Fabio wrote: > Europython has become a primary python community event thus some > considerations and decisions should be made. We'd like to share our > thoughts openly and receive your feedback.
[A nice summary of the issues and concerns of organising a volunteer-run conference...] > The near future of Europython is quite well known and will take place in > July in Florence, once again. It's the second italian edition happenning in > Florence. But then what? **Who's willing to organize 2013/2014 editions?** > Where will it move to? > > > At the time I'm not aware of any concrete and convincing hosting proposal. > To be honest I'm not aware of any proposal as well. As current organizers > we are somehow concerned about it. We should have some of the next > organizers helping us with the current edition organization, acquiring > information and experience for their own that will hopefully help them when > organizing 2013 and 2014 editions. Don't worry! This happens every year, and I don't think anyone has ever been able to get the next organisers in place more than a year before they were due to take over. In fact, I thought that Laura was collecting proposals for 2013/2014, which would probably mean that at some point the topic will come up on this list again. > ## THE PRESENT > > > With those premises we decided to take a public position towards the future > of the Conference. **We would like to publicaly expose our openness to > organize and run 2013/2014 edition**. At the moment I didn't hear about any > real and concrete proposal that is convincing enough about the fact that we > won't have any slowdown in our conference growth, credibility and quality > as well as not compromising the work that has been done by many people over > the past 10 years. Well, I think that from all accounts you're up to the task, and it's great to have people willing to take on the responsibility. Usually, it seems like organisers want a bit of a break from big conferences after hosting EuroPython. ;-) Just one more thing... [...] > _Note:_ I'm not including tickets revenue in this consideration as we > decided that we wanted a conference affordable to everybody keeping the > prices as low as we could. Thus tickets average revenue was almost 0. Surely you mean that the average *profit* per ticket was almost 0. [...] > In 2012 we forecast that it'll be even bigger and we have worked on a > strategy to handle it fixing also the issues we had in 2011. > > > One thing that we can garantee is that **we are willing to make Europython > 2012 the best Python conference ever!** I have to say that I somewhat regret not making it to EP2011, meaning that I should try a bit harder this year, but I very much admire your enthusiasm and respect your achievements so far in organising the EuroPython and PyCon Italia conferences. Paul _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list Europython-improve@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
