ANN: SciPy 2009 early registration ends today
Today is the last day to register for SciPy 2009 at the early bird rates. Please register (http://conference.scipy.org/to_register ) by the end of the day to take advantage of the reduced early registration rate. The conference schedule is available here: http://conference.scipy.org/schedule The special group rate for the Marriot Hotel is no longer available. However, there are a number of closer and less expensive choices still available: http://admissions.caltech.edu/visiting/accommodations I've been staying at the Vagabond Inn for the last several years: http://www.vagabondinn-pasadena-hotel.com/ It is within easy walking distance of the conference and has just been completely renovated. Rooms at the Vagabond start at $79/night. About the conference SciPy 2009, the 8th Python in Science conference, will be held from August 18-23, 2009 at Caltech in Pasadena, CA, USA. The conference starts with two days of tutorials to the scientific Python tools. There will be two tracks, one for introduction of the basic tools to beginners, and one for more advanced tools. The tutorials will be followed by two days of talks. Both days of talks will begin with a keynote address. The first day’s keynote will be given by Peter Norvig, the Director of Research at Google; while, the second keynote will be delivered by Jon Guyer, a Materials Scientist in the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group at NIST. The program committee will select the remaining talks from submissions to our call for papers. All selected talks will be included in our conference proceedings edited by the program committee. After the talks each day we will provide several rooms for impromptu birds of a feather discussions. Finally, the last two days of the conference will be used for a number of coding sprints on the major software projects in our community. For the 8th consecutive year, the conference will bring together the developers and users of the open source software stack for scientific computing with Python. Attendees have the opportunity to review the available tools and how they apply to specific problems. By providing a forum for developers to share their Python expertise with the wider commercial, academic, and research communities, this conference fosters collaboration and facilitates the sharing of software components, techniques, and a vision for high level language use in scientific computing. For further information, please visit the conference homepage: http://conference.scipy.org. Important Dates --- * Friday, July 3: Abstracts Due * Wednesday, July 15: Announce accepted talks, post schedule * Wednesday, July 22: Early Registration ends * Tuesday-Wednesday, August 18-19: Tutorials * Thursday-Friday, August 20-21: Conference * Saturday-Sunday, August 22-23: Sprints * Friday, September 4: Papers for proceedings due Executive Committee --- * Jarrod Millman, UC Berkeley, USA (Conference Chair) * Gaël Varoquaux, INRIA Saclay, France (Program Co-Chair) * Stéfan van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (Program Co-Chair) * Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley, USA (Tutorial Chair) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
ANN: easygconf 0.01
I'm happy to announce easygconf 0.01
Get it at http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/easygconf/
easygconf provids an easy, pythonic way to access GConf
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ through a dict-like interface.
Example
---
from easygconf import GConfDict
gc=GConfDict('/apps/test-application')
gc['title']
gc['title']='Hello world!'
gc['title']
'Hello world!'
gc['list']=range(3)
gc['list']
(0, 1, 2)
gc.unset('title')
gc.unset('list')
gc['title']
gc['list']
gc.sync()
Florian
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[ANN] EuroSciPy 2009 - first slides
EuroSciPy 2009 - First Slides Available === The first slides for the talks at EuroSciPy are available: http://www.euroscipy.org/presentations/slides/index.html The abstracts of all talks can be found here: http://www.euroscipy.org/presentations/abstracts/index.html EuroSciPy 2009 == We're pleased to announce the EuroSciPy 2009 Conference to be held in Leipzig, Germany on July 25-26, 2009. http://www.euroscipy.org This is the second conference after the successful conference last year. Again, EuroSciPy will be a venue for the European community of users of the Python programming language in science. Presentation Schedule - The schedule of presentations for the EuroSciPy conference is online: http://www.euroscipy.org/presentations/schedule.html We have 16 talks from a variety of scientific fields. All about using Python for scientific work. Registration The registration fee is 150.00 € and will increase to 200.00 € for on-site registration and registration after July 23, 2009. Registration will include snacks and lunch for Saturday and Sunday. Please register here: http://www.euroscipy.org/registration.html Important Dates --- March 21Registration opens May 8 Abstract submission deadline May 15 Acceptance of presentations May 30 Announcement of conference program June 15 Early bird registration deadline July 15 Slides submission deadline July 20 - 24Pre-Conference courses July 25/26 Conference August 15 Paper submission deadline Venue - mediencampus Poetenweg 28 04155 Leipzig Germany See http://www.euroscipy.org/venue.html for details. Help Welcome You would like to help make the EuroSciPy 2009 a success? Here are some ways you can get involved: * attend the conference * submit an abstract for a presentation * give a lightning talk * make EuroSciPy known: - distribute the press release (http://www.euroscipy.org/media.html) to scientific magazines or other relevant media - write about it on your website - in your blog - talk to friends about it - post to local e-mail lists - post to related forums - spread flyers and posters in your institution - make entries in relevant event calendars - anything you can think of * inform potential sponsors about the event * become a sponsor If you're interested in volunteering to help organize things or have some other idea that can help the conference, please email us at mmueller at python-academy dot de. Sponsorship --- Do you like to sponsor the conference? There are several options available: http://www.euroscipy.org/sponsors/become_a_sponsor.html Pre-Conference Courses -- Would you like to learn Python or about some of the most used scientific libraries in Python? Then the Python Summer Course [1] might be for you. There are two parts to this course: * a two-day course Introduction to Python [2] for people with programming experience in other languages and * a three-day course Python for Scientists and Engineers [3] that introduces some of the most used Python tools for scientists and engineers such as NumPy, PyTables, and matplotlib Both courses can be booked individually [4]. Of course, you can attend the courses without registering for EuroSciPy. [1] http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_summer_course.html [2] http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_course_programmers.html [3] http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_course_scientists.html [4] http://www.python-academy.com/courses/dates.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
