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Van says it all here — but I’ll quote it nonetheless:

While the pro­gram com­mit­tee toils away over the record num­ber of talk and tuto­r­ial sub­mis­sions, we are pleased to announce that reg­is­tra­tion is now open for PyCon 2011. Get your tick­ets early, because for the first time, we will have to cap this year’s reg­is­tra­tion at just 1500 spots.

Some­thing most peo­ple don’t know about me is that I am a data geek. So, being who I am, I have gone back through the sta­tis­tics for the past four years of PyCon to see if I could find any way of gaug­ing the health of the con­fer­ence from early in the cycle. I found that there was an almost per­fect cor­re­la­tion between the num­ber and tim­ing of the talk sub­mis­sions for PyCon and the final attendance.

This year, we got more talk and tuto­r­ial sub­mis­sions than ever before in the his­tory of PyCon. We broke the pre­vi­ous records by double-digit per­cent­ages in every category.

I shouldn’t have been too sur­prised. We started hear­ing peo­ple get excited about this upcom­ing PyCon eight months ago. To keep from over­whelm­ing our venue, we have decided that we need to cap atten­dance at 1500 peo­ple. We also promised that those who sub­mit­ted a talk or tuto­r­ial pro­posal would be guar­an­teed a slot, mean­ing that of those 1500 tick­ets, approx­i­mately 250 are already spo­ken for.

Early bird reg­is­tra­tion rates are effec­tive until Jan­u­ary 17. Reg­u­lar reg­is­tra­tion rates will run from Jan­u­ary 18th until March 1 — if there are any spots left. More infor­ma­tion is avail­able on the reg­is­tra­tion page as well as a direct link to our reg­is­tra­tion site.

Go here to register.

  Van says it all here - but I'll quote it nonetheless: While the program committee toils away over the record number of talk and tutorial submissions, we are pleased to announce that registration is now open for PyCon 2011. Get your tickets early, because for the first time, we will have to cap this year's ...