Jeff Rush wrote: > A.M. Kuchling wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:13:20AM -0400, Catherine Devlin wrote: >>> On the general topic of helping conferences and speakers find each >>> other, that's the intent of this wiki page: >>> >>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeakers >>> >>> ... which, granted, hasn't really achieved critical mass yet. I'd >>> planned to spam all this year's PyCon speakers with invitations to >>> sign themselves up, but... uh. > > I'm not sure I'd say that. Being a speaker at PyCon doesn't mean you > are looking for future gigs or that you speak professionally. I > wouldn't expect everyone who spoke at any Python event to sign up as a > speaker. > > >> Before doing that -- is a wiki the right place for this info? Would >> it be better to use some service that would provide tagging and >> geographical searching? But I have no idea what service would be >> suitable; neither LinkedIn nor Facebook seem right or offer the right >> features. > > A wiki is not ideal but no one has found a site with the features or > legal rules (there are sites for A-class professional speakers) we need. > There have been at least two efforts to sprint on it to create one, > using the Google AppEngine. Both failed to sustain momentum, similar > to how the Python Jobs App died. If anyone tackles this, get the notes > from me. > > The children of the cobbler continue to go without shoes, and I continue > to have people ask me why if Python is so cool for webapps do the basic > needs of the community go unmet? "People are busy" while accurate seems > a poor response. > I asked much the same question at both PyCon and EuroPython (with a rather more positive response at the latter, I might add, possibly due to the talk being a plenary). See "ThePSFAndUs.pdf" on
http://wiki.europython2009.eu/TalkMaterials I believe it's up to the PSF to advertise this need until it gets filled. If necessary I'll threaten to have PHP programmers do it ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Watch PyCon on video now! http://pycon.blip.tv/ _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
