Re: [EuroPython] Next irc meeting

2004-12-10 Thread Paul Everitt
On Dec 9, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: In a message of Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:42:12 +0100, Jean-Marc Orliaguet writes: Laura Creighton wrote: Hi, Thursday is not OK (there is a Christmas dinner). But Friday 17 (17.30 for instance) should be fine - otherwise the week after maybe? I can in

Re: [EuroPython] Scheduling call for papers and acceptance of talks

2005-02-27 Thread Paul Everitt
On Feb 24, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Chris Withers wrote: Heimo Laukkanen wrote: Talk acceptance: - require the actual presentation to be submitted ( we've been very flexible with this previously ) Why is this a requirement? During the Plone Con in Vienna, I noticed lots of people sitting outside. I

Re: [EuroPython] Scheduling call for papers and acceptance of talks

2005-02-27 Thread Paul Everitt
I totally agree with you, that presentation material is overrated and should be subservient to the presenter. And yes, this fact is mostly missed by terrified speakers that recite their bulleted lists to the audience. :^) Still, we need *some* kind of metric on which to base talk selection.

[EuroPython] Is the talk database wedged?

2005-05-02 Thread Paul Everitt
I received two reports, one last week and one this weekend, that people can't submit talks for EPC2005. Anybody know anything about this? Also, I'd like to propose an IRC meeting this week for the track chairs and conference organizers. Anybody interested? --Paul

[EuroPython] Q: Link to review submitted talks

2005-05-09 Thread Paul Everitt
Hi all. This is a question for the admin of the talk registration db. What is the URL for track chairs to review the submitted proposals and arrange them into a schedule? --Paul ___ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.

[EuroPython] Q: Push back early bird?

2005-05-15 Thread Paul Everitt
Hi all. This says: http://www.europython.org/sections/registration_issues/ registration_informa that early bird ends today, and this: http://www.europython.org/sections/accomodation/special_accomodation ...implies that tomorrow is the last day for getting the SGS Veckobostäder do

[EuroPython] Q: Are we having a BBQ on Sunday, June 26?

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Everitt
Hi all. Bea, Aiste, and I had talked about getting together a BBQ Sunday evening. I believe someone was going to as SKS if they had any facilities available for this. Has anyone contacted them? If not, I will do so. If you are interested in a BBQ, send me a private note. --Paul _

[EuroPython] BBQ on Sunday evening

2005-06-22 Thread Paul Everitt
ase email Aiste Kesminaite (aiste at pov dot it) or Paul Everitt (paul at zope-europe dot org) and tell us what time you plan to arrive. """ ...to the wiki page at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython2005 As we make more plans, we'll upda

Re: [EuroPython] BBQ on Sunday evening

2005-06-22 Thread Paul Everitt
On Jun 22, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Gintautas Miliauskas wrote: > Hello, > > >> ... please email Aiste Kesminaite (aiste at pov dot it) >> > > The domain should be pov.lt (Lithuania), not pov.it (Italy). Yikes, that's quite a typo! Thanks for noticing, just fixed the page. --Paul

Re: [EuroPython] Errors and missing (or hard to find) information on the website

2005-06-22 Thread Paul Everitt
Also I don't think there is an explanation on the sprint location. I'll try to do it myself before I leave for the airport, but probably will run out of time. Note: the sprint is in Matematiska vetenskaper (86). If you are looking at the map on the Chalmers site, the auditorium is near th

Re: [EuroPython] Conference photos available?

2005-07-02 Thread Paul Everitt
FWIW, I saw that there's already a tag on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrtopf/tags/ep2005/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrtopf/tags/europython/ --Paul On Jul 2, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Beatrice Fontaine wrote: > Hello all! > > If everybody learned as much and had as much fun at Europy

Re: [EuroPython] Europython 2005 aftermath

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Everitt
Hear hear. I don't think many of us realize how incredibly hard Jacob worked, in order that we could show up and have fun. Thanks, Jacob, for the extensive summary this week with the kind words for others. --Paul On Jul 7, 2005, at 12:12 AM, Fasih Rehman wrote: > Hello Jacob, > > Thanks

Re: [EuroPython] knock, knock!

2005-10-02 Thread Paul Everitt
Hi Michael. I'm in for the Zope track. However, I wonder if it would be better to do this as a general "Web Frameworks" track than just Zope. There's lots of interesting stuff happening in Python these days for web frameworks. Lots of people might benefit from cross-pollination. --Pau

Re: [EuroPython] Pong!

2005-10-28 Thread Paul Everitt
On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Michael Hudson wrote: > Dario Lopez-Kästen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Folks, I think it is time to start making some noise. >> >> May I suggest that we have an IRC meeting soon? >> > > A good idea! > > >> What times suit people best? >> >> We also need to do

Re: [EuroPython] IRC meeting and other organizational fluff

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Everitt
That date is fine for me. Please, though, send reminders a few days in advance. :^) --Paul On Dec 14, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Michael Hudson wrote: > I (and Holger) think it would be a good idea to have an IRC meeting on > #europython early in the new year to talk about next year's > conference.

