I wish I knew this before I submitted two proposals I've been fighting hard with the reviewers with for the last 2 months.<div><br></div><div>It's down to the 11th hour and I'm afraid neither of them will be accepted. :(<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Daniel Greenfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pydanny@gmail.com" target="_blank">pydanny@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The PyCon US 2013 call for papers (CFP) ends tomorrow, September 28th,<br>
2012. We need more talk and tutorial submissions. Talks are 30 or 45<br>
minute efforts in front of the PyCon audience and are recorded for<br>
posterity. Tutorials are three hours long and are given to attendees<br>
who have paid an additional fee in order to slurp in knowledge from<br>
the masters.<br>
<br>
On the 3 hour tutorial side of things, we especially need more Intro<br>
to Python level submission. That means getting beginners up to speed<br>
on basic Python techniques, so they can then exploit the other<br>
tutorials, conference, and sprints to their full advantage.<br>
<br>
Now onto some questions...<br>
<br>
1. I would like to give a tutorial but it's so much work to put<br>
together 3 hours of quality content.<br>
<br>
The organizers of PyCon recognize that putting together a quality<br>
tutorial is an amazing amount of work. Which is why tutorial<br>
presenters are compensated for their effort.<br>
<br>
2. What is the most likely length talk to be accepted? 30 minutes or 45 minutes?<br>
<br>
The vast majority of PyCon sessions are 30 minutes long, so 45 minute<br>
slots are rare and valuable commodities. So if your talk needs to be<br>
45 minutes long your proposal has to really speak to the PyCon talk<br>
reviewers.<br>
<br>
Not only that, if reviewers send you information requests for any<br>
duration talk or tutorial, you dramatically increase your odds of talk<br>
acceptance with timely responses.<br>
<br>
And, as said before, PyCon really needs more introductory level Python<br>
tutorial submissions.<br>
<br>
3. I would like to present a talk or tutorial but I can't afford to<br>
come to PyCon.<br>
<br>
PyCon's financial aid program is said to favor accepted speakers to<br>
PyCon. They really want you to come!<br>
<br>
4. I would like to present but I can't come up with a good idea!<br>
<br>
I had this problem as well! Then I looked at the Suggested Tutorial<br>
Topics and got some ideas.<br>
<br>
5. Ack! I've got a talk idea but it's going to take me too much time<br>
to put it together!<br>
<br>
Submit the talk anyway before the talk and in fields you aren't ready<br>
to fill in, simply put 'TBD'. Then over the course of the next few<br>
days replace TBD with real material. Don't wait too long though to fix<br>
those TBDs, no more than a week!<br>
<br>
6. I'm a beginner/nobody in the community, is there any chance my<br>
proposal will get accepted.<br>
<br>
Absolutely!<br>
<br>
The PyCon talk/tutorial reviewers love to see new people present.<br>
While experienced/proven speakers have an edge, good talk/tutorial<br>
proposals from promising candidates can make it into the conference.<br>
Carefully double-check your submission, be responsive to reviewers,<br>
and stay positive. I'm not saying you will get in, but I am saying<br>
it's worth the effort.<br>
<br>
Good luck!<br>
<br>
PyCon 2013 is going to be bigger and better than any previous year.<br>
That's because we pull together as a community to run an amazing event<br>
that is known to jumpstart careers and cause amazing life changes. We<br>
can't do this without you, so hurry up on your PyCon US 2013<br>
submissions!<br>
<br>
<a href="https://us.pycon.org/2013/speaking/cfp/" target="_blank">https://us.pycon.org/2013/speaking/cfp/</a><br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
'Knowledge is Power'<br>
Daniel Greenfeld<br>
<a href="http://pydanny.com" target="_blank">http://pydanny.com</a><br>
<br>
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