Last week, we announced our t-shirt order deadline (that's today, Wednesday 9 July, in case you were wondering), our call for volunteers (http://2014.pycon-au.org/media/news/47), and our first keynote speaker, Katie Cunningham.
Now it's time for an even bigger announcement: It is with great excitement that we announce the second of our keynote speakers: Dr James R. Curran, Associate Professor and ARC Australian Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. There’s a lot of people in the Australian Python community who got their start in Python through James’ activities: He has taught Python to thousands of school students and teachers since version 1.5.1 (1999), and for over 10 years he has been involved in a wide range of high school outreach activities, primarily through the National Computer Science School (http://www.ncss.edu.au). In his talk, “Python for every child in Australia”, Dr Curran casts his eyes over an important opportunity to bring Python into classrooms all over Australia. The once in a generation “Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies”curriculum presents an opportunity to teach computer science and programming to Australian school children from Year 3 to Year 10. James argues that the very future of Australian computing is at stake, and that the Python community has an exciting part to play in shaping that future. Aside from his Python outreach work, James is a computer scientist at the University of Sydney, researching computational linguistics with a focus on statistical approaches to syntactic and semantic natural language processing on web-scale datasets. We are excited to hear Dr Curran’s keynote address and see his vision for the future of Python in Australian schools. Will you be there? Registrations for PyCon Australia 2014 are already open and tickets going at alarming rate (the good kind of alarming). Book your conference ticket today! http://2014.pycon-au.org/register/prices === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The fifth PyCon Australia will be held on August 1--5, 2014 in Brisbane, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country’s Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2014, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at [email protected]. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsors, Red Hat, and Eventbrite; and our Gold sponsors, Google Australia and Netbox Blue. For full details of our sponsors, see our website -- --Christopher Neugebauer Jabber: [email protected] -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net -- WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter: @chrisjrn _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
