Hello, On 10/12/2007, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > It's been about two weeks since I last initiated a discussion on this > list, so > I thought I'd see if there's been any further thought about organising > ourselves for next year's conference. (Discussions for this year's > conference > started a bit earlier last year, but I suppose that's a topic for the main > EuroPython list.) > > Looking over the list of roles that Laura submitted [1], is it not > appropriate > to start thinking about where people might be able to contribute? This > might > help clarify some of the earlier discussion that we had about > infrastructure.
I've said this before, but not formally. The PyCon UK Society would like to host EuroPython 2009/2010. Leading up to that we are offering to take overall responsibility for the registration and talks parts of the website, and bearing in mind that we have an experienced MoinMoin person we could offer assistance with that if needed. Our proposal for Europython 2009 is to hold the conference at the same venue as PyCon UK 2007, that is the School of Music in Birmingham. The venue has a maximum auditorium capacity of 520, with good facilities, transport and hotel accommodation. I'd be quite happy to be "Web content editor" again, and as attentive > readers > will know, I've even proposed some kind of solution to replace CPS (since > few > people were interested in using it, and since it isn't collaborative > enough > for our new community-focused agenda). The wiki solution is good, and I liked your proposal. Note that as the "Web software > engineer" role states, this is all about "the website where the conference > is > marketed", not the registration or proposals systems, and I'd even be > happy > to help out under the "Web software engineer" role, too. > > As I stated earlier, the Web site can be much more than a plain Wiki, and > people were interested in all sorts of advanced applications, so I'd be > happy > to work alongside anyone doing anything like that. Meanwhile, my own > experiments with MoinMoin suggest that at least for the basic content > editing, we could probably manage quite well with such a solution, and > although people might have things to say about the visual appearance of > the > theme I've cooked up, I think we could have quite a reasonable looking > site > that shouldn't put people off from either browsing or editing the content. If we end up with a core consisting of the main parts required, eg proposals and registration, then the group organising EP at a particular venue could always put their own flavour on the rest of the site, and if they don't want to do that the wiki is a good idea anyway. At least you get a solution where the technology gets in the way of the content, as we seem to have seen sometimes in the past. So, is anyone else thinking of putting themselves forward for one or more of > the roles? Are we ready to start thinking about all the important stuff > that > shouldn't be rushed into place in May next year? ;-) Our group volunteers to undertake at least the following roles for 2008 and 2009: * Registration software engineer (both conference registration and talks proposals). * Registration manager * Evaluation survey handling For 2009, if our proposal to host EP is accepted, we could undertake several other roles as well, for example: * Head organiser * Treasurer * Signage * Equipment * Network * Shirts * Food * Banquet Paul > > P.S. As I said before, I don't have Internet hosting privileges, but I'm > willing to work with people to let them play with what I've been > experimenting with. Our company, Linux Emporium, can provide hosting if you need it, on a system where we can install any software we wish and to which you as web content editor can have full access. > Even if the idea of using MoinMoin eventually fails to > appeal to people, I'll still make the theme available, of course. It does the job, and runs on Python. I think it's worth a try. Maybe we'll get more contributions, which has to be good. Best wishes, John --
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