OK, I've created the Moderator page. The URL is: http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=1eaf8 . It'll open 24 hours before the event. Hopefully Wednesday before Richard Jones's keynote someone can announce it.
--Guido On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 14:24, Alex Willmer <a...@moreati.org.uk> wrote: > That sounds great. If you wish to announce it on Twitter then if you begin > your tweet with @europython it will be retweeted. > > On 19 Jul 2010 12:06, "Guido van Rossum" <gu...@google.com> wrote: > > As some of the organizers know, my EuroPython keynote (Thursday at 9am > in the main session room, Adrian Boult Hall) will take the form of a > Q&A session with questions asked online. I did this at the last PyCon > using Twitter, which was less than ideal. This time I plan to do it > using Google Moderator (http://www.google.com/moderator/) which lets > people pose questions ahead of time and vote on them. > > My idea is to set up a Moderator page for this Q&A and open it up for > questions sometime Wednesday (my experience is that opening up > Moderator too early has a bad effect on the ranking of the questions). > > My only reason to post here is to make sure that none of the > EuroPython organizers have already set up such a Moderator page; > assuming they haven't I will set it up myself tomorrow, and announce > it here and on Twitter (someone else will have to update the > EuroPython wiki and hopefully the program). > > PS. This email thread is purely to coordinate the Moderator page. > Questions posted via email will be IGNORED (with points off for > ignoring my request). Please wait for the Moderator page. > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > _______________________________________________ > EuroPython 2010 - Birmingham, 17-24 July 2010 - http://www.europython2010.eu > EuroPython mailing list > EuroPython@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2010 - Birmingham, 17-24 July 2010 - http://www.europython2010.eu EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
