Just read about this on ITWire, a must for Python enthusiasts “down under”: More than 250 users and developers, mostly from Australia and New Zealand, will get together at Sydney’s Masonic Center on August 20 and 21 and what they will probably talk about is web programming, business applications, game development, science and mathematics, education, testing, databases, documentation and all that good stuff. There will be presentations and workshops as well as a series of keynote lectures. The speakers include Raymond Hettinger, a core Python developer and experienced presenter, Mary Gardiner, doctoral candidate at Macquarie University with a specialty on computational linguistics, and Audrey Roy, a designer, developer and artist who apparently describes herself as the “world’s #1 orange and rainbow specialist”.
After a successful first version of the event, the organizers hope to attract a diverse crowd again this year, preferably with a slight increase in numbers (last year’s event was attended by 200). Accordingly, they will cater to beginners with tutorial-style presentations such as Python 101, Python’s Dark Corners, and Python for Science and Engineering while also offering lots of beef for the connaisseur of “Applied Pythonomics”, everything from serious business – like the presentation of Geoscience Australia’s Duncan Gray who will talk about the ways in which his organization has used Python to develop scientific software – to fun and games, for example Chris McCormicks lecture on infiniteplatformer.com, a Free Software multiplayer user-created-content platform video game written in Pygame. Should be good! Prices range from $440 for corporate clients to a $44 fee for students.
For more, check out http://pycon-au.org/2011/about/