Hi! Paul Boddie wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:54:02 Laura Creighton wrote: >> In a message of Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:59:51 +0100, Dinu Gherman writes: >>> So far, my intuition says, it's going to be similar to last year, >>> with the main meat from 7-9 July and sprints thereafter. >> We haven't set that in stone yet, but it is always better to have >> sprints after, rather than before. That way you give your introduction >> once, and then, if some people leave early, that is too bad. The other >> way means that you have to introduce the thing every day as people >> arrive on various dates, and its a real pain. > > I think we ought to stick with what works. I assumed that this would be the > case when I put up the calendar: > > http://www.europython.org/community/Calendar > > Apologies if that wasn't the intention, but I think these things have to be > decided quite early if they are going to change fundamentally.
I also think so. Additionally I think that people are used now to sprints after the conference and probably planning like that. It also makes sense to have them after because then you can introduce some project or maybe get an idea during the conference and work on that idea afterwards. >> The sticking bit is tutorials / unconference / Teach Me X sessions >> a) are we going to have them and b) if so when. I would suggest to maybe have 1/2 a day unconferencing which maybe is not really a lot to make it truely work but given that it's probably a new concept to many it might make sense. I would put this on day 2 or 3 of the actual conference. If this seems to work good or people afterwards thought they could have participated we might offer more sessions during the sprint time (because you know, many people first watch and then notice that it's something they can do, too. This is also the reason why people tend to signup for a session only on sunday at a barcamp after they've seen it the whole saturday). For the Plone Conferences we usually had tutorials in front of the conferences and there also have been a lot of people new to Plone who only attended the actual conference because of those tutorials. I guess this makes sense. You first learn about what Python actually is and then you might understand what the conference is about a bit more. Then again it might be different between Plone and Python as the first is more some sort of products and thus useful for endusers while Python is not. -- Christian -- Christian Scholz video blog: http://comlounge.tv COM.lounge blog: http://mrtopf.de/blog Luetticher Strasse 10 Skype: HerrTopf 52064 Aachen Homepage: http://comlounge.net Tel: +49 241 400 730 0 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49 241 979 00 850 IRC: MrTopf, Tao_T connect with me: http://mrtopf.de/connect _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
