<div dir="ltr"><p><b>Ticket sales are not yet open</b>, but we expect them to open within the
next week or so. In the mean time, this list of accepted talks may help
if your manager needs some convincing as to the relevance of attending
PyCon Australia! (Some of these may appear in <a href="http://2017.pycon-au.org/program/specialist-tracks/">specialist tracks</a> on Friday.) These are all following the <a href="http://2017.pycon-au.org/program/tutorials/">Thursday tutorials</a> on Python 101, testing, build tooling and Bayesian inference and machine learning.<br></p><ul><li>"Horrors of Distributed Systems" by Andrew Godwin</li><li>"Hot reloading Python web-servers at scale" by Chenyang Wu</li><li>"Python in Primary School" by Emily de la Pena</li><li>"How to write a container daemon in Python" by Anthony Shaw</li><li>"Covered in Bees! Deploying an app to 6 platforms in 20 minutes" by Russell Keith-Magee</li><li>"Concurrency and Parallelism From The Ground Up" by Amber Brown</li><li>"Secrets of a WSGI master" by Graham Dumpleton</li><li>"Time is an illusion" by Dave Collins</li><li>"Teaching Python: Adapting to Diversity" by Margot Phillipps</li><li>"Front-end integration testing for back-end developers" by Nick Coghlan</li><li>"Messy Sensor Data: A Programmer’s Cleaning Guide" by Xavier Ho</li><li>"Passing the Baton: Succession planning for your project" by VM (Vicky) Brasseur</li><li>"We're no strangers to VoIP: Building the National Rick Astley Hotline" by Paul '@pjf' Fenwick</li><li>"Learn by Doing: Getting Students into FOSS" by Josh Simmons</li><li>"Harnessing the APIs you didn't know existed" by Katie Bell</li><li>"MicroPython Energy Monitoring" by Joel Stanley</li><li>"Visualising data in Python" by Clare Sloggett</li><li>"Building the next-generation Conversational AI with Python and Deep Learning" by David Low Jia Wei</li><li>"Let's Run Python on a Supercomputer" by David Perry</li><li>"Improving Your Documentation: A talk for developers who want to write stuff good" by Charelle Collett</li><li>"iPad App Development with Python" by Chris Robinson</li><li>"PEP 498: The Monologue" by Mariatta Wijaya<br></li></ul><p>Other
topics covered include profiling, web service workers, CFFI, Lego
Mindstorm robots, gradual typing, microservices, serverless, mocking,
asyncio, state machines, authenticaition, security, Python data
structures, and so much more! Phew!!! We are so excited to bring you the
full schedule in the very near future!</p>
<p>The <a href="http://2017.pycon-au.org/attend/">prices</a> page lists
all the inclusions with each type of ticket. Employer-paid Professional
tickets are $660 (once Early birds are sold out). Additionally, <b>we invite you or your employer to consider upgrading to a <a href="http://2017.pycon-au.org/attend/contributor/">Contributor✨</a> ticket</b>. At $900, it includes all the perks of a Professional ticket along with exposure as a <a href="https://pycon-au.org/sponsors">sponsor</a>,
and the warm fuzzies of knowing that you are supporting Australia's
finest Python conference (and more importantly, its attendees).
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<p>For the weekend keyboard warriors who are paying their own way,
Enthusiast tickets start from $360 (once Early birds are sold out). And if that figure feel like a
stretch too, we encourage you to <a href="http://2017.pycon-au.org/about/fin_assist/">apply for financial assistance</a>.
Keep your eye on that page for when applications open; they will close
at the end of June. We don't want anyone attending the conference to be
so stressed about money that they can't enjoy it.</p>It's just eight weeks to PyCon Australia, so get excited!<br><br>=== About PyCon Australia ===<br> <br>PyCon Australia is the national
conference for the Python programming community. The eighth PyCon
Australia will be held on August 3-8 2017 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.<br> <br>To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at <a href="http://pycon-au.org" target="_blank">http://pycon-au.org</a>, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at <a href="mailto:contact@pycon-au.org" target="_blank">contact@pycon-au.org</a>.<br> <br>PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (<a href="http://www.linux.org.au" target="_blank">www.linux.org.au</a>)
and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsor, WSP Digital, and
other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website.<br><br></div>