Talks Ideas

• Language Features
  • Generators
  • List Comprehensions
  • Generator Comprehensions
  • Descriptors, Properties
  • All About Python and Threading
• Language Direction
  • Guido's Keynote
  • What's New in Python 2.5
  • How Python Compares to Ruby: The Definitive Talk
  • A Walk thru the Python Core
  • python-dev panel
  • An Intro to Stackless
• Becoming a Better Python Programmer
  • How to Optimize Your Python Programs
  • Key Python Technologies You Should Know
  • Taking Your Programming Environment to a New Level
  • What the Heck Does "Pythonic Programming Style" Mean Anyway?
  • How to Get Involved in the Python Community
• Web Technologies
  • Panel - Web Frameworks
  • Panel - Web Templating Languages
  • Panel - Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs)
  • WSGI
  • Twisted
  • Zope3
  • Django
  • TurboGears
  • Javascript intro for the Python programmer
• Testing Tools Panel
• Improving your Development Environment
  • ipython
  • Wing IDE
  • Make `vim` slither for you
  • Scripting Emacs with Python (pymacs)
  • PyDev
• Distributing Your Python Programs
  • Python Eggs - Using and Installing Them
  • Python Eggs - Creating and Distributing Them
  • Python Eggs - Advanced Packaging
  • Introduction to Distutils
  • Getting Started with Py2exe, Py2app
  • All About Droplets
• Platform-Specific Uses of Python
  • Python under Mac OS X
  • Making the Most of Python under MS Windows
  • Python on Small Devices (Nokia Phone, Nokia 770)
  • Writing Desktop Applets for GNOME
  • Get Wowed with the Concepts of PyPy
  • Get Wowed with the Concepts of Stackless
  • wxWidgets
  • Python Card
  • Programming .NET using IronPython
  • Mixing Java and Python using Jython
  • Python as a Scripting Language under Mozilla XUL
• Cool Frameworks
  • A Walk Through the Python Standard Library
  • Using Twisted for Protocols Other than the Web
  • An Introduction to NumPy for Scientific Computing
  • An Introduction to PyGame and PyMedia
  • Taking a Ride on the DBUS (Linux Desktop Bus)
• Using Python to Control Applications
  • Blender
  • OpenOffice
  • Bacula
  • AppScript
  • Vim/Emacs
  • Subversion
  • Faces
• Using Python to Store Your Data
  • Intro to DB-API 2.0
  • SQL-Lite
  • Advanced Use of Python with PostgreSQL (arrays, triggers and more)
  • ORMs: SQLAlchemy versus SQLObject versus Dabo's ORM
  • Understanding Object Databases: ZODB, Durus, Schevo
  • Choosing Between a Relational and an Object-Oriented Database
• Formatting Your Information
  • PDFs wih ReportLab
  • PyChart
  • Pango
  • An Overview of the Various Data Visualization Libraries
  • PyOpenGL
• Software Architecture
• Industry Uses of Python
• Panel/Lecturer/Audience-Poll
• Embedding Python into C/C++ Applications
• Extending Python (survey of various tools for doing so)
• Wish List: What I Wish Python Would Do
• Organization: How to write a large program (lots of classes/files..) in Python
• Python "Help" Lab
• "How Python Compares to Language X" talk

Tutorial Ideas

• games
  • game contest over N days
• agile development
• testing
• Migrating from PHP to Python for Web Development
• Python Tutorial
  • Python 101
  • Python 102
• 30-min per framework of creating a website with several frameworks
• Cameron Laird http://wiki.python.org/moin/CameronLaird would be happy to polish material he has on these topics into tutorial(s), if there's sufficient interest:
  • Pyexpect: indispensable for system administrators and developers, too
  • LDAP for Python developers
  • SNMP for Python developers--this is particularly timely given Ilya Etingof's SNMPv3? implementation
  • Python-Tcl teamwork: leverage another language with Python built-ins