PyCon UK Call for Papers

[Michael Foord]

PyCon UK 2012, the UK's official Python conference, returns from the 28th 
September to 1st October, Coventry UK.

http://www.pyconuk.org/

This volunteer run and organised conference includes sprints, training, open 
space and social events. For more information please see our site at 
pyconuk.org and our wiki at pyconuk.net

If you would like to share your expertise, tell us your horror stories or pimp 
your project, please consider giving a talk at PyConUK.

Your talk should reflect at least one of our four themes ( 
http://pyconuk.net/Themes ).

When planning your talk, it should be no more than 40 minutes.

Please email us the following:

Your name
A contact number
A one paragraph biography
The title of your talk
A short one paragraph abstract
Which theme (or themes) your talk can be categorised under.

If we accept your talk, we would also require a longer abstract in order to 
create a wiki page.

To submit a talk, please email sub...@pyconuk.net before Tuesday 14th August 
2012.

If you have already given us your talks, and had confirmation from John or 
Zeth, then ignore this message, but we still need the data in the wiki if it is 
not already there.

Best Wishes,
PyCon UK Team
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ANN: Spyder v2.1.11

[Pierre Raybaut]

Hi all,

On the behalf of Spyder's development team
(http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/people/list), I'm pleased to
announce that Spyder v2.1.11 has been released and is available for
Windows XP/Vista/7, GNU/Linux and MacOS X:
http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/

This is a pure maintenance release -- a lot of bugs were fixed since v2.1.10:
http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/ChangeLog

Spyder is a free, open-source (MIT license) interactive development
environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive
testing, debugging and introspection features. Originally designed to
provide MATLAB-like features (integrated help, interactive console,
variable explorer with GUI-based editors for dictionaries, NumPy
arrays, ...), it is strongly oriented towards scientific computing and
software development.
Thanks to the `spyderlib` library, Spyder also provides powerful
ready-to-use widgets: embedded Python console (example:
http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/sift3.png), NumPy array
editor (example: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/sift2.png),
dictionary editor, source code editor, etc.

Description of key features with tasty screenshots can be found at:
http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/Features

On Windows platforms, Spyder is also available as a stand-alone
executable (don't forget to disable UAC on Vista/7). This all-in-one
portable version is still experimental (for example, it does not embed
sphinx -- meaning no rich text mode for the object inspector) but it
should provide a working version of Spyder for Windows platforms
without having to install anything else (except Python 2.x itself, of
course).

Don't forget to follow Spyder updates/news:
 * on the project website: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/
 * and on our official blog: http://spyder-ide.blogspot.com/

Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making
Spyder an efficient scientific development/computing environment. Join
us to help creating your favourite environment!
(http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/NoteForContributors)

Enjoy!
-Pierre
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