>From Aahz, on python-organizers, but applicable to us, and I think a good idea.
Laura ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Thu Jan 31 01:28:02 2008 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pycon-organizers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008, David Goodger wrote: > > Yes, I am, but the semantics play into the perception. Call it "spin" > or "framing" if you like. If people think of PyCon as a community of > volunteers, it's a lot easier to accept the consequences. Keeping > PyCon as a community of volunteers (both the reality and the > perception) will be a challenge as we grow. And I'm clueless about how > to approach it. One way that volunteer-run SF cons have approached this is by continually hammering on the notion that one does not buy a "ticket" to attend a convention, but buys a "membership". This is in particular contrast with commercial SF cons (especially the Star Trek cons). Another way to do this: make the volunteer option a separate page on the registration process, so that every person who registers has to make an explicit decision about volunteering. If nothing else, it highlights the volunteer nature of the conference. - -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." --Butler Lampson _______________________________________________ Pycon-organizers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers ------- End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
