John Pinner wrote: > Hello, > > 2009/7/22 M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> > >> I've just come across an interesting way of getting new proposals >> for conference locations. This is how the Plone folks are doing this >> and it looks really professional: >> >> >> http://plone.org/events/conferences/2009/plone-conference-2009-selection-process >> >> Here's the proposal document for Budapest: >> >> >> http://plone.org/events/conferences/2009/Plone_conference_2009_Budapest.pdf/view >> >> Would this be a suitable way to find a new location for 2011 ? > > > It would indeed. We had a session at EP 2009 with groups interested in > holding EP2011/2012 and in fact we'll be following something similar to the > above, although I think it needs to be formalised. > > Things that came out of the meeting were > > * Any group proposing to hold EP must have helped with the previous > conference at least (ie what was decided at Vilnius 2007), > * Organising a successful local conference would be good start before > running EP, > * We may need to consider how big EP should be and whether it should be > capped in size.
I think that the concept you used for EuroPython 2009/2010 really worked out well: that of running a EuroPython instead of (or in addition to) the regular local event a group organizes. Anyway, just wanted to point to the Plone proposal papers, since I found them really well done. Regards, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jul 23 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
