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| calendar. EuroPython 2007, the European Python and Zope conference, will this year be held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Last years conference was a great success - a variety of tracks, amazing lightning talks and inspiring keynotes. So we invite you to contribute to help us make EuroPython 2007 a proud successor of the previous five EuroPython events arranged so far. |
calendar! EuroPython 2007, the European Python and Zope Conference, will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Last year's conference was a great success, featuring a variety of tracks, amazing lightning talks and inspiring keynotes. But with your participation, we can make EuroPython 2007, the sixth EuroPython, even more successful than the previous five. |
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| This year, we encourage talks in the following tracks and topics: | == Talks, Papers and Themes == |
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| Science/Refereed Papers Python Language and Libraries Web Frameworks Open Space |
This year we have decided to borrow a few good ideas from PyCon, one of which is to move away from the 'track' structure. Instead, speakers are invited to submit presentations about anything they have done that they think would be of interest to the Python community. We will then arrange them into related groups and schedule them in the space available. In the past, EuroPython participants have found the following themes to be of interest: |
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| XXX mention Lightning talks here? | * Science * Python Language and Libraries * Web Related Technologies * Education * Games * Agile Methologies and Testing * Social Skills |
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| A new phenomenon in the EuroPython tradition is the Open Space track (inspired by this years PyCon and last years Agile 2006 and XP 2006 conferences). |
In addition to talks, we will also accept full paper submissions about any of the above themes. The Call for Refereed Papers will be posted shortly. |
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| The Open Space track is aimed at informal and spontanious talks that invite participants to gather and discuss various topics and experiences. Topics that could fit the Open Space track would be Agile Development, Business and Applications, Teaching, Games and Entertainment and any other Python related experiences and insights you feel would be interesting for others to listen to and discuss. XXX sell this better - discussing/experience sharing is the main value |
== Other ways of participating == |
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| XXX any other specific theme for this years conference (last year it was science)??? | Of course, there are other ways of participating in the conference than giving talks. Just attending and talking to people you find here can be satisfying enough, but there are three more kinds of participation you may wish to plan for: Lightning Talks, Open Space and Sprints. Lightning Talks are very short talks that give you just enough time to introduce a topic or project, Open Space is an area reserved for informal discussions and a Sprint is a focussed get together for developers interested in a particular project. For more information please see these wiki pages: |
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| XXX There will be a refereed papers track as well this year, which will be announced separately. -----how to rewrite this science/refereed being joined.. |
* http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2007/OpenSpace * http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2007/LightningTalks * http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2007/Sprints |
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| To read a longer description of each track go here: | == Your Contribution == |
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| http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceProgram.py?confId=44 | To propose a talk or a paper, go to |
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| To submit a talk, go here: http://indico.cern.ch/abstractSubmission.py?confId=44 XXX will this be functioning by the 16th? Indico - Paul and Nicolas... For more general information on the conference, please visit: |
For more general information on the conference, please visit |
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| XXX make sure all necessary info is updated | Looking forward to seeing what you fine folk have been up to, |
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| XXX also mention sprint dates and where to propose sprints (12-14th of July). |
The EuroPython Team ---- Discussion: I used the word presentation rather than talk, because some people's talks are more like demos. As long as we don't get 'This is my company. Here is my product. Buy me.' I am fine with this. If others are not, change presentation back to talk. Presentation, talk, seminar - perhaps only the last one is less likely to be interpreted commercially, but it's not really appropriate here. I've tried to make the terminology mostly consistent, however. -- PaulBoddie Another thing: the PyCon organisers were quite "up front" about making materials available under nice licences (see [http://groups.google.no/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/6494b73df65e5e98 their Call for Proposals]). EuroPython 2006 did very well in at least making materials available (the licensing was a bit vague), but how about adding a note about these issues? -- PaulBoddie I took the liberty of fine-tuning the language a little. I almost wrote "touching up the language" after changing the part about developers "pairing off". ;-) -- DavidBoddie |
EuroPython 2007: Call for Proposals
Book Monday 9th of July to Wednesday 11th of July 2007 in your calendar! EuroPython 2007, the European Python and Zope Conference, will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Last year's conference was a great success, featuring a variety of tracks, amazing lightning talks and inspiring keynotes. But with your participation, we can make EuroPython 2007, the sixth EuroPython, even more successful than the previous five.
Talks, Papers and Themes
This year we have decided to borrow a few good ideas from PyCon, one of which is to move away from the 'track' structure. Instead, speakers are invited to submit presentations about anything they have done that they think would be of interest to the Python community. We will then arrange them into related groups and schedule them in the space available. In the past, EuroPython participants have found the following themes to be of interest:
- Science
- Python Language and Libraries
- Web Related Technologies
- Education
- Games
- Agile Methologies and Testing
- Social Skills
In addition to talks, we will also accept full paper submissions about any of the above themes. The Call for Refereed Papers will be posted shortly.
Other ways of participating
Of course, there are other ways of participating in the conference than giving talks. Just attending and talking to people you find here can be satisfying enough, but there are three more kinds of participation you may wish to plan for: Lightning Talks, Open Space and Sprints. Lightning Talks are very short talks that give you just enough time to introduce a topic or project, Open Space is an area reserved for informal discussions and a Sprint is a focussed get together for developers interested in a particular project. For more information please see these wiki pages:
Your Contribution
To propose a talk or a paper, go to
For more general information on the conference, please visit
Looking forward to seeing what you fine folk have been up to,
The EuroPython Team
Discussion:
I used the word presentation rather than talk, because some people's talks are more like demos. As long as we don't get 'This is my company. Here is my product. Buy me.' I am fine with this. If others are not, change presentation back to talk.
Presentation, talk, seminar - perhaps only the last one is less likely to be interpreted commercially, but it's not really appropriate here. I've tried to make the terminology mostly consistent, however. -- PaulBoddie
Another thing: the PyCon organisers were quite "up front" about making materials available under nice licences (see [http://groups.google.no/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/6494b73df65e5e98 their Call for Proposals]). EuroPython 2006 did very well in at least making materials available (the licensing was a bit vague), but how about adding a note about these issues? -- PaulBoddie
I took the liberty of fine-tuning the language a little. I almost wrote "touching up the language" after changing the part about developers "pairing off". 
-- DavidBoddie