On Saturday 1. February 2014 20.38.07 Danilo wrote: > > 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.
There's also FOSDEM this very weekend, although I'm not sure how the profile of FOSDEM compares with CCC or with other events. > 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. I completely agree with you, and the example you provide was one of the events I was thinking of. But nobody should be under any illusion that this kind of thing is going to happen without a lot of effort. (I guess the "30th" is a good indication of that.) And I still think people should ask themselves whether an event on that scale is really the kind of event they would like to go to. Paul _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2014 Berlin, 21th27th July EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
