> > 2008/5/22 John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/5/22 Nicolas Chauvat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: > >>> PyCon does it on the weekend, but that's US. My feeling is that > >>> EuroPython has a smaller percentage of hobbyists, but that could be > >>> because it isn't on a weekend, as well as a reason not to have it on a > >>> weekend. :-) > >> > >> For us, EuroPython is work and we try very hard not to work on > >> week-ends and enjoy the non-pythonic life instead. > > > > But you work in a Python-friendly company (because you founded it!) > > > > There are a lot of people who are trapped in jobs where they're unable > > to use Python and/or other FLOSS systems. Their employers won't > > support them in coming to events like EP and PyCon, so a weekend event > > is quite attractive to them. >
I do agree with John. Pycon Italy could never be during the week... Most people here in italy work on *python-friendly* companies and would never come outside weekends. This year we tryied to have the opening on friday and we had less then the half presence. I also agree that EP has a smaller percentage of hobbists and i feel very confortable that the main reason is that it's during the week and not on weekends. Personally i thinks that mixing in-week and weekend days would catch more attendees, but maybe it's not the main purpose. 2008/5/22 Lennart Regebro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:44 PM, John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> As far as EP 2009 is concerned, the location of the venue in the > >> city's night life area means that a weekday conference > >> (Monday-Wednesday, plus sprints) is easier - at the weekend we have > >> the clubbers to compete with for evening social events. > > > > Social events? People are supposed to sprint dammit! :-) > > Well, for some people the social events are very serious business ;) > Hey! Don't play with the social events!!! :)
_______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
