Laura Creighton wrote:
In a message of Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:11:02 GMT, Michael Foord writes:
For the sanity of the management setting a maximum number of conference
attendees and a maximum number of hotel rooms sounds good - is our
booking software able to handle this automatically?
No.
It's a real shame that we can't share a software stack with PyCon but I
realise that they are so different that there is a big barrier to
switching over to theirs.
Well, PyCON is talking about getting rid of the PyCON software
and moving over to this: http://www.matrixgroup.net/solutions/matrix-maxx-ams/
which is Andrew Kutchling's company.
I'm on the PyCon organisers list(s) and wasn't aware of that. Doubt it
is much more than a suggestion - a lot of effort has gone into the
current talk management and booking software and it largely works well.
The PyCON situation has created a huge dependency on those who are
experts with the software. Last I checked there was significant
amounts of finger pointing going on 'you aren't responsive to
our needs' vs 'you expect us to read your minds and don't
communicate effectively with us'. I have no idea who is correct
about this one -- perhaps both sides are -- but it indicates a
problem I do not wish to have.
Hmm... a moderate amount of finger pointing maybe but 'significant' is
overblowing it. I think on the *whole* the software worked very well and
the team did an amazing job and *were* very responsive.
The 'big' problem was with google checkout - which wasn't really a
problem with the PyCon software.
All the best,
Michael Foord
All the best,
Michael
Laura
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