Michael Foord wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Hello John, >> >> a very nice write-up. Could you post that on the EPC/python.org wiki >> somewhere ? >> >> I agree with pretty much everything you've said, esp. limiting >> the number of attendees and number of parallel sessions/talks. >> >> Both will likely have a nice side-effect of people signing up >> early and speakers submitting their talk proposals earlier >> than just before the deadlines. >> >> > I wouldn't count on earlier submissions. PyCon accepts only about 50% of > submitted talks and still *most* of them are submitted on the last day. > > I know it's a shame to reject potentially good talks (and talk selection > is a difficult process) but I think that accepting a fixed number of > talks will lead to a better conference.
If we tweak the selection process to start at submission time rather than after a deadline, having a fixed number of talks would encourage early submissions. I'm not sure how well this would pan out on the quality scale, but it would make organization easier (room selection, printing booklets, updating the web site, etc.) and also provide potential attendees with more incentive to come to the conference. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 28 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
