<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello friendly PyConistas,<br><br></div>The PyCon Australia CFP is down to its last week! This includes the CFP for our one-day special events: DjangoConAU, Python in Education seminar, Data & Science miniconf and the Internet of Things miniconf.<br><br></div>Make sure you register and get your talk/tutorial ideas down as soon as possible. Submissions can be edited up until the deadline.<br><div><br><a href="https://2016.pycon-au.org/programme/call_for_proposals">https://2016.pycon-au.org/programme/call_for_proposals</a><br><br></div><div>Applications for financial assistance are also open, and we strongly encourage potential speakers to apply if needed. We can cover not only conference registration and travel/accommodation costs, but also substitute teacher costs, childcare, carer costs and other costs related to equity of access.<br><br><a href="https://2016.pycon-au.org/about/financial_assistance">https://2016.pycon-au.org/about/financial_assistance</a><br></div><div><div><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-cb9405b4-6b6c-9d80-f9b8-4196648cfc0c"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">=== About PyCon Australia ===</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming community. The seventh PyCon Australia will be held on August 12-16 2016 in Melbourne, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for programming in Python. PyCon Australia informs the country’s developers with presentations by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">To find out more about PyCon Australia 2016, visit our website at </span><a href="http://pycon-au.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://pycon-au.org</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, follow us at </span><a href="https://twitter.com/pyconau" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">@pyconau</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> or e-mail us at <a href="mailto:contact@pycon-au.org">contact@pycon-au.org</a>.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (</span><a href="http://www.linux.org.au" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">www.linux.org.au</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsors, DevDemand.co and IRESS; and our Gold sponsors, Google Australia and Optiver. For full details of our sponsors, see our website.<br></span></div></div></div>