Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) January 09, 2012

After an intense series of meetings to decide on 95 talks out of almost 400 submissions, the PyCon organizers have settled on what looks like the very best conference schedule yet. Initial feedback on the schedule has been glowing, with most responses centering on the truth that every single slot has multiple talks that every person will want to attend. Some responses have shown a want to attend every and each talk in a given time slot. Preceded by two days of tutorials, the talks run Friday March 9-11, 2012, followed by four days of sprints. The schedule is readily available at https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/.

Friday kicks off the Santa Clara, CA conference with a selection of testing, accessibility, and object oriented topics. In the first 90 minutes of the conference, specialists Raymond Hettinger and Jack Diederich go back-to-back on the topics of subclassing and not writing classes at all. Soon after lunch and throughout the rest of the day the onslaught of testing talks continue and are joined by a sampling of security, debugging, database, and diversity talks.

Among the impressive range of topics on Saturday is a track of option VMs, featuring the PyPy developers introducing their interpreter and offering a deep dive into their JIT, followed by Jython developer Jim Baker speaking on making Jython more quickly. Come back from lunch and check out how to create a laptop or computer vision driven, Python powered, garden protecting, squirrel shooting water cannon. Wrap up the afternoon with two email specialists: CPython developers R. David Murray and Barry Warsaw. David brings the audience by means of the story of the standard library e-mail packages recent overhaul and Barry outlines the modernization of the ever well-known Mailman project.

The abbreviated Sunday schedule nonetheless packs a punch. The poster session runs for 90 minutes prior to the initial talks and supplies a fantastic space to walk right up to a presenter and speak one particular-on-1. Later, designer Idan Gazit walks by means of the art of sketching for the duration of the iterative procedure of product design. Carlos de la Guardia introduces valuable patterns from configuration to deployment of Pyramid applications. Brandon Craig Rhodes, who is also giving a speak on Saturday as properly as a tutorial, provides a whirlwind tour of compilation, linkage, virtual memory, and other operating method goodies.

Though the keynote schedule hasnt been finalized, two keynote speakers have been announced: Paul Graham of Y Combinator and Stormy Peters of Mozilla. Paul will return for his second PyCon keynote, bringing the knowledge and perspective of a Lisp hacker turned startup investor. Stormys position as Head of Developer Engagement and her many other engagements such as founding and leading Kids on Computers, will make for a exclusive presentation.

Early bird ticket rates have been extended by way of January 25, 2012, but dont wait. Attendance is being capped at 1500 attendees and the conference is confident to sell out, so get your tickets early. For a lot more info about registration, see https://us.pycon.org/2012/registration/.

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Gold sponsors consist of ZeOmega, Bitly, White Oak Technologies, DotCloud, OpDemand, CCP Games, ActiveState, JetBrains, Caktus Consulting, Enthought, Cloud Foundry (VMware), Linode, Disqus, Spotify, Leapfrog On-line, Loggly, Snoball, Evite, PlaidCloud, Revolution Systems, Canonical, Aldebaran Robotics, Mozilla, Lab305 and Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Silver level sponsors are Urban Airship, Cox Media Group, Eucalyptus Systems, Olark, WiserTogether, ESRI, Accense Technologies, AG Interactive, Vocollect, 10gen, BigDoor, The Open Bastion, Toast Driven, Net-ng, MyYearBook, Threadless, gocept, Lex Machina, Aarki, FreshBooks, Github, fwix, Imaginary Landscape, OpenStack, devsAr, Stratasan, MapMyFitness, Kelly Creative Tech, Bitbucket, Mailgun, Opscode, Continuum Analytics, Wingware, Emma, Shining Panda, Python Academy, Cisco, Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall, Kontagent and Truveris.

For much more data on our sponsors, please see https://us.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/.

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