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CfP Workshop - Ask me anything

PyJamas Conf — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:00:00 +0000

Let’s do it together

We know that speaking at a conference, especially for the first time, can be scary at first. But it’s a wonderful experience sharing your story to Pythonistas around the world.

We would like to help, we would like to make it easy for you. We also want to hear different voices in the Python community so we don’t want you, who got a great idea and a fascinating story, to turn away and not submitting because you have no idea how to write down a proposal that will make the reviews love your talk. So let us do it together, shall we?

Ok, so what’s next?

We know that you have lots of questions:

How to write a good proposal?
What do I need to do to submit a proposal?
Are the talks going to be live or recorded?
How to present online?
How does the time zone things work?
Is my idea a good idea?

Don’t worry, we got you covered. We will have 2 Ask me anything workshop sessions for you to attend. At the workshop, we, the organisers of Pyjamas Conf 2020, who are also experienced speakers at various conferences will answer questions from you. If you feel comfortable, we can also brainstorm ideas together.

How to join the workshop?

Just sign up to the Zoom Webinar here:

Session 1 - 27th Aug 2020 6pm UTC

Session 2 - 28th Aug 2020 8am UTC

We recommend signing up for either one of those sessions. However, if you feel the need for joining 2 sessions, you can sign up to both.

What if I want some 1-1 mentoring?

I know discussions with everyone during the workshop may not be right for you. If you are a new speaker and if you need help submitting to Pyjamas Conf 2020, please get in touch by Twitter or email.

We cannot promise a 1-1 mentor assigned to you but the organising team will try to help as much as we can.

What if I want to speak in another language, not English?

You are welcome to do so! However, we would suggest you submit to the community space, where we may bundle your talk together with other speakers who would like to give a talk in the same language. We think bundling up talks in the same language will be much better for the audiences who are interested in those talks. We also welcome organisers to co-organise these talk blocks with us, just submit a proposal to the community space.

Let’s talk about accessibility

If you have any special needs, let us know. We will try our best to not let it stops you from submitting and giving talks.

Spread the words

Please let your friends, family, co-workers and your local community know about Pyjamas Conf and the free CfP workshop.

Ready to Submit?

See the Call for Proposals

Community Open Space - what is it?

PyJamas Conf — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 18:53:27 +0000

The call for proposals for Pyjamas was launched just a few days ago and we are so excited organising everything that we decided clarify one of our favourite features about Pyjamas...

the Community Open Space!

But what is a Community Open Space? - you might ask.

Great question, Padawan!

The aim is to have an independent track for your local community within our comfy conference. So that we encourage engagement from local/small communities everywhere.

How will it work?

We will allocate rooms with time blocks (min. 2 hours) which will be given to community members who submit a Community Open Space (COS) proposal.
The plans for the event are all based on your wishes. It will be your event after all, we will just help you with the setup, space and guidance - if it is required.

Who is this track for?

If you are part of a community and wish to gather some speakers and host a mini-conference (or host any event of your choosing) in your own main-language (or not), or maybe you wish to host informal discussions of Python-related topics... this is your chance!
It is literally open for YOU.

And we hope everyone can make good use of it.

We want to give the small communities the chance to step forward and be part of the Global Python one. After all, we are all under the same open source.

They say the Devil is in the details - Proposal submission

Guidelines

The proposal submission for this special track is super simple. We will need:

the time (with timezone) and duration of your event;
a basic outline describing the type of event you plan to host - please, be as detailed as possible;
an estimative of the expected capacity (number of attendees) for your ~~Python-party~~ serious event;
the community you are affiliated with (e.g., PyLadies, DjangoGirls, PyData, TransCode, etc).
any other info we should be aware about - be the judge!

As always we want to make sure everything is in agreement with our Code of Conduct, so make sure you have a read and behave! We love everyone and really ruins our day to be 'nasty' to attendees. We will if you misbehave, though.

The approved proposals will receive news from the organising committee with the followup details.

We are so excited to see what you are all going to come up with! Please keep the talk proposals coming and if you want to do a little bit more, apply to be a volunteer. We need Reviewers, Organisers and all else, Python-related or not.
Leave a comment below if you are interested.

If you have any questions, wish to apply for a Community Open Space on Pyjamas or simply wish to help with volunteering, head over to our website or send us DM on twitter at @pyjamasaconf.

Announcing Pyjamas Conf!

PyJamas Conf — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:00:00 +0000

It is with a lot of excitement that we announce Pyjamas 2020 (2nd edition), this time worldwide!

Before COVID-19 struck us all with lockdown-news, the idea to host an online conference with tracks with speakers from all over the world on a 24 hours-format was already consolidated. Pyjamas came from the need to bring more diversity in all fronts to the Python conference-world. The organizing committee is a joined effort of multiple nationalities, volunteering their not so free time to make it all happen.

When is it going to happen?

December 5th, everywhere on Earth (we will be running for 24 hours so it may be 4th or 6th for you at some time).

Why PyJamas? - you may ask.

Rule number 1 of Pyjamas is “One shall present your talk wearing pyjamas”. The event is a 24 hours world-wide Python conference with 2 tracks hosting diverse speakers, where everyone will be wearing jammies (no matter what does it mean for you).Do you get it? Python + pyjamas = Pyjamas. I know… mind-blowing!

As general rules go, have a look at our Code of Conduct.

The conference will have 2 tracks:

Main Conference: 24 hours streaming of talks, with diverse speakers from all over the world.
Community Track: these are open space for communities to apply. They can run workshops, organize mentored sprints for minorities, lightning talks (or slide-decks karaoke?) sessions or have a 1st-time speakers-track/ non-English speaking track. The sky is the limit.

Accessibility

Pyjamas Conf aims to include the community around the world that is not necessarily able to join physical conferences around the world due to many reasons. We are a free conference where anyone can join either to attend, volunteer and/or advocate for Python. We will broadcast the tracks on our YouTube channels for 24 hours. Everyone can join anytime, anywhere (and in their pyjamas).

Community

We all know that the Python community is very open and nice to people, especially beginners. Based on principles of “on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement” the Python community wants to be even more inclusive and diverse.For that reason, we decided to push the diversity focus on our event. We encourage people to get involved, joining the organizing/ volunteer team no matter which part of the world you are in, no matter if you are new to Python or a senior dev.

Join the team

Call for Proposals

Be part of Pyjamas! The call for proposals will open soon. We would love to see your submissions. If you are interested in reviewing proposals, please get in touch.

See the Call for Proposals

So there you go, Pyjamas 2020! All that, from the softness of your jammies and the comfiness of your sofa to the rest of the world.