Fabio Pliger wrote: > 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 ? >> > > > As i'm preparing the proposal for Italy for EP2011 I can talk, at least, for > my team. This was already the idea emerged from the Open Space we had at > Europython this year between all the potential teams and the EP > organizers... I don't know it the examination will be the same as for the > Plone conference, but IMHO it's suitable.. but I think also that the final > work should go to the Europython society itself as the have the legal the > legal responsability for the event.
Sure. I'd love to attend a EuroPython in Italy one day :-) >From my own experience with organizing EuroPython 2002 I can just say that it's important to have a well thought-out concept written up *before* starting with the organization. At the time, we didn't have such a concept and as a result a lot of unnecessary tension built up. -- 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