Developers' Day - 8th International Python Conference

Thursday January 27 2000, the final day of the Eighth International Python Conference was Developers' Day, where the Python community will have the opportunity to discuss the future of Python, and help to debate, attack, and resolve outstanding issues. Developers' Day allows the Python community the once-a-year chance to personally interact with Python's creator Guido van Rossum and other developers.

Format

The tentative schedule was arranged into two tracks of 3 topics each as shown in the table below.

Time/Track	Track One	Track Two
8:00 - 8:30	Registration and breakfast
8:30 - 10:00	SIG updates and the (In)famous Guido Poll
10:00 - 10:30	Morning break
10:30 - 12:00	Internationalization (Andy Robinson)	Documentation SIG (Fred Drake)
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 3:00	Import Utilities (Gordon McMillan)	XML SIG (Andrew Kuchling)
3:00 - 3:30	Afternoon break
3:30 - 5:00	Python Compiler (Jeremy Hylton)	JPython (Barry Warsaw)