Re: [EuroPython-Improve] EuroPython 2015: We have lift-off

2015-03-03 Thread Marius Gedminas
JavaScript over plaintext HTTP.) Marius Gedminas -- We've found by experience that people who are careless and sloppy writers are usually also careless and sloppy thinkers (often enough to bet on, anyway). -- ESR (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) signature.asc

Re: [EuroPython] Incorrect charset for the Europython mailing list

2014-04-17 Thread Marius Gedminas
Mailman works; it's not something that could be changed on the server side - except for patching Mailman itself, of course. Are those mappings hardcoded in Mailman? Marius Gedminas -- You have moved the mouse. NT must be restarted for the changes to take effect. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [EuroPython] issue on EP site

2013-01-18 Thread Marius Gedminas
- Florence June 20-26 http://ep2011.europython.eu/ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython Who has mailman admin access? Marius Gedminas -- EMACS is a good OS. The only thing it lacks is a decent text-editor. signature.asc Description

Re: [Europython-improve] Partner Program 2012 released!

2012-05-10 Thread Marius Gedminas
price, as far as I can tell. Regards, Marius Gedminas -- Unix is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. -- Peter H. Coffin signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[EuroPython] Changing a personal ticket to a company one

2012-04-24 Thread Marius Gedminas
to be still available). Personally, I'm fine with paying out of my own pocket, but with a company ticket EP would get more money, which is also nice... What should I do? Marius Gedminas, feeling rather stupid for this ill-formed open-ended question -- We've found by experience that people who

Re: [EuroPython] Changing a personal ticket to a company one

2012-04-24 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:48:04AM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: Hello, dear organizers! I've bought a (personal) conference ticket and hotel reservation early on, because I wasn't sure my company would decide in time how many people it could afford to send to EP this year, and I didn't want

Re: [Europython-improve] IRC meeting logs

2010-01-28 Thread Marius Gedminas
/%23europython.2010-01-26.log.html Marius Gedminas -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [EuroPython] unsubscribe

2009-07-07 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:04:16PM +0100, Nick Johnson wrote: Is there any mailing list software anywhere where sending 'unsubscribe' to the _list_ address will unsubscribe you? I think Mailman has an option to intercept and handle administrative commands sent to the list address. Marius

[EuroPython] Sprint venue

2009-07-02 Thread Marius Gedminas
.) Marius Gedminas -- If you are angry with someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes... then you'll be a mile away from them, and you'll have their shoes. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython

[EuroPython] Making the sllides available

2009-07-02 Thread Marius Gedminas
John keeps saying that this is a community conference and if we're missing something, it's because we haven't done it. What do I need to do to make talk slides downloadable from the conference timetable page? Marius Gedminas -- Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves

Re: [EuroPython] Sprint venue

2009-07-02 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:14:05AM +0100, Marius Gedminas wrote: http://wiki.europython.eu/Sprints currently says this about the sprint venue: After the Conference, Friday 3rd July for two days, at the CBSO Centre, Berkley Street - 7 minutes walk from the Conservatoire and 3 minutes

Re: [EuroPython] Premier Inn Hotel on Booking Form

2009-06-26 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:04:20PM +0100, John Pinner wrote: 2009/6/25 Marius Gedminas mar...@gedmin.as Has anyone made a custom public Google map with the venue and some of the more popular hotels marked on it? http://www.europython.eu/about/travel/ Oh, there it is! Apparently Google

Re: [Europython-improve] Talk handouts

2009-05-27 Thread Marius Gedminas
people to look at the slides without having wifi in their hotel, and doesn't use up conference bandwidth. USB flash disks would be more convenient (and more useful afterwards), but, most likely, more expensive. Marius Gedminas -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think

Re: [EuroPython] [Europython-improve] EuroPython 2009 Talks Schedule

2009-05-25 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:18:09AM +0100, John Pinner wrote: The Talks Schedule has been published at http://europython.eu/talks/timetable/ The site appears to be down. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/europython.eu says it's not just my problem. Marius Gedminas -- Unix for stability; Macs

