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My talk about Buildout got accepted for FOSS.IN/2009 . Hope to meet more Pythonistas there. This time the event is happening very near to my house in Bangalore :) My first FOSS.IN was in 2007, I remember going to IISc every day morning by catching two buses from Banasankari to Majestic then from there to Malleswaram 18th cross. BTW, I felt every news appearing in foss.in site has something to scare speakers,delegates or workouts, I mean so many negative wordings :)

Today is my wedding anniversary :)

Noufal Ibrahim , the main organizer or PyCON India 2009 received Python Software Foundation 's Community Service award along with Barry Warsaw (Creator of Mailman). My hearty congratulation to Noufal Ibrahim and Barry Warsaw.

Today Andreas Jung, release manager of Zope 2, announced Zope 2.12 release . Also he announced new Zope 2 website . This is not just yet another release, there are many interesting things.  It looks like Zope 2 is trying to become a good citizen in Python web framweorks, whatever that means.

These photos are taken by my colleague Ponnusamy.  Thanks to Ponnusamy for allowing me share these photos.

I just reached home from IISc where PyCON India 2009 is going on.  It was a wonderful day.  There was attendees from all over India, I met people from Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kerala etc.  It looks like more 300 people came today (I don't know the exact number).  The session was started with the keynote by Prabhu Ramachandran .   I couldn't attend his full keynote, because my Buildout talk was the next, which was scheduled in the second room. I got some feedback about my talk, if you have any comment, please write here !  Those who using Python, only very few use Buildout now.  I think Buildout should have some more love & marketing to attract developers.   After my talk, I attended few other talks.  I also got a chance to walk in the beautiful campus during lunch time with my new colleagues (trainees) in ZeOmega.  They are very new Python, I hope they are enjoying the sessions. I liked the talk "Test Drive...

The first PyCON India is 10 days away.  The talk schedule is already out.  The statistics of PyCON India is very interesting. It looks like, so far 555 delegates are already registered.  People can come without registration also, they have some spot registration (fee is just Rs. 300/-) Mayavi fame Prabhu Ramachandran is giving the keynote talk.  And there are many other interesting talks.  I have one talk about Buildout . More than all these, this is a great opportunity for Python programmers to meet.  I hope PyCON India will become a great success.