The room capacity is definitely not 100. I think 65 is already at or over the maximum. If the size will grow then we can't host it there.
Thanks, Justin On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Miles Van Pelt <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > That all sounds good. We have