Re: [Europython-improve] Mailing list subscription broken

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 11 February 2013 17:12:55 John Pinner wrote: > On 11 February 2013 15:53, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > we have a static form on the EuroPython website that is used to quickly > > subscribe an user to the mailing list. > > > > The static form sends a POST to the URL > > http://

Re: [Europython-improve] ep2011 redirects to ep2012

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 17 February 2012 10:21:35 Giovanni Bajo wrote: > Il giorno 17/feb/2012, alle ore 01:02, Paul Boddie ha scritto: > > Hello, > > > > I just noticed that if I go to https://ep2011.europython.eu/, I get a > > straight redirect to https://ep2012.europython.eu/ (the

[Europython-improve] ep2011 redirects to ep2012

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, I just noticed that if I go to https://ep2011.europython.eu/, I get a straight redirect to https://ep2012.europython.eu/ (the front page) and not the archived material at https://ep2012.europython.eu/ep2011/ (its specific location). Would a more precise redirect not be nicer? I believe t

Re: [Europython-improve] ssl certificate for ep2012.europython.eu

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 06 February 2012 14:27:12 Giovanni Bajo wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 23:12 +0100, David Mugnai wrote: > > Hi dear ep improvers :) > > > > I'm David Mugnai one of the guys of Python Italia. We are going to get > > an ssl certificate for the upcoming ep2012 site (to be > > honest we have

Re: [Europython-improve] The future of Europython

2012-01-15 Thread Paul Boddie
Fabio wrote: > Europython has become a primary python community event thus some > considerations and decisions should be made. We'd like to share our > thoughts openly and receive your feedback. [A nice summary of the issues and concerns of organising a volunteer-run conference...] > The near fu

Re: [Europython-improve] [Pydotorg] Ad on the python.org website

2011-03-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 19 March 2011 19:19:43 Aahz wrote: > It's been cc'd to pydotorg -- we'll handle it. However, if you can > provide a summary similar to others on python.org, that would expedite > the process (especially if it's in reST format). Here's more or less what I've sent in previous years, upd

Re: [Europython-improve] List of sites and mailing-lists for EP communication

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 22 February 2011 19:17:48 Giovanni Bajo wrote: > > It would help if you could contribute with either of the following: > > * A list of Python-specific websites/mailing-lists, either > international or national (eg: official Spanish mailing-list for Python) > * A list of programming/t

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython 2011 Site

2011-01-25 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 15:40:34 Richard Taylor wrote: > > Could you make a couple of small changes to the 2010 wiki? > > Could you: > > 1. put a prominant message on the front page to say that it should not > be used for 2011 and a link to the ep2011.europython.eu site. Done! > 2. change the

[Europython-improve] EuroPython 2011 Site

2011-01-24 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, Having been involved briefly several weeks ago in discussions about sites, DNS records and other things, I wondered whether there were any plans to make europython.eu point to what is currently ep2011.europython.eu. I imagine that the organisers want to publicise themselves widely using

Re: [Europython-improve] Europython 2011 - Partner Programme

2010-11-27 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 27 November 2010 16:28:07 Mary Mooney wrote: > > We have put together some thoughts about running a partner programme > and post them here for the benefit of anyone considering doing > something similar in Florence. A nice summary there, Mary and Sheila! I found this bit interesting:

Re: [Europython-improve] Europython videos all now posted up - summary & links

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 13 August 2010 23:02:58 Michael Sparks wrote: > > I'm pleased to say that all the videos from Europython 2010 in Birmingham > have now been published on blip.tv. There was a delay because it turns out > that blip.tv have (very sensibly) a daily upload limit on the number of > videos you m

Re: [Europython-improve] [europython-contact] Your EuroPython talk has been accepted!

2010-07-14 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:21:08 John Pinner wrote: > > As indicated in previous posts, we will be bringing a limited number > of Thinkpad X41s loaded with Ubuntu 8.04 and able to drive all the > projectors. > > Iit would be helpful if a volunteer could take responsibility for > issuing these and

Re: [Europython-improve] [europython-contact] Your EuroPython talk has been accepted!

