Thanks for a thoughtful response, Selena. Since I started this thread by griping, I should probably start by thanking you for your hard work. Thank you.
I would have commented on your session list earlier, but I was unaware that you had made final selections until this morning, when it occurred to me that I should check if I was on the hook for the Django session that I submitted. My bad, probably. Your offer to nominate an additional Python session is a generous one. I hope this touches off a discussion here about what we might suggest. Dylan On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Selena Deckelmann < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > So, I heard through the grapevine that folks weren't happy with the > coverage of python at OS Bridge. > > And I read through the thread. I have a suggestion at the bottom of > this message that I hope you will consider, but first - here's a bunch > of stuff I typed out that I hope you will read: > > First, let me say, I am totally excited that you care enough to read > through our schedule and comment on it. I think in the future, we need > to provide a way to look at suggested talks in a schedule-like > interface so that folks can provide more feedback earlier on > (especially before the committee makes selections!) regarding what > they'd like to see. I say this because we posted the session list a > while ago, and didn't receive any feedback about the lack of python. > > Second, it would have been greatly helpful to have had more people > volunteering early on around the conference program and shaping of > what the conference was going to become. We did have a member of the > python community involved in talk selection, but because of scheduling > (mostly my fault) we didn't really have as much interaction as I would > have liked to have. Now, we're, of course, interested in day-of > volunteers, but with only two weeks to go until the event.. it's tough > to change the direction of a fast-moving train. > > Finally, the conference is definitely about cross-language > collaboration, crazy and silly ideas, cultural hacking and what it > means for us to be collaborating both in Portland, and around the > world on code that we really care about. So, we don't emphasize any > particular language. There was a fair bit of PHP this year - probably > because the talks suggested by PHP folks seemed particularly > interesting to the committee. We didn't actually get that many Ruby > proposals, and while there were a lot of Perl proposals, I believe we > only accepted one. We got a lot of functional language talks, and a > ton of things involving infrastructure/operations/engineering. I think > this reflects some of the problems that our peers are focused on right > now. Or at least the folks that submitted talks. :) > > All that said, there are a couple openings for talks left. So here is > what I propose: > > If this group would like to nominate a particular proposal for > inclusion, I'm happy to do that. We reserve a few slots for > last-minute changes, and so this is not out of protocol to do so. This > all of course this depends on who is available, etc. But if you'd like > to as a group organize something and recommend a talk, I will take > your recommendation and add it to the schedule as soon as you're > ready. > > -selena > > -- > http://chesnok.com/daily - me > _______________________________________________ > Portland mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/portland/attachments/20100513/76351474/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
