PyCon UK 2011 - Talks
There are many good talks described on this page, and timetabled in the Schedule.Also there will be an unconference room, where the talks are decided on the day, by you, the delegates.
We'll be live streaming Keynotes and other talks in the main room. Thanks to sponsor AutoTrain
Keynotes
The opening keynote is from Allison Randal. Allison is a Board member of both Python Software and Perl Foundations, and was Chief Architect of the Parrot virtual machine. Currently she works for Canonical as Technical Architect for Ubuntu.Allison will be talking about The Fallacy of the Zero-Sum Game,
On Saturday afternoon, Laura Creighton is giving a keynote entitled "Reflections on the work of sociologist Charles Perrow, and what he can teach software developers." Laura is the driving force behind several projects important to the FLOSS world, and those who heard her keynote at the inaugural PyCon UK in 2007 will be eager for more
- On Sunday, Lorna Jane Mitchell will be telling us how taking part in Community events can enhance your career.
Talks
Scheduled
Putting the UK into Python In the opening session John Pinner postulated what a UK version of Python might look like
CKAN - The Open Data portal powering government transparency in Python (Talk followed by workshop) By Irina Bolychevsky and James Gardner
The Larch Environment - a visual interactive programming environment by Geoffrey French
Fluidinfo - A Universal Database Written in Python by NicholasTollervey
Using Tornado + socket.io to make a real-time socket based game by PeterBengtsson
Recruiting Event Where Job Seekers meet potential employers, JohnPinner moderator
Open Source test harness for performance testing Ajax applications by Mark Fink
Screen scraping and web robot birds of a feather with tat.wright
Extending unittest with Jonathan Hartley
Designing and Building Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Python and RabbitMQ by Dirk Gorissen
Progressively enhancing helpdesk software with Python by Tim Golden
Object Orientation vs. Functional Programming in Python by Tendayi Mawushe
Using class and def to construct complex code objects by Jonathan Fine
Luzme.com - How my simple "ebook search" python side-project turned complicated, distributed and profitable by RachelWillmer
From BBC B in '83 to Python Programming GCSE - Teaching Computing in Secondary School By Alan O'Donohoe
Respect for the elephant - Hadoop by Aditya Sakhuja
New Submissions
- Add any new submissions here and we will try to fit them in. Please provide an abstract in the same style as the above.
Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks are suggested during the conference, they last a maximum of 5 minutes each and are a great way to introduce a project, or give a gentle introduction if you are new to speaking. At PyCon UK 2011, our good friend Harald Armin Massa, aka Lightning Talk Man came over from Germany to run the Lightning Talk sessions. You can see them on the Autotrain video recordings for Saturday and Sunday.
Lightning Speakers! Please link to your slides here!
Nicholas Tollervey RaspberyyPi