PyCon USA 2011 is less than a month away! This year, they are promoting the use of Convore as a PyCon aggregator of sorts. I guess that means that the cool DjangoDose from last year is dead now. Anyway, Convore is similar to Twitter, but it has the concepts of Topics, so it’s a little […]
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I didn’t really have much time last year to check out the first PyCon Poster session, but this year I’ll have the time to really check it out. The last I heard, there will be 35 posters at this year’s session and they have some pretty amazing topics. Here’s a sampling: Using a Kinect to
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Did you know that PyCon’s Early Bird registration is over and you missed it! Well, now you have to pay more! I recommend doing it now before they reach their registration cap because sneaking into the conference is just plain wrong. Also, airline ticket pricing tends to fluctuate more than the waves at the seaside,
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PyCon is a conference that is run almost entirely by volunteers. Do you know what that means? It means that they need you! Last year, I volunteered and it was a mostly good experience. You can check out the staff list to see if there’s any responsibilities you’d like to take over. If so, be
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Last year, it was popular for bloggers to write about the five talks that they most wanted to see at PyCon. I don’t know if I’ll be going to PyCon this year, but if I did, these are my picks in no particular order. Everything You Wanted To Know About Pickling, But Were Afraid To
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PyCon comes but once a year and whether you’re a new Python Programmer or you’ve been a core developer for the last 20 years, I think you should check PyCon out. Take some time to load up on some PyCon info so you can give your employers the low down about why they should pay
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Jesse Noller just put out the call for proposals for PyCon 2011. That means that you have the chance to give a talk to a whole bunch of geeky pythonistas! Get your thinking caps out and put those suckers on! If I go this year, I want to see some amazing and interesting talks so
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