On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Michelle Rowley <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hey Pythoneers! > > At last week's meeting there was some talk about getting together to > brainstorm submissions for PyCon 2012 talks and/or tutorials. It would be > amazing if we had some Portland representation at PyCon this year! The > deadline for talk submission this year is October 12th - that's 3 weeks from > tomorrow. > > If anyone is up for it, I think we should start brainstorming this weekend, > and maybe we can get one or two more brainstorming/pep-talk sessions in > before the deadline. Remember, you don't have to have a completely formed > talk in order to submit, you just need an idea that you can flesh out by > March if that idea gets accepted. > > It would also be great if anyone who has submitted and/or given talks at > conferences before could join us and help us through the process. I've > submitted to a conference once as a co-speaker, but it wasn't accepted, so > the submitting (with Selena Deckelmann holding my hand the whole way ;)) is > as much as I know about the process. > Pycon does a pretty good job of documenting these things as well. This blog post should be a good starting point for anyone who's interested: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/08/writing-good-proposal.html > > I've created a survey to keep track of how many Python people are feeling > up to submitting a talk, and who can meet when: http://goo.gl/q7fWI. Feel > free to ignore the stationery on that survey... someday I will change it > from my old Emma testing one. ;) > > Michelle > > P.S. We can also discuss how we might all get down there… *cough*gigantic > decorated van*cough*?? Just sayin'. > > Sounds awesome. I'll be out of town next week, but I'm def. up for helping review proposals via IRC, or in person when I get back. Cheers, Eric -- Eric Holscher Engineer at Urban Airship in Portland, Or http://ericholscher.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20110920/0a49c32b/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
