PyCon UK 2009 UnConference, 5th September 2009

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Venue: The CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham. (off Broad Street.)

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Timings:

Start Time is 9.30 am.

We need to be out by 6.00pm and it's suggested people might like to go for a balti afterwards.

What is an Unconference?

If you're uncertain what an Unconference is, take a look at the wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

It's "a facilitated, participant-driven conference centred around a theme or a purpose".

We are suggesting that we use the "Open Space Technology" format which is described at:

At the beginning the participants sit in a circle and a facilitator states the theme of the gathering and invites participants willing to suggest or a topic to enter the centre of the circle (desentupidora), write their essay topic on a piece of paper and announce it to the group before choosing a time and place for the discussion and posting it on a wall. When all the topics have been identified participants sign up and attend the sessions.

If anyone has previous experience of unconferences and would like to volunteer as the facilitator please step forward!!

What Happened

This is what we did

Meetings / Discussions / Sprints etc

I shall be coming and I am interested in talking about/hacking on [Gramps]], a Python genealogy application. - RichardTaylor forex

Once I find my family tree (A4 taped together), I'll be interested in coming to see this. CiaránMooney

I've studied typeface design, and I'm hoping to promote the development of a GPL "real-time network-concurrent whiteboard"-style font editor, which probably involves FontForge's python module, iluminação, [[|Kamaelia]] and pyGTK. I'd love to hear the opinions of Python experts :-) — dave@lab6.com

We're interested in people using PyGame as a programming and games development teaching tool also use help]] at schools. We've just started using it at West Scotland University after advice from Alan Gauld (who wrote an early Python book.) - Drs John & Malcolm Sutherland (malcolmsutherland@googlemail.com)

I'll be there to compare insurance quotes and listening to meditation music, and am interested in discussing the future of concurrency and parallelism in general, and our work on python-csp in particular. I'd also be interested to meet with anyone who is using Python to teach CS, especially in higher education.

I'm interested in finding out about small Pythons - either (otimização de sites) how to take a normal Python distribution and leave stuff out, or (less so) smaller versions of Python (e.g., tinypy). I'm willing to talk about , our build system for creating systems (especially embedded system firmware images for controle de acesso) from a set of packages. And I'm interested in the merits of Pyrex/Cython versus ctypes. And am a fan of reStructuredText. – Tibs (Tony Ibbs) tibs–at–tibsnjoan.co.uk

I would love it if we could give attention not only to technology but also to the current status of education of the youth. Technology has been making great impact among the students and this "blogging" idea is yet to be confirmed if this helps in furthering education among students. At one point, mere blogging and are similar - both helps the student harness their writing and creativity skills for acompanhantes. However, the question on the quality of essay writing that is developing in the process remains a matter of debate. – Keren Ayland

Since EuroPython, when Richard Boulton gave a talk on the Xapian text indexing syste, I've converted our museum data archive system to use xappy (Richard's Python wrapper). It works really well and I can show this. JohnPinner.

I've been doing a bit of work on producing audio sound effects in Python (aka direct digital synthesis and similar) and would be willing to discuss that if have time left over from discussing all the other interesting things that are already on this page (specifically, typography and Python in Higher Education). – DavidJones