PyOhio 2013, the annual Python programming conference for Ohio and the surrounding region, will take place Saturday, July 27th, and Sunday, July 28th, 2013 at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
You can read more about the conference at http://pyohio.org. If you have questions about proposals, please email cfp@pyohio.org. You can also contact the PyOhio organizers at pyohio-organizers@python.org.
PyOhio invites all interested people to submit proposals for scheduled talks, tutorials, and panels. All topics of interest to Python programmers will be considered. Standard presentation slots will be 40 minutes plus a 10 minute question-and-answer period.
Send in your proposals before June 1st, 2013!
In particular, we welcome submissions from people that have never done a talk before! And if you want help preparing a talk, let us know! Volunteers are eager to help new people do talks.
You can submit more than one proposal.
Do you want to work on a talk, but don't have any ideas? The topics below are up for grabs. Several people could easily work together on each one. Please take these ideas and stretch it out or focus on just one part of it or do whatever else you want.
Here's a pretty common puzzle: you need to download data from lots and lots of URLs stored in a text file and then save that data to a database.
Sure, you could write a loop and get each URL in sequence, but imagine that there are so many URLs that the sun may burn out before that loop finish. Or you're just too impatient.
For the sake of making this instructive, pretend you can only use one box.
So, what do you do? Here are some typical solutions:
- Use a single process that creates lots of threads.
- Use many processes.
- Use a single process and a library like gevent or eventlet to yield between coroutines when the OS blocks on IO.
The talk will walk through the mechanics of each approach, and then show benchmarks of the three different approaches.
This talk would be a great opportunity to study the heck out of these systems and then construct some meaningful benchmarks.
A lot of us are staying on python2 even though python3 is better in a million ways. Usually this is because we depend on packages that don't work in python3 yet.
Check out the Wall of Superpowers for a list.
Show us how to fix these packages! Walk through generally what is involved in porting a package. Show us how to install many different versions of python and how to write and run tests to verify a package on all those.
Describe what work was done to port a particular package (or maybe several packages) that have been ported over.
This could lead to some really good sprints!
- Sign up for an account on the PyOhio website.
- Fill out a speaker profile. After that, you'll be able to submit a proposal.
- Pick talk or tutorial, and then describe your talk. You can edit stuff later, so don't overthink it.
- Regularly check your email for questions from the reviewers.