On Sunday 03 August 2008, John Pinner wrote: > Is the key word here 'insane' ? Are all these things _really_ > necessary? eg allowing whatever you want on the badge? Has it all just > got out of control? Could some management realism reduce the problem > to soemthing, well, manageable?
When asked what people want from a conference system, there's usually a flood of requirements, many of which are really suggestions for things which are nice to have. Some of these reflect people's interests more than they do the needs of your average conference participant. Having said that, I think Doug's rant describes two main problems: 1. Scheduling 2. Registration My impression is that some people quite fancy the idea of tackling the first of these, then think that maybe they can address the second as well, and allow all sorts of interactions between them. In the end, you just end up with an ever-increasing set of requirements that obscures the original purpose of the system. I think you have to start with something simple and keep it open enough to allow things to be added on. One positive thing about splitting it all up into separate projects is that there people who are purely interested in one aspect of the whole system. I think you got a question in your talk at EuroPython about timetabling, for example, and I know that Zeth is determined to have a really simple registration system, despite Nicolas Chauvat's attempts to convince him otherwise. :-) David _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
