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from community import awesomeness PYCON FINLAND 2011 Mon - Tue October 17th to 18th @ ICT Building, Turku! Python Finland association welcomes you to the second annual PyCon Finland conference! The coolest Finnish PyCon is to be held at ICT Building, Turku on October 17th and 18th! At PyCon Finland you’ll find out what’s going on in the Python world right now. The conference spans two days: first day is for talks and the second day for tutorials and sprints. There will be great speakers from Finland as well as from abroad, and you’ll have an excellent chance to get to know the Finnish Python scene! Conference is both for people new to Python as well as for people with superior Python skills! Go to http://fi.pycon.org and enroll now! PROGRAM Monday October 17th Two tracks of of talks, lightning talks and keynote by Mike Bradshaw (see details on web page) Tuesday October 18th Sprints & Tutorials on various topics and the bi-annual meeting of Python Finland organization The detaile

PyCon Finland will take place October 17-18 in Turku. The first day will feature presentations and the second is reserved for sprints. We are currently accepting proposals for both talks and sprints. If you would like to give a presentation, organize a sprint or see presentations on a particular topic, please see instructions at http://www.python.fi/pyconfi . The deadline for proposals is the 1st of August. The organizers will notify accepted presenters and sprint coordinators by 14th of August. The presentation slots will be 40 minutes + 10 minutes of discussion at the end. Shared sessions are also possible. The language for the presentations should be English to encourage international participation. We are also looking for sponsors for the event. If you are interested in sponsoring, please contact Python Finland at hallitus@python.fi for details about sponsorship packages.