I've never been to PyCon before, nor any other conference for that matter, but I'm leaving tomorrow and so I've come up with a list of talks that I plan on attending. This is preliminary, obviously, but for now this is my plan:
Tutorial Day (Thursday):
- Advanced Django Tutorial in Addison
- Attendee Bag Stuffing by Volunteers in Bent Tree I
Friday:
- Plenary: Chair's Opening Remarks - Ballrooms A-E and F-J
- Plenary: Keynote 1 - Ivan Krsti? - Ballrooms A-E and F-J
- Writing Your Own Python Types in C (#95) - Ballrooms F-J
- Writing a Python Extension module in C++ using Swig (#45) - Ballrooms F-J
- Using Stackless (#76) - Ballrooms F-J
- Lunch & Plenary: Sponsor Lightning Talks (Fri) (Probably Django BoF)- Ballrooms A-E and F-J
- Python inside Imageworks (#2) - Ballrooms A-E
- pyweek: making games in 7 days (#32) - Ballrooms F-J
- Python for Visual Effects and Animation Pipelines: A Case Study of Tippett Studio's JET (#86) - Ballrooms A-E
- Break w/o Snacks (Room Divider Change)
- Plenary: Lightning Talks (Fri PM) - Ballrooms A-E and F-J
- Python Lab: Solve This! - Ballrooms F-J
Saturday:
- Plenary: Keynote 2 - Adele Goldberg - Ballrooms A-E and F-J
- SQLAlchemy -- the Front-to-Back database toolkit (#47) - Ballrooms A-E
- Understanding and Using NumPy (#52) - Ballrooms F-J
- Lunch & Plenary: Keynote 3 - Guido van Rossum - Ballrooms A-E and F-J
- Becoming an Open Source Developer: Lessons from the Django Project (#20) - Mesquite
- The Absolute Minimum an Open Source Developer Must Know About Intellectual Property (#25) - Mesquite
- Dateutil to the Rescue! (#88) - Ballrooms A-E
- Break w/ Snacks - All Ballrooms
- Interactive Parallel and Distributed Computing with IPython (#50) - Ballrooms A-E
- Why and when to use ctypes? (#51) - Ballrooms A-E
- Break w/o Snacks (Prep for Lightning + Room Divider Change) - All Ballrooms
- Plenary: Lightning Talks (Sat PM) - Ballrooms A-E and F-J
- Dinner Break - All Ballrooms
- Hands-On with the One-Laptop-per-Child - Mesquite
- The Advocacy of Python - Community Discussion - Mesquite
So there it is, and I'm looking forward to seeing all of these interesting talks!
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