There was discussion last night about northwest python day and in the name of
progress, we made some decisions so that we could continue to move forward.
We decided that being a relatively small precursor to Pycon seemed to be a
significant factor in last year's success, and as such, we thought it made
sense to us to try to keep the format as similar as possible to last year.
-One room on a saturday in mid January, ~1 month before PyCon (Jan9, Jan16, or
Jan23).
-We keep registration limited to a similar size as last year.
-We encourage people giving talks at PyCon to present as a chance to
warmup/prepare for Pycon.
-6-8 Half our talks
-1-2 lightning talk sections
Justin said that he would look into getting the same room as last year, which
should be more comfortable given that we now know that we can reconfigure the
room to let people into the middle of the circle.
One of the main improvements that Justin suggested, having talked to some of
last year's attendants, is that instead of simply turning away presenters once
we have enough, was that we review talks by requiring a short paragraph
abstract. The idea being that we keep talks more widely interesting, and less
domain specific. Thinks like general tools, or "this is what I learned when
writing this piece of software", or generally interesting projects.
I know that there was talk of trying to have multiple rooms, but this
complicates things in a number of ways. The least of which being that it would
be impractical, or impossible to do this at UW.
Also, there has been talk of maybe having space for sprints, and we felt that
it made more sense to do this on the following Sunday. If there's enough
interest, Justin said he'd be willing to book a couple of smaller rooms for the
Sunday after the talks.
Now, if anyone else has ideas as to what to do next, this is the forum. Last
year I wasn't much involved at all with organizing things, but I'm sure some
key things started happening right around now.
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