To the EuroPython organizers, talk reviewers, and community at large,
For those of you who do not know me, I am a board member of the Python
Software Foundation, the founder and leader of PyLadies San Francisco,
and an engineer at Spotify. I have been a speaker at the last two
EuroPythons, with
Absolute ack!
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To the EuroPython organizers, talk reviewers, and community at large,
For those of you who do not know me, I am a board member of the Python
Software Foundation, the founder and leader of PyLadies San Francisco,
and an engineer at Spotify. I
On 04/15/2014 02:14 PM, Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
On 04/15/2014 02:11 PM, Simon Cross wrote:
Greetings
Is it possible to get some demographics on authors who submitted talks
vs authors of accepted talks? It would be good to know whether the
blind selection process functioned as intended
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On 15/04/14 10:28, Lynn Root wrote:
- limit speakers to only give one talk.
+1
Perhaps too late for this year, but I wish this were the case for
every conference.
N.
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W dniu 15.04.2014 14:32, Andreas Jung pisze:
At least for the last EuroPython in Florence you could vote for talks
(can not recall if you could see the speaker and its gender)
you could see speakers data in EP2013
- did it make
a huge difference?
The question is how many talks conducted
On 15 Apr 2014, at 8:37, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote:
Yes!
On 15/04/14 10:28, Lynn Root wrote:
- limit speakers to only give one talk.
+1
Perhaps too late for this year, but I wish this were the case for
every conference.
First of all I’m glad that after the troubling discussion
If it helps, I'd happily free up this slot in the selected talks
list (https://ep2014.europython.eu/en/event/schedule/):
43 - Embedded Devices - Marc-Andre Lemburg - Home Automation with Kivy,
Raspberry Pi and MQTT
and perhaps do the talk as open space session, if there's interest.
BTW: This
Hi @all,
On Tuesday 15 April 2014 02:28:50 Lynn Root wrote:
For those of you who do not know me..
Everybody.py knows you, Lynn!
- talk selection was/is being done blindly, as in no identifying
information about the speaker is revealed
-#2 there are very little women on that preliminary talk
Hey,
On 04/15/2014 03:07 PM, Hynek Schlawack wrote:
- And finally walking the walk: my talk is still in the queue and I will
happily retract my proposal if it helps to have a more diverse
conference.
Good point.
My talk is also in the queue. I don't know whether it's rejected or not.
If
Hi there,
I thought I'd give my preferences for conference length in the future.
It's just my point of view, but I had it for a while now, and I figure
I'd better share it to be more constructive.
For some years, EuroPython was 3 days of conference, with perhaps 3 or 4
parallel tracks with
Am 2014-04-15 um 15:07 schrieb Hynek Schlawack h...@ox.cx:
- Having speakers have 3 slots is ridiculous, 2 should be a very rare
exception. So ask them which talk is more important and there you have some
free slots.
I wrote an email to the EP help desk a few days ago and offered to
+1
for going back to the original 3-day length of the conference, not to
criticize the organisation, it's just my personal preference.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Martijn Faassen faas...@startifact.comwrote:
Hi there,
I thought I'd give my preferences for conference length in the
Sorry but mobile forces top posting and laconic mode.
Martijn suggests shorter conferences.
I think that one week is fine: the last 2 EPs were a perfect mix of tech and
social event.
To foster Python community we need not just a guru conference, but a place to
share and meet the diverse
Right time to discuss: no.
Right Place to discuss: probably yes.
Enough said for me, people.
Peace.
R
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On 15/04/14 20:48, Andreas Jung wrote:
You will not reach _all_ different stakeholders through this list.
An open-space at the conference, a public survey at the conference
…something like that would be representative…but peace (but
there was no war) :-)
Andreas
Am 15.04.2014 um 15:46 schrieb
On 04/15/2014 08:56 PM, Andreas Jung wrote:
I think it is neither the right place
Oh, sorry, what is the right mailing list to bring this up?
nor the right way
You don't want feedback with constructive intent?
nor the right time to discuss
Should I have brought it up earlier or later?
On Apr 15, 2014 3:25 PM, Roberto Polli roberto.po...@babel.it wrote:
Hi @all,
On Tuesday 15 April 2014 02:28:50 Lynn Root wrote:
For those of you who do not know me..
Everybody.py knows you, Lynn!
- talk selection was/is being done blindly, as in no identifying
information about the
Hi Martjin,
I definitely see where you're coming from having had the same reaction at first
when I saw the schedule for the first Europython in Florence a couple of years
back. For me personally, though, the idea of making your own conference worked
really well in the end.
Every conference
On 15.04.2014, at 15:58, Martijn Faassen faas...@startifact.com wrote:
On 04/15/2014 08:56 PM, Andreas Jung wrote:
I think it is neither the right place
Oh, sorry, what is the right mailing list to bring this up?
nor the right way
You don't want feedback with constructive intent?
Hi all, hi Nelle,
On 15 April 2014 22:23, Nelle Varoquaux nelle.varoqu...@gmail.com wrote:
As a member of a minority , I feel very uncomfortable with such quotas,
and if you ask women in computer science around Europe, they tend to feel
the same way (this may be very different in North
On 15 Apr 2014, at 16:23, Nelle Varoquaux wrote:
Not entirely fair, even for ladies awaiting for the final schedule.
I agree instead to set gender quotas (eg. 40% minimum for the
less-represented
gender). But imho rules should be set *before* the review process.
As a member of a minority , I
On 04/15/2014 11:06 PM, Armin Rigo wrote:
In this case, woman
participation is going slowly up year after year. I certainly think
(and hope!) that it's not just because of favorable discrimination;
instead, it is most probably just a slow process of natural regulation
that occurs inside a
In a message of Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:26:59 +0200, Martijn Faassen writes:
* Considering whether we want a self-selected democracy for anonymously
selecting talks based on individual merits, or whether we want to
involve other methods too. Say a smaller group of people that looks at
the overall
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