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