Welcome to PyCon Asia Pacific 2011
9 - 11 June 2011
Pod E3 Level 3 Exhibition Hall
Republic Polytechnic 9 Woodlands Ave 9, Singapore 738964
PyCon Asia Pacific represents a conference dedicated to the Python programming language. It is an independent, community-run, community-controlled and not-for-profit conference. PyCon Asia Pacific will serve as a perfect platform for Python users throughout Asia-Pacific countries to come together to meet with fellow Python users. The same can be said for anyone adopting an exploratory perspective towards Python
Latest News
PyCon APAC 2012 - Details Coming Up Soon!
For 2012, PyCon APAC will be held in Singapore instead of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as earlier announced. Planning is currently underway and details will be forthcoming soon. Please do check back here in Jan 2012.
Apple iPad2 Prize at Singpath Python Tournament
For this year's tournament, our prizes include an Apple iPad2, ActiveState Komodo IDEs and other great prizes.
Special Guest - Eric Jones, CEO of Enthought
Eric Jones has a broad background in engineering and software development and leads Enthought's product engineering and software design. He has presented numerous presentations and tutorials on Python at PyCon, OSCON, and SciPy in the past and he is also a member of the Python Software Foundation.
Changes to the 'A'-Level Computing Curriculum in Singapore in 2012
"Python will be one of three programming languages recommended for the 'A'-level Computing curriculum. With the addition of Python to the list of programming languages for teaching and learning, students taking 'A'-level Computing will have access to an easy to learn, free to use, cross platform, dynamically typed, object-oriented programming language which has extensive software libraries for virtually any task and which is also used extensively in industry"
Venue Update
The venue this year is Republic Polytechnic, an institution of higher learning which has adopted Python for teaching students their first programming language. Whilst it is located at the north of Singapore, transportation will not be a problem. Singapore has a well-connected public transport system. We will also be arranging for special coaches at various downtown locations to ferry participants to and from Republic Polytechnic.
Keynote Speakers
The keynote speakers for PyCon APAC 2011 are :
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Jacob is one of the lead developers and co-creator of Django. Jacob’s an experienced software developer with a focus on web application architecture. He’s a consultant with Revolution Systems (http://revsys.com/), where he helps companies deploy and scale websites using Python and Django. Jacob previously worked for the Lawrence Journal-World, a locally-owned newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, where he helped to develop and release Django. There's more about Jacob at http://www.revsys.com/about/
Dr Prabhu Ramachandran
Dr Prabhu has been a faculty member a the department o Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay since 2005. He has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras. His research interests are primarily in particle methods and applied scientific computing. He has been active in the FOSS community for more than a decade. He co-founded the Indian Linux User Group - Chennai (ILUGC) in 1998 and is the creator and lead developer of the (FOSS-India-award-winning) Mayavi and TVTK Python packages (http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi). Dr. Prabhu has contributed to the Python wrappers of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK - http://www.vtk.org). He is an active member of the SciPy community and a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). In 2009, he gave the keynote address at India's first PyCon. Dr Prabhu currently heads the FOSSEE project (Free Open-source Software for Science and Engineering Education, http://fossee.in) which aims to spread the use of Python (and other Free Software) in the curriculum. The project helps organize and sponsor the SciPy India conference (http://scipy.in) annually
