In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:11:18 +0200, "M.-A. Lemburg" writes: >Laura Creighton wrote: >> Suggestions as to how? We could recycle the form we used for the >> latest logo voting, but I think the stakes are higher now, which >> might encourage unethical people to build a vote-for-X ballot bot >> stuffer ... >> >> Answers needed by Monday, when I would like the vote to go live. > >I'd much rather have the process be in John's and your hands >rather than trying to come up with some voting scheme, ie. >let everybody who wants to comment, send in their comments and >then you two decide based on your experience. > >FWIW, I think that both proposals are great and I'm sure both teams >would do a fine job. My only concern is getting the budget plans >more or less right, so that's what I'd make the main decision factor. >It is important to find all those hidden cost factors or at least >use an estimate for these in the budget. > >-- >Marc-Andre Lemburg >eGenix.com
I understand, but I absolutely do not want the responsibility of turning down an excellent proposal. I said that I would veto an incompetant one, but that's not an issue here. The budget numbers are good enough that John and I and anybody else who is interested can work through them and tweak them as time goes by. Indeed, we have always done this in the past -- the big issue is always sponsorship. So you make one budget that assumes 0 sponsorship, and then you say .... well, if we get so much we will add this, and if we get this much more we will add that and so on and so forth. With hooks for sponsors that want to sponsor specific things, if you ever can find those ... so far we haven't been very good at finding that sort of sponsorship, as opposed to those that send us money to do with as we like. So I don't intend to just hand it to whoever, cross my fingers, and pray that it works. But right now I have confidence that either team could run a successful EuroPython. So when it comes to deciding which place that one should be, I think the only fair thing is that I get one vote, same as everybody else. Laura _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
