If you haven’t heard, Kiwi PyCon 2010 (opens new window) is to be held in the beautiful Bay of Islands (opens new window), just outside the Waitangi Treaty grounds at the Copthorne Hotel (opens new window) on the weekend of November 20-21. So far we’ve had 6 financial sponsors commit to the event and 6 schwag sponsors (opens new window), which puts us in line for an excellent event with a substantial grab bag of goodies the likes of which any IT professional would drool over.

On the talk content side of things, Jacob Kaplan-Moss (opens new window), co-founder of the Django (opens new window) project, will give Saturday’s keynote, Amazon Web Services (opens new window) will be presenting and Weta Digital (opens new window) have also got a couple of their team coming along, just to name a few. If you’d like to have your name alongside this impressive lineup, the due date for talk submissions is this coming Monday, August 2nd so head on over to http://nz.pycon.org/submit-talk (opens new window) today and get submitting and help contribute to the success of Kiwi PyCon 2010! Alternatively if you’d like to come along and soak up the python goodness - further pricing information can be found here (opens new window) and the registration form is available here (opens new window). Early bird registrations close September 1 so don’t delay!