2010-07-14 Thread Paul Boddie
Thomas, fellow organisers, > just a practical question: Will a presentation PC or laptop be available > at the venue for the presenters to use? That would allow me to bring my > presentation just on a USB stick (I'll be giving my talk at Recital Hall). I too will not be bringing a computer to the

Re: [Europython-improve] Tutorial registration emails

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 21:54:47 Jonathan Hartley wrote: > > I'll send the proposed email to all delegates tonight then, indicating > that tutorial attendees should do as you blogged, then all the info is > aggregating in one place. > > What should such an email contain, other than: > > * if you ar

Re: [Europython-improve] Meeting Thursday 15th

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 21:00:41 Richard Taylor wrote: > > Shall we hold a last meeting on Thursday? Yes, I think we need to get some things in order. > I have created an agenda: > > http://wiki.europython.eu/MeetingAgenda20100715 > > I would encourage everyone to update the agenda to includ

Re: [Europython-improve] Tutorial registration emails

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 20:50:25 Richard Taylor wrote: > > Can I suggest that you send the email asking people to tell us which > tutorials they will be sending to all attendees. In the absence of a list > of just those attending the tutorial days I think this may be the best we > can achieve. Just

Re: [Europython-improve] Date for next IRC meeting?

2010-07-07 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 07 July 2010 21:22:03 Richard Taylor wrote: > > Can we have some +1's and -1's from people for a meeting on Thursday > (tomorrow) night? +1 from me. Paul ___ Europython-improve mailing list Europython-improve@python.org http://mail.python.o

Re: [Europython-improve] Help needed to test vCalendar timetable

2010-07-06 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 20:57:08 Richard Taylor wrote: > If anyone has a Google Calendar account, could they please test the > vCalendar version of the timetable for me? > > If you could go to "Other Calendars", select "Add by URL" from the "Add" > menu and add the following url: > > http://w

Re: [Europython-improve] Slides etc / conference CD

2010-07-04 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 04 July 2010 20:45:09 Richard Taylor wrote: > > What is the plan regarding conference CD this year? > > I notice some people already uploading slides to the wiki and asking for > instructions on the mailing list. There are really two issues here: tutorial handouts were to be uploaded so

Re: [Europython-improve] Wiki pages for talks and tutorials

2010-06-20 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 19 June 2010 22:16:53 Richard Taylor wrote: > > Could someone with access to the list of speakers please send them the > following message? I can write a blog posting about this shortly if that's seen as desirable. Paul ___ Europython-improv

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talks Timetable

2010-05-22 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 23 May 2010 01:38:45 Michael Foord wrote: > Hello John, > > It would be good if Holger Krekel's talk "Ring of Python" could be an > early talk - on the Monday instead of the Wednesday. Maybe the "New and Improved" Michael Foord could swap with Holger, or would that be too much of a step

[Europython-improve] Talk Abstracts Docutils Error

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, I've just been looking at the talk abstracts page, and it would seem that a docutils error is present: http://www.europython.eu/talks/talk_abstracts/#talk124 According to the talk_build/pickles/talks.pkl file, this error was generated before the talk was serialised in the pickle. Is the

[Europython-improve] Closing Early Registration

2010-05-17 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, Although we said that the early registration period would end at (or before) the weekend, and I've updated the news and blog items to indicate this, is there something someone should be doing to change the actual registration system to enforce this decision? Paul ___

Re: [Europython-improve] Acceptance of talks and beginnings of a schedule.

2010-05-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 17 May 2010 18:59:03 Massa, Harald Armin wrote: > > Lightning strikes > thrice > > > http://www.europython.eu/submission/admin/submission/talk/11/ > > I can easily change my talk to 45min. Would you please be so kind to adapt > the submission? But wouldn't that only leave enough time for

Re: [Europython-improve] Acceptance of talks and beginnings of a schedule.

