pyconau 2018 call for proposals now open
The pyconau call for proposals is now open, and runs until 28 May. I took my teenagers to pyconau last year and they greatly enjoyed it. I hadn't been to a pyconau in ages, and ended up really enjoying thinking about things from topic areas I don't normally need to think about. I think expanding one's horizons is generally a good idea. Should I propose something for this year? I am unsure. Some random ideas that immediately spring to mind: something about privsep: I think a generalised way to make privileged calls in unprivileged code is quite interesting, especially in a language which is often used for systems management and integration tasks. That said, perhaps its too OpenStacky given how disinterested in OpenStack talks most python people seem to be. nova-warts: for a long time my hobby has been cleaning up historical mistakes made in OpenStack Nova that wont ever rate as a major feature change. What lessons can other projects learn from a well funded and heavily staffed project that still thought that exec() was a great way to do important work? There's definitely an overlap with the privsep talk above, but this would be more general. a talk…