For the Record: PyConUK used PyCon-Tech and Django for the proposal and scheduling.
I do not know if they plan on continuing to do so. http://www.pyconuk.org/apps07/schedule/ http://us.pycon.org/apps07/schedule/ I helped them sot some of it up, via e-mail notes, but that was about it. The code was in much worst state back then. We now have an integrated wiki, survey app, navigation bar, etc (all optional). As you will see above they also chose not to use the fancy javascript integration which as I mentioned earlier is optional. so um.... well there ya go. -Doug On Dec 13, 2007 3:40 PM, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 01:35:56 John Pinner wrote: > > > > 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. > > This sounds great in various different respects, although I'm not going to > speak out of turn as far as conference proposals are concerned: that's a > decision for everyone to make, I imagine. > > > 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. > > It would be good to hear your experiences from an organiser's perspective, > particularly as it seemed to go rather well from what I've heard. > > [Using a Wiki for the normal site] > > > 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. > > I think you meant "doesn't get in the way of the content", but as you've shown > with PyCon UK, there's no need for a monolithic application: it's the Web, > and different applications can live next door to each other without people > seeing the technological discontinuity. > > [...] > > > 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 > > I'll leave this for others to discuss. > > [2009] > > > > 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. > > This could be a great solution and I appreciate the offer. I've actually > packaged up my theme, and I've archived the content that mainly consists of > stuff that has been migrated from CPS, so the process of setting up a > MoinMoin instance should be straightforward, and I wouldn't necessarily need > full access at all. > > > > 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. > > We haven't really heard from many people about their ideas for Web sites and > such, but I can imagine that most people won't do very much until something > is pushed at them which they think they can improve on. So, perhaps we just > need to bring up a new site and wait for the criticism. ;-) Initially, it > wouldn't have to live at europython.org, either. > > This brings me to the next point: I think it could be good to get to grips > with some of the issues around the infrastructure, thinking of the existing > site, DNS, mail aliases and all the different intranet aspects of CPS. Just > to know that there's a process to deal with any changes to europython.org > would be a good thing. > > Regards, > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Europython-improve mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve > _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
