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The dead­line for PyCon 2012 tuto­r­ial, talk, and poster pro­pos­als is under 14 days away, so be sure to get your sub­mis­sions in by Octo­ber 12, 2011 (as always, if it’s Octo­ber 12th any­where in the world, sub­mis­sions are still open!).

Whether you’re a first-timer or an expe­ri­enced vet­eran, PyCon is depends on you, the com­mu­nity, com­ing together to build the best con­fer­ence sched­ule pos­si­ble — PyCon is first and fore­most about the com­mu­nity, dri­ven by vol­un­teers both on an orga­ni­za­tional level, and by speakers.

Our call for pro­pos­als lays out the details it takes to be included in the lineup for the con­fer­ence in Santa Clara, CA on March 7–15, 2012. I should note that this year we have gone away from con­sis­tent groups of invited speak­ers — mean­ing, all talks, regard­less of who sub­mits them are not guar­an­teed a speak­ing slot. All talks are judged and reviewed on the mer­its of the talk and the speak­ers themselves.

If you’re unsure of what to write about, our recent sur­vey yielded a large list of poten­tial talk top­ics, and plenty of ideas for tuto­ri­als. We’ve also come up with gen­eral tips on pro­posal writ­ing to ensure every­one has the most com­plete pro­posal when it comes time for review. As always, the pro­gram com­mit­tee wants to put together an incred­i­ble con­fer­ence, so they’ll be work­ing with sub­mit­ters to fine tune pro­posal details and help you pro­duce the best sub­mis­sions. Even if you are still incu­bat­ing a talk idea: sub­mit the pro­posal now in rough form and we can assist you in flesh­ing out and refin­ing the pro­posal dur­ing the review process.

We’ve had plenty of great news to share since we first announced the call for pro­pos­als. Paul Gra­ham of Y Com­bi­na­tor was recently announced as a keynote speaker, mak­ing his return after a 2003 keynote. David Bea­z­ley, famous for his mind-blowing talks on CPython’s Global Inter­preter Lock, was added to the ple­nary talk series.

Spon­sors can now list their job open­ings on the “Job Fair” sec­tion of the PyCon site as we pre­vi­ously announced — pro­vid­ing an excel­lent resource for job seek­ers, and providers.

We’re hard at work to bring you the best con­fer­ence yet, so stay tuned to PyCon news at the PyCon blog and on Twit­ter at https://twitter.com/#!/pycon.

We recently eclipsed last year’s spon­sor­ship count of 40 and are cur­rently at a record 54 orga­ni­za­tions sup­port­ing PyCon. If you or your orga­ni­za­tion are inter­ested in spon­sor­ing PyCon, we’d love to hear from you, so check out our spon­sor­ship page.

And as always — quick thanks to all of our awe­some PyCon 2012 Sponsors:

• Dia­mond Level: Google and Drop­box.
• Plat­inum Level: New Relic, Sur­vey­Mon­key, Microsoft, Eventbrite, Nasuni and Gondor.io
• Gold Level: Walt Dis­ney Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios, CCP Games, Lin­ode, Enthought, Canon­i­cal, Dot­cloud, Log­gly, Revsys, ZeOmega, Bitly,ActiveS­tate, Jet­Brains, Cak­tus, Dis­qus, Spo­tify, Snoball, Evite, Plaid­Cloud and Mozilla
• Sil­ver Level: Imag­i­nary Land­scape, Wis­er­To­gether, Net-ng, Olark, AG Inter­ac­tive, Bit­bucket, Open Bas­tion, 10Gen, gocept, Lex Machina,fwix, github, toast dri­ven, Aarki, Thread­less, Cox Media, myYear­Book, Accense Tech­nol­ogy, Wing­ware, Fresh­Books, and Big­Door
• Lan­yard: Dreamhost
• Sprints: Red­dit
• FLOSS: OSU/OSL, Open­Hatch

Thank you — and as always, feel free to reach out to the team or any of the staff with any ques­tions you might have.

• The PyCon Orga­niz­ers — http://us.pycon.org/2012
• Jesse Noller — Chair­man — jnoller@python.org
• Brian Curtin — Pub­lic­ity Coor­di­na­tor — brian@python.org

The dead­line for PyCon 2012 tuto­r­ial, talk, and poster pro­pos­als is under 14 days away, so be sure to get your sub­mis­sions in by Octo­ber 12, 2011 (as always, if...