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BayPiggies is taking the lead in making a bid for PyCon2010 in the San Francisco Bay Area. See PyCon2010BayPiggiesProposal for more information.

The following are the questions asked by Python.org of bidders to host PyCon.

Staff and volunteers who have answers are encouraged to put the information here. This is not the official bid, so don't worry about formatting, but do try to be accurate. It helps to give the source of your information as a link.

The requirements for future PyCon bids will be different than years past in that we won't be asking local groups to actually begin negotiations with venues.

Right. We can identify candidates, but we won't be negotiating the contract.

Instead, we're looking for a somewhat less formal proposal telling us why PyCon should be held in your local area:

[http://www.baypiggies.org/ BayPiggies], Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Berkeley, Guido, Google, Stanford, UC Berkeley...

Tell us the pros and cons about the local area:

San Francisco, Peninsula, South Bay, East Bay

SFO 15 miles from downtown San Francisco, 40 miles from San Jose

SJC 5 miles from downtown San Jose

SF taxi companies:

Major hotels have free airport shuttles.

o How close are these resources to the large venues you identified above?

Usually within a block.

Only a few hundred in recent years. :-)

Recent and currently scheduled tech conferences:

No snow, anyway. Rain possible but not probable.

Bay Area Python Interest Group

well, Guido is a member.

A few dozen, including volunteers from Google.

Guido. Google.

Yes.

Indeed.

Google, for a start. They say they want to continue sponsoring PyCon.

Uh, wow. Well, Google, HP, Apple, Intel, AMD, IBM, Oracle, and a cast of thousands.

Google does.

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