PyCon is not just a conference to hear people present on Python and Python applications. It's also a place to meet and work with colleagues from around the world. Consider the following opportunities for collaboration: - Sprinting A sprint is a multi-day session of intense development organized around extreme programming (XP) ideas such as pair programming. There will be four days, March 19-22, before the regular conference to sprint on a variety of projects. To see what sprints are planned, see: http://www.python.org/moin/PyConDC2005/Sprints If you would like to lead a sprint, feel free to add the sprint to that page. If you want to participate in a sprint, visit a sprint-topic page and add your name to the list of attendees so that we know how many people are coming. If you have a question about the sprints, feel free to drop me a line. - Open Space Open space is a part of PyCon designed to provide opportunities for collaboration. There are two kinds of open space at Pycon, quiet and noisy. There will be a quiet room provided throughout the conference for people to access the network and to quietly hack with others (e.g. pair program). There will also be noisy rooms for people to have discussions or give informal presentations. The noisy rooms will host up to two presentations or discussions at a time. We'll provide the opportunity to sign up for 30-minute time slots. We'll allow sign up for half of the time slots before the conference. There will be a posted schedule with spaces to sign up for the remainder of the time slots during the conference. I'll provide more information on the open space schedule soon, after we finalize the rest of the conference schedule. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org