2010-05-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 17 May 2010 14:08:01 Alex Willmer wrote: > > Given these numbers, I've attached a mock up schedule (odf and pdf). > The placement of talks is arbitrary and impossible, ignore those. How > does the length of each day, and the timings of the slots look? I was concerned that we'd have enoug

Re: [Europython-improve] talk build system

2010-05-01 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:25:43 John Pinner wrote: > > We have a scheduled date 16th May IIRC, but I'm unable to check now as I'm > mobile. On the calendar Wiki page it says Tuesday 1st June, as it also does on the CFP page. I was really referring to the closing of submissions, though. I say we

Re: [Europython-improve] talk build system

2010-05-01 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 01 May 2010 08:37:04 Richard Taylor wrote: > > I think you misunderstand me. I have only checked that the scripts are > now working. I have not checked that the output is correct. Working is better than not working, though. ;-) > It is not for me to decide when we announce the talks l

Re: [Europython-improve] talk build system

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 30 April 2010 23:51:04 Richard Taylor wrote: > > I have fixed the talk build system now. You are correct about the _state > and there are also some django unicode objects around too that I have > cast into python unicode. Excellent! Thanks for applying your Django expertise! Maybe we sho

Re: [Europython-improve] talk build system

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 30 April 2010 22:05:49 Paul Boddie wrote: > > I'm certainly going to pass on this for now - fixing the blog was enough > Django reinterpretation for me. Although I've steered clear of the code for submissions, I've now changed the template for the submissio

Re: [Europython-improve] talk build system

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 30 April 2010 17:31:47 Richard Taylor wrote: > > I was just taking a quick look at the talk build system. I thought I > would do some dry runs to iron out any issues before we needed it. > > I failed at the first hurdle. It looks like something has changed at the > django end of things. T

Re: [Europython-improve] Wiki advanced search is down

2010-03-15 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 15 March 2010 22:38:02 David Boddie wrote: > The Wiki advanced search page is down: > > http://www.europython.eu/search > > gives > > Not Found > The requested URL /search was not found on this server. That's the main Web site advanced search, though. The "search furniture" on the

Re: [Europython-improve] End date of extra early bird for announcements

2010-03-15 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 15 March 2010 15:21:16 Alex Willmer wrote: > I'm finally working through the Publicity/Channels table today, > sending out copies of > http://wiki.europython.eu/Publicity/Announcement. Thanks for doing this! I noticed that you'd sent two mails to the europython list. Was one of them to

[Europython-improve] EuroPython IRC Meeting: Tuesday 16th March 2010, 18:00 GMT, 19:00 CET

2010-03-14 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, The next EuroPython organisers IRC meeting will take place in the #europython channel on FreeNode on Tuesday 16th March 2010 at 18:00 GMT, 19:00 CET. Thanks once again to everyone who voted on the meeting time! I believe the aim is now to try and stick to Tuesdays at 18:00 GMT, 19:00 CET

[Europython-improve] EuroPython IRC Meeting Times

2010-03-09 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, Yet another organisers meeting took place this evening on IRC; as agreed, I've set up another poll to get a consensus on when the next meeting should take place: http://www.doodle.com/99ze7348byx8mki2 Please indicate your time preferences so that we can try and get as many interested p

[Europython-improve] The next meeting agenda (was Re: EuroPython Publicity)

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 08 March 2010 10:19:10 Fabio Pliger wrote: > I' ve written to John and Laura proposing some initiatives to promote EP > during Pycon Italia and vice-versa. The idea is to give sponsors and > attendees discounts ( for tickets and sponsorships ) at the other > conference... They didn't answ

[Europython-improve] EuroPython IRC Meeting: Tuesday 9th March 2010, 18:00 GMT, 19:00 CET

2010-03-07 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, The next EuroPython organisers IRC meeting will take place in the #europython channel on FreeNode on Tuesday 9th March 2010, 18:00 GMT, 19:00 CET. Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote on the time! (I'll make another poll for the following week, and then we'll try and stick to a f

