Re: [EuroPython] What the heck does "pythonic" mean?

2005-04-12 Thread Dario Lopez-Kästen
Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: Others already pointed you to 'import this'. I think I am very thickheaded - I don't get the 'import this' thing. sorry :-) well... i get it now. I need to stop reading and responding to mails like this one so late at night. I totally missed the "

Re: [EuroPython] What the heck does "pythonic" mean?

2005-04-12 Thread Dario Lopez-Kästen
Martijn Faassen wrote: Others already pointed you to 'import this'. I think I am very thickheaded - I don't get the 'import this' thing. sorry :-) "Pythonic" is vague, but not necessarily that much more vague than words like "intelligence" or "life", which, when you try to actually define them,

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Jacob Hallen
tisdag 12 april 2005 20.26 skrev Andy Robinson: > > Jacob, I guess. > > I'll wait to hear if Jacob agrees, and then send > an email introducing them. I agree. Jacob ___ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

RE: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Andy Robinson
> Jacob, I guess. I'll wait to hear if Jacob agrees, and then send an email introducing them. Thanks, Andy ___ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Jacob Hallen
tisdag 12 april 2005 09.33 skrev Harald Armin Massa: > And me. Who wants to send him a mail? > __ > > > _ > > Can someone please elighten me what the conditions for a keynote speaker > are? > > I read he has free entrence to EuroPython. Does EP also agree

Re: [EuroPython] What the heck does "pythonic" mean?

2005-04-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote: I am trying to understand the various, imho, religious subcultures(*) in the Python world, and I need someone to explain what the heck "Pythonic" means. How do you judge if something is "pythonic" or not? (*) the most prominent example is the "zope is not pythonic" thin

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Harald Armin Massa wrote: Especially, Mr. Pemberton is dutch and therefor can more easily understand some things in python according to import this; and his hairstyle fits to the bdfl. I think he's British, just based here, but I've heard good things about him and think I read some funny stuff by

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:12:50 BST, Michael Hudson writes: >Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >him == "Paul Graham", yes? :) Yes -- sorry sorry. Laura > >> I heard him at PyCon 2 or 3 years ago. At that point in time my positi >on >> was that he was bright, could speak w

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Especially, Mr. Pemberton is dutch and therefor can more easily understand some things in python according to import this; and his hairstyle fits to the bdfl. harald -- GHUM Harald Massapersuasion python postgresqlHarald Armin MassaReinsburgstraße 202b70197 Stuttgart0173/9409607__

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Hudson
Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: him == "Paul Graham", yes? :) > I heard him at PyCon 2 or 3 years ago. At that point in time my position > was that he was bright, could speak well, but didn't really know > all that much about Python. He was speaking on 'the language for > the year

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Laura Creighton
I heard him at PyCon 2 or 3 years ago. At that point in time my position was that he was bright, could speak well, but didn't really know all that much about Python. He was speaking on 'the language for the year 3000 or some such' and some of the stuff he wanted, we already have. His love of Li

Re: [EuroPython] Marketing plan

2005-04-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Jacob Hallén wrote: As promised, I have made a plan for the marketing. Comments and additions are very welcome. One addition would be interviews. Interviews, in the month (or perhaps two; we need to start soon) heading up to the conference proper with organizers, speakers and so on are a simple

[EuroPython] Anyone done things with ConferenceKit database from last year?

2005-04-12 Thread Andy Robinson
ReportLab's conference brochure tool, used last year, has a hosted MySQL database dedicated to the event and it seems someone has changed some things - we've been getting alerts saying it's failing its tests. I believe some Europythonistes had access rights last year to help populate this. Has a

Re: [EuroPython] server down?

2005-04-12 Thread Ivo van der Wijk
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:16:43AM +0200, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: > > Hi! > > I can't connect to the europython.org server (194.109.109.11) via ssh - > is it down? > > ping / http don't work either There has been a short power-outtage at our colocation provider. All services should be restor

[EuroPython] server down?

2005-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Hi! I can't connect to the europython.org server (194.109.109.11) via ssh - is it down? ping / http don't work either best /JM ___ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Hudson
Harald Armin Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And me. Who wants to send him a mail? > __ > > _ > > Can someone please elighten me what the conditions for a keynote speaker > are? > > I read he has free entrence to EuroPython. Does EP also agree (if

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Harald Armin Massa
And me.  Who wants to send him a mail? __ _ Can someone please elighten me what the conditions for a keynote speaker are? I read he has free entrence to EuroPython. Does EP also agree (if absolutely necessary) to pay his travelling costs? And and and..

Re: [EuroPython] KeyNoters

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Hudson
Harald Armin Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>His talk was about 'keeping things simple' and human-oriented >>in programming in general. It was quite inspiring and very funny. > > Sounds great to me. +1 And me. Who wants to send him a mail? Cheers, mwh -- 48. The best book on programming