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, and the 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
- Google AppEngine CodeLab, Mano Marks
- Code Clinic, Raymond D Hettinger and David Jones
Here is the Schedule.
Call for Talks, Papers and Tutorials
Talks submission is now closed, but there is still the opportunity to make a Lightning Talk, or join/organise an Open Space or BoF session. These are arranged as impromptu events on the day.
If you have any ideas for Lightning Talks or BoF's and would like to 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