[Europython-improve] EuroPython Publicity

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello again, Although I mentioned this after the last meeting, we still need plenty of people to step forward and help spread the word about EuroPython. In order to do this in a systematic fashion, I've set up the following page: http://wiki.europython.eu/Publicity/Channels You can add yoursel

[Europython-improve] EuroPython IRC Meeting Times

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, We've just had another organisers meeting on IRC, and it has come to the attention of those who can usually make it to these meetings that some people generally can't make it and would rather the meeting happened at a different time. So, I've set up a poll to get a consensus on when the

Re: [Europython-improve] next EuroPython Organisers IRC Meeting : THIS EVENING

2010-02-25 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 25 February 2010 17:31:12 Zeth wrote: > Again this is a terrible time for me. I will be on the bus home again. At the meeting we discussed moving the time to 1730 GMT, 1830 CET. If everyone still thinks this is a good idea, I'll change the meeting agenda/actions to reflect this: htt

Re: [Europython-improve] Email from k...@fiber-space.de

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 21 February 2010 15:38:37 Ciarán Mooney wrote: > > Zeth has put an comments box on the website that sends emails to me. > However I think one person has mistaken the purpose of the box. It is > meant for those wishing to contact about having talks recorded or not > to tell me their prefer

[Europython-improve] Blog and the front page's "Wiki Changes"

2010-02-10 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, I see that early registration has just been blogged, although the wording should perhaps be checked and the "we get to" duplication removed. ;-) Should the sponsor logos not also be "refreshed", too? And I think we still have to be vigilant about spam, despite the apparent purging of spa

[Europython-improve] EuroPython Web Sites

2010-01-23 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, I tried to get onto IRC at work today to see if I could track down Zeth, but was defeated by the bizarre KSIRC program (or however you spell it), presumably for IRC traditionalists, and the Pidgin instant messenger software which wants a username and password to create an IRC "account".

Re: [Europython-improve] EP 2011

2009-10-28 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 17:29:14 John Pinner wrote: > > The sponsorship brochure went out in March. I thought it was later, but even so, I think it's still quite close in for all those sponsors who will inevitably dither about it or claim that they've used up their sponsorship budget alread

Re: [Europython-improve] EP 2011

2009-10-27 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:40:43 John Pinner wrote: > > I'm sorry I've been quiet lately: we are under a lot of pressure at > work, the good news is that we just heard that we got the contract for > the Archive Data Management system at Silverstone (the car race track > that is). Congratulation

Re: [Europython-improve] EP tutors invoicing?

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 00:04:39 Andy Robinson wrote: > > The Euro directive in question was about Euro transfers (directive > 2560/2001) between Euro countries. We are not bound by it until we > switch to the Euro, so others can now send us Euros for free, but our > banks can still overcharge f

Re: [Europython-improve] EP tutors invoicing?

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 24 August 2009 17:38:42 Andy Robinson wrote: > 2009/8/17 Chris Withers : > > Yeah, it would be nice for those of us in the UK too. My cheque has > > finally arrived, but now I need to go find a bank branch, etc, etc. I > > can't believe that cheque is the cheapest or easiest option for an

Re: [Europython-improve] Talk handouts

2009-05-27 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 20:23:29 Zeth wrote: > 2009/5/27 Christian Scholz : > > or one does it the other way round, collects them on the EP site and > > somebody uploads the missing ones to slideshare > > Well it is having enough somebodies that is always the problem. I > think collecting via emai

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Publicity Materials

2009-05-23 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 23 May 2009 17:42:16 John Pinner wrote: > Hello European Pythonistas, > > Now we have some more great publicity materials at > wiki.europython.eu/Publicity/ including banners and wallpaper. These are really good! [...] > Thank you, Steve Hawkes, for these graphics, Thank you, Zachary

[Europython-improve] Publicity and Upcoming Announcements

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, For those of you interested in publicising the conference, I've added a draft announcement to the Wiki: http://wiki.europython.eu/FinalScheduleAnnouncement I suppose that when the schedule has been decided, we'll edit the announcement to link to the schedule and perhaps say how many tal

