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Guide to Day 1 of PyCon Jamaica 2016

PyCon Jamaica 2016 starts with a tutorial and lightning talks day.

Checklist

Register
Volunteer for a Lightning Talk
Install the App
Visit the Website

Lightning talks are at 5:30 at CARIMAC Annex 2

Registration and Payment:
We'll have a registration facility at each of the tutorial locations.
9:00 - 10:00 am at Placement and Careers.
1:30 - 2:30 pm at CLR (department of computing)
1:30 - 2:30 pm at CARIMAC Annex 2

There's an App:
We have an app with information about the conference (powered by Guidebook)
It includes schedules and other event information
Grab a copy:
iOS Android

Tutorials:
9:30 am - 12:30 pm - Introduction to Plone (Python based content management system) (David Bain)
Location: Placement and Careers UWI
It is widely accepted that Plone has the strongest security functionality of any open source CMS available today. Plone is inherently more secure than any PHP-based CMS, and this is well documented on numerous security-oriented web sites. We have limited space (12 slots) in the morning.

1:30 pm - 4:30 pm - Introduction to Python 3 (Lorena Mesa)
Location: CARIMAC Annex 2 UWI
Come learn all the goodness of Python 3
Before you do anything else fill out the contact form to let us know that you're coming.

1:30 pm - 4:30 pm - Introduction to Big Data Analytics using Python and Apache Spark
(Kangwa Sambo)
This tutorial is for more experienced programmers, you'll learn basic data science using Python in the context of big data and analytics.