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+Hello {{ name }},
+  The first edition of the Indian version of SciPy conference, dubbed
+SciPy.in 2009 is just 5 days away. Many of you have shown interests
+in attending all three events:  conference, tutorials and sprint. But
+some of you have been asking for a summary of what these individual
+events will be.
+
+   To make things clear, here is a short description of the three
+individual events. The main SciPy.in 2009 Conference will contain
+a number of presentations by both noted NumPy/SciPy developers and
+speakers like Dr.Travis Oliphant, Christopher Burns, Dr. David
+Cournapeau, Jarrod Millman, Dr.Prabhu Ramachandran as well as other
+speakers who are using these tools.
+
+   The two days of tutorials are aimed at people who want to learn to
+use NumPy/SciPy for their scientific and numerical computation to
+solve scientific and engineering problems in their domain. The
+tutorials will introduce participants to both Python as well as the
+scientific tool stack built on top of it. The tutorials require basic
+computer use experience. Bringing your own laptop is helpful, but not
+required.
+
+   Finally, the most exciting part of SciPy.in 2009 are sprints.
+Sprint provides you with an opportunity to contribute back to the
+Python scientific computing community. As we know NumPy/SciPy are
+open source tools and almost all open source softwares are driven by
+the community. So for these tools to succeed we want help from the
+community, i.e all of you people. This is an event where all of you
+sit together along with the developers, hack on one of these tools.
+If you are one of those guys who is interested in programming you can
+contribute by writing code, fixing bugs and sending those patches. If
+you are not interested in programming but more interested in writing,
+you can help the community with documentation efforts, including but
+not limited to writing documentation for NumPy/SciPy functions,
+creating spoken tutorials.
+
+   For the sprints it is required for you to bring your own laptops.
+Your laptop should have a working build system, with NumPy and SciPy
+built from source if you want to contribute by writing code. If you
+are willing to contribute to the documentation efforts it is
+sufficient to have a browser installed with your laptop having the
+capability of connecting to internet. If you want to create spoken
+tutorials be sure that you have a mic for recording and any software
+that can capture your desktop, for example, "istanbul" on GNU/Linux.
+
+--
+ Thanks,
+ SciPy.in Organizers