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython wiki

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 16 March 2009 20:00:15 John Pinner wrote: > > If you use the EP 2009 wiki, you will see that the styling has changed > and matches the main site. > > Radomir 'TheSheep' got the clever stuff done and I overcame my dislike > of web programming to install it. > > I think it looks terrific :

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Registration

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 16 March 2009 00:39:33 John Pinner wrote: > > 2009/3/15 Martin P. Hellwig : > > > > I think not longer then one month after this years so we still have > > freshly in our memory what worked and what not. > > I think that after this year's, you want to know about organising > conferences f

Re: [Europython-improve] Website down?

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 02 February 2009 17:19:53 Michael Foord wrote: > Same for pyconuk.org! > > -- > Hey guys, > > It looks to me like the website is down - can anyone else verify? > > I've tried europython.eu and europython.org. I kept getting prompted for login credentials, probably because I had an old R

[Europython-improve] Currencies (was Re: EuroPython Talk Submissions)

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 19 December 2008 01:47:17 Zeth wrote: > > At least us not being in the Euro, often a personal inconvenience to > me, has had a small benefit; the collapse of the pound means it will > be even cheaper for continental Euro holding Pythonistas to come to > Europython. Unless the Euro collaps

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 19 December 2008 00:52:11 John Pinner wrote: > > Speaking of which, what happened to the 2006 EP website, we have links > to all the others on the About page, it would be nice to complete the > set. In 2006 we were using CPS, but did so again in 2007. I imagine that a lot of content was

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:44:00 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > Without the slides at hand, you can't read anything on the > screen, except for the title line. The audio isn't great > either. The problem with the PyCon videos, as far as I can tell, is that they are shot from far back in the room a

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 18 December 2008 21:35:59 Zeth wrote: > 2008/12/18 John Pinner : > >> After clicking the button, I get an error 500: Page can not be displayed > > > > The problem is that us Brits don't understand Unicode. > > Unicode, horrible stuff, it worked with the one Finnish text I tried, > but t

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 19:06:39 Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > > How about that we say something like I this: > > By speaking at the EuroPython conference the speaker agrees that: > - The presentation may be recorded and distributed > - Any submitted paper or other documents may be redistribute

[Europython-improve] Web Site Auditing

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, Can the Web site editors edit the following text for consistency with the actual schedule... ;-) "EuroPython 2009 will be taking place in Birmingham City Centre from the 12th-14th September." http://europython2009.eu/talks/cfp/ Paul ___ Europ

Re: [Europython-improve] Poster concept

2008-12-11 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 12:45:11 Yusdi Santoso wrote: > http://europython.org/euro/img/europython.png > Does anyone have the original source for the image? XCF or PSD? Zachary gave me the source files in SVG format along with some non-redistributable fonts and some very large PNG files. If

Re: [Europython-improve] Anybody has the log of last IRC meeting?

2008-12-11 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 11 December 2008 16:32:22 Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > During my connection lost I think I missed a part of the discussion, has > anybody perhaps a log of the meeting? Marius keeps logs for the #europython channel here: http://mg.pov.lt/europython-irclog/ You'll be wanting

Re: [Europython-improve] PCC progress

2008-12-04 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 04 December 2008 18:29:11 Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > > All small update on what I have done till now. > I browsed around and searched for e-mail addresses and contact forms for > mailinglist, groups, etc. > The following need to be updated via a webmaster: > http://www.python.org/news/

Re: [Europython-improve] EP2009: Publicity Communication Coordinator

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 02:10:06 Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > > Would it be very difficult to make a small tab like header with the past > years in it, defaulting to the current year? > > Something like (forgive my ascii art): > |2009|2008|etc. > |+- > | EuroPython Logo /rest of the

Re: [Europython-improve] EP2009: Publicity Communication Coordinator

2008-12-02 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 21:56:50 Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > > Questions: > - Should we send out another reminder a week or two before the event or > is this going to be a bit too much spamming? I suppose it might catch a few people who might be persuaded. Incidentally, the KDE/GNOME lovefest

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython 2009?

