paul boddie evhqboddieorguk book monday 7th july wednesday 9th july 2008 calendar europython 2008 european conference communities around python including zope plone communities held vilnius lithuania last years conference great success featuring variety talks entertaining lightning talks inspiring keynotes participation want make europython 2008 seventh europython even successful previous six talks themes something wish present europython perhaps new application framework package show perhaps want show people solve particular kind problem describe experiences working different pythonoriented solutions previous conferences featured wide range talks covering unveiling software projects coverage relevant techniques developing software python europython feature conference themes rather tracks traditionally used conferences themes help speakers target talks presentations areas special interest python community arrange related groups schedule space available chosen themes europython 2008 python language featuring python 3000 python implementations python packaging python action python projects deployments government industry beyond mobile computing python mobile embedded devices large scale python python research distributed computing scientific computing web programming python web zope 3 django everything else database programming objectrelational mappers data management techniques user interfaces across beyond web desktop device games featuring pygame pyglet gamemaking technologies deadline talk proposals thursday 22nd may midnight 2400 cest central european summer time utc2 propose talk go httpwwweuropythonorgcommunitytalk_submissions follow instructions talks activities events conferences like europython dont stand still would like expand range events featured conference idea different kind event conventional talk presentation would like hear anticipated activities nature include following tutorials teach others area expertise panel discussions others discuss subject inform audience teach presenter learn audience experts perhaps beginners company considering sponsoring europython consider proposing sponsored event see sponsorship page details httpwwweuropythonorgcommunitysponsorship ways participate apart giving talks plenty ways participate conference attending talking people find satisfying enough three kinds activity may wish plan lightning talks open space sprints lightning talks short talks give enough time introduce topic project open space area reserved informal discussions sprints focused gatherings developers interested particular projects information please see following pages lightning talks httpwwweuropythonorgcommunitylightning_talks open space httpwwweuropythonorgcommunityopen_space sprints httpwwweuropythonorgcommunitysprints sprints take place thursday 8th july including saturday 12th july talk recordings interviews one area europython traditionally strong area providing audio video conference year would like encourage volunteers come forward help us offer recordings talks able come vilnius might still chance hearing seeing talks event addition would also interesting conduct interviews members python community allowing offer insights conference related topics information please see page httpwwweuropythonorgcommunityaudio_and_video intend record talks make available creative commons byncsa licence httpcreativecommonsorglicensesbyncsa30 information general information conference please visit httpwwweuropythonorg looking forward seeing fine folk europython team ps help conference publicity publishing announcement corner community coordinate organisers httpwwweuropythonorgcommunityplanningpublicity httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythonannouncelist support python software foundation httpwwwpythonorgpsfdonationshtml thu 07 aug 2008 041233 0200 europython 2008 call participation