PyCon Ireland Blog entries

Burlington Hotel is full for PyConIE weekend

May 20, 2013, 3:12 p.m.

An update about accommodation. The Burlington Hotel has no rooms that weekend. There are also other hotels nearby, see accommodation section, it's not an extensive list. If you find a hotel that has a good price, please comment in disqus.

[PyCon Ireland 2013] Our first confirmed keynote speaker

April 26, 2013, 12:50 p.m.

We would like to welcome first confirmed keynote speaker, Lynn Root, who is a software engineer for Red Hat, founder of the San Francisco Chapter of PyLadies, board member of the Python Software Foundation.

PyCon Ireland 2013 Announcement

April 11, 2013, 7:46 p.m.

We are proud to announce PyCon Ireland 2013 will be held on Sat 12th - Sun 13th October at The Burlington Hotel. Tickets will be announced shortly.

A two-day sprints will be held on Mon 14th - Tuesday 15th October at College of Computer Training. The sprints are a free event open to all (18+), registration will be required . More details to be announced soon.

Call for Sponsors

Sponsorship Brochure: http://bit.ly/PyConIEBrochure2013
Submission form: http://bit.ly/sponsorpyconie

Call for Speakers

Submission form: http://bit.ly/speakerpyconie

Any questions? Please contact: pycon@python.ie

Our new PyCon Ireland 2013 Committee

Jan. 17, 2013, 5 p.m.

As co-Chair, I would likes to welcome the new PyCon Ireland 2013 Committee.

Also, buckle your belts and keep the 2nd weekend of October free for PyCon Ireland 2013. We'll announce the date officially once we sort out some details. So watch this space or Twitter or Facebook.

More Talk Updates

Oct. 12, 2012, 12:38 a.m.
Python for Facebook Infrastructure will now be on at 14:30 - 15:00 on Saturday.
Computer education will now be on at 15:00 - 15:30 on Sunday.

Talk updates

Oct. 8, 2012, 9:23 p.m.

Rory Geoghegan has been kind enough to give us a talk on Projecteuler.net problems in python.

Michael Twomey will be standing in for Paul Barry to give YAPY3T.

Thank you both for jumping in last minute to help us.

PyConIE 2012 Speakers and Talks announced

Aug. 19, 2012, 11:12 p.m.

Speakers and most of the Talks announced. Tutorials and workshops will be announced soon.

We are also proud to announce Alex Bradbury as our keynote speaker representing Raspberry Pi. Talk title TBC.

Put your thinking hats on for lightning talks, sprints as well.

If you want to help out, please comment below with your name and what you can help us out with either on the run up and/or on the day.

Announcing Raspberry Pi as one of our prizes

July 25, 2012, 11:43 p.m.

Students, if you want to win a Raspberry Pi, come along and register for PyCon Ireland 2012. This prize is sponsored by one of our own Python Ireland members, Vishal Vatsa. So a big thanks on behalf of everyone for a generous donation.

Since I'm bribing people anyway. @All: Put your thinking caps on for lightning talks, each lightning talk will earn you a free drink (worth €5).

PyCon Ireland 2011 podcasts

Nov. 21, 2011, 12:53 a.m.

Larry Hastings has another podcast which includes an interview with Raymond Hettinger at PyCon Ireland 2011. You can listen to it here.

Our own resident penguin or Declan Mc Grath also has a podcast interviewing people including Raymond Hettinger at the conference. You can listen to it here. (BTW, small update to podcast, we had ~160 delegates instead if over 180 mentioned in the podcast. :-))

Thanks to Larry and Declan for sharing their podcasts with us. Enjoy!

PyCon Ireland 2011: Videos, Photos and slides

Oct. 27, 2011, 9:27 a.m.
  • Videos are going up at Vimeo.
  • You can find the photos at our PyCon Ireland's Flickr group, feel free to add your own photos to the group as well.
  • Presentation slides are here, not all the slides are there, we are still trying to get them all.

PyCon Ireland 2011 is over - Thanks to everyone who helped and attended

Oct. 10, 2011, 3:37 p.m.
This year's event was bigger, but we never expected the huge amount of interest when the deadline was reached. Apologies to those who couldn't get a ticket, we will have another conference in 2012.
A big shout out to the rest of the committee and many volunteers (bag packers, session chairs, registration, and many that I can't remember).
And a big thanks to the speakers and to you, the community. We all made it happen and good news is, we will be having another one in 2012!
Don't forget to add your write-ups in our news section.

PyCon Ireland 2011: Introduction to NoSQL has been cancelled this morning

Oct. 9, 2011, 10:14 a.m.
Introduction to NoSQL has been cancelled this morning. Apologies for late notice.

PyCon Ireland 2011: "Processing Web Data with Python" CANCELLED

Oct. 7, 2011, 1:23 p.m.
Processing Web Data with Python (Michael Hausenblas) tutorial on Sunday has been cancelled. Currently this 60 minute slot is empty. Please check notice boards for any updates on Sunday.

PyCon Ireland 2011: Lightning talks

Oct. 5, 2011, 3:08 p.m.
Quick, fun, five-minute talks on almost any topic. Want to give a lightning talk at PyCon in exchange for a drink voucher? Just sign up at the conference.

PyCon Ireland 2011: What you need before attending tutorials.

Oct. 4, 2011, 10:10 p.m.
If you are new to Python and want the get hands-on approach? We have Pythonistas on-hand on Saturday giving tutorials in our Beginner's Track:
What you will need for Saturday's Beginner's Track
  • python 2.7+ or python 2.3+ and unittest2 installed
  • python-twitter installed
  • Latest version of Django
  • More to follow, or see comments below...
On Sunday, we continue with our Beginner's Track:
What you will need for Sunday's Beginner's Track
  • python 2.7+ or python 2.3+ installed
  • More to follow, or see comments below...
Tutorial schedule: http://www.python.ie/pycon/2011/conference/#tutorials
NOTE to people giving tutorials: Please use comment section below listing requirements that delegates need to download before attending conference.
NOTE to delegates: Please bear in mind that we are using hotel wi-fi, download or install what you need before attending the conference. We only have limited USB keys and cds so it would help if you prep before you come along.