On Sunday 16 March 2008 21:23:08 Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:45:27 +0100, David Boddie writes: > >On Sun Mar 16 17:48:18 CET 2008, Laura Creighton wrote: > >> By the way, the selling of Lightning talks to the sponsors, that > >> Bruce complained about, is entirely true.
Perhaps Bruce is angling for a keynote at EuroPython. ;-) > >It's sad to hear that, though I think the PyCon organisers were under a > >lot of pressure this year, and maybe it was just easier to let this > >happen. > > Oh no. They wanted it this way. I argued against it, and lost. I think PyCon has tended towards this kind of thing in the past, anyway: sponsored keynotes, and so on. Perhaps it just got out of hand. > >In many ways, we're in a fortunate position this year, having had to > >say last year that we need more help to organise EuroPython, and also > >being able to take this criticism of PyCon and use it to make EuroPython > >more what people want. > > Yes, indeed. Maybe this is an opportunity to formulate the right kind of sponsorship offer which balances community and sponsor interests, although EuroPython has always struck a nice, not overly corporate tone in the three years I've been there. Paul P.S. As I mentioned on IRC, there's a fairly good interview with Doug Napoleone available covering PyCon: http://blog.michaeltrier.com/2008/3/10/this-week-in-django-14-2008-03-09 I think that Doug and his team can be proud to have organised such a huge conference, and we should take every opportunity to learn from their experiences. _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
