John Pinner a écrit :
2008/8/2 David Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Douglas Napoleone wrote:
Question: What about having software like the badge generation as
its
own standalone project? I am sure more than just the python
community
could benefit from such an application, and having the project
independent of a 'conference core' will greatly help with its
development and maintenance.
Sounds good to me, but then, I didn't write it. :-)
That would be up to Dinu, who wrote it.
I'm kind of surprised that these badges generate so much interest.
OTOH it confirms some of my own reasoning for dealing with such
things. In fact, the script I contributed to John's archive is a
highly stripped down version of a project moving forward (although
slowly) through my pipeline. Eventually it will be able to generate
much other useful output as well, not only for conferences.
v1 (EuroPython 2008) does all the font scaling etc, but has some
hard-code bits and pieces.
The font scaling is really a quick and dirty hack, as you surely
have noticed, John. You should not use this for a couple of
million badges. ;-)
v2 (PyCon UK 2008) is rather more generalised.
v3 (EuroPython 2009) should be there.
At least that is my recent experience with PyCon-Tech. the few spin
off projects are doing great, and I plan on breaking the remaining
pieces into separate projects as well.
I think that's an interesting insight and would be curious myself
to see a breakdown into components resulting from these PyCon con-
ferences, unless it wasn't posted (and ignored by me) here already.
I was going to suggest naming them according to a pattern or brand,
maybe making them all part of a virtual package, but perhaps it's
better to let them all have their own identities as projects.
If it looks like they're all part of a larger project, people might
be less interested in working on them, perhaps thinking that there's
some grand design that they have to buy into.
I suspect that the larger Python community has little interest in the
conferencing system: most seem to take it for granted that we have
some grand infrastructure, instead of a few nutters like ourselves.
It's a pitty but if the number of attendees at talks about this
topic at EP2008 and other conferences mean anything, then prob-
ably that you're right. I think it's kind of ironc that most
developers seem to prefer spending a huge amount of time in im-
plementing entirely new web app frameworks or add the coolest
feature of the trade, but seem less interested in implementing
an entire real-life project useful for their own community.
Regards,
Dinu
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