The authors of the Data Acquisition System used for the IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole describe the critical role Python plays in the software ecology of IceCube, and touch on tangential issues of working in a large, international collaboration, as well as life and work at the South Pole.

Compare and contrast the philosophies of the different ORMs. Also look at the technical implementation, design decisions, and difficulties.

Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework that dramatically reduces the time it takes to develop Web sites. By providing a wealth of social and collaborative features out of the box, Pinax rapidly increases the speed at which your websites can be developed and launched. This talk will provide an overview of Pinax and how you can use it as the foundation for your sites.

It all started in 2003 with Plone, continued in 2005 with Zope3 and right now the road seems to go to the Cloud, namely Google App Engine.
 
In this talk the experiences building a community portal based on Google App Engine will be presented. The main parts are: the App Engine Python SDK, Google's Bigtable, the Admin AJAX interface based on Google Web Toolkit / ext GWT, the delivery frontend using Django, Amazon Webservices handling large files and Content Delivery and of course as mentioned beforehand business aspects.

Django is a high-level web development framework designed for rapid development of database-backed web sites. Since its release three years ago Django's grown by leaps and bounds; it's now part of a highly successful new generation of web development tools.
 
However, it hasn't all been smooth sailing for the Django team. As any Open Source community does, we've needed to make a series of tough decisions along the way. These decisions have shaped Django's internals, public APIs, and community.

Django 1.0 was released in September 2008. This release marks a major turning point in Django's development; a real maturation of the project. Join the lead developers of Django as they discuss what's new in Django 1.0, cover the Django 1.1 release (currently scheduled for a few weeks before PyCon), and discuss the project's future.
 

You get a call from your bank asking "Are you logging into your account right now?" With your answer you can either continue banking or stop an intruder from accessing your account, without the hassles of the Chase secret agent man. While a phone call to verify identity would be overkill for a forum post, you can add this to your website login process to verify identity and give your customers peace of mind.
 
We will look at multi factor authentication with user acceptance, how to extend some common Python web frameworks, and integrate the Asterisk VoIP platform. Sniffers, key loggers, or shoulder surfers are no longer a problem. You don't need a secret agent, just a bit of Python.

Plone is a great content management system, recently voted best non-PHP open source CMS in a popular yearly contest. Many Python web developers, however, find Plone somewhat heavy and are not precisely in love with Zope, the web framework behind the CMS.
 
What if you could use Plone only as a CMS and program a frontend in whichever Python web framework you want, with transparent access to the content? This way you get a proven, high-reward, low-maintenance CMS as a content backend and are free to write your application on top of that using the power and flexibility of your favorite web framework.
 
In this talk, I will show how this can be done using a couple of Plone products and simple front ends for various frameworks which can be used as a base for other required functionality.

Django is the most popular Python web framework, and the final release of Jython 2.5 should be available a couple of months before PyCon. This means we can now use a modern Python web framework on top of Java infrastructure by running Django on Jython. In this talk, we will show examples of how to use this combination, engage a discussion about what can take the Python (and Django) community from the Java world, especially the necessary infrastructure bits, and how a Django/Jython stack compares with other JVM web stacks like JRuby on Rails.