Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote:
What they now need is a "Go!" decision from the EPC Community, and they
need it this week (I know, 2 days to go).
+1 from me
Regards,
Martijn
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Hey,
Hm.. I'm trying to figure out two things:
a) whether I'm supposed to be chairing a track
b) where the information about who is chairing a track is for the 2005
conference. I looked at the site but couldn't find a 2005 option. I also
read the track chairs were to update their info, but where?
Martijn Faassen wrote:
Hm.. I'm trying to figure out two things:
a) whether I'm supposed to be chairing a track
I just found the website here:
http://europython-develop.zope.nl/sections/tracks_and_talks/propose_a_talk/#frameworks
and see I'm indeed not track chairing; Jeremiah Fos
Henrion Benjamin wrote:
Nicolas Chauvat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050406]:
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:30:36PM +0100, John Pinner wrote:
Someone from the FFII? Lots of ignorance about the importance of the
patents issue in the Python community, I fear.
+1
Most people active on the issue will be lobbyi
Jacob Hallén wrote:
[snip]
This is where I think Europython has done better than Pycon. We have had
keynote speakers (apart from Guido), who have talked about things that
transcend Python, and I think this has affected the whole spirit of
Europython.
As a datapoint:
At the first PyCon, there was
Harald Armin Massa wrote:
[snip]
So, anyway:
who ist that guy?
http://dirtsimple.org/
I think he might fit into that Python and transcending idea. I DO NOT want
him to talk about generic functions, WHATEVER that may be... but he has a
lot of transcending stuff.
Phillip Eby. If we're going for Pyt
Hi there,
I just learned today that the Python Frameworks track chair is vacant. I
don't want to fill it myself (I've done it the last 3 years and want to
be a bit more free at the conference; plus someone else might actually
improve stuff. :), so I am hunting for a volunteer. I'll help out any
vo
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
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
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
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 :-)
Start up the Python prompt, and type 'import this'. Then see what happens.
[snip]
I bel
Michael Hudson wrote:
Martijn Faassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
In Zope 3, a lot of effort was taken to allow the integration of
Pythonic code. Zope 3's codebase itself is also a lot more modern
Python, so could qualify as "Pythonic" as well. Unfortunately
turn-offs for Pyt
Aroldo Souza-Leite wrote:
having just *imported this*, I suddenly remember that you owe me a
sonnet - the sonnet form being arguably the most pythonic of all
established European verse forms. I beg your leave to kindly remind
you that last year in Göteborg you promised to write the next one of
th
Hi there,
Since I just complained about this being somewhat hard to find on
another conference's website, I went to www.europython.org and didn't
find it easily there.
I think the deadlines for talk/paper submission should be on the
homepage, very visible. It should also be on 'propose a talk',
Aiste Kesminaite wrote:
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| participants?
That would be a good idea. POV is planning on bringing 6 people into the
conference, some of them -- speakers, but even the early bird
registrati
Jacob Hallen wrote:
[snip]
> For this reason, I propose that we extend talk submission until 7 May under
> the pretext of having had problems with the talk registration procedure. In
> the mean time,all the track chairs need to canvas their contacts, so that we
> get a nicely filled schedule.
P
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
[snip]
> I'd be willing to help out with track chairing for the
> Framework track, if there'd be two or three others joining in -
> with a team of three or four for the track, the job could be
> leveraged to still allow attending other talks during the
> conference.
I'm willin
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
[snip]
>>If it's a bit of preparatory work in talk selection and communication
>>with the people who submitted a talk that would be better than having to
>>be present at the track itself, introducing talks and making sure things
>>end on time, etc.
> Any help is appreciated, s
Jacob Hallén wrote:
> We will have a progress meeting Tuesday at 18.00 CET.
Unfortunately I'm leaving on a business trip this afternoon so won't be
able to attend.
On the frameworks track, I just mailed some indications of talk
preferences to Marc-Andre, though he isn't sure he can attend eithe
Hi there,
I don't want to whine about this, but since I heard Paul talk about the
non-Plone centeredness of the Zope track I wonder whether it's entirely
appropriate for the homepage to say:
"Europython brings together developers, designers and business people in
the Python and Zope/Plone comm
Jacob Hallén wrote:
[snip]
> 2. The printable programme will be available to all attendees in a day
> or two. If you want to make changes in the description of your talk,
> or refine your biography, please do so straight away. That way your
> modifications can go into the programme.
Hey,
Paul sa
Paul Everitt wrote:
> I will get together with Godefroid to spam the Zope, Plone, and other
> Python web framework communities.
get it on the python homepage as well. PyCON gets to be there, so should
EuroPython. And spam python-announce. And get it on the lwn.net event
calendar.
