From nicholas.farrell at gmail.com Sun Nov 15 19:13:20 2015 From: nicholas.farrell at gmail.com (Nick Farrell) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:13:20 +1100 Subject: [PyCon-AU-announce] Call for Special Events @ PyCon AU 2016 Message-ID: PyCon Australia 2016 is being held in Melbourne from Friday August 12 to Tuesday August 16. The first day of the conference is the Specialist Day (previously called miniconfs). Email the organising committee at contact at pycon-au.org to register your interest as soon as possible, just let us know who you are and what you might be interested in running. We?ll then send you the information pack which contains more information on key questions and some helpful pointers for running the events. In previous years, special events associated with PyCon Australia have been organised by invitation of the main conference organising committee. This year, an open call will be issued so that any group wishing to organise a special event may apply (including to organisers of special events in previous years). The organising committee will then review and select the events to include in the PyCon Australia 2016 program. Special event organisers will then be brought on as an event organising team, working with the main organising committee and other special event organisers to put together a great community driven event. Examples of special events that could be included in the program: - Up to 4 specialist tracks (aka "miniconfs") for Friday's Specialist Day (e.g. DjangoCon AU, Python in Education seminar) - Workshops running in parallel with the sprints (e.g. DjangoGirls, Young Coders) - Associated events run independently, but take advantage of the presence of a large contingent of Pythonistas in Melbourne (e.g. Software Carpentry workshops) - Icebreaker events for Friday evening or social events during the sprints These events are all hailed as a major highlight by conference attendees and rely on community members coming forward to help organise them. It?s also our chance to help out these groups, as organisers can take advantage of the gathered forces of the Australian Python community without the full burden of organising a national event. This is our call to the community: please put up your hand and make yourself known. Schedule: Call for expressions of interest: 15 November - 20 December Shortlisting of submissions: 20 December 2015 - 15th January Finalising of shortlisted bids: 30 January 2015 Special event list finalised: 5 February 2015 In previous years, some special events have been organised late in the piece. This schedule is a nominal time-frame to encourage people to engage earlier, however the committee will consider late submissions if they will improve the conference. Early submissions will have priority for rooms and other support. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: