The PyCon US Blog

We are pleased to announce the speakers/talks for the   2015 Python Education Summit , held during   PyCon  on Thursday   April 9th, 2015 , is a gathering of teachers and educators focused on bringing coding literacy, through Python, to as broad a group of audiences as possible.  We invite educators from all venues to consider joining the discussion, share insights, learn new techniques and tools and generally share their passion for education. We are looking for educators from many venues: authors; schools, colleges, universities; community-based workshops; online programs; and government. Talk Schedule Please take a look at the full list of talks .   If you are interested in joining us please visit our  registration page . We hope to see you there! Note:   All Scheduled Speakers are eligible for 'Early Bird pricing' for attendance at PyCon.  Two Rounds of Lightning Talks In addition to the scheduled talks, we will have two ...

PyCon Argentina 2012 , the 4th  National Spanish-speaking Python Conference will be held from November 12th to 17th , in  Buenos Aires  at the main venue of the  National University of Quilmes  (Bernal City, in the Great Buenos Aires metropolitan area), Urban Station  and  EducacionIT  (Buenos Aires City downtown). The detailed conference program schedule is available at:  http://ar.pycon.org/2012/schedule Admittance  is free of charge  ( web registration is required  as venue capacity is limited).  To get a conference T-shirt, promotional items and catering, early bird registration  is open up to September 30th , 2012 ( 30% off ). Speakers are eligible for a 50% special discount.  Additional donations are accepted thorough the payment process  (fundraising). First time attendees, students and general public can also opt to register at the "gratis" rate (free, no...

We're glad to announce that Community Voting Process has started for  PyCon Argentina 2012 .  You can select your preferences among more than 82 talks proposed and 11 tutorials/workshops .   This year, we're opening the Scientific and Extreme tracks, with more  than 12 proposals each! Please help us voting your prefered talks for the conference following  the next link (registration required):  http://ar.pycon.org/2012/ activity/vote Admittance is free of charge (gratis), to register, please complete  the following form:  http://ar.pycon.org/2012/user/ register PyCon Argentina 2012 Keynotes This year, the pre-confirmed keynote presenters are: Massimo Di Pierro (US) - De Paul University: web2py / FermiQCD Andrea Gavana (DK) - Maersk Oil: wx.lib.agw & 2D/3D visualization Brett Cannon (CA) - Google: python core developer: importlib py3k pypy Christophe Pettus (US) - PostgreSQL Experts: Django & ORMs Craig Kerstiens (US...

The 4th EuroSciPy will be held August 25 - 28, 2011 in Paris, France. It is a cross-disciplinary gathering focused on the use and development of the Python language in scientific research. This event strives to bring together both users and developers of scientific tools, as well as academic research and state of the art industry . The program of tutorials, talks and poster presentations has been published. There will be 11 tutorials, 18 talks and 25 poster presentations as well as lightning talks. The topics include quantum physics, CFD simulations, computational chemistry, climate change, biology, machine learning, geostatistics and many more.