Stefane Fermigier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi guys and gals, > > this list is quite quite (?),
"quiet", and yes. > I'm wondering if there is some underground activity regarding the > preparation of EuroPython 2006. I don't know. There's been some talking here and there but if it's still happening I've lost touch of it again. > I'd like to make a short personal comment: I had a great time this year > in Göteborg this year, and enjoyed the talks a lot. But I was a bit > disappointed by two points: > > - there were less people than the previous year Yes. But it seems that every time the conference has stayed put, attendance has dropped (sample size of 2, i know, but...). I think Gtbg 1 was the busiest EP. > - almost everybody at the conference was also a speaker You say this like it was a bad thing! :) This fact changes the conference financially and organisationally, to be sure, but you'll have to talk very fast to convince me that this level of participation is unfortunate... > - almost everybody had already been there at the previous EPCs > > (OK, that's three points, but they are somehow related.) > > In other words, we were preaching the converted. > > For EPC2006, do you believe that it would be possible to make more noise > and more buzz before the conference, Yes. Takes effort and time, though. > to try to recruit speakers and non-speakers outside the usual > circles, and overall try to get more exposure for the conference > than last year ? Obviously these would all be good things. > I think that, like we did for the first EPC (IIRC), we should issue a > press release before the end of the year. Well, that's fairly soon now. Do you want to write it? :) Cheers, mwh -- 58. Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid  it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