Re: [EuroPython] IRC meeting and other organizational fluff

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Everitt
On Dec 15, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Michael Hudson wrote: > Aiste Kesminaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I (and Holger) think it would be a good idea to have an IRC >>> meeting on >>> #europython early in the new year to talk about next year's >>> conference. >> >> +1 >> >>> The first suggested

Re: [EuroPython] Site europython 2006

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Everitt
Just to emphasize this point, history has shown that only a small number of people, namely the conference organizers, spend any non- negligible time working on *content* for the site. As such, this organizer's group should be free to make any technology choice they want. The idea that "if w

Re: [EuroPython] preparations at CERN

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Everitt
On Jan 10, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Michael Hudson wrote: > Aiste Kesminaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Tracks and talks: >>> - Should we have a poster session? >> >> I have no strong opinion about that but would lean to the lightning >> talks fulfilling this need. >> >> One more thing related to

Re: [EuroPython] local organizers update

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Everitt
On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Michael Hudson wrote: > Benedikt Hegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> My conservative idea for the fees (new/old): >> 50/70 Euro for Speakers (yes. cheaper than our costs per person. >> Otherwise it would be more expensive than last year if you think of >> the lunc

Re: [EuroPython] #europython minutes 23rd January 2006

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Everitt
On Jan 23, 2006, at 6:19 PM, holger krekel wrote: > * Discussion about "Zope" track > > Paul suggests to go for a "Web Frameworks Track" instead > of limiting it to Zope. He thinks that this should > help to get more cross-pollination going within the > python web framework communities.

Re: [EuroPython] #europython minutes 23rd January 2006

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Everitt
Oops... On Jan 23, 2006, at 6:44 PM, Paul Everitt wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 6:19 PM, holger krekel wrote: > >> * Discussion about "Zope" track >> >> Paul suggests to go for a "Web Frameworks Track" instead >> of limiting it to Zo

Re: [EuroPython] track chair meeting today #europython 1700 central european time

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Everitt
On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Michael Hudson wrote: > (2) How seriously do we want to run tutorials? Charging extra, doing > them on a separate day and splitting the costs with the giver of > the tutorial or just a couple of long-ish talks on the first > morning? If we want to take th

Re: [EuroPython] irc meeting this afternoon

2006-02-07 Thread Paul Everitt
I will be on travel at that time, unfortunately. --Paul On Feb 7, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Benedikt Hegner wrote: > Yes, next week same time would be okay. > Will there be minutes of the yesterday's meeting? > > Cheers > Benedikt > > On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Michael Hudson wrote: > >> Benedikt Hegn

Re: [EuroPython] Registration and other issues

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Everitt
On Apr 23, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Aiste Kesminaite wrote: > > > Michael Hudson wrote: >> I think it would be a good idea. Next Tuesday or next Thursday are >> good for me. How about others? > > Tuesday is fine, Thursday afternoon I'm not available. Same for me. --Paul

Re: [EuroPython] help needed!

2006-05-14 Thread Paul Everitt
On May 14, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Benedikt Hegner wrote: > I think Paul Everitt mentioned that he can take care of the PR. Paul I had previously volunteered to help Holger. I can help someone else, but I'm not planning to manage PR.

Re: [EuroPython] help needed!

2006-05-15 Thread Paul Everitt
I will get together with Godefroid to spam the Zope, Plone, and other Python web framework communities. --Paul On May 14, 2006, at 10:37 PM, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote: > 2006/5/14, Paul Everitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I can help someone else, but I'm not planning to

[EuroPython] Mechanisms for organizing the tracks

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Everitt
Hi all. Godefroid and I are making progress on organizing the web frameworks track. Some questions: 1) The Indico system shows the timetable: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=44 a. Is this authoritative? b. Does the web frameworks track one of the three parallel sessi

Re: [EuroPython] Mechanisms for organizing the tracks

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Everitt
Thanks for the fast answers! We'll stick to the 30-30-30 or 60-30 slots as you've described. --Paul On May 18, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Michael Hudson wrote: > Paul Everitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi all. Godefroid and I are making progress on organizing

Re: [EuroPython] May not be able to attend todays meeting...

2006-05-21 Thread Paul Everitt
I believe you're correct. Also, I will be traveling at that time so I won't make it. --Paul On May 22, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Andreas Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi Dario and all, > > hmm ... my calender claims this weeks meeting will be _tomorrow_ > (Tue, May 23) at 1700 (CEST) ... did I miss somethi

Re: [EuroPython] To all Track Chairs

2006-05-22 Thread Paul Everitt
I'm not sure we can really accept talks at this point: 1) There are still more days left before the deadline. 2) We don't yet know how many slots to fill. --Paul On May 22, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Harald Armin Massa wrote: > A humble requerst to all track chairs, > > to have a look at their "manag

Re: [EuroPython] Reserving a room at the CERN hostel

2006-05-23 Thread Paul Everitt
ndees. > > Yes, probably. > >> I can send a list of email addresses to whoever is responsible for >> this form of PR. > > Well, Paul Everitt promised to write a press release I think... Yup, sorry for the delay. I have two speeches in the UK this week. I'll work on

[EuroPython] INPUT: Draft of press release

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Everitt
Below is a first draft of a press release, with review so far by Benedikt, Harald, and Michael. FYI: Due to an unavoidable scheduling conflict, I won't actually be at EuroPython this year. :^( However, Godefroid and I are making sure that the "track host" role gets covered. On to the text

Re: [EuroPython] INPUT: Draft of press release

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Everitt
On May 29, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Harald Armin Massa wrote: > I like this press release. I recommend that we juice in our fees and > what is covered by them, because the prices are quite reasonable even > for a community conference of 3 days. > >> the low-cost conference is organized by the Python com

[EuroPython] Final draft of press release

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Everitt
Based on one public comment and one private comment, here is a last revision of the press release. The distribution folks can take it from here. """ Software developers from around the world will gather July 3-5 in Geneva, Switzerland for EuroPython 2006, the fifth annual conference for