[CC += europython-improve] [Some context: Michael has proofread a draft blogpost that will be out in minutes, and I'm elaborating on its contents]
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 13:23 +0000, Michael Foord wrote: > On 16/02/2012 12:08, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > > > > OK, you should be able to see draft blog posts now, both on the website > > and in the admin section. > > > > There's a call for proposals draft that I intend to publish as soon as > > you've proofread it. > > Hey Giovanni, > > I've corrected a few minor typos and reworded a couple of phrases. > > Not an error as such but " the vast majority of talks that are presented > at the conference". Won't it in fact be *all* the talks? Will there be > any talks not from the Python community? (Even companies can be in the > Python community, and invited speakers are almost always part of the > community...) What I meant was that a small number of speakers are invited by the organizers to give keynotes or talks and don't go through the CFP +Community Voting. > I don't really know what is meant by "We will try to give to these > speakers a favorable schedule"? (In the first time speaker section.) A > favourable schedule for what? (For speaking? How is one schedule more > favourable than another?) First-time speakers are especially worried that people will skip their talks because you get eg. Alex Martelli next door at the same time. At the same time, community voting gives us a very good statistics of what talks will be popular (because of famous speaker or because of interesting subject). Given these constraints, we can try to find a favorable schedule to first-time speakers. It's even been suggested that we reserve a time slot to first-time speakers only (eg: the last slot of each day). This would be in addition to a special reharsal program that we would like to attempt at EuroPython this year; we've done this at Python Italia before. The idea is: 1) we ask first-time speakers to reharse their talks on Sunday afternoon (the day before EP begins). 2) we invite veteran speakers to help reviewing reharsals. We can reward them with a free ticket. 3) First-time speakers get to try their talks once, and get comments on it. They probably have a couple of days to fix them (we can specifically avoid scheduling those talks on Monday/Thursday, so that they have time to fix the talks). Any comments? -- Giovanni Bajo :: ra...@develer.com Develer S.r.l. :: http://www.develer.com My Blog: http://giovanni.bajo.it
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