Hello everybody, while I'm not involved with EP anymore, I was one of the "yellow T-shirts" of the Florence EP edition, and I've been involved with Pycon Italy since its inception.
I think we should explain the *reasons* that got the thing out control. Once upon a time, the EP conference changed locations every year or two, and the EPS involment was minimal. Everything was up to the local organizers. Then, one day - I think it was EP13 - it was clear that the size and the success of the conference (~800 attendants) would make it hard for small groups that just organized local, smaller conferences (Pycon Italy reached some ~350 attendants at its peak, as far as I can remember) to handle such an event. So it was thought that more involvement from the EPS would *help* local organizers in their task, would keep good relations with sponsors and would make things smoother by retaining the "conference organization know-how" that would otherwise be lost at every edition, not to mention the need to register again at a new site, etc. Now, I see the task at hand it's hard. And it seems to me that many of the issues with the EPS vs local organizers relation mirror the issues we see in the European Union vs individual countries, where many attempts of the EU are seen as a way to jeopardize a country's independence. So: I'd leave ad personam attacks out of the way. I think that we should think at WHAT TASKS should the EPS carry on and what's left to local organizers, and let both parts do their job; THAT's the real matter. _______________________________________________ EuroPython-Improve mailing list EuroPython-Improve@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
