2008/6/15 Douglas Napoleone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
A very understandable assumption! John -- > -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 >> -- >> > _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
