Hopefully very soon, we'll send out a call for papers. This should describe each track. If you're a track chair, please put some nice text here.

• Refereed Papers -- Armin Rigo, Carl Friedrich Bolz

  • Ever since the International Python Conference (IPC) stopped running as a separate venue, the Python world has lacked a properly prestigious peer-reviewed forum for presenting technical and scientific papers. This track aims to fill that gap.

    Can copy the separate CFP from http://www.europython.org/sections/tracks_and_talks/refereed_papers_inst/ with changed dates

• Agile Development -- Holger Krekel, Bea Düring

• Social Skills -- Beatrice Fontaine, Aiste Kesminaite

  • This track is intended to address a problem common to all communities of software developers, a.k.a. geeks: that of having to communicate with other groups/individuals who are driven by totally different priorities, such as corporate/academic politics, finances, etc. Since the track schedule was defined by its presenters as much as by its attendees, it ultimately covered vital topics like software patenting as well as the reality of selling your services, on top of the social aspects of collaboration with other staff, and customers. The following are on the most-wanted list today: Social Skills:
    • How to present and sell yourself?
    • How to collaborate in mixed (tech/non-tech) teams?
    • How do language problems affect collaboration?
    Methodology:
    • An invitation to all readers of methodological books to present their own favourite and to explain which impact it had on
      • their professional activities
    • Hands-on presentations of how new methods of work have been implemented by development teams, and with which results (the
      • bad ones and the good ones!)
    The Politics of Open Source: How are we affected by recent developments in the EU software patent battle? This is an open list and will, like last year, be stretched and ironed to incorporate every useful and interesting topic you propose.

• Science -- Nicolas Chauvat

  • This track will focus on the use of Python in science and industry, where tasks imply modelling complex systems (thermics, fluid dynamics, mechanics, aeronautics, biology, chemistry, etc.), processing very large data sets and achieving very CPU-intensive and long calculations. Speakers will present tool sets, frameworks and examples of successful applications based on Python and integrated with the other usual tools and applications used in the field.

• Web Frameworks -- Paul Everitt, Godefroid Chapelle

• Python Language and Libraries -- Samuele Pedroni

  • A track about Python the Language, all batteries included. Talks about the language, language evolution, patterns and idioms, implementations

    (CPython, IronPython, Jython, PyPy ...) and implementation issues belong to the track. So do talks about the standard library or interesting 3rd-party libraries (and frameworks), unless the gravitational pull of other tracks is stronger.

• Business and Applications -- John Pinner, Harald Armin Massa

  • This is where EuroPython thinks outside our Python community - about the applications we have written for ordinary people and businesses, and about how we've sold them to the outside world.

    • What Python apps have you written? Tell your fellow Pythonistas about them. Exchange knowledge and maybe gain new business partners.
    • How do you sell your apps and services into the business community?
    • What strategies have you used to convince potential customers and what works for you? Come to think of it, what doesn't work?
    • How do you license your apps? Do you use a Free Software licence or is your application proprietary? Tell us what path you have chosen and why.
    • What have you learnt about introducing new technology into userland?
    • Share your experiences with the community and go home enthuiastic and enlightened.

    At previous EuroPythons we have heard about applications as diverse as indexing and searching the US patent database, and payroll. We have had panels on software patents (more work to do yet, I'm afraid) and licensing. If you have any questions about how you can contibute to this track, please contact the Track Chair, John Pinner ( john (AT) clocksoft.com ). But most of all, please send us your proposals for talks for the Applications and Business Track.

• Education -- Aroldo Souza-Leite, Laura Creighton

• Games -- Michael Sparks

• Misfits -- Laura Creighton