2008-11-30 Thread Paul Boddie
Yusdi, > I am newbie in this mailing list. I am a Python enthusiast based in Oxford, > UK. I would like to help out with the next EuroPython 2009 especially since > it will be held in the UK. At the moment the EuroPython website still > contains mostly info about the last conference. Is there any

Re: [Europython-improve] Payment processing

2008-08-05 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 14:46:16 Zeth wrote: > 2008/8/5 John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > No, PayPal has been very reliable. I expected not to like it, but it > > works _very_ well. > > I was also very suspicious of PayPal (e.g. PayPal's software patent > claims and when the British government

[Europython-improve] Payment processing

2008-08-04 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, Having read some of the discussion on payment providers, which has been something of an issue for EuroPython for the past two years (at least, but with more urgency this year and last), and noting that PyCon US isn't experiencing much better, perhaps we should seize the opportunity and s

Re: [Europython-improve] Guido's slides missing on the TalkMaterials page

2008-07-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 18 July 2008 12:41:07 Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:02:44PM +0200, Dinu Gherman wrote: > > I'm missing Guido's keynote slides on the following page: > > > > http://europython.org/TalkMaterials > > > > See the following link: > > > > http://www.python.org/doc/essa

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

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, Here's a message from Ville Säävuori about the conference schedule which didn't make it to the list for some reason. I can't see whether there was a moderation problem in this case, but I'll gladly do moderation on this list if someone will let me into the moderators club. Paul P.S. Th

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

2008-06-15 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 16 June 2008 00:19:05 Laura Creighton wrote: > > Ah, we know exactly what timezone the conference is in, so why > do we want to know about UTC at all? Something that has people > not in EEST getting the wrong time to arrive at seems a disaster > waiting to happen. > > Or is something goi

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

2008-06-15 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 15 June 2008 22:02:26 John Pinner wrote: > 2008/6/15 Douglas Napoleone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:07 PM, John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> The only PyCon-Tech *code* it uses is the CSS, plus many *ideas* which > >> using PyCon-Tech last year gave us.

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

2008-06-15 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 15 June 2008 12:42:04 Marius Gedminas wrote: > The EuroPython 2008 timetable page has[1] has no downloadable iCalendar > version. > > [1] http://registration.europython.eu/timetable.html > > What can I do to make one available? I think there's scope for collaboration here. I've been co

Re: [Europython-improve] Bio from Hans Rosling

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 31 May 2008 10:20:07 Laura Creighton wrote: > He can come Tuesday afternoon to speak, by the way. yay! Great! I've added his biographical details to the site, minus the contact information; if that should also go on the site (not what we've done previously) then let me know or add i

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

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 31 May 2008 15:20:04 Laura Creighton wrote: > I don't find a section about 'how to get from the trainstation > or the airport to the conference venue'. Are we missing this? Yes. I'd like to know what the locals recommend and what people found out last year. The taxi ride from the air

[Europython-improve] IRC Meeting Today at 6pm CEST

2008-05-28 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, As is now the routine, the IRC meeting will take place today, Thursday 29th May, at 6pm CEST (5pm BST, 7pm EEST) on the #europython channel on Freenode (http://freenode.net). Please consult the agenda for more information (and add items where necessary): http://wiki.python.org/moin/Eur

Re: [Europython-improve] Putting talks under a CC license (Talks Submissions)

2008-05-27 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 10:41:34 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > If you look at the past EPC conferences that have had the > possibility to upload talks, you'll find that none of those uploads > are accessible anymore (or at least Google can't find them). For the past two years, any slides and papers that

Re: [Europython-improve] Putting talks under a CC license (Talks Submissions)

2008-05-26 Thread Paul Boddie
Marc-André (and everyone else), Thanks for commenting on this. I'll try and clarify the intent in context below. > I think that you should reconsider the talk publishing policy. There are > a few things that cause bad vibes and it's not really necessary: > > * By submitting a talk and not excl

Re: [Europython-improve] We're getting a lot of mailman bounces at this site.

