Call For Participation
The call for proposals has now closed.
Do you want to share your experience and expertise? PyCon AU 2010 is looking for proposals to fill the formal presentation tracks. The PyCon Australia conference days will be the 26th and 27th of June in Sydney, Australia.
Presentations subjects may range from reports on open source, academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. As long as a presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program.
We're especially interested in short presentations that will teach conference-goers something new and useful. Can you show attendees how to use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package an application?
If you have any questions, please see the Proposal Submission FAQ. If that doesn't answer your questions, contact the PyCon Australia Program Committee at <program@pycon-au.org>.
Please download our lovely CFP PDF, print it out and plaster it all over your workplace / university and hand our at your user groups.
Important Dates
- Call for Proposals opens: April 7, 2010
- Proposal submission deadline: April 29, 2010
- Proposal acceptance: May 12, 2010
Speaker Benefits
Speakers are eligible for free conference registration and a free seat at the conference dinner.
You will not be automatically registered; you will need to register yourself and failure to do so may result in loss of your talk slot(s).
PyCon Topics
Suitable topics for PyCon presentations include, but are not limited to:
- Core Python, including Python 3000
- Other implementations: IronPython, Jython, PyPy, and Stackless.
- Web programming (Django, Pylons, Zope, TurboGears, WSGI, Google App Engine, ...)
- Python libraries and extensions
- Business applications
- Concurrency
- Databases
- Documentation
- Education
- Embedding and extending Python
- Game programming
- GUI programming
- Network programming
- Open source Python projects
- Packaging issues
- Programming tools
- Project best practices
- Science and maths
- Social issues
- System administration with Python
- Testing
Talk Format
The preferred length for talks is 30 minutes. You can request a 45-minute slot, but proposals requiring 45 minutes will be reviewed more stringently. 45-minute slots are, as a rule of thumb, reserved for how-to talks rather than talks about things you made, saw, or did.
An Open Space room will also be available for follow-up sessions.
Session lengths include time for audience questions. You should budget at least five minutes for questions; for example, a 30-minute talk will be 25 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of questions.
The Help For Speakers page has suggestions and advice for speakers.
Proposal Submission Mechanics
Starting on April 7, 2010, use the PyCon AU Online Proposal Submission system to send us your proposals. You must create an account on the website (and be logged in) in order to submit a proposal. In your profile, be sure to include a one paragraph biography, written in the third person ("Presenter Name is..."); include where you live, your job, your projects, books you've written, volunteer activities, etc.
The primary author should submit the proposal, after which additional authors can be added (they must have accounts too).
The proposal must include the following:
Talk title.
Duration: choose 30 minutes for most talks, or 45 minutes for how-tos.
Choose one or more category tags.
Level: indicate the intended audience difficulty level: beginner, intermediate, or advanced. Add more detail in the summary and/or description, such as specific experience required.
Summary (max. 100 words): for the website.
Description:
- Detailed outline, for review (include timing).
- Notes for reviewers.
The description field will not be visible on the website; it is for reviewers only. However, some portions may be extracted later for the website.
Paper Publication
If you wish to publish a paper to accompany your presentation we have organised to produce a Proceedings as an unrefereed volume of The Python Papers Monograph
We would prefer that papers for standard length talks (30 minutes) be no more than 5 A4 pages of 11-point type with reasonable margins and papers for long talks (45 minutes) be no more than 10 pages. Appropriate file formats include any file that can be read with Open Office (which includes plain text and HTML with minimal mark-up) or a PDF viewer. Slides (even those accompanied by speaker notes) will not be printed in the proceedings.
Authors wishing to submit a paper must do so before the conference runs. The volume will be published after the conference runs.
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