PyCon 2004, March 24-26, 2004 in Washington, D.C., is a community-oriented conference targeting developers (both those using Python and those working on the Python project). It provides opportunities to learn about significant advances in the Python development community, to participate in a programming sprint with some of the leading minds in the Open Source community, and to meet fellow developers from around the world. The organizers work to make the conference affordable and accessible to all.

Mitch Kapor to give keynote address
Mitch, founder of the Open Source Application Foundation, will be the keynote speaker for the conference.

Chandler Sprint
OSAF will be running a Sprint from Mar 20-23 prior to the PyCon 2004 conference. The topics for the sprint will focus on the Chandler Repository. At the moment, these include Repository dump/restore functionality, and remote Repository sharing using WebDAV.

Ted Leung and Jeffrey Harris will be the coaches for the sprints, and will be doing brief tutorials for people unfamiliar with the Chandler Repository. We want to use the sprint to involve more people in the Chandler development process as well as accomplish some tasks that will be useful for Chandler.

If you are interested in participating in the sprint, please add your self to the ChandlerSprint page: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/ChandlerSprint

What is a Sprint?
The sprint is a four day focused development session, in which developers pair in a room and focus on building a particular subsystem. A sprint is organized with a coach leading the session. The coach sets the agenda, tracks activities, and keeps the development moving. The developers work in pairs using extreme programming's pair programming approach.

And a BOF too!
In addition, we plan to have an OSAF 'Birds Of a Feather' gathering during PyCon itself to answer questions about Chandler and socialize with Python developers.