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Book Monday 9th of July to Wednesday 11th of July 2007 in your
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.
= EuroPython 2007: Call for Proposals =
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This year, we encourage talks in the following tracks and topics: Book Monday 9th July to Wednesday 11th 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.
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   Science/Refereed Papers
   Python Language and Libraries
   Web Frameworks
   Open Space
== Talks, Papers and Themes ==
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XXX mention Lightning talks here? 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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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).
 * Science
 * Python Language and Libraries
 * Web Related Technologies
 * Education
 * Games
 * Agile Methologies and Testing
 * Social Skills
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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
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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XXX any other specific theme for this years conference (last year it was science)??? == Other ways of participating ==
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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..
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 focused get together for developers interested in a particular project. For more information please see the following pages:
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To read a longer description of each track go here:  * Open Space: http://www.europython.org/sections/events/open_space
 * Lightning Talks: http://www.europython.org/sections/events/lightning_talks
 * Sprints: http://www.europython.org/sections/sprints_and_wiki
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   http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceProgram.py?confId=44 == Your Contribution ==
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XXX fix track descriptions, update and fix link To propose a talk or a paper, go to
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To submit a talk, go here:    http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceCFA.py?confId=13919
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   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

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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 July to Wednesday 11th 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 focused get together for developers interested in a particular project. For more information please see the following 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

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