Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 12 May 2006 10:03, Benedikt Hegner wrote: >> By the way - what the current status for the track chairs? > > How can I seriously ask people to propose talks when the organisers > don't seem to understand the following: (after you've resolved the > difficult part of finding a venue) > > * You make it easy for people to submit talks
Well, *this* is done, and was done weeks & weeks ago. > * You make it easy for people to register & pay And this is nearly done. > By "organisers" here I mean the people who stood up and said "we > would like to host/run Europython", not the people pushing you to do > it. I've simply had no time recently to push for asking for talks, > and quite frankly at the moment I have NO confidence that the > current organisers can deliver what they offered. We'll get there in the end, we always do... > Also, I remember you, Benedikt, boasting loudly that you would want > proposals in 6 months before the conference, and the same going for > registration. I had high hopes that CERN could do this, given your > long history. I'm a bit gutted at how this has turned out too. But I think such a strong attack is unjustified and unhelpful. > On the off chance I've missed something: is it now possible to register and > pay for registration? After all, I note I've only got 7 days to get early > bird registration now!!!! cf: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2006-January/005555.html Well, the other dates on that mail have slipped past as well. > On a more serious note, can we find an alternate venue quickly ? I > have zero confidence that this is happening. If you think finding another venue in this timescale is even vaguely realistic, I'd like some of what you're smoking. Cheers, mwh -- The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
