UPDATE: Raymond Hettinger will hold the keynote of the second day!

PyCon Due is definitely taking shape.

The conference will take place on a three day span.

The first day venue (free of any kind of charge) will be Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence. The conference will be introduced by the spokeswoman of Arts of the city. The opening keynote will be given by Richard Stallman, a person who needs no introduction in the software world.

After that, which is definitely important, we plan to go out and eat all together at a restaurant. Social life is equally important

The actual conference will begin the next day, the 10th of May, divided in three parallels track: a tutorial track, an introduction one and one based on experiences and real life usage of the language.

We’ll have talks about Python for beginners, various incarnations of Python, Plone, information retrieval, PyQt, nginx and WSGI, Cython, advanced uses of Django, PyMaemo, Unicode, PyPy, Zope 3 and more on that day. There will be also a Skype sponsored talk about Skype4Py.

The second day will be full of talks about profiling and debugging, SQLAlchemy, Django again, callbacks and patterns, map sharing, concurrency, Twisted Matrix, IronPython, Ajax, compilers in Python, the Fedora Unified Network Controller, FlyPDF and component architectures and more.

As you can imagine will be a tough three days conference, one an Italian (Python) developer should not miss in my opinion.

A lot of well known speakers: Alex Martelli (another who needs no introduction), Federico di Gregorio (author of psycopg2), Arkadiusz Wahlig (author of Skype4Py), Manlio Perillo (of nginx’s mod_wsgi fame), Antonio Cuni (from the PyPy team), Giovanni Bajo (mantainer of PyInstaller and of GCC fame), Brian Fitzpatrick (Subversion anyone?), Menno Smits (from the Resolver Systems team), Michele Simionato (of metaclasses, decorators and mro fame) and more.

As part of the board of the conference I’m a little biased by I’m really looking forward for this one

See you there!