[boston-pig] Early registration for PyCon 2007 ends Monday, January 15th

[Napoleone, Doug]

Early registration ends this upcomming Monday!
Save up to $165 by registering now!

http://us.pycon.org/

The PSF has a Fund program for those who are interested in attending but may
not have the money to:
http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2007/01/pycon-2007-funding-available.html


PyCon 2007
February 23-25, 2007
Addison, Texas (near Dallas)

To be held at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum hotel.

PyCon is a community-oriented conference targeting developers of Python
applications and the Python interpreter itself. The organizers aim to make
the conference affordable and accessible to all.

PyCon gives you opportunities to:
    * see a variety of presentations, panels, and impromptu discussions.
    * learn about significant advances in the Python development community.
    * meet fellow developers from around the world.
    * participate in programming sprints with fellow developers.

Keynote Talks
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    http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Keynotes

    Ivan Krstić 
        "The Power of Dangerous Ideas: Python and One Laptop per Child" 
    Adele Goldberg 
        "eLearning does not Belong in Public Schools"
    Guido van Rossum (BDFL) 
        "Python 3000"
    Robert M. "r0ml" Lefkowitz 
        "The Importance of Programming Literacy"

Tutorials
---------
    http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Tutorials

Web Frameworks
    * (AM) Django Tutorial by Jacob Kaplan-Moss
    * (PM) Advanced Django by Jacob Kaplan-Moss
    * (AM) Introduction to Web Application Development with TurboGears by
Mark Ramm-Christensen
    * (PM) Advanced Web Application Development with TurboGears by Mark
Ramm-Christensen 

Database Programming: Basics and ORM, Pick your Level of Abstraction
    * (AM) Using the DB API by Steve Holden
    * (PM) Advanced databases with SQLAlchemy by Jonathan Ellis 

Faster Python Programs
    * (AM) Faster Python Programs through Optimization and Extensions I by
Mike Müller
    * (PM) Faster Python Programs through Optimization and Extensions II by
Mike Müller 

Python Programming
    * (AM) Python 101 by Walter Martin
    * (PM) Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python by David Goodger 

Documentation and Testing
    * (AM) How to Document a Python Open Source Project by Tarek Ziadé
    * (PM) Testing Tools in Python by Titus Brown / Grig Gheorghiu 

Libraries
    * (AM) Zope Component Architecture and zc.buildout by Jim Fulton
    * (PM) Programming Microsoft Office using Python by Wesley J. Chun 


Accepted Talks: http://us.pycon.org/apps07/talks/
Schedule: http://us.pycon.org/apps07/schedule/

    -Doug