Regards,
Ma
John Wilson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I registered for the conference and booked accommodation in the
> hostel. However i wasn't asked for credit card details:)
>
> How am I going to pay?
I see a whole discussion about paying for the hostel (which indeed
should be made significantly more clear), but d
Benedikt Hegner wrote:
> Hi Holger,
>
> I think you got a wrong information. The registration should be vaild
> from start of the sprints until end of the sprints.
To clarify what I think Holger meant: the form asking for your MAC
address also asks for a date range you need access in, and this
Harald Armin Massa wrote:
[snip]
> On the other hand I am asking myself if we really can afford 2 European
> Python conferences - EuroPython has a fair sized followership of around 300
> participants every year; that's not that big a market to fuel another
> conference.
I think we should see RuPy
Hey,
Laura Creighton wrote:
> I need to know what Quintagroup does with Python or Zope
> in about 1 sentence.
If it helps any, Quintagroup generously provided a virtual machine for
grok.zope.org, which is one particular open source Zope project.
Regards,
Martijn
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Hi there,
I just felt prompted to write a blog entry about the country-specific
PyCons we've started to see and their relationship to EuroPython.
Perhaps of interest to people here:
http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2008/04/12/0
Regards,
Martijn
Hi there,
Joachim Schmitz, long-standing member of the Zope and Python
communities, died last weekend. Please see the following:
http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2008/05/14/0
Regards,
Martijn
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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 t
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? W
Hey,
On 04/15/2014 10:33 PM, Horst Gutmann wrote:
> Every conference I've attended so far had at least on or two time
> slots each day where none of the talks appealed to me and so I went
> to explore the city or just got some sleep at the hotel. This way the
> event stayed fresh and exciting to
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 insid
On 04/16/2014 01:24 AM, Laura Creighton wrote:
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
On 04/16/2014 11:12 AM, John Pinner wrote:
Hello All,
On 15 April 2014 20:46, roberto.polli wrote:
Right time to discuss: no.
Right Place to discuss: probably yes.
In fact : NO!
The correct place to discuss this is the europython-improve list,
which was established specifically to discuss i
On 04/16/2014 10:24 AM, Tom Viner wrote:
For those who prefer a shorter Python conference, may I recommend the
excellent PyConUK in September (and presumably other "national"
conferences - in quotes because there's a good spread of nationalities
present in my experience). See http://2013.pyconuk.
Hey,
On 04/16/2014 11:56 AM, Filip Kłębczyk wrote:
> Having in mind that there is gap disproportion between wealth level of
> Western and Eastern Europe I'm curious if EPS or anybody feeling
> responsible for EuroPython thinks about addressing that problem in
future?
You're suggesting active o
Hey Holger,
Thanks for your answer, it certainly helped clear up things for me about
what was going on with talk selection - that as much as 50 slots were
remaining was not clear, for instance. I also agree that the double
blind selection process does not fit the goals of EuroPython so much --
Hey Carina,
On 04/17/2014 10:24 AM, carina.ha...@dlr.de wrote:
This definitely it not a perfect compensation for attending a talk
live, but it might help some of you to consider this. I personally
use this a lot on conferences which offer streaming and/or
recordings. Okay, I now I gave my two c
Hey,
On 04/17/2014 01:24 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
In short, we'll have the EPS run the conference, with international
work groups doing the work that can be done remotely and the local team
providing on-site support. This will resolve the problem of losing
institutional knowledge every time we c
Hey,
On 04/17/2014 04:40 PM, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
At the end of the day, more talks for more days seems like a better
overall solution, and people are welcome to consider it a 3-days
conference if they feel so. Consider that the submissions far exceed
even the current schedule, so it’s not like
On 04/23/2014 11:18 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
We all have ideas about what is good. bottom line: it's complicated.
There are no unit tests, just personal judgment.
Some group of people plan and run an event = good.
To this year's team, and really all PyCon's I have been aware of, keep
up the goo
On 04/24/2014 01:19 PM, Dinu Gherman wrote:
Martijn Faassen:
I'm trying to understand the intent your email. Are you telling
some of us to just go away and do our own thing? This isn't an us
versus them. We're not outsiders barging in; we're old friends. I
do count as one o
On 04/24/2014 01:13 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
[snip]
Yes, I understand PyCon US is more like EuroPython back in 2009, with 3 days
conference proper, 2
days training. I've been talking about the actual conference days.
Yep, but the total length is two days more.
In 2009 at EuroPython I partici
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