About
PyCon Finland is a non-profit conference organized
by a non-profit organization
Python Finland. It's
meant for Python hackers and people interested in
Python.
PyCon Finland 2011 will be held on October 17-18
in Turku. Admittance fee will be 100/50/10 €
(see registration for details).
We'll have talks on the first day, and the second day is
reserved for sprints, workshops and the biannual meeting of
Python Finland.
The venue for the conference is ICT Building, located at
Joukahaisenkatu 3, 20520 Turku,
Finland. There are many ways to arrive, and we have
gathered information on the venue,
travel, etc. There's also a
guest list for pre-conf activities.
We're
on Twitter, Facebook
and Lanyrd!
You can also contact us
via email.
Looking for PyCon 2010 site?
It's here.
News
9.11.2011: Coverage available at Lanyrd!
17.10.2011: Welcome! It's the rock and roll time. Livestreams are up!.
29.9.2011: Registration extended by one week to October 9th.
26.9.2011: Detailed schedule announced, including track schedules as well as
pre-conference party and dinner details.
15.9.2011: Two weeks to register! Venue
information and guest list for pre-conf
activities available. And we will stand the dinner on monday to normal visitors,
too!
23.8.2011: We'll have two tracks! Many new speakers and talks announced.
17.8.2011: Registration open
7.8.2011: Schedule published
3.8.2011: PyCon 2011 site live!
For better news coverage, follow us on Twitter.
Schedule
Sunday 16.10.
19:00 Pre-conference party in restaurant Koulu, Eerikinkatu 18, 20100 Turku
Monday 17.10.: Conference day
9:00 Registration opens
Track 1, auditorium Lambda
9:45 Opening notes
10:00 “from __magic__ import wtf” by Tommie Gannert from Spotify
11:00 “Replacing Spreadsheets with Django” by Teemu Kurppa from Huikea Experience
12:00 Lunch
13:00 “High-Performance Computing with Python” by Jussi Enkovaara from CSC
14:00 “Understanding Encodings” by Ezio Melotti, a CPython core developer
15:00 Lightning talks
16:00 Keynote by Mike Bradshaw
Closing notes
Track 2, classroom B2033
11:00 “Python for Data Science” by Harri Hämäläinen, a semantic data scientist
12:00 Lunch
13:00 “Building Your Own Cloud” by Andy Smith from OpenStack
14:00 “Non-blocking QA” by Anthony Long
19:00 Cocktail dinner at Aula Café, Itäinen
Rantakatu 4-6, 20700 Turku
Tuesday 18.10.: Workshops & sprints day
Workshops, auditorium Lambda
9:30 Bi-Annual Meeting of Python Suomi ry
10:30 “Replacing spreadsheetswith Django” by Teemu Kurppa
13:00 “Going Concurrent with Python” by Jyrki Pulliainen & Mikko Harju
15:00 “Plone Basics for Web Developers” by Mikko Ohtamaa
Sprints, classroom B2033, starting at 10:30
CPython: Developing Python itself
Ad-hoc hacking & sprinting
Want your sprint topic listed? Contact us!
Abstracts for talks are available on Lanyrd.
Registration
Whoops! We've sold out our conference. Better luck next year!
