Hi all,
I appreciate the recent vivid discussions on this list around important topics
like diversity. Many interesting opinions have been given about how to improve
the EuroPython conference experience to an even wider target group and make it
more balanced along multiple vectors. Some seemed to have been formulated under
a combination of stress and/or frustration. This might be expected in the
context of a complex project like organizing a conference for 1200 people,
where there are many people, opinions and interests involved, and often
contradicting ones, but not always clearly communicated.
While all this can be certainly improved I would hope to see this happening in
a way that doesn't inject previously accumulated frustration of various
stakeholders into the currently ongoing project, namely making happen what is
likely going to be the largest EuroPython conference organized so far ("large"
as in historically-grown, not as in think-big). I'm afraid that we're moving
into this direction which might reduce people's interest in attending this
conference as well as the current organizers' motivation for doing what they do
in their spare time.
So I dare remind us of the fact that we do have, in fact, two mailing lists,
Europython and Europython-Improve with the following current descriptions taken
from their Mailman listinfo pages below. I feel like we have stretched the term
"diversity" enough to start reconsidering continuing this discussion on the
Europython-Improve list, revitalizing it, much as it deserves.
Best,
Dinu
About EuroPython
A mailing list for discussing and planning EuroPython, the European
Python community conference. EuroPython 2014 will be held in July 2014
in Berlin. See the EuroPython website for details:
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About Europython-improve
This is the place to work together on making EuroPython happen each year.
Expect around 15 emails each week, with some periods of not so much
traffic,
and periods of lots of activity as particular things need organising.
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members.)
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