Hello, Thanks for the wiki pointers: also there's quite a lot on pyconuk pages, plus our old meeting minutes.
2009/3/17 Paul Boddie <[email protected]>: > On Monday 16 March 2009 00:39:33 John Pinner wrote: >> >> 2009/3/15 Martin P. Hellwig <[email protected]>: >> > >> > I think not longer then one month after this years so we still have >> > freshly in our memory what worked and what not. >> >> I think that after this year's, you want to know about organising >> conferences for a few months! > > Although it's tiring work, there's always stuff to do after the conference, > anyway. I was uploading pictures and doing other things after last year's > conference, and I think it makes sense to get stuff written up if anyone has > the time and energy for it. > >> > This also gives us the >> > opportunity to spam a lot sooner but still stay relative. >> > >> > I think we can conclude that the extra early bird works very well, what >> > we could consider is starting it earlier, but stopping it earlier too. >> > With the lessons learned till now and what comes in the future it might >> > be handy to create a sort of procedure handbook. I am more then happy to >> > make a first draft. >> >> We already have quite a bit on various wikis: that would make a good >> starting point. > > I think people should take a look at the following pages. For publicity: > > http://www.europython2008.eu/Planning/Publicity > http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2007/PublicRelations (mostly copied > into the above) > > For general volunteer/planning information: > > http://www.europython2008.eu/Volunteers > http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2007 > > For attendee information: > > http://www.europython2008.eu/Planning/Projections > > (My quick attendee counting script suggests that last year we had 76 people > from Lithuania and 29 from Poland, which we may not be able to match this > year.) > > In order to inform the annual "bikeshed" discussion about software, I wrote up > this page some time ago: > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/SoftwareRequirements > > Some very useful material has been written up on the subject of running > conferences: > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvocacyWritingTasks/RunningAConference > http://wiki.python.org/moin/ConventionHowto > >> > For me I already got some things I want to do for next years EP: >> > - Subscribing to all python mailing list that are (vaguely) related to >> > the EU with the publicity@ account. >> > - Reviewing the publicity mail templates and make them a bit more future >> > proof. > > I found that drafting templates on a Wiki and getting them reviewed (typically > by Dave!) was the best approach. On that front, I'm aiming to get another > article in the Python Papers about EuroPython which might do some good. > >> > Mailing lists are only getting to a small percentage of python users who >> > may be interested to come. >> > But they are convenient and cheap! I think that any other ways of getting >> > more 'forced' publicity (that is forced we need to do initiate it) will >> > be costing a significant amount of money with probably limited effect. > > The publicity pages mentioned above have some ideas, some of which we took > from the PyCon publicity lists. Last year, I more or less expected people to > suggest more and better places to publicise the conference, but no-one really > said anything. > >> > However once we have a good turn up we might think about 'loyalty' >> > bonuses, like a voucher that will get them rebate for their next EP >> > conference. Also 'recruiting' local publicity managers at the conference >> > might be a good idea (I volunteer) since till now we have only a limited >> > number of people handling publicity. Key people would be the ones that >> > work at a large python shop, universities and write articles for relevant >> > magazines, >> >> We've just gained a podcast (linuxoutlaws) podcasts may be the easiest >> way to reach large numbers. > > I've got EuroPython mentioned on the Python 411 podcast, and since Michael > Foord is mentioned every week on that podcast, I think we have our feet in > the door. Such podcasts are good ways to get people acquainted with the > community and, of course, its celebrities. ;-) > >> > but at this >> > stage I have to say anybody will do :-) >> > >> > I am afraid that any other method of getting more publicity will cost >> > money and I am not sure that when there is any money left we should spend >> > it on publicity. >> >> Agreed. In my experience paid publicity doesn't work. The best is >> word-of-mouth. > > It would be interesting to know how people found out about EuroPython. This is > a survey question, usually, isn't it? Nowadays it's on the shopping cart: Where Delegates Heard of EuroPython 2009 SOURCE NUMBER I came last year : 66 (45.21%) Other : 25 (17.12%) >From a friend : 20 (13.70%) python-uk mailing list : 17 (11.64%) python.org : 9 ( 6.16%) lug mailing list : 5 ( 3.42%) Web search : 4 ( 2.74%) > [...] > >> > I hope that other people have better ideas then me, otherwise we are >> > doomed ;-) > > I don't think you're short of ideas, Martin. I think it's really a question of > deciding how to publicise the conference and then just doing it - "executing" > as the business people like to say. John -- _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
