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PyCon UK 2008 Talks Schedule

Thursday 11th September

Zagora
Talk Panel Plenary Event Meeting etc Tutorial Break
19:30
onwards

Friday 12th September

New Lecture Theatre Recital Hall Lecture Room One Arena Foyer
Talk Panel Plenary Event Meeting etc Tutorial Break
09:00 Tutorial Registration and Coffee
09:15 An Introduction to Python
John Pinner,
Nick Booker
Developing with IronPython
Michael Foord,
Menno Smits,
Christian Muirhead
Building publishing solutions with ReportLab
Andy Robinson
Google App Engine Codelab
Mano Marks
10:45 Break
11:00 An Introduction to Python Developing with IronPython Building publishing solutions with ReportLab Google App Engine Codelab
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Practical Python GUI Programming with PyQt4
Mark Summerfield
An Introduction to Django
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers
David Beazley
Code Clinic
David Jones,
Raymond D. Hettinger
15:30 Break
15:45 Practical Python GUI Programming with PyQt4 An Introduction to Django Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers Code Clinic
17:15 Bag Stuffing and Preparation for Registration by Volunteers
19:30
onwards

Saturday 13th September

 Adrian Boult  Hall Recital Hall  New Lecture  Theatre Arena Foyer BoF Point
Talk Panel Plenary Event Meeting etc Tutorial Break
08:00 Registration and Coffee
08:50 Welcome, Adrian Boult Hall
09:05 The Savoury Flavors of Python 2.6 and 3.0
Raymond D. Hettinger
What's new in Django 1.0
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Embedded Programming with Python
David Jones
DataFinder: Organizing the Data Chaos of Scientists
Andreas Schreiber
09:50 Prepay Python: language of choice for an internet kiosk system
Oisin Mulvihill
Python in Higher Education: One Year On
Tony Jenkins,
Nick Efford
10:35 Break
11:00 PyPy's Python Interpreter - Status and Plans
Holger Krekel,
Maciej Fijalkowski
Using And Customising The Django Admin Interface
Simon Willison
Testing with Mock Objects
Simon Brunning
Writing Parsers and Compilers with PLY
David Beazley
 Open Space 
11:45 In Search of Speed and Flexibility
Antonio Cuni,
Maciej Fijalkowski
Functionally Testing GUI Applications
Michael Foord
12:00 XML Document Publishing with Django
Zeth,
Andrew West
The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Python In Commercial Applications
Anil Asokan
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Introduction to Sprinting, Adrian Boult Hall, followed by Individual Sprint Briefings
14:30 PyGTK, Glade and Kiwi - RIdiculously easy UI
Ali Afshar
Web App Development with Pylons: What, Why and How
Graham Higgins
py.test - Rapid Testing with Minimal Effort
Holger Krekel
Core Python Containers -- Under the Hood
Raymond D. Hettinger
Open Street Map
15:30 Break
16:00 Introduction to GUI Programming with PyQt
Mark Summerfield
Pylons, WSGI and the Web
James Gardner
Open Source Testing Tools In Practice
Mark Fink
Stretching Pyglet's Wings
Jonathan Hartley
Python Bloggers BoF
16:30 Python at Home
John Pinner
Key Signing BoF
CiarĂ¡n Mooney
17:00 Lightning Talks, Adrian Boult Hall
17:30 Break
18:00 Keynote: Mark Shuttleworth, Adrian Boult Hall
19:00 Finish
19:30
for
20:00
10:30
11:30 Carriages, or late bar

Sunday 14th September

 Adrian Boult  Hall Recital Hall  New Lecture  Theatre Arena Foyer BoF Point
Talk Panel Plenary Event Meeting etc Tutorial Break
08:00 Breakfast and Coffee
09:00 Facebook Apps in Python
Kevin Noonan
Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services
Simone Brunozzi
Descriptor Tutorial
Raymond D. Hettinger
Python Package Management Sucks
Chris Withers
 Open Space 
09:45 Python on the OpenMoko Freerunner
Menno Smits
Google's AppEngine for Beginners
Michael Brunton-Spall
Distributed Serpents: Python, Peloton and highly available Services
Matthew Pontefract
Easy AI in Python
Raymond D. Hettinger
10:30 Break
11:00 Practical concurrent systems made simple using Kamaelia
Michael Sparks
Epiphany Browser Extensions
Tim Retout
Enso Launcher - A Python Application for Everyone
Stuart Langridge
Stop Complexity Breaking your Systems
Rob Collins
 Open Space 
11:45 Sharing Data and Services Safely in Concurrent Systems using Kamaelia
Michael Sparks
JavaScript for Python programmers
Jonathan Fine
Getting Warmer with Python
Nick Barnes
Python and WMI
Tim Golden
12:30 Lunch
13:45 PyCon UK Society Annual General Meeting
14:00 Keynote: Ted Leung, Adrian Boult Hall
15:00 Class Decorators: Radically Simple
Jack Diederich
Developing a Very Large Python Web Application LEAN style
Steve Alexander
Norman - Back to the Future of Psyco?
Christian Tismer
Resolver One: Python Inside and Outside the Spreadsheet Grid
Giles Thomas
 Open Space 
15:30 Break
16:00 Lightning Talks, Adrian Boult Hall
17:30 Prize Draw and Close, Adrian Boult Hall
18:00 Finish: That's All, Folks