Call for Proposals (Closed)

PyCon APAC/Taiwan 2014 Call for Proposals is CLOSED

PyCon APAC 2014 has accepted all types of proposals. Please stay tuned.

Important Dates

Dec 23, 2013: Opening of Call for Proposals
Mar 10, 2014: Deadline for Proposal Submissions
Mar 24, 2014: Notification of Proposal Acceptance (Everyone will get a notification before Mar 25)
May 16, 2014: Tutorial Day
May 17-18, 2014: PyCon APAC Conference Days

from everything import future

The theme of PyCon APAC 2014 is "from everything import __future__". We accept a broad range of python related proposals, from reports on academic and commercial projects and case studies. Suitable topics include, but not limited to:

Web Programming (e.g Django, Pyramid, Web2Py, TurboGears)
Cloud Computing
Startups, Business, and Education
Multimedia, Animation, and Graphics
Game Programming
GUI Programming
Hardware/Embedded System Design
System Administration and Security
Network Programming
Agile Development and Project Best Practices
Packaging Issues
Programming Tools
Python Libraries and Extensions
Python Implementations: IronPython, Jython, PyPy and Stackless.

In addition to regular and lightning talks, you can also submit proposals for tutorials and for SciPy Track.

SciPy Track

This year, we open a special, dedicated SciPy track for scientific Python. In this special track, we hope to gather practitioners who use the language for scientific, engineering, or scholarly works. Scientific Pythonistas often look at different points of Python than the general community, and have made this language very special.

The conference provides this SciPy track for those people to focus on their needs. Submissions of the SciPy track will be peer reviewed, therefore, speakers are expected to submit an extended abstract with 1 to 3 pages of A4 paper. Language of the track is English only. Suitable topics of the SciPy track include but are not limited to:

Scientific Computing, Technical Computing, High-Performance Computing
Scientific/Engineering Education
Computational Sciences
Bioinformatics
Big Data, Data Mining, Machine Learning
Computational Physics, Computational Chemistry, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Mechanics, Computational Electromagnetics

Tutorials

We are looking for tutorials that can grow our community at any level. Each tutorial is 6-hour long in one day, and scheduled on Friday - the day preceding the main conference. Any topics that are relevant to Pythonistas' interests are welcome.

Types of Proposals

Type	Duration (including Q&A)	Language
Regular Talk	25 minutes	English/Mandarin
Lightning Talk	5 minutes	English/Mandarin
SciPy Track Talk	25 minutes	English
Tutorials	6 hours	English/Mandarin

Proposal Submission

Please sign up as a speaker and then create your proposals. You can submit proposals for talks, lightning talks, or tutorials. The proposal shall include the following information:

Title of the proposal
Type of the proposal
Language (Mandarin or English, but SciPy track accepts only English)
Audience level or prerequisites
Abstract, outline, or description. For SciPy track, an extended abstract of 2 to 3 A4 pages is required for every regular talk submission.
Permission for your talk to be recorded and released on the conference website
Permission for your presentation slide to be downloaded from the conference website
Additional information that can help the program committee to make decisions (e.g., years of experience using Python)

Paper Submission

For presenters who wish to write a paper of the same topic, please let us know. We will be happy to assist you to publish your work on The Python Papers or on the conference proceedings. Speakers in the SciPy track are especially encouraged to do so.