Hi Everyone,
Registrations for PyCon Australia 2011 are closing soon! The conference is now less than a month away, so we need to start finalising numbers for shirts, catering and the venue itself. If you're planning to attend, please register now so you don't miss out. PyCon Australia is Australia's only conference dedicated exclusively to the Python programming language, and will be held at the Sydney Masonic Center over the weekend of August 20 and 21. See below for more information and updates on: 1. Registration Deadlines 2. More Sponsors Announced Please pass this message on to those you feel may be interested. Registration Deadlines ====================== Registrations for the conference will be closing soon, as we have the following deadlines approaching fast: 29th July: T-Shirt order finalised 8th August: Special dietary needs finalised 15th August: Last chance to get tickets! If you're looking forward to adding a PyCon Au 2011 T-Shirt to your collection, please complete your registration *this week* so we can get one in your size. We will be sending the order through to the printers based on the sizes requested so far. If you have special dietary needs (e.g. vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free) then please complete your registration by Monday the 8th of August. We cannot accommodate special dietary orders submitted after this time. All registrations will close on Monday the 15th of August, so that we can confirm final numbers with the venue and catering. There will be *no* registrations accepted after this date. In particular, we will *not* accept registrations at the door. So don't delay, register now at: http://pycon-au.org/reg More Sponsors Announced ======================= We are delighted to confirm that Microsoft will be joining us this year as a Silver Sponsor. Thanks once again to the following companies for their continuing support of Python and for helping to make PyCon Australia 2011 a reality: Gold: Google <http://www.google.com.au/> Gold: ComOps <http://www.comops.com.au/> Silver: Anchor <http://anchor.com.au/> Silver: Enthought <http://www.enthought.com/> Silver: Python Software Foundation <http://www.python.org/psf/> Silver: WingWare <http://www.wingware.com/> Silver: Arclight <http://www.arclight.com.au/> Silver: Bitbucket by Atlassian <http://bitbucket.org/> Silver: Microsoft <http://www.microsoft.com/> Thanks also to Linux Australia, who provide the overarching legal and organisational structure for PyCon Australia. Ryan Kelly PyCon Australia 2011 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list