Alas, I still cannot get them to remove my name from the list of
presenters.
Forward from Python-organisers
From: Brian Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: pycon-organizers Pycon-Organizers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Since we are nearing the 50% participation mark on survey collection,
I think it is fair to start analyzing the results. Once the paper
forms are hand entered, I am happy to say, we will pass 50% user
participation in the survey. This alone, speaks volumes.
Here is a link, if you prefer raw data view:
<http://tinyurl.com/2eoab2>
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OVERVIEW
========
On the highest level, here are some comparisons between the last year
data (found here <http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2007/Feedback>):
- 500+ Surveys were filled out this time, versus 150, last time
- There were slightly more first timers this year 60.6% than last
year 56%
- Overall satisfaction dropped slightly from 3.62/4 to 3.28/4
- Satisfaction with keynotes dropped from 3.28/4 to 2.78/4
- Satisfaction with talks dropped from 3.12/4 to 2.81/4
- Satisfaction with the network dropped sharply from 3.01/4 to 2.19/4
- Satisfaction with the food dropped from 3.0/4 to 2.61/4
- Likelihood of attending next year dropped from 3.4/4 to 3.26/4
- There was an increase of attendance of tutorials from 31.1% to 44.4%
The results on preference of Only weekdays, including one weekend
days, and including two weekend days, remained about the same.
The top 5 talks (including keynotes) were:
- Keynote: Guido van Rossum 41.4% 173
- Core Python Containers -- Under the Hood Mr. Raymond D
Hettinger 20.1% 84
- Keynote: Brian 'Fitz' Fitzpatrick 18.9% 79
- The State of Django Adrian Holovaty 17.7% 74
- Keynote: Van Lindberg 16.3% 68
The top 10 talks not including keynotes:
- Core Python Containers -- Under the Hood Mr. Raymond D
Hettinger 20.1% 84
- The State of Django Adrian Holovaty 17.7% 74
- Sights and sounds with pyglet Mr. Alex Holkner 14.8% 62
- The State of PyPy Maciej Fijalkowski (merlinux GmbH) ; Ms.
Laura A Creighton (Open End AB) 13.6% 57
- SQLAlchemy 0.4 and Beyond Mike Bayer 13.2% 55
- Using PyGame and PySight to Create an Interactive Halloween
Activity Mr. John Harrison (Insight Industries) 12.9% 54
- Consuming HTML Ian Bicking (The Open Planning Project) 11.2% 47
- nose: testing for the lazy coder Jason Pellerin (Leapfrog
Online) 10.5% 44
- IronPython: The Road Ahead Mr. Jim Hugunin (Microsoft) 10.5% 44
- Tahoe: A Robust Distributed Secure Filesystem Brian Warner
10.3% 43
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