Program

How Program IsHas Been Made

How program works is (and should be) very much up to the Program Chair. What I'm going to describe here is a mixture of the general structure that I've applied when I've run it, and some specific things that have worked well (or not). The "I" in this page, at least at this time, is Benno Rice coming off the back of doing PyCon AU 2025. You should not feel chained to what is written here, and I've attempted to explain the "why" as much as the "what" so that you can try to get good outcomes out of whatever process suits you.

The Sequence of Events

1. Determine Specialist Tracks
2. Call for Proposals
3. Recruiting Reviewers
4. Proposal Review
5. Thunderdome
6. Schedule Construction
7. Pre-Conference
8. Conference