Hi everyone, Since the deadline for the submission of talks/tutorials for the PyCon 2013 is approaching (28th of Sep) I thought to check if anyone from the 'team' will be attending (Barry?) and may be someone already is planing to give a talk or might be even a tutorial?
Debian-based systems become de-facto "the community Linux" in the Python world due to the simplicity of maintenance and deployment of Python software. But I think we still are far behind at promoting ourselves, so I thought it would be nice if "Debian" appears at PyCon (some corporate Linux-related entities are already among sponsors where Debian is unlikely to be listed). I am not sure yet if I would get any funds to attend but I am thinking about submitting two proposals for 1. talk on "The universal Python distribution or build your own stack" in many fields of endeavor people talk about stacks and python distributions which make easy to build/deploy suck stacks. So I thought that we should not be shy and present Debian as the best platform for anyone -- either ran on bare metal (preferable) or in a VM (for new adopters). But then we might have released wheezy which would be a good base for the talk -- present what fresh release has brought to the community in this stable environment. Previously I have done a similar talk with an accent on a scientific Python stack in Debian [1] which I thought was quite well accepted. 2. tutorial on "Debian packaging of Python modules/software" since tutorials are separate from the main registration (i.e. require separate payment if I got it right) I am not quite sure how many people would be interested to attend it. But I guess it should not hurt to submit one and for the committee to decide. Also it might be worth asking for a table/booth space (I think I saw that somewhere on pycon website) for the Debian project. I would be glad to get any feedback (i.e. "not worth the money/time spent", "you might like better to ...", ...) and recommendations on how to get funds for the trip (I will apply for the "financial aid" but more ideas e.g. "kickstarter project?", "I think my company might be interested to cover...", etc) ;) Cheers, -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120921131832.gs5...@onerussian.com
