Jacob Hallén wrote: >Dear Europython attendee, > >thank you very much for your help in making Europython 2005 >a success. The number of really interesting talks was higher >than ever before, and the arrangements worked about as >smoothly as can be expected. It was a lot of fun for us to >have you in Göteborg! > >REGISTRATION WEBSITE > >The web interface to the registration system has been improved, and there >is a main page for accessing all the functionality. This is >available at http://www.python-in-business.org/ep2005/. >It will later be linked to the Europython website, but due to time >constraints this may take a while. > >If you were a speaker; keynote, regular or lightning; please don't >forget to upload your materials so that others can access them. If >you did a lightning talk, you first need to register the talk. When >that is done, you can upload materials. > >If you want to download materials, use the main page mentioned above. >This is the only way to access the lightning talks. > >EUROPYTHON 2006 > >Next Europython is planned to happen at CERN, near Geneva in >Switzerland. The planned dates are Monday 3 July to Wednesday 5 July >2006. Sprints are planned for 30 June to 2 July and 6 July to 9 >July. We will most likely be able to arrange a tour of the facilities >for active volunteers and the earliest registrants. We will continue >to send updates to the address that this one is sent to, unless you >ask us to stop. If you have non-attendee friends who are interested, >please ask them to subscribe to [email protected], to get >the same information. > >VOLUNTEERING > >We had a very nice kickoff meeting for planning the next conference right >after the end of EP2005. This is promising, but we still need to find >more people who are willing to take on a small part of the work load. >We need new track chairs for several tracks and a bunch of people to >help out with several aspects of the preparations for the conference. >More than 90% of the work is before the conference starts. Subscribe >to the mailing list [email protected] to get involved with the >arrangments. This is a very low volume mailing list most of the time. >Even if you are not active in the arrangements you are welcome to lurk >and see what is going on behind the scenes. > >REGISTRATION SYSTEM > >The web interface to the registration system is my first major web >application ever. I think it is pretty decent, and most of you seem >happy with it according to the feedback forms. I plan to improve it >for next year, and I would like to have feedback on how you think I >could improve things. I would also like to have some volunteer testers >to test my changes. This would entail spending something like 15-30 >minutes on trying out things a few times over the next 6 months. >Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to respond to either of these requests. > >SPECIAL THANKS > >I would like to thanks all our sponsors: >Wing, gocept, Pragma 2000, Chalmers, Strakt, Aixtraware, Amaze, >Webwitches, Clocksoft, Reportlab, and the Python Software Foundation > >The track chairs get a collective thanks for keeping the tracks running >so smoothly, and to all the speakers, without whom Europython would be >very boring. > >Thanks also go to the staff at Chalmers Restaurang, SGS and Elite >Park Hotel, who have all been very helpful and service minded. The >Strakt staff who manned the reception did so very professionally. > >Personal thanks go to Vincent for T-shirt design, Dario for handling >Chalmers contacts, Jean-Marc for the website, Bea, Paul, Harald and >John for their wisdom in the IRC meetings and their moral support, >John for the feedback forms as well, Paul and Aistë for the barbeque, >Anders for solving the Nevow riddles, Ronny for turning a batch >oriented registration system into something that did smooth on-site >processing, Mikael for his directions information, Fredrik for the >technical setup, Joachim for the credit card interfacing and Laura for >her handling of accomodation, conference dinner and all sorts of >personal requests. > >I'm sure I have missed someone who deserves a special mention. My >apologies for that. > >See you all at Europython 2006 > >Jacob Hallén >Former Europython head organiser > > Thank you so much Jacob and all the staff involved for your work.
EP2005 was just great. -- Tarek Ziadé, Nuxeo R&D (Paris, France) CPS Platform : http://www.cps-project.org Zope3 / ECM : http://www.z3lab.org mail: tziade at nuxeo.com; tel: +33 (0) 6 30 37 02 63 _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
