PyCon 2006 / Session Chairs

Session Chairs

This page lists the session chairs for PyCon 2005. If you wish to volunteer to chair a session, please edit this page and replace the word “UNASSIGNED” with your name. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to get in touch with the volunteer coordinator, David Goodger (no need to confirm; I’m automatically informed of changes to this page).

Responsibilities

Session Chairs are expected to meet briefly with the people who will be presenting in their session, before the session. Ask them a few questions so you can introduce them (introductions should be quite brief), and be certain you know how to pronounce their names!

Before beginning the talks, encourage the audience to fill all the available seats instead of sitting in the aisles or standing by the door.

Session chairs should plan to arrive in the room about 10-15 minutes before their session in order to ensure everything is set up properly. Make sure that the sessions start on time and keep to the schedule. (You’ll need to be sure to bring a watch!) It is a good idea to have little signs to let the speakers know when 10 minutes and 5 minutes are left. Don’t interrupt in the middle of a sentence, but try to keep things moving along on time.

Once the speakers have started, please close the doors to screen out noise from people talking in the hallway. If you want to leave one door open for people to arrive quietly, that’s fine, but please be prepared to close it if people are being noisy outside.

Upon conclusion of each presentation, encourage the speakers to disconnect their equipment and move into the hallway for discussions so the next speaker will not be delayed in starting.

Schedule details may change, so be sure to revisit this page to confirm prior to the event. Here’s the detailed schedule and the list of talks with abstracts. We also need volunteers for the registration desk.

Friday, February 24

+——-+———————————————————————————————————————————————–+———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+———————————————————————————————————————————————+ | | Ballroom A-E | Ballroom F-J | Preston Trail | +=======+===============================================================================================================================================+=============================================================================================================================================================================================+=============================================================================================================================================+ | 10:50 | Session 1 — Chair: UNASSIGNED | Session 2 — Chair: Anna Martelli Ravenscroft | Session 3 — Chair: UNASSIGNED | | | | | | | | - Python in Your Pocket: Python for Series 60 (69) | - Decimal for beginners (16) | - The State of Dabo (34) | | | - Creating Presentations With Docutils and S5 (64) | - Python Can Survive In The Enterprise (36) | | | | - An Interactive Adventure Game Engine Built Using Pyparsing (4) | - pysense: Humanoid Robots, a Wearable System, and Python (57) | | +——-+———————————————————————————————————————————————–+———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+———————————————————————————————————————————————+ | 13:20 | Session 4 — Chair: Rock Howard | Session 5 — Chair: Grig Gheorghiu | Session 6 — Chair: Greg Lindstrom | | | | | | | | - Using Django to supercharge Web development (50) | - Introduction to Pyparsing: An Object-oriented Easy-to-Use Toolkit for Building Recursive Descent Parsers (1) | - State-of-the-art Python IDEs (19) | | | - TurboGears How-To (25) | - Understanding Unicode (65) | - Scripting .NET with IronPython (8) | +——-+———————————————————————————————————————————————–+———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+———————————————————————————————————————————————+ | 15:15 | Session 7 — Chair: Titus Brown | Session 8 — Chair: Anna Martelli Ravenscroft | Session 9 — Chair: UNASSIGNED | | | | | | | | - Extending the life of CVS with Python (31) | - Teaching Python - Anecdotes from the Field (41) | - vobject - An iCalendar Library (53) | | | - Making Apples from Applesauce: The Evolution of cvs2svn (46) | - Osh: An Open-Source Python-Based Object-Oriented Shell (14) | - Zanshin: Zen and the Art of Network Client Programming (54) | | | - bazaar-ng distributed version control (72) | - SAM: Transforming a commandline tool to Web 3000 (c) (40) | - Vertebral Fracture Analysis (6) | +——-+———————————————————————————————————————————————–+———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+———————————————————————————————————————————————+

Saturday, February 25

+——-+—————————————————————————————————————————————————+———————————————————————————————————————————————————————–+———————————————————————————————————————————————————–+ | | Ballroom A-E | Ballroom F-J | Preston Trail | +=======+===================================================================================================================================================+=======================================================================================================================================================================+===========================================================================================================================================================+ | 10:50 | Session 10 — Chair: Vic Kelson | Session 11 — Chair: Greg Lindstrom | Session 12 — Chair: Chris R. Newman | | | | | | | | - State of Zope (73) | - Implementation of the Python Bytecode Compiler (45) | - IronPython Implementation (55) | | | - Introduction to Zope Application Development (58) | - Developing an Internationalized Application in Python: Chandler a case study (21) | | +——-+—————————————————————————————————————————————————+———————————————————————————————————————————————————————–+———————————————————————————————————————————————————–+ | 13:15 | Session 13 — Chair: Titus Brown | Session 14 — Chair: Carl Trachte | Session 15 — Chair: Sean Reifschneider | | | | | | | | - Gamma: An Atom Publishing Protocol implementation for Zope 3 (67) | - Large-scale, cross-platform synchronization using embedded python (17) | - Cuaima MetaInstaller. New tool for managing System’s Installations. (13) | | | - entransit, a content deployment system (71) | - Internet Access via Anti-Virus Policy Enforcement Software and Messaging Service (18) | - Packaging Programs with py2exe (26) | | | - New Tools for Testing Web Applications with Python (52) | - Python tools for regional hydrologic modeling in South Florida (56) | - Building Pluggable Software with Eggs (66) | +——-+—————————————————————————————————————————————————+———————————————————————————————————————————————————————–+———————————————————————————————————————————————————–+ | 15:15 | Session 16 — Chair: Walker Hale IV | Session 17 — Chair: Vern Ceder | (no talks) | | | | | | | | - Introduction to CMF Application Development (59) | - Extensible Desktop Applications: Abusing the Zope 3 Project (48) | | +——-+—————————————————————————————————————————————————+———————————————————————————————————————————————————————–+———————————————————————————————————————————————————–+

Sunday, February 26

+——-+—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+——————————————————————————————————————————————-+———————————————————————————————————————————————————–+ | | Ballroom A-E | Ballroom F-J | Preston Trail | +=======+===============================================================================================================================================================================================================+===========================================================================================================================================+===========================================================================================================================================================+ | 10:50 | Session 19 — Chair: Steve Holden | Session 20 — Chair: Christian Tismer, Beatrice During | Session 21 — Chair: Michael McLay | | | | | | | | - The Rest Of The Web Stack (39) | - Stackless Python in EVE Online (12) | - Desktop Application Programming With PyGTK and Glade (5) | | | - Effective AJAX with TurboGears (11) | - Agile open-source methods, Businesses and EU Funding (47) | - Simplifying Red-Black Trees (70) | | | - Django How-To (63) | - PyPy – where we are now (38) | - Agile Documentation: using tests as documentation (2) | +——-+—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+——————————————————————————————————————————————-+———————————————————————————————————————————————————–+ | 13:20 | Session 22 — Chair: UNASSIGNED | Session 23 — Chair: Beatrice During, Christian Tismer | Session 24 — Chair: Sean Reifschneider | | | | | | | | - Mission-Critical Python and the Brave New Web (60) | - PyPy architecture session (35) | - Docutils Developers Tutorial: Architecture, Extending, and Embedding (62) | | | - Beyond Scripting: Using Python to create a medical information system with graphical template and database schema design (37) | | - What is Nabu? (24) | +——-+—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+——————————————————————————————————————————————-+———————————————————————————————————————————————————–+

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