<div dir="ltr"><h3>Under a week to go - closes Friday 8th May</h3>
<p>With just under a week to go until the PyCon Australia 2015 Call for
Proposals closes, we thought it would be a good idea to give everyone an
update and a reminder. We’re very happy with the proposals we’ve
already received, but we’re eager to receive more! We hope our proposal
writing working bees in Brisbane have been of help, and hope to roll
them out to more cities next year. If you’ve got any questions please
get in touch (numerous contact details are up on <a href="http://pycon-au.org">pycon-au.org</a>).
We would like to give a special shout out for the Education MiniConf,
which is new this year: if you know people teaching and using computing
in the education realm, please forward this CFP on.
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The deadline for proposal submission is <b>Friday 8th May, 2015</b>.</p>
<a name="Conference"></a><h3>Conference</h3>
The conference this year will be held on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd
August 2015 in Brisbane. PyCon Australia attracts professional
developers from all walks of life, including industry, government, and
science, as well as enthusiast and student developers. We’re looking for
proposals for presentations and tutorials on any aspect of Python
programming, at all skill levels from novice to advanced.
Presentation subjects may range from reports on open source, academic or
commercial projects; or even tutorials and case studies. If a
presentation is interesting and useful to the Python community, it will
be considered for inclusion in the program.
We're especially interested in short presentations that will teach
conference-goers something new and useful. Can you show attendees how to
use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package an
application?
<a name="Miniconfs"></a><h3>Miniconfs</h3>
Four Miniconfs will be held on Friday 31st July, as a prelude to the
main conference. Miniconfs are run by community members and are separate
to the main conference. If you are a first time speaker, or your talk
is targeted to a particular field, the Miniconfs might be a better fit
than the main part of the conference. If your proposal is not selected
for the main part of the conference, it may be selected for one of our
Miniconfs:<br>
<b>DjangoCon AU</b> is the annual conference of Django users in the
Southern Hemisphere. It covers all aspects of web software development,
from design to deployment - and, of course, the use of the Django
framework itself. It provides an excellent opportunity to discuss the
state of the art of web software development with other developers and
designers.<br>
The <b>Python in Education Miniconf</b> aims to bring together community
workshop organisers, professional Python instructors and professional
educators across primary, secondary and tertiary levels to share their
experiences and requirements, and identify areas of potential
collaboration with each other and also with the broader Python
community.<br>
The <b>Science and Data Miniconf</b> is a forum for people using Python
to tackle problems in science and data analysis. It aims to cover
commercial and research interests in applications of science,
engineering, mathematics, finance, and data analysis using Python,
including AI and 'big data' topics.<br>
The <b>OpenStack Miniconf</b> is dedicated to talks related to the
OpenStack project and we welcome proposals of all kinds: technical,
community, infrastructure or code talks/discussions; academic or
commercial applications; or even tutorials and case studies. If a
presentation is interesting and useful to the OpenStack community, it
will be considered for inclusion. We also welcome talks that have been
given previously in different events.
<a name="FirstTimeSpeakers"></a><h3>First Time Speakers</h3>
<p>We welcome first-time speakers; we are a community conference and we
are eager to hear about your experience. If you have friends or
colleagues who have something valuable to contribute, twist their arms
to tell us about it! Please also forward this Call for Proposals to
anyone that you feel may be interested.</p>
The most recent call for proposals information can always be found at: <a href="http://pycon-au.org/cfp">pycon-au.org/cfp</a>
See you in Brisbane in July!
<a name="ImportantDates"></a><h3>Important Dates</h3>
Call for Proposals opens: Friday 27th March, 2015<br>
Proposal submission deadline: Friday 8th May, 2015<br>
Proposal acceptance: Monday 25 May, 2015
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