PyCon UK 2008 this September
27 July 2008
Long time readers may remember that I am one of the organisers behind the conference of the United Kingdom Python community, PyCon UK, this year held over the weekend of September 12-14th. I am also giving a talk.
The abstracts of currently accepted talks, tutorials and BOFs and the timetable for the tutorials day have been published today. Not on that list are the keynotes, expected to be from Mark Shuttleworth and Ted Leung.
It is nice to see Django well represented again, with two out of the three main Django developers giving talks, (as well as a Pylons talk, proving that Django is not the only Python toolkit in town).
Also good to see some talks on PyPy, I have wanted to get into that for a while, so September might be my chance to spend some time looking at it properly.
The 'official' conference hotel is the Etap, primarily because it is one of the cheapest hotels in Birmingham (which is a cheap city for England) and because they charge per room not per person. Each room has a single and a double bed, so three students can pack in to a room, paying very little each. People often arrange room shares on the mailing list.
If you are richer, then you can have a whole room in the Etap, or you can go to the Copthorne (next to the conference venue), the Holiday Inn (where the Saturday conference dinner is planned), or the Novotel (a pretty walk of 5-10 mins away). (A longer list is on the conference site). The early bird rate is still open (but not for too much longer).
If you go, do say hello, I'm wearing a crew shirt and a badge with 'Zeth' on it!
1 Paul says...
Heh, if it wasn't on those dates I'd go - unfortunately they overlap 100% with the Friends of the Earth conference, so I'll be in Loughborough. :)
Posted at 5:45 p.m. on July 27, 2008