On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:07 PM, John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm sorry to disappoint you all, but for the EP Talks and Schedule we
> have gone back to basics, and I do mean basics, and the whole thing
> has been produced very simply.
>
> The only PyCon-Tech *code* it uses is the CSS, plus many *ideas* which
> using PyCon-Tech last year gave us.
oops, sorry, bad assumption on my part.
-Doug
>
> 2008/6/15 Douglas Napoleone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> John entered the data into an instance of PyCon-Tech (django based
>> converence management software used to PyConUS) loaded up the web
>> pages, saved as html, and then stuck them into the EuroPython website.
>>
>> That software supports all the features you are talking about, and
>> yes, some people hate them.
>> Oh well. Loosing the popups, personal schedule builder, reedit
>> integration, slide upload, interest counts and session chair
>> management are not that big a deal as long as you have them somewhere
>> else.
>>
>> To see it in action see here:
>> http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/schedule/
>>
>> -Doug
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Sunday 15 June 2008 12:42:04 Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>>> The EuroPython 2008 timetable page has[1] has no downloadable iCalendar
>>>> version.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://registration.europython.eu/timetable.html
>>>>
>>>> What can I do to make one available?
>>>
>>> I think there's scope for collaboration here. I've been corresponding with
>>> Ville Säävuori (the guy who did the EuroPython Web site lightning talk last
>>> year) about Web site stuff, and one of the things he's interested in is
>>> dynamic timetables.
>>>
>>>> I assume the HTML on that page was generated dynamically from a
>>>> database; if I saw the code I'm sure I could write the equivalent for
>>>> iCal and send the patch to the maintainer.
>
> The HTML is generated statically. Laura and Samuele did an analogue
> schedule (this is posh way of saying they laid out talks (pieces of
> paper) on the dining room table) and I interpreted this into a Python
> structure from which the timetable is built.. I've attached this.
>
>>> I don't know what John and company has done, but it looks like very
>>> structured
>>> information that a program might have produced from a database of some kind.
>>>
>>>> I feel like I should know these things from previous EuroPython
>>>> IRC meetings. I'm sorry that I didn't pay enough attention.
>>>
>>> No need to be sorry: I doubt that we touched on these things.
>
> Well, it was talked about, but nobody actually did anything ;)
>
>>> I like the
>>> presentation of the timetable, and I appreciate the lack of pop-ups which,
>>> in
>>> my opinion, made the original PyCon (not PyCon UK) timetables not so nice to
>>> navigate, but I understand that dynamic timetables and iCalendar support can
>>> be interesting to some people, even though they don't seem like high
>>> priority
>>> things when putting everything else together for the conference.
>
> Exactly. I'm afraid that in our world there's a tendency to talk a lot
> about nice features and neglect the basics.
>
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> P.S. Out of impatience and for some amusement, I wrote a nasty little
>>> program
>>> to parse the timetable page and produce an iCalendar file. See this page for
>>> the details:
>
> Well that seems like a practical route just now.
>
> I could supply you with the stuff we've used, but right now, with all
> the time that's been spent on EP and PyCon UK, I need to be spending
> more time on my business, so I couldn't spend any time with you.
>
> I'm down to give a talk on the conferencing software at Vilnius, maybe
> it would be a good idea to get together and build in the iCal stuff
> for next year.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> John
> --
>
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