[H-ADMIN] Pycon 2015 in Brisbane

[Russell Stuart]

This year the Australian Python (the computer language) Conference is
being held in Brisbane, at the Pullman Hotel Ann St, in the Brisbane
CBD.

  http://2015.pycon-au.org/

It is being organised primarily by members of Humbug, the local open
source group.

In order to raise awareness of Open Source and Python in particular
Humbug is to sponsor 2 students from each educational institution and

At $50 the student tickets are already subsidised by the conference, but
this means 6 students can attend the conference and the sprint days for
free.  (During the sprints Python is worked on under the auspices of a
core Python developer.  Superficially, the idea is to close as many
tickets as possible.  The real motivation is to introduce people to
inner workings of open source, in the hope they might contribute.)

We are hoping staff of classes that use Python could announce Pycon, and
select two suitable students for us.  Our preference is for undergrads
who are likely to stimulated by an Open Source conference specialising
in Python.  In particular, their current abilities aren't a
consideration.

Can you let me know if this is possible.  If so, the procedure is:

      * The students register for Pycon 2015 in the normal way.  (They
        can register for any kind of ticket.)

      * You tell me the names of the two students you have selected by
        replying to this email.

      * I will send the students a voucher code, which will give them a
        $50 discount off the price of their ticket.



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Regards,
Russell Stuart
+61 438 805 133
President, Humbug
http://www.humbug.org.au