John Pinner wrote:
At EP 2007 in Vilnius there was a plenary discussion about improving
EuroPython, in particular about how to involve more people in the
orgainsation. It was very well-attended (most of the delegates were
there) and it was decided to start a new list for those interested in
helping, and this list is it. It was discussed a lot at the time both
at EP and on #europython. You must have missed this.
Indeed, and I find the creation of a new list (rather than just using
the existing and now dead europython list...) almost in direct
contradiction to getting more people involved: you effectively cut off
everyone who knew about the old list and didnt know about the creation
of the new list. There's also very little on the EPC website saying "the
mailing list lives here!", and the irc channel is fairly dead too.
It's probably fair to say that in recent years there has been little
involvement from the delegates in helping run EP, and we're trying to
do something about it.
The problem is that, for example, in my case, I go to the conference to
catch up with people I don't get to see the rest of the year. That or
trying to get pythonish stuff done while I can physically grab people
...or panicking to finish slides for a talk. None of these, sadly, are
conducive to helping out with conference infrastructure :-(
Is there
any remuneration for giving tutorials?
We haven't made a decision on this yet. Probably we'll do the same as
for Python UK, ie pay at the rate of £25 per student per day, although
many of last year's tutors waived the fee. Our issue at the moment is
the budget, we have no idea how much sponsorship we'll get this year
because of the general economic gloom and we're having to take a bit
of a flyer on some things.
OK, I assume the deadline of 5th April applies to tutorials as well?
cheers,
Chris
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