Hi Fabio, i...@pycon.it wrote: > Europython has become a primary python community event thus some > considerations and decisions should be made. We'd like to share our thoughts > openly and receive your feedback. > > ... > > With those premises we decided to take a public position towards the future of > the Conference. **We would like to publicaly expose our openness to organize > and run 2013/2014 edition**.
Yeah :-) Thank you very much for making that offer ! > At the moment I didn't hear about any real and > concrete proposal that is convincing enough about the fact that we won't have > any slowdown in our conference growth, credibility and quality as well as not > compromising the work that has been done by many people over the past 10 > years. I haven't heard of any proposal either - I guess the size of the conference is starting to frighten people who would otherwise not have a problem with organizing it. I certainly hope that some day PyCon DE will be able to host EuroPython as well, but there's still a long way ahead. > ... > > _Note:_ I'm not including tickets revenue in this consideration as we decided > that we wanted a conference affordable to everybody keeping the prices as low > as we could. Thus tickets average revenue was almost 0. I think there's still some room to ramp up the tickets prices in order to make the budget look healthier. EuroPython is the second most important Python conference we have, right after PyCon US, so you can safely use their (low) prices are guideline: https://us.pycon.org/2012/registration/ Capping the number of attendees as you've done in 2011 and starting registration early is also a good way to make you feel more secure about the numbers. I also wonder how we could help in getting the number of sponsors bumped up to higher levels. A lot of companies are looking for Python developers, so recruiting is certainly one of the key arguments for sponsors to invest in EuroPython. Another is product announcements and presentation. Perhaps you could make those two aspects (even) more interesting for sponsors in order to attract more sponsors. Another argument I often hear from smaller companies is that manning a booth at the conference is too costly for them (not because of the booth signup fee, but because of the staffing costs). Perhaps having a poster session or some flat panel LCDs in the conference halls for unmanned presentation would help make sponsoring more interesting to those companies ?! Thanks for keeping up the good work, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 16 2012) >>> 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 2011 - Florence June 20-26 http://ep2011.europython.eu/ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