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 16 May 2008 19:10:04 Laura Creighton wrote: > I think that ep-improve is not where these messages should be going. > I've set mailman to disgard them for now. Are these real errors > we should be doing something about? Instead should I have > added mailman-bounces to the list of people

[Europython-improve] Registration/Meeting

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, At John's request, I've updated the main Web site to link to the registration site, added some information that we tend to publish every year, and have made a blog entry about the opening of registration. Hopefully, I'll be able to post announcements to various places tomorrow (when I ha

[Europython-improve] IRC Meeting Today at 6pm CEST

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, This is just a reminder that the next IRC meeting will take place today (Thursday 8th May) at 6pm CEST (5pm BST, 7pm EEST) on the #europython channel on Freenode (http://freenode.net). Please consult the agenda for more information: http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2008/IRCMeeting

Re: [Europython-improve] promoting Europython at Pycon Italy

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 03 May 2008 01:02:01 Fabio Pliger wrote: > Next friday we'll have Pycon Italy here in Italy. I'll do some local > promotion for Europython speaking about it during the event and offering my > help if people need any kind of information.. I'm looking after trip > informations such as che

Re: [Europython-improve] Call for traducers

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 03 May 2008 00:40:49 Fabio Pliger wrote: > To help Europython promotion at local usergroups it would be interesting to > have the annoucements traduced to the prefered local language. For that we > should have traducers volunteers that can push that activity on.. Anyone > would like to

Re: [Europython-improve] IRC Meeting on Thursday 24th April

2008-04-23 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 23:46:49 John Pinner wrote: > > I'm back from my (almost) internet-free stay in Ireland. Unfortunately > I have left Friday clear for the EP meeting, and have something else > arranged for Thursday! However I will try and make the first 15 > minutes if possible. I suppos

[Europython-improve] IRC Meeting on Thursday 24th April

2008-04-20 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, After some informal discussion last week, referring to some previous consensus, it was decided that we should have a meeting this week, with Thursday being the best candidate (mostly because Aiste can schedule some time then). Start time is 6pm CEST (5pm BST, 7pm EEST); "location" is the

[Europython-improve] Talk Submissions and Mailing Lists

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, Thanks to the efforts of python.org's Brad Knowles, we now have a couple of private mailing lists: europython-talks for talk proposals and reviewing, and europython-contact for confidential enquiries. See here for details: http://www.europython.org/community/Mailing_Lists As a consequen

[Europython-improve] Previous EuroPython Site Available Again

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, Just for those interested in the old EuroPython site: it's now available at previous.europython.org, thanks to the efforts of Bas van der Linden at Amaze. Paul ___ Europython-improve mailing list Europython-improve@python.org http://mail.python

Re: [Europython-improve] idea for tshirts

2008-03-29 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 29 March 2008 18:13:08 Lennart wrote: > > I would not like to be at a conference where everybody had the same > t-shirt for three days. ;) I was thinking about one T-shirt per day, of course. Suggested texts: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. ;-) > That said, customized t-shirts is great.

Re: [Europython-improve] idea for tshirts

2008-03-29 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 28 March 2008 19:46:35 Laura Creighton wrote: > I know Bret Victor who did clickshirt. > See http://worrydream.com/ > under 'recent interesting projects'. I don't have Flash installed, unfortunately, but here's the Web site: http://www.click-shirt.com/ It needs Flash, too. :-/ > He th

Re: [Europython-improve] Conference badges

2008-03-26 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:46:45 Laura Creighton wrote: > > I didn't know about this. Apologies to Richard. I guess we need > a 'RolesAndWhoIsFillingThem' page so people like me don't get > confused. Yes, I suggested this page: http://www.europython.org/community/Volunteers It has all the r

