PyCon Argentina 2012 is applying for Scientific Meetings official government support, with extended deadline 05-15-2012:
http://www.agencia.gob.ar/spip.php?page=convocatorias_articulo&mostrar=1583 If you are sponsor or researcher, please contact us, we need to line-up speakers and estimate sponsorship in advance. For a brochure, including organizer profile and contacted international speakers, please see: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/static/docs/pyconar2012_brief.pdf More information about sponsorship plans: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/prospectus?lang=en Call for proposals and Student Paper Contest will be sent shortly. Submission is open: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/conference/proposals?lang=en PyCon Argentina is the largest annual worldwide community gathering of Spanish-speaking users and developers of the Python programming language. PyConAr 2012 is expecting 500 attendees (similar to 2009 also in Buenos Aires), and was sponsored by several International Corporations like Google, Canonical, GitHub and local python companies like MSA Group, Core Security, Machinalis, Lambda Sistemas, Avatura, Teracore, log_n, and many others. This year preconfirmed international speakers includes Massimo Di Pierro (web2py & fermilqcd) and Andrea Gavana (wx.lib.agw and 2d/3d visualization). PyConAr previous international speakers include Jacob Kaplan Moss (Django), Wesley Chung and Collin Winter (Google), Steve Holden (Python Software Fundation), Maciej Fijalkowski (PyPy Project) Jim Fulton (Zope Corporation) and Alan Runyan (Plone Fundation). Also there have been several regional guest attending to previous conferences, including people from Brazil, Peru, Chile and Uruguay. PyCon Argentina is a community conference organized by volunteers of Python Argentina community. Conference language is Spanish and English. Admittance is free of charge. Best regards, Mariano Reingart PyCon Argentina 2012 Chair http://ar.pycon.org
