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So, fol­low­ing the lead of sev­eral other PyCon/Python peo­ple — I thought I’d share the talks I’m pretty jazzed about, as well as some other bits of PyCon-related news.

First up — early bird reg­is­tra­tion is open — early bird reg nets you a decent dis­count on reg­is­tra­tion fees for PyCon, and will run until Jan­u­ary 6th.

Next — for those of you who didn’t see the news, Mark Shut­tle­worth will also be doing a Keynote at PyCon — this is awe­some news. I think both keynotes, his and Anto­nio Rodriguez’ will be great. I don’t want to speak as to the con­tent just yet — but with two high cal­iber entrepreneurs/founders, I’m dead sure it will be awesome.

As for the talks I want to see — well, this is crim­i­nally dif­fi­cult. I pretty much want to see almost every sin­gle invited talk we have (I’m espe­cially excited about Alex’s, Jack’s, Joe’s and Ned’s talks. I think our invited speak­ers this year will be very, very popular.

As for talks that “made it through the painstak­ing review process” I presided over, here’s my per­sonal “gotta see” list:

• “Under­stand­ing the Python GIL” — David Bea­z­ley; David’s been hint­ing at tak­ing his talk he did ear­lier this year “up a notch” — I can’t wait!
• “Actors: What, Why, and How” — Dono­van Pre­ston. Hell yeah!
• “Tur­tles All The Way Down: Demys­ti­fy­ing Deferreds, Dec­o­ra­tors, and Dec­la­ra­tions” — Glyph Lefkowitz; Glyph is a fan­tas­tic, and ener­getic speaker. Def­i­nitely look­ing for­ward to see this dog-and-pony show.
• “Using Django in Non-Standard Ways” — Eric Flo­ren­zano; I’ve been doing a fair amount of non-standard Django work lately, and I’m inter­ested to see things which may apply to my day-to-day work.
• “Mod­ern ver­sion con­trol: Mer­cu­r­ial inter­nals” — Dirk­jan Ocht­man and “Hg and Git : Can’t we all just get along?” — Mr. Scott Cha­con; these both apply to a lot of the work I’m doing (not the day job) and given the adop­tion rate of both mer­cu­r­ial and git, and the fact git con­tin­ues to fill me with a seething rage every time I use it, I des­per­ately need to see Scott’s talk!

That’s a quick top five (six) off the top of my head — and I could prob­a­bly list out a heck of a lot more. I’m com­pletely jazzed about PyCon this year. We’ve added a fifth track, we’ve got poster ses­sions, kick ass tuto­ri­als, fan­tas­tic talks, and rock­ing Keynotes.

So why haven’t you reg­is­tered yet?

So, fol­low­ing the lead of sev­eral other PyCon/Python peo­ple — I thought I’d share the talks I’m pretty jazzed about, as well as some other bits of PyCon-related news. First...