One of my colleagues called attention to the upcoming Python conference in Vancouver, July 31-August 2…
Vancouver Python Workshop Homepage
Though Python is not my language (well, I really don’t program..)
…. it is becoming increasingly important for our community efforts — > we will be looking to migrate out e-learning web site (http://www.elearning.ubc.ca) to a Plone backend… thus the python!
They did extend the deadline for submissions…
Prices are very very reasonable..
The pythoncard application builder was demonstrated that the workshop by Kenvin Altis as a crossplatform desktop applications builder. I think that it can be very useful for standalone sharable content objects. There are several of the sample applications that are educational. I am developing the chat application into a group turing test learning object. Because they are standalone these will be more portable over time than flash because the learning objects are not dependent on a player.