Re: Extended Call for Proposals for Presentations and Tutorials at PyCon SG 2013

[Anna Ravenscroft]

Just a followup -
Alex Martelli and I attended PyCon SG 2012 and it was a wonderful
experience. I highly encourage folks to consider submitting a proposal
to this conference. It's a worthwhile conference and a chance to visit
a fascinating place.

cordially,
Anna

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:55 AM, George Goh  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On behalf of the organizing committee of PyCon SG 2013, we are
> announcing our Extended Call for Proposals for Presentations and
> Tutorials for the 2013 PyCon Singapore Conference, to be held in
> Singapore from June 13 to 15, 2013.
>
> We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker is Wes McKinney,
> main developer of pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org/) and author of the
> new book "Python for Data Analysis".
>
> To submit your proposal(s) for presentations and/or tutorials, please
> refer to the details found at https://pycon.sg/proposals/
>
> The submission deadlines for both have been extended to April 30, 2013
>
> For enquiries, pls direct them to conference at
> pycon.sg
>
> We look forward to receiving your proposals! And to a great conference
> this year.
>
> Best regards,
> George Goh
> On behalf of the PyCon SG 2013 Organizing Committee
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Re: PSF Infrastructure has chosen Roundup as the issue tracker for Python development

[Anna Ravenscroft]

On 10/20/06, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At the beginning of the month the PSF Infrastructure committee announced
> that we had reached the decision that JIRA was our recommendation for the
> next issue tracker for Python development.  Realizing, though, that it was a
> tough call between JIRA and Roundup we said that we would be willing to
> switch our recommendation to Roundup if enough volunteers stepped forward to
> help administer the tracker, thus negating Atlassian's offer of free managed
> hosting.
>
> Well, the community stepped up to the challenge and we got plenty of
> volunteers!  In fact, the call for volunteers has led to an offer for
> professional hosting for Roundup from Upfront Systems.  The committee is
> currently evaluating that offer and will hopefully have a decision made
> soon.  Once a decision has been made we will contact the volunteers as to
> whom we have selected to help administer the installation (regardless of who
> hosts the tracker).  The administrators and python-dev can then begin
> working towards deciding what we want from the tracker and its
> configuration.
>
> Once again, thanks to the volunteers for stepping forward to make this
> happen!
>
> -Brett Cannon
> PSF Infrastructure committee chairman

Interestingly enough, the quote of the day from Google on this email was:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

It just seems highly appropriate. I'm very glad we decided to go with
Roundup. I've been impressed with its usability when I've had the
opportunity to use it.
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Re: Game Programming Clinic and Online Gaming at PyCon

[Anna Ravenscroft]

On 2/17/07, Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


At PyCon this year we're going to have a multi-day game programming clinic
and
challenge.  This is a first-time event and an experiment to find those in
the
Python community who enjoy playing and creating games.  Python has several
powerful modules for the creation of games among which are PyGame and
PyOpenGL.

On Friday evening, Phil Hassey will give an introduction to his game
Galcon,
an awesome high-paced multi-player galactic action-strategy game.  You
send
swarms of ships from planet to planet to take over the galaxy.  Phil will
be
handing out free limited-time licenses to those present.  He will also be
glad
to talk about the development of Galcon using PyGame.

After the Friday PSF Members meeting lets out around 8:40pm, Richard Jones
will give his 30-60 minute introduction to the PyGame framework so you too
can
get started writing games.




Wonderful. Thanks for the heads-up! I look forward to this.

On Saturday evening, Lucio Torre and Alejandro J. Cura, who have come from

Argentina to give the talk "pyweek: making games in 7 days" Friday
afternoon,
will help people develop their games in the clinic room with mini-talks on
various game technologies.




Ah - that's a really fun presentation - I saw it at CafeConf. Glad to hear
they'll be helping folks on Satyrday night.

Thanks for all the links Jeff. Very helpful.

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Announcing edupython list

[Anna Ravenscroft]

In order to facilitate small groups
working on specific Python-in-Education projects, we have launched an
edupython list on google groups(http://groups.google.com/group/edupython
 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
We envision participation by people trying to coordinate work on the
nuts and bolts implementation of a project, with frequent progress
reports and requests for suggestions and comments coming back to
edu-sig. The list developed as a result of a quite well-attended and
enthusiastic BOF meeting at PyCon.
This edupython list is not intended to replace edu-sig,
which remains very strong for theoretical and philosophical
discussions, and for getting input and suggestions from a wider group,
but is also necessarily higher bandwidth. We invite anyone working on
Python-related education projects to join the list. Cordially,Anna Martelli Ravenscroft
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