For those who prefer a shorter Python conference, may I recommend the excellent PyConUK in September (and presumably other "national" conferences - in quotes because there's a good spread of nationalities present in my experience). See http://2013.pyconuk.org/#Agenda for an idea of the schedule from last year.
And see http://pyconuk.org/ for this year where you can now book tickets - some early birding may still be possible! On 15 April 2014 22:28, Martijn Faassen <faas...@startifact.com> wrote: > Hey, > > > On 04/15/2014 10:33 PM, Horst Gutmann wrote: > > Every conference I've attended so far had at least on or two time > > slots each day where none of the talks appealed to me and so I went > > to explore the city or just got some sleep at the hotel. This way the > > event stayed fresh and exciting to me and I didn't feel bad for > > skipping some talks if I simply didn't feel like it. That naturally > > only works to a certain extend and eventually I just want to get out > > of the conference again. > > I guess that's one way to deal with it (especially in Florence!). But I > wonder whether that's a way to cope with a problem: should there be time > slots at a conference with 3 or 4 or more parallel tracks where none of the > talks appeal to an attendee? Of course you can't please everyone, but if it > happens to a lot of people you might have a problem. > > When I'm at a conference I tend to want to focus on it. At the third day > of a three day conference I typically notice I am getting tired. I'm glad > that lightning talks tend to be slotted in then at EuroPython, because > that's always a nice variety of things. > > Then there's the potential issue of people who simply don't have time (or > resources) to go to a conference of that length. They can of course attend > it for a couple of days, but people may instead elect to go to a shorter > conference instead where they can have the full experience. It's hard to > get a feel for that though; EuroPython certainly has been growing in > attendance, so that's an argument against that. > > [snip] > > > 5 days is a really long > > time, so perhaps the orgas and the EPS would be willing to experiment > > here with the format a little bit I the future? :-) > > It seems to have been a slow change. > > From the beginning in 2002, it had been a 3 day conference; in Charleroi, > in Gothenburg, in 2006 at CERN and in 2007 and 2008 in Vilnius there was a > 3 day conference too. > > In 2009 in Birmingham there were 3 main conference days, plus 3 tutorial > days before it. This might be the introduction of the tutorial days; it's > possible there were tutorial days at some previous EuroPython, but > certainly not all the time -- I find it hard to google up the schedules now. > > I misremember EuroPython 2010 in Birmingham (the last time I attended); I > thought it was like 2009, but best I can find now it had 4 days of main > conference, plus two days of tutorials in the weekend before it. But I > cannot Google up the time table so I'm not 100% sure. > > I can find an announcement from 2010/11/18 for the conference in 2011 > where the tentative schedule was 2 tutorial days with 4 conference days, > the same as in 2010 in Birmingham. Then the dates were shifted (2011/02/17) > to have everything from monday to friday (5 days, talk days in parallel > with tutorial). > > Since I last attended in 2010 and actually forgot it was 4 days in > Birmingham and was used to 3 day conferences before it, the 5 day massive > schedule looked rather sudden, but it was not. > > Each new format was a reasonable small change from the format of the year > before. Each change had a motivation, but I wonder whether the final effect > was entirely intentional. > > > Regards, > > Martijn > > > _______________________________________________ > EuroPython 2014 Berlin, 21th27th July > EuroPython mailing list > EuroPython@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython >
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