Re: oscon 2003 call for participation

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Excellent!

> I would be willing to serve on the conference committee or somehow volunteer
> time, but I won't volunteer to act as a conference chair or something like
> that since it would be my first time involved in organizing a conference. I
> live in Portland, so that may be of some benefit in organizing things. I'm a
> pretty good Nag ;-)

I'm the conference chair for Python11, but you can be an excellent
vice-chair.  And O'Reilly does most of the organizing; our
responsibility is really limited to rounding up speakers.  I'll write
Nathan Torkington that you're going to be helping me out, so he can ad
you to the appropriate lists.

> I'm thinking that it would be useful to extend the theme of "Embracing and
> Extending Proprietary Software" to papers and presentations on how to
> successfully transition away from proprietary software too, at least in the
> context of Python. I assume we have more control over the Python track
> topics. So a presentation or paper or tutorial that shows the steps of
> moving from the proprietary tool would be a good thing. This would broaden
> the appeal of our track to people that are currently using proprietary
> languages, databases, and tools, but would like to move away from them with
> the least amount of pain.

Great idea -- we have 100% control over the Python track (except Nat
sets our limits).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)