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This Post from Jeff Rush should be read by everyone.

I’ve been look­ing over the mix of talk pro­pos­als we have so far for PyCon 2007. We’re got 17 so far, with a good num­ber of case his­to­ries. Now case his­to­ries are good, don’t get me wrong, we want Python to be suc­cess­ful and it is inter­est­ing to hear how it is being used. But accord­ing to the feed­back forms from last year, we need more talks that actu­ally teach you how to be bet­ter pro­gram­mers, espe­cially if we want to bring new tal­ent into the community.

I have to dis­close the fact that I am/was one of the peo­ple ask­ing for things like this after pycon last year, quite vocally in fact.

I’ve pon­dered doing a talk like this, or a Python 101/mid-level intro talk but frankly, I’m daunted by try­ing to teach pro­gram­mers things when I am still learn­ing nuances of the lan­guage myself. Not to men­tion, I am not an advanced devel­oper, or even on the high-end myself. I can’t do cross lan­guage com­par­isons, etc.

I still think it’s needed, and I am going to take another look and see if I think I can pro­pose some­thing I feel com­fort­able in pulling off.

This Post from Jeff Rush should be read by everyone. I’ve been look­ing over the mix of talk pro­pos­als we have so far for PyCon 2007. We’re got 17 so...