PyCaribbean Call to Proposals is open

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Post by xpostudio4 » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 4:03 PM UTC

Hi everyone!

We want to invite you all to PyCaribbean on February 18-19, 2017, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. If you ever wanted to talk Python and be with an awesome community in a tropical getaway this is your chance.

We are currently accepting talk proposals and have our early bird tickets up. Join us at http://pycaribbean.com

For any addition information you can contact us at any of the following, we would love to hear from you.

info@pycaribbean.com Twitter: @pycaribbean Slack: http://slack.pycaribbean.com

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Post by skfroi » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 4:17 PM UTC

PyCaribbean organizer here. Feel free to ask us any questions.

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Post by darrelld » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 6:25 PM UTC

What's the cost of a ticket? I hit the tickets button but it asked me to enter an access code.

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Post by skfroi » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 8:00 PM UTC

darrelld wrote: post #3

What's the cost of a ticket? I hit the tickets button but it asked me to enter an access code.

Thanks for mentioning the issue with the tickets. It's now fixed.

There's currently early birds tickets available for $100. Regular price will be $150.

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Post by oz » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 9:33 PM UTC

I was a speaker at the inaugural PyCaribbean 2015 earlier this year in Santo Domingo - I gave a talk on doing the first and only Google Transit implementation in the Caribbean (in Kingston, Jamaica).

It was a great conference - Lots of camaraderie, talks available in English and Spanish, ranging from Python's type system to one guy's experience teaching Python in rural Argentina. Johnny Gill (a real character!) from Bermuda showed me a system using Raspberry Pis to collect weather data. Unfortunately, I missed Allen B Downey's talk, but caught Brandon Rhodes' (opening) and Jacob Kaplan-Moss' (closing) keynotes.

If you're anywhere near the region, come on out! It's tropical nerdery at its finest :)

@skfroi - It's Oswald, from Jamaica.

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Post by skfroi » Thu, Oct 13, 2016, 1:03 AM UTC

oz wrote: post #5

I was a speaker at the inaugural PyCaribbean 2015 earlier this year in Santo Domingo - I gave a talk on doing the first and only Google Transit implementation in the Caribbean (in Kingston, Jamaica). It was a great conference - Lots of camaraderie, talks available in English and Spanish, ranging from Python's type system to one guy's experience teaching Python in rural Argentina. Johnny Gill (a real character!) from…

Hey Oswald!

I saw that PyCon Jamaica is a go for November, that's awesome.

Hope to see you again in PyCaribbean come February.