Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:39 +0100, "M.-A. Lemburg" writes: >> 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 > > Ah, how are we going to do this? The first X talks submitted > will be the conference - the ones we think are so lousy that > we do not want them at all?
The idea was to start the selection process at submission time. Of course, rejecting talks early is part of the deal, so we don't end up with lousy talks just because they were submitted early. Still, I can see the problems, so Michael's suggestion of just using an earlier deadline is probably the way to go, e.g. having the deadline about 6 months before the event, similar to what PyCon US does. -- 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