Re: [Europython-improve] Schedule

2008-03-26 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:54:02 Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:59:51 +0100, Dinu Gherman writes: > > > >So far, my intuition says, it's going to be similar to last year, > >with the main meat from 7-9 July and sprints thereafter. > > We haven't set that in stone ye

Re: [Europython-improve] volunteering

2008-03-25 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 10:20:16 Laura Creighton wrote: > > What perfectly splendid news! Welcome. Yes, welcome Stephan! :-) [...] > read http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPythonRoles to get an > overview of what we think needs doing. If any role jumps out > at you, and says 'Take Me!' - let us

Re: [Europython-improve] about http://www.europython.org/community/HelpOnLinking

2008-03-23 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 23 March 2008 13:09:35 Laura Creighton wrote: > According to Alexander -- xorAxAx -- the latest moin moin version doesn't > have the same help on linking page -- and what it has, would work. So > perhaps we need to update moin moin? I am not sure how difficult that > would be. Anybody

Re: [Europython-improve] editing things on the wiki

2008-03-23 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 23 March 2008 12:56:33 Laura Creighton wrote: > Looks to me as if it would be necessary to edit the logo pages themselves, > to stick the full path name in, in order to get them to work with safari. > Any reason they are immutable? Paranoia, mainly. People could influence the voting if t

[Europython-improve] Vote for a New EuroPython Logo!

2008-03-22 Thread Paul Boddie
We’ve had many great submissions for the EuroPython logo competition, and it is now time to make a decision: the current logo has been in use since EuroPython began back in 2002; which logo should replace it? Visit the EuroPython Web site to browse the entrants and to cast your votes: http://ww

Re: [Europython-improve] time for a new Europython meeting

2008-03-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 17 March 2008 15:05:33 Dalius Dobravolskas wrote: > David Boddie wrote: > > Does anyone else think we should publicize these meetings more on other > > lists? > > Register europython blog in python planets (official and unofficial > one). Because I have found it only after participating i

Re: [Europython-improve] And here is something that somebody _liked_ at PyCON

2008-03-16 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 16 March 2008 21:23:08 Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:45:27 +0100, David Boddie writes: > >On Sun Mar 16 17:48:18 CET 2008, Laura Creighton wrote: > >> By the way, the selling of Lightning talks to the sponsors, that > >> Bruce complained about, is entirely t

Re: [Europython-improve] The EuroPython Blog

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 14 March 2008 00:16:43 Christian Scholz wrote: > Hi there! > > I just wanted to remind you (or tell you) that there is a EuroPython > blog up with some content at http://europython.wordpress.com Thanks again for taking the initiative in setting this up! > If anybody wants write access p

[Europython-improve] Sponsorship Materials

2008-03-12 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, I notice that other conferences tend to provide materials for sponsors which describe the benefits and packages. Here are some links to a few of them: http://us.pycon.org/common/2008/public/SponsorProspectus-PyCon2008.pdf http://akademy2008.kde.org/sponsors/akademy2008-sponsorship-brochur

Re: [Europython-improve] looks like Tues, Thurs, and Fri this week.

2008-03-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 10 March 2008 11:10:48 Laura Creighton wrote: > I vote for Thursday. > http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=smitsear444946sp The sooner the better, in my opinion. Thursday would be best for me. > Aiste has indicated that she would find it easier to attend meetings > if we had

[Europython-improve] Logo Voting

2008-03-02 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, Now that we've had a few logo proposals, I've been thinking about the voting (or rating) process for selecting the community favourite. What I suggest is this: 1. We update the site to show some "voting stars" by each logo. 2. Each voter then visits the logo pages and then votes on (o

Re: [Europython-improve] Doodle results for next weeks meeting

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 17 February 2008 23:29:38 Laura Creighton wrote: > [Meeting next Sunday] > Everybody else -- send me what you want to talk about and I will put > it on the agenda so it isn't forgotten. I've taken the liberty of making an agenda from what we discussed in the last meeting: http://wiki

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