4 & 5 October 2012
Cape Town, South Africa
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Schedule

PyconZA October 2012 Schedule

Time Baltic Caspian Tutorial
Thursday
8:30 - 9:15 Registration
9:15 - 9:30 Opening
9:30 - 10:15 Alex Gaynor
Scaling Django: serving traffic and growing your team
10:15 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45 Armin Rigo
PyPy
Graham Poulter
Using Fabric and Boto to manage EC2 infrastructure
Tutorial
Python for Programmers by Umonya (Nina Schiff and Lyndsay Lawrence)
11:45 - 12:30 Simon Ratcliffe
MeerKAT science with Python
Matt Hampton
Executing BPMN 2.0 workflows in Python
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Dr. Brain Leke Betechuoh and Suparna Apte
Python in the real world: healthcare in Africa
Kevin Colville and Andy Rabagliati
High-performance Computing with Python
14:45 - 15:30 Edward van Kuik
How to open a bar in Python
Bryn Divey
Building RESTful, service-oriented architectures with Twisted
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00 - 16:45 Open Spaces
16:45 - 17:30 Lightning Talks
17:30 - 19:00 Cocktail Evening
Friday
9:00 - 9:45 Armin Ronacher
Things you didn't know about Python
9:45 - 10:30 Bradley Whittington
Why PHP is a terrible addiction to kick
David Campey
Changing from .Net to Python
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45 Maciej Fijałkowski
Details of Python performance
Jan-Carel Brand
Introduction to the Plone content management system
Tutorial
Jmbo by Hedley Roos
11:45 - 12:30 Neilen Marais and Charles de Villiers
Control and Monitoring of the Karoo Telescope Arrays using Python
David Fraser
Introduction to SQLAlchemy
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Larry Hastings
Stepping through CPython
Orion Adams
Hyperion Development: teaching and promoting Python
Tutorial
TDD in Python by Charles Haynes and Rachel Laycock
14:45 - 15:30 Simon de Haan
Scalable event-driven architectures with Twisted
James Saunders
Our hybrid programming journey with Python and C++
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00 - 16:45 Laurens Van Houtven
Fractal Architectures
16:45 - 17:15 Closing
Saturday
9:00 - 24:00 Sprints at Google Umbono offices
Sunday
9:00 - 24:00 Sprints at Google Umbono offices