Prompted by Mark and in an effort to keep up with Alan I've submitted a proposal for a presentation at OSDC 2006. If they like my proposal I'll be appearing in a lecture theatre in Melbourne in December talking about databases and Python. I'm being quite ambitious in scope for a thirty minute slot with discussion of the Python Database API, a side trip into JDBC and Perl's DBI and then a discussion of database wrapper utilities, ORM implementations and patterns. I suspect that there will be some judicious editing before I'm finished, although I will try and keep all the topics in my conference paper.