Let's brainstorm talk ideas for Pycon 2014!

Want to give a talk at PyCon 2014? (Yes, you do!)

The call for proposals is open (http://us.pycon.org/2014/speaking/cfp/), and we'd like to see lots of talk and poster submissions from the Philadelphia Python community! Join PhillyPUG on August 14 for a special workshop on putting together talk ideas. Jessica Ivins (http://jessicaivins.net/) from AWeber (http://www.aweber.com/) will lead the workshop. Other experienced speakers from the Python community will be available to answer questions. We'll kick off the meetup with pizza and soda at 6:30pm. The workshop will begin promptly at 7pm.

Workshop Description

Join us for a brainstorming session where we'll first explore the types of talks you can give, ranging from case studies to workshops. Then we'll generate a wealth of ideas, narrow down the list to ideas that you're comfortable with and passionate about, and work together in groups to flesh those ideas out. We'll also discuss the importance of blogging, not only to get yourself out there, but to help you formulate ideas in writing that can become great talks.

About Jessica

Jessica Ivins (http://jessicaivins.net/) is a Philadelphia-based User Experience (UX) designer and researcher who speaks, writes, and volunteers for many things UX. She has spoken internationally at conferences such as SXSW, Midwest UX, IA Summit, and UX Camp Ottawa. She’s an organizer for UX Book Club Philly and served on the board of PhillyCHI, Philadelphia’s UX community. Previously a senior experience designer at Happy Cog, she is now senior UX specialist at AWeber.

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Information about Pycon

Pycon 2014 is April 9-17 in Montreal. The conference has tutorials, talks, poster sessions, lightning talks, development sprints, and more. Talks are 30 or 45 minutes long. Beginners can give talks. Hobbyists can give talks. A project you've been working on, a fun library, a cool language feature, how you use Python at work: these are all good talk opportunities. You can also submit a proposal for poster!

Proposal resources: http://us.pycon.org/2014/speaking/proposal-resources/
How to write a compelling proposal: http://us.pycon.org/2014/speaking/proposal_advice/
Example talk proposal: https://us.pycon.org/2014/speaking/proposal_advice/samples/SpacePug/

Talk list from Pycon 2013:

http://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/talks/list/

Here are some of last year's talk titles:

• Using Python To Generate Art And Sound
• PyNES: Python programming for Nintendo 8 bits.
• Iteration & Generators: the Python Way
• How Import Works
• Lessons Learned in Teaching Python
• Porting Django apps to Python 3
• Crypto 101
• Teaching with the IPython Notebook
• Copyright and You
• Who’s there? - Home Automation with Arduino/RaspberryPi
• SimpleCV - Computer Vision using Python
• Visualizing Github
• Kivy: Building GUI and Mobile apps with Python
• Scrapy: it GETs the web
• Funding and Coordinating Python Projects via Non-Profits
• Messaging at Scale at Instagram
• How the Internet Works