EuroPython 2007: Call for Proposals
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Book Monday 9th of July to Wednesday 11th of July 2007 in your calendar!
EuroPython 2007, the European Python and Zope Conference, will be held in
Vilnius, Lithuania.  Last year's conference was a great success, featuring
a variety of tracks, amazing lightning talks and inspiring keynotes.  And
with your participation, we can make EuroPython 2007, the sixth EuroPython,
even more successful than the previous five.

Talks, Papers and Themes
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This year we have decided to borrow a few good ideas from PyCon, one of
which is to move away from the 'track' structure.  Instead, speakers are
invited to submit presentations about anything they have done that they
think would be of interest to the Python community.  We will then arrange
them into related groups and schedule them in the space available.  In the
past, EuroPython participants have found the following themes to be of
interest:

 * Science
 * Python Language and Libraries
 * Web Related Technologies
 * Education
 * Games
 * Agile Methodologies and Testing
 * Social Skills

In addition to talks, we will also accept full paper submissions about any
of the above themes.  The Call for Refereed Papers will be posted shortly.

The deadline for talk proposals is midnight Wednesday May 16.

Other ways of participating
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Of course, there are other ways of participating in the conference than
giving talks.  Just attending and talking to people you find here can be
satisfying enough, but there are three more kinds of participation you may
wish to plan for: Lightning Talks, Open Space and Sprints.  Lightning Talks
are very short talks that give you just enough time to introduce a topic or
project, Open Space is an area reserved for informal discussions and a
Sprint is a focused get together for developers interested in a particular
project.  For more information please see these wiki pages:

 * http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2007/OpenSpace
 * http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2007/LightningTalks
 * http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2007/Sprints

Your Contribution
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To propose a talk or a paper, go to

   http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceCFA.py?confId=13919

For more general information on the conference, please visit

   http://www.europython.org/

For issues specifically relating to the program of the conference, you can
reach the program committee at program@europython.org.

Looking forward to seeing what you fine folk have been up to,

The EuroPython Team