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Why is it, that when­ever I think things will calm down, they do the exact opposite?

Well — you should know by now that the PyCon 2011 Call for Pro­pos­als is up — we’re accept­ing main con­fer­ence talks, poster ses­sions and tuto­ri­als, all at once. The main con­fer­ence pro­pos­als are due by Novem­ber 1st — so I’d rec­om­mend get­ting those talks in! Also, you should know that we’ve announced our first keynote speaker — Hilary Mason! Really, really look­ing for­ward to that.

Over on the sprints side — Brian Curtin has done sev­eral blog posts — the first details the “get­ting started with Python-Dev” guide he’s been shep­herd­ing for the project. I’d rec­om­mend tak­ing a look — you can send feed­back to sprints@python.org. The sec­ond is a note on the fact we have our first com­pany donat­ing actual funds to the project (via the PSF) — Trad­ing Tech­nolo­gies. This is awe­some news.

If you want to do a sprint — and you want some money to help out, please, please, please send an appli­ca­tion to sprints@python.org — we cur­rently do not have any sprints lined up in the near future (We are spon­sor­ing the ?http://www.pymntos.com/ sprint occur­ring tonight — they’re port­ing Mute­gen to python 3). If you need help, or want help send­ing out a call for a sprint, con­tact us too. Our goal is to help every­one get sprints up and off the ground.

Also, if you want to help out with the sprints project — please let me know. We need blog­gers, writ­ers and other peo­ple to help fur­ther “the cause”.

Finally, I’ve been spend­ing the major­ity of my time once again blog­ging for my employer (Nasuni) — if you’re inter­ested, I recently did a series on “The Cloud” (focus­ing on Pri­vate vs. Pub­lic clouds), while Rob (my boss) did a fan­tas­tic post on the real cost of a giga­byte in the cloud:

• Pri­vate vs. Pub­lic Cloud 1: The five key attrib­utes of the Cloud.
• ?Pri­vate vs. Pub­lic Cloud 2: Defin­ing Pub­lic ver­sus Pri­vate Clouds.
• ?Pri­vate vs. Pub­lic Cloud 3: Which option is best for you?
• What is the (real) cost of a giga­byte in the cloud?

Why is it, that when­ever I think things will calm down, they do the exact opposite? Well — you should know by now that the PyCon 2011 Call for Pro­pos­als...