On 17.04.2014 14:36, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Hey, > > On 04/17/2014 01:24 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> In short, we'll have the EPS run the conference, with international >> work groups doing the work that can be done remotely and the local team >> providing on-site support. This will resolve the problem of losing >> institutional knowledge every time we change location and greatly >> reduce the risk a local organizer has to take. > > Very nice! > > An example of institutional knowledge getting somewhat lost is the duration > of conference thing I > recently talked about -- when I did the research on how the change happened, > it's all a very logical > step taken year on year based on the previous year's conference, and at least > some people seemed not > aware that it'd been 3 days for years before then.
If you're looking for information on previous conferences, you should check this page: http://www.europython-society.org/europython As others have already mentioned, the 5 day event is a result of integrating the tutorials which were on separate days before 2011 into the conference. This resulted in much better tutorial attendance, so the integrated approach was continued. > Of course that's hardly a serious case, but I do think that institutional > knowledge you have more > overview and therefore better ability to step back and take stock once every > while. Sure, we could try having separate training days again, but then we would also have fewer talks. Perhaps we could do a poll at EuroPython 2014 in Berlin to see what the attendees think about it. Personally, I prefer to have fewer parallel tracks and a longer conference - you get to see more interesting talks and there are fewer overlaps. Cheers, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/ _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2014 - July 21th-27th in Berlin EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