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython 2009 Talks Schedule

2009-05-25 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:18:09AM +0100, John Pinner wrote: The Talks Schedule has been published at http://europython.eu/talks/timetable/ The site appears to be down. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/europython.eu says it's not just my problem. Marius Gedminas -- Unix for stability; Macs

Re: [Europython-improve] Updated poster

2008-12-11 Thread Marius Gedminas
'. Another Evince problem? Marius Gedminas -- Vi has excellent support for the PC speaker. Nearly every key combination will invoke the PC speaker to make use of this. -- G_Morgan on reddit signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Europython

Re: [Europython-improve] Updated poster

2008-12-11 Thread Marius Gedminas
and posters, and name tags and all that s3t. If not, then I don't think we should impose it to heavily, but let the people willing to actually do design do whatever they want as long as it looks good. :) +1 Marius Gedminas -- As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error

Re: [Europython-improve] Poster concept

2008-12-10 Thread Marius Gedminas
by half; perhaps the invisible parts should actually be light gray, so you could both see the shape of the python and read the text?). Anyway, I just wanted to point out that 'EURO PYTHON' looks weird to me; I've always seen it spelled as one word (EuroPython or EUROPYTHON). Marius Gedminas -- Do

Re: [EuroPython] Forgot to bring my registration printout

2008-06-30 Thread Marius Gedminas
the paper over so I can bring it on Monday? Last year the organisers had a list of people who hadn't paid (and a separate box for their badges). I'm sure showing up without a piece of paper won't be a problem. Marius Gedminas -- Five words to strike fear into the heart of any software developer: 'How

Re: [EuroPython] Language Advice for Speakers?

2008-06-28 Thread Marius Gedminas
to be about 50% too large for me. Marius Gedminas -- It's possible to describe anything in mathematical notation. I recall seeing some paper once in which someone had created a mathematical description of C. (I forget whether or not this included the preprocessor.) As an achievement, this is somewhat

Re: [Europython-improve] iCalendar of the conference schedule

2008-06-16 Thread Marius Gedminas
this into Google Calendar, and it said empty uploaded file. Hm... The file looks okay-ish, at first sight. Marius Gedminas -- Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly. (Seen somewhere on the net.) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[Europython-improve] iCalendar of the conference schedule

2008-06-15 Thread Marius Gedminas
the equivalent for iCal and send the patch to the maintainer. I feel like I should know these things from previous EuroPython IRC meetings. I'm sorry that I didn't pay enough attention. Regards, Marius Gedminas -- If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done. signature.asc

Re: [Europython-improve] getting to the conference site

2008-06-03 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:27:14PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: Here's a site for looking up bus routes in Vilnius: http://www.marsrutai.info/vilnius/?a=p.routestransport_id=searcht=xhtmll=en Actually, http://www.marsrutai.lt seems to be a bit prettier. Here's the route: http

Re: [EuroPython] Quick question:

2008-04-10 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 07:20:37PM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: How many came to Vilnius 2007? I can't find the numbers anywhere... IIRC around 225. http://europython.org/community/Planning/Projections says 215. Marius Gedminas -- A real friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away

[EuroPython] Advice for enjoying a conference

2008-03-01 Thread Marius Gedminas
This is a nice post with tips for good conferencing habits: http://my-bad-habits.blogspot.com/2008/02/good-conferencing-habits-or-how-i.html See you all in Vilnius later this year! Marius Gedminas -- America and England are two countries separated by a common language. signature.asc

Re: [EuroPython] New logo for Europython

2008-02-12 Thread Marius Gedminas
it? Marius Gedminas -- Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim. -- Dijkstra signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [EuroPython] Europython 2008

2008-01-18 Thread Marius Gedminas
? Marius Gedminas -- ... Another nationwide organization's computer system crashed twice in less than a year. The cause of each crash was a computer virus -- Paul Mungo, Bryan Glough _Approaching_Zero_ (in 1986 computer crashes were something out of the ordinary. Win95 anyone