Hi all Am Sa, 1. Feb 2014, um 20:36, schrieb Paul Boddie: > There are, of course, big European community > conferences that seem to manage this, and maybe > their expertise can be drawn upon to > do the same for a Python-specific event.
The 30th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress) cost 80€ for a regular ticket and 350€ for a business ticket, for a conference that took 4 days and had more than 9000 attendants. It had everything a conference needs: Crazy fast internet (100Gb/s up/down), recordings of all talks, catering, multiple tracks with talks etc... So it's definitely possible. On the other hand, there were more than 1000 volunteers that helped to run the conference. I think when focusing on creating a community-centered conference and actively encouraging volunteers, it is definitely possible to create a conference that is both big, professional and very affordable. Cheers, Danilo _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2014 Berlin, 21th27th July EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
