About PyCamp - a Regional Python Unconference

A week or so ago, the Dallas and Houston Python User Groups met online in a
chat room, to discuss the possibility of a regional Python conference.  There
was interest on all sides.  Some of the Dallas members had recently attended
their second BarCamp (http://barcamp.org), defined as an ad-hoc gathering born
from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.

 From this interaction as well as the realization, after the Dallas group
hosted PyCon in 2006 and will again in 2007, that a conference is a *lot* of
work, we decided to try the idea of running an "unconference".

An unconference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference) is a conference
where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants,
generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single
organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance.

And tossing around some names, we decided upon "PyCamp".  There is much to be
discussed re dates, location and how it will operate, so I set up the website:

   http://pycamp.python.org/

and a Mailman instance for mailing lists at:

   http://pycamp.python.org/lists/

The rough idea is to hold a Texas-wide unconference, perhaps sometimes in
August and near Austin.  There was also the idea of holding a rotating
unconference that moves between Dallas, Austin and Houston, say twice a year.
  To minimize the impact on participant (not attendee - this is an
unconference after all where you are expected to get involved) schedules, it
was suggested we hold it over a weekend.  We'd meet for dinner/drinks on a