After visiting this year’s awesome Pycon in Chicago I’m very looking forward to attend another major event of the Python community: Europython 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The flight and accommodation is surprisingly inexpensive, so if you are not sure about attending here are some other good reasons.
The call for participation went out in April and promises to bring us all a great conference. If you have a good idea for a talk or a lightning talk, want to be in touch with other developers of your favorite Python software in an open space or just like to hang out with nice people please consider participating. Since Europython is a community conference you decide what will happen!
Django sprint?
As you may know EuroPython is divided in a conference and a sprint part. Like other occasions in the past (like Pycon) I think there is a good chance we can hold a Django sprint if enough people join. And I think on the way to Django 1.0 it’s a good time to fix bugs, work on documentation, test edge cases, discuss new features, work on reusable apps and do other fantastic things with Django. We all have seen what the queryset-refactor brought us, so let’s meet to work on the rest of list.
If you are interested please leave a comment here or come to the #django-sprint IRC channel to discuss things further.
UPDATE
Yay, apparently Europython’s registration opened today!
May 15th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I was there last year and it was great experience, I’m definitely gonna attend EP2008. I only hope the next editions will be held in similarly cheap and nice place as Vilnius.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
wish i could be there this year…
May 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
@zgoda, I hope so, too :)
@sean, I’m sure there is enough coverage of the talks online.
Besides I hope the core devs will join and make this a worldwide sprint.
June 15th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Hey Jannis,
I’ve opened up a page on the Django wiki for the sprint and moved all names which where on the EuroPython page, there
See: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SprintEuroPython2008
See you on EuroPython!
Remco
June 15th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Hey Remco, thanks for your effort!
See you there :D