Hello Rolf, On 21 December 2014 at 10:32, Rolf Hemmerling <hemmerl...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hello, > > the Europython 2015 was originally announced to be in Berlin, Germany - Why > now this move to Bilbao, Spain ? > > I was very satisfied on the EuroPython 2014 in Berlin,
And so was I. > both with the organisation, the prices and the user-generated contents ( > speeches, workshops, networking, evening events,.. ). Agreed, the local organisers did a first-class job. I was looking forward to coming to EP 2015 in Berlin, and this time I'd promised to take my wife with me. > > I read: > http://blog.europython.eu/post/105258883217/europython-2015-submitted-proposal >> >> The EuroPython Society (EPS) is happy to announce that we have received >> the amended proposal from the ACPySS team in Spain to hold EuroPython 2015 >> in Bilbao, Spain. We had been discussing questions with them in the last >> couple of days. >> On-site Team Proposal > > as news of > 2014-12-03 and 2014-12-15 on Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/europython > > And I am dissatisfied if there is a break in the rule, that an Europython > conference is now not taking 2 times at the same place in consequent > years... This was never a rule, but a custom, for example we were only one year at CERN. > > Especially I did not hear ANYTHING from the German organizers of Europython > 2014, about the progress or stop of preparation of Europython 2015... This became clear at the meeting of the EP Society at EP14, a sad affair. It became apaprent taht realtions between the head organisers of EP14 and the board of the EuroPython Society had broken down, the board wanted new applications to hold EuroPython 2015 and the head organisers of the 2014 Conference no longer wished to hold the 2015 event. At the EPS meeting, the attitude of the head organisers came across as very negative. Note that I say 'head' as far as I could see the local troops were over-whelmingly positive. That's just how it all came across to me, a former EuroPython organiser. Subsequently we attempted to hold an online "EuroPython Reboot" meeting during Pycon UK, attempting to reapir some of the damage, but technology and restricted bandwidth did not help us. > > ***************** > I am NOT a member of the "Europython" society, > but I hereby can just claim my NEGATIVE opinion about not happening the > Europython 2015 in Berlin. > ***************** I do agree, however we can all be grateful that the Spanish San Sebastien team have made a fine proposal which will ensure that we have a fine EuroPython 2015. Looking forward to Bilbao! Bestw ishes, John -- _______________________________________________ EuroPython-Improve mailing list EuroPython-Improve@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
