Overall scheme

Invitation

Pycon India 2009 invites you to the first ever Pycon in India, to deliver talks to share your experiences in academia or industry, and/ or expertise in all topics concerning Python.

For help on how to decide upon a topic and prepare the presentation, see Andrew Kuchling's talk at Pycon US 2009:
How to Give a Python Talk http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/6/

Dates and Venue

Pycon India 2009 will be held on September 26 and 27, 2009 at IISc Bangalore. Deadline for submission of talks is August 1 2009, and acceptance will be conveyed for accepted talks by August 15 2009.

Sample topics (not exclusive)

• Web development using Python frameworks
• Python test frameworks
• Python CMSs
• Scientific Computing using Python
• DSL development using Python
• Beautiful Graphics with Python libraries
• OLPC (One Laptop Per Child project) and Python

• http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/proposals/#pycon-topics

Talk format

The action will be at the following kinds of tracks. Regular and lightnning talks, tutorials, and sprints.

• The regular talks will be of 30 to 45 minutes duration each.
• The lightning talks will be (true to their name) of 5 minutes duration.
• Sprints will be hands-on collaborative interactive sessions to advance the art on a Python project.

How to submit

Proposal submitted must include the following

• Title
• Summary/ abstract
• Detailed talk outline, motivation, references/ links to any original work,

Final submission should include slide deck in pdf format and detailed notes for audience reference. Speakers are encouraged to use a liberal Creative Commons license for any material submitted.

FAQ

Useful links

• Call for proposals from the US PyCon http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/proposals/

• A much simpler one from EuroPyCon http://www.europython.eu/talks/

• Even simpler one from Singapore http://pycon.sit.rp.sg/conference

'All the stuff above this line is example only and needs to be removed before drafting the actual thing'