Schedule

PyConZA October 2013 schedule

Time Big Room Small Room Tutorials
Wednesday Night
19:00 onwards Speakers' Dinner (for speakers)
Thursday
8:30 - 9:15 Registration
9:15 - 9:30 Opening
9:30 - 10:15 Simon Ratcliffe
Building the SKA
10:15 - 10:45 Morning Tea
10:45 - 11:30 Michael Joseph
Application To Platform: how we used Python to scale Yola
Stefan van der Walt
A random walk in image processing with scikit-image

Tutorial 1: Introduction to SQLAlchemy by David Fraser


Tutorial 2: Introduction to Google App Engine by David Campey and Johann du Toit

11:30 - 12:30 Larry Hastings
All-Singing All-Dancing Python Bytecode
Travis Pawley
Enterprise Python
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Mike Jones
Idea to launch in days. Executed Python-style.
Richard Larkin
Our journey to Kivy
Open Spaces
14:15 - 15:00 Petrus Theron
Deploying Highly-Available Architecture with a Pinch of Salt
Stefano Rivera
Python in Debian & Ubuntu
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 16:30 Lightning Talks
16:30 - 17:30 Drinks & Swag Bag Collection (at the conference venue)
19:00 - 24:00 Join us at Alexander Bar!
Friday
8:30 - 9:00Coffee
9:00 - 9:45 Matt Hampton
A Real World Example of Caching Gone Wrong
9:45 - 10:30 Panel discussion: Effective Team Practices in Software Development
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45 Kisitu Augustine
Python meta classes
Adrianna Pińska
An Introduction to Flask

Tutorial 3: Vumi by Simon de Haan


Tutorial 4: Introduction to Kivy by Neil Muller

11:45 - 12:30 Armin Rigo
Software Transactional Memory with PyPy
David Fraser
Harmonies and Hues
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Sett Wai
Everything was Python and nothing hurt
Maciej Fijałkowski
PHP interpreter using PyPy technology
Open Spaces
14:15 - 15:00 Zafack Takadong
How to increase the reach and impact of your application?
Kevin Colville & Andrew Gill
Python frontends for CFD
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 16:15 Simon de Haan
Hack where it matters
16:15 - 16:45 Closing
17:00 - 19:30 Amazon Cocktail Evening
Sprints (Saturday and Sunday)
9:00 - 24:00 Sprints @ Praekelt Offices




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