In a message of Thu, 21 May 2009 11:11:31 BST, Zeth writes: >I agree that a good proportion of Django fans will probably not be >interested in a competing web framework as they have put so much >effort into getting used to Django's unique non-standard features ;) > >Apart from the obvious ones that have been pointed out, I think it is >not worth bothering too much about guessing which talk is going to be >popular. The plenaries have room for everyone. For a normal talk, if a >room is full then it is full. The people who have pre-planned to see >that talk, will get to the room early. People like me who just wander >around in a trance probably won't be bothered and will just graze to >the next room. We will get many of the same speakers next year so >people get another chance then. > >Best Wishes, >Zeth
Zeth is mistaken about this. Very few things reflect worse on the organisers than having populatr talks in too small a room. The people bitch a lot and in the past we have had to move talks and tracks wholesale because we didn't take this into consideration. In the past I have found that it is easier to schedule the talks that we think will have the least interest into the smallest rooms first, rather than the reverse. But there were many fewer talks for me to schedule in the past. It may be easier to start with the known to be very popular ones first. Laura _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
