator Programming, by David Beazley
- Introduction to IronPython, Michael Foord
- Introduction to Python, John Pinner and Nick Booker
- The Reportlab Toolkit, Andy Robinson
- GUI Programming with PyQt4, Mark Summerfield
- Introduction to Django, Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Here is the provisional Tutorials Schedule.
Call for Talks, Papers and Tutorials
We can make room for last-minute proposals, but please hurry as we have to finalise the room bookings. The call for proposals is here and you can submit your proposals there.
If you have any ideas for talks or tutorials and would like tp discuss them, don't be shy! Contact the Organisers with your ideas, or put them up on the Conference wiki.
Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks are a popular feature of Python Conferences, and are ideal for people who have something to say but are not ready for a full talk. You can float an idea, describe a project you're working on, solicit help, or even have a rant. The idea is that each speaker is given just 5 minutes to talk, and no more.
Planning and scheduling of Lightning Talks talks place at the conference, which preserves spontaneity.
For people who haven't experienced lightning talks before, we're having a half-hour session on Saturday, enough for six talks. That's just to let you get the hang of it, so you can prepare your Lightning Talk for presentation in the 90 minute session on Sunday. Lightning talks are a good way of attracting interest in your project.
Open Space
If you'd like to arrange an Open Space event as part of PyCon UK,
please Contact the Organisers. Open
Space is 'organised' on the day, with impromptu talks and
panels, like a mini unconference. Some ideas which have been
put forward include PyQt Friends, Key Signing, Open Street Map,
Python Blogging,
and Applications for Health Services.
Submission Formats
We will be publishing as many talks as possible on the PyCon UK website, and on the Conference CD. If you do not wish us to publish your talk, then you will be able to specify this with your submission, although as this is for the Community we hope that all the talks will be made available.
We can accept talks in any of the common formats, Open Document Format, PowerPoint, MagicPoint, etc, but for ease of publishing would prefer:
- HTML, this makes distribution a breeze and is truly open.
There are a number of good systems out there, for example:
- Ajax-S
- S5. There is a Python-docutils front end to S5 available.
- DOMslides
