PyCon 2007 Call for Tutorials

Enjoy teaching classes or tutorials? PyCon 2007 is looking for proposals for a pre-conference tutorials day. PyCon 2007 will be held February 23-25 in Addison, Texas (near Dallas). Tutorials will be held on February 22 at the same location.

Tutorial sessions will be a half day (3 hours, with a 15-minute break); presenters may request two sessions in order to make up a full day. Tutorials may be on any topic, but obviously should be instructional in nature. Providing take-home materials for attendees is encouraged, and tutorial presenters will receive $50 per student registered for their session (with a minimum payment of $500, and a maximum of $1500).

Previous experience of teaching classes or presenting conference tutorials will be taken into account when selecting tutorials. Please provide reference or evidence of such prior experience (sessions taught at OSCON, EuroPython, local user groups, etc.) if you have it.

PyCon attendees will register for tutorials at extra cost. We reserve the right to cancel tutorials with low attendance; presenters will not be paid for cancelled tutorials.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: November 15, 2006
• Acceptance deadline: November 22, 2006
• Cancellation date: January 20, 2007 (for inadequate attendance)

Submission Format

Proposals should be 250 to 1000 words long (i.e., one to four pages in manuscript format), containing the following information:

• Author name(s)
• Contact Information
• (Recommended) At least one previous presentation/teaching engagement reference
• Summary of proposed presentation
• Presentation outline
• Intended audience (non-programmers, beginning programmers, advanced users, CPython? developers, etc.)

E-mail your proposal to <pycon@python.org>.

ASCII format is preferred, with HTML as a secondary alternative. If you have any questions about submission, please send mail to the conference organizers at pycon@python.org.