Tom Moertel organized a Perl conference with an interesting sponsorship policy, that may be worth considering. He posted about it on the reddit thread about this clp thread: http://reddit.com/info/6c9l6/comments/c03gli2 .
(Disclaimer: I have no idea if that would work for pycon at all or in part, I'm just posting it because I found it thought-provoking.) -Bill Mill http://billmill.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list