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PSF Community Awards go to Noufal Ibrahim & Barry Warsaw

The latest recipients of the Python Software Foundation Community Awards are Noufal Ibrahim and Barry Warsaw (Oct. 25 PSF blog announcement). Congratulations and thanks!

SciPy India Call for Papers

SciPy India 2009 -- Call for Presentations The first Scientific Computing with Python conference in India has announced its Call for Presentations. The conference will be held at the Technopark in Trivandrum, Kerala, India from December 12th to 17th, 2009.

RuPy '09 Conference - Schedule Posted

RuPy '09 has posted its schedule. The conference will take place November 7 & 8 in Poznan, Poland. (See the PyCon blog for more details.)

Python 2.6.4 final released

The fourth maintenance release of the 2.6 series is available.

PSF adopts Diversity Statement

On October 12, 2009, the board of the Python Software Foundation voted to adopt a Diversity Statement.

ConFoo.ca 2010 (Montreal): Call for Proposals

ConFoo.ca has posted a call for speakers. ConFoo.ca is a bilingual (English & French) web development conference covering PHP, Python, Ruby, Web standards, security, project management and many other topics. Proposals are due November 13th, 2009. Confoo.ca 2010 will take place in Montreal, Canada, from March 10th to 12th 2010.

Colorado PyUnCon 10/11-12

Python UnConference in Boulder, Colorado, USA October 11-12

SciPy India 2009

The first Scientific Computing with Python conference in India will be held from December 12th to 17th, 2009 at the Technopark in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Python 2.6.3 final released

The third maintenance release of the 2.6 series is available.

Python 2.6.3rc1 released

A candidate for the third maintenance release of the 2.6 series is available.

Python 3.1.1 released

The first bugfix release of the 3.1 series has been released.

PyCon 2010 Atlanta: Call for Proposals

The Call for Proposals has been posted. Proposals are due by October 1 2009.

Python 3.1.1rc1 Released

The release candidate of Python 3.1.1 is now available.

RuPy Call for Papers

RuPy'09 :: Strongly Dynamic Conference has announced its Call for Papers. The third edition of the conference will take place in November 7-8, Poznan, Poland.

SciPy 2009 - Early registration ends July 22, 2009

Register for the 8th annual SciPy Conference by July 22, 2009 to take advantage of the reduced registration fee. For more information about the conference, please see the conference schedule.

Kiwi PyCon 2009 - Call for Talks, Papers and Tutorials

The first community Python conference in New Zealand has announced its Call for Papers. The conference will be in Christchurch, November 7 - 8.

Python 3.0 is an ex-release! Long live Python 3.1!

There will be no Python 3.0.2 release or further 3.0.x maintenance/security releases. All users of Python 3.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Python 3.1.

SciPy 2009 - Conference for Scientific Computing

The 8th annual SciPy Conference will be held at Caltech in Pasadena, California from August 18th to the 23rd. See the Call for Papers if you'd like to present.

PyOhio Talks Schedule Posted

The preliminary schedule of talks for PyOhio has been posted, with twenty-five talks and tutorials planned on a variety of Python programming topics. PyOhio 2009 takes place July 25-26 in Columbus, Ohio, and is free of charge. See pyohio.org for more information and to register (registration opening soon).

Python 3.1 released

The first production version of Python 3.1 is now available.

PSF Community Awards go to Stephan Deibel & Sean Reifschneider

The latest recipients of the Python Software Foundation Community Awards are Stephan Deibel and Sean Reifschneider (PSF blog announcement), in recognition of their significant contributions to the PSF, PyCon US, and the Python community. Congratulations and thanks!

EuroSciPy - Early Bird Deadline June 15, 2009

Register for EuroSciPy by June 15, 2009 to take advantage of the reduced registration fee. Come and enjoy 16 high-quality talks on a variety of scientific topics, lightning talks, and exchange of ideas with other Pythonistas from science and engineering.

Python 3.1 Release Candidate 2 released

The second release candidate of Python 3.1 is now available.

Python 3.1 Release Candidate 1 released

The first release candidate of Python 3.1 is now available.