11 posts tagged “call-for-proposals”
CFPs - calls for papers or calls for proposals - for different events.
2025
PyCon US 2026 call for proposals is now open (via) PyCon US is coming to the US west coast! 2026 and 2027 will both be held in Long Beach, California - the 2026 conference is set for May 13th-19th next year.
The call for proposals just opened. Since we'll be in LA County I'd love to see talks about Python in the entertainment industry - if you know someone who could present on that topic please make sure they know about the CFP!
The deadline for submissions is December 19th 2025. There are two new tracks this year:
PyCon US is introducing two dedicated Talk tracks to the schedule this year, "The Future of AI with Python" and "Trailblazing Python Security". For more information and how to submit your proposal, visit this page.
Now is also a great time to consider sponsoring PyCon - here's the sponsorship prospectus.
2013
What are the conference/meet-ups on JavaScript that accept guest speakers?
We have a crowdsourced list of JavaScript events that are accepting speaker submissions here: JavaScript conference calls for participation
[... 53 words]What should tech conferences, events and planners do to add diversity?
JSConf did something very clever that helped them get 25% female speakers last year: Beating the Odds—How We got 25% Women Speakers for JSConf EU 2012
[... 94 words]What is the best place to post a call for papers in the computer science community?
Our service Lanyrd has a feature to help keep track of conference CFPs. We tend to have more commercial conferences than academic ones, but those topics are definitely relevant to our core audience. For example, our Cloud conferences and events page shows six upcoming CFPs at the moment.
[... 107 words]How do you get invited to speak at high profile events?
SXSW has an open call for proposals—you’ll need to submit a suggestion to the panel picker and encourage people to vote for you.
[... 123 words]How should people organise software developer focused conferences in order that they achieve socially acceptable representation across relevant demographics (eg gender, ethnicity) in terms of speakers and attendees?
No one wants to feel like they have only been invited to speak because of their gender/other demographic factors, especially since they risk losing some the respect of the audience if there is a feeling that they weren’t invited purely for their expertise.
[... 309 words]2007
Call for Participation for XTech 2008. XTech 2008 will be in Dublin, Ireland from the 6th to the 9th of May. Lots of really interesting topics in the CfP (OpenID, OAuth, Comet, CouchDB...)—deadline for submissions is the 25th of January.
PyCon UK 2007. The weekend of the 8th and 9th of September, currently accepting talk submissions. I’ll be running a Django tutorial session.
Google Seattle conference on scalability. Google are hosting a conference on scalability in Seattle on June 23rd. They’ve just put out the CfP.
Oxford Geek Night 2 call for proposals. The next event is coming up in April. Get your talk proposals in now!
OSCON 2007 Call for Participation. The submission deadline is February 5th; the conference itself is July 23rd to 27th.