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Tag Archives: pyconau 2012
Memoirs of a PyCon Australia organiser: Part 1 (of no idea how many)
This past weekend saw the staging of the third PyCon Australia conference. It’s been a very long time coming, and the subject of countless hours of hard work by myself (chasing sponsors, arranging to fill a programme, and ensuring delegates … Continue reading
It’s… The PyCon Australia 2012 T-Shirt Deadline!
We’ve less than three weeks until PyCon AU 2012, here in Hobart, and we’d really like to make sure that you get one of our amazingly cool conference t-shirts. I’ve just seen the final design, and I think you all are going to … Continue reading
PyCon Australia 2012 Programme – Out now!
I’m very glad to be able to finally release PyCon Australia’s programme for this year. It’s one of the strongest programmes we’ve put together for this conference, and it features excellent content for developers in all aspects of the Python … Continue reading
The PyCon Australia 2012 Venue Tour!
It’s been a very busy month for PyCon Australia organisation — not only have we selected our programme for the conference (more on that real soon now), but we’ve also announced two keynote presenters, and made some real concrete choices … Continue reading
PyCon Australia early bird registrations now open!
For fear of spamming EVERYWHERE with the news, I include just the tl;dr: tl;dr: PyCon Australia early bird registrations are now open! Find out more at http://2012.pycon-au.org/register/prices, including details of our accommodation programme. The full media release on the opening … Continue reading
More pontification on alcohol at conferences
This post started off as a reply to a comment (by “Alan”) on my previous post on this topic, but it got a bit long-winded, and raised a few clarifications of my own viewpoints on this matter. So it’s turned … Continue reading
Do Australian tech conferences suffer from “A Culture of Exclusion”? How do we avoid it?
I spotted this interesting article by Ryan Funduk, on the culture of exclusion generated by piss-up parties at tech conferences — primarily at conferences in America, but the issue is certainly prevalent in other places. I attended OSCON last year, … Continue reading
Speak at PyCon Australia 2012
February was a pretty big month for PyCon Australia organisation, we finally got our new website up and running, and our Call for Proposals is finally open. We’ve even got our first keynote presenter lined up (hush hush). Of course, … Continue reading
PyCon Australia 2012 – Call for Topics now open
In case you missed the news, PyCon Australia is being held on August 18th and 19th in Hobart, Tasmania. Like the first two PyCon Australia conferences, 2012 hopes to be full of presentations, tutorials and panel sessions from experts and … Continue reading
PyCon Australia 2012 starts here
So one thing I forgot to mention on this blog is that I’ve taken over the reins of PyCon Australia for the 2012 and 2013 conferences. After spending two formative years in Sydney, under the direction of Tim Ansell, Richard … Continue reading
