Benedikt Hegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all! > > Some comments and information from the local organizers on epc2006: > > Rooms and infrastructure: > - rooms are booked and confirmed. > - we prebooked open space for that and need to confirm it. > - we have prepared network for conference and sprints and some > conference printers. > - for registraiton we need the MAC addresses of the laptops to make > our live easier. The CERN IT is a little bit peculiar with that.
People will whinge about this however we play it, but we should try to make sure people are forewarned. > Website: > - I propose using the INDICO software project funded by the EU. There > is a group at CERN willing to support us. (http://indico.web.cern.ch/ > indico/index.html). What's your opinion? Well, in principle the idea of having someone else do the work appeals to me. There are some obvious caveats though: - is this something we can use for EP2007, ... ? - does it basically work? If hand-holding and baby-sitting are required, I'd rather hold the hand of software we wrote. I'm also a little unsure what "using" this software involves. Would we install it on our own machine, or get some kind of account on a machine at CERN? > PR: > - we could print conference posters in our print shop but we need > someone to design it. Traditionally this sort of thing has been done by Vincent Maton but I don't know if he's still around/willing to do this... > - since you can get T-shirts at CERN and at every conference I > propose conference coffee cups. I have plenty of conference shirts > but I don't wear them at all. Me too... > - in the next CERN courier will be an article about Europython. (CERN > courier is a journal which is read by most of the particle physicists) > > Tracks and talks: > - Should we have a poster session? I'm not sure about this. If I had something interesting I wanted to present that didn't merit a full talk, I'd probably angle for a lightning talk, not a poster. But other opinions may vary. > - I would like to have a talk about CERN and the role of CERN in > physics and computing science. Is there time for that? I'm sure we can make time :) Talk to Nicolas, I guess. > Fees and registration: > - we have to decide the conference fees soon. How soon? I guess timeline and budget should be very firmly on the agenda for the next #europython meeting (which will be on the 23rd of January, btw). I would like to avoid having anything to do with the budget :) Cheers, mwh -- What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. -- Lynne Truss, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
