PyCon 2014 !!!
Back in August/Sept., I saw the CFP for PyCon 2014 and was determined to submit more than one proposal. After all, it's an awesome conference and it's in MONTREAL !!! I was already dreaming about fantastic crepes, quiches, beignet's, cobblestone roads....
So, I pinged Akkana (hardware guru extraordinaire) and asked her if she would be interested in doing a joint tutorial by CodeChix on building PiDoorbell at PyCon. And she said yes!
That was followed by a few weeks of frenzied emailing and design/logistics/hardware-list/etc.-gathering and hashing out and we finally submitted our tutorial proposal by the deadline. This was the first hardware-centric proposal by CodeChix and so there were a lot of details that needed to be thought through. Akkana and I had done a fair bit of it, but the PyCon committee had a series of questions that they asked us about logistics and how we were going to conduct the tutorial/workshop. That took approximately one month or so to explain and detailing every aspect that we could think of.
I also submitted a second proposal for a talk on Phase 3 of PiDoorbell which involves face recognition.
Today, we found out that our PiDoorbell tutorial has been accepted !!
I'm so happy that the tutorial got accepted - I hope that Akkana and I inspire a whole bunch of developers to fiddle with hardware and solve their day-to-day problems with ease and competence :).
I did also mention to the PyCon committee that I did not have the bandwidth to do both the tutorial and the talk. So, if one got accepted, I would appreciate it if they could give the other slot to someone else.
I'm so happy that the tutorial got accepted - I hope that Akkana and I inspire a whole bunch of developers to fiddle with hardware and solve their day-to-day problems with ease and competence :).
Thank you to the powers that be for this amazing opportunity to make a difference in our community on behalf of CodeChix!
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