Hello Paul, Food for thought here.
Paul Boddie wrote: > Hello, > > I saw just now that the issue of proprietary vs. open source > development (and whether the things being presented are available for > public or even source-level perusal or not) had come up with respect > to at least one of the talks at PyCon [1], and after various similar > comments about at least one EuroPython talk last year, I was > wondering if there should be some kind of stipulation that EuroPython > talks should advertise the nature of the solutions being presented. > Various people noted, after one of the EuroPython talks, that to sit > through 30 minutes of what ultimately proved to be advertising > virtually amounted to dishonesty on the part of the presenter. If > getting involved in some interesting technology is a priority for > attendees (and this is a community conference after all) then some > more openness about such things is necessary, in my opinion. I totally agree and suggest that in the call for papers submission form we have a checkbox for open source, and give priority to those products/projects which are so. > Another thing that came to mind was the availability of papers and > presentations: given that the conferences are a good way of > presenting the state of the community, should more be done to insist > that presenters make their materials available to those not attending > the conference, and should the availability of materials be more > widely promoted? There have been several occasions where I've > referred people to EuroPython talks, mostly because those people have > been promoting some in-progress solution similar to something more > complete that was previously presented at EuroPython. In principle, they should be on the site, but I for one have been delinquent in making them available due to: 1) Lack of time on my part. 2) The obscurity (to me, maybe I'm thick) of how to publish the papers on the various sites we've had. > Has anyone any thoughts about improving such matters in advance of > this year's conference? > Regards, John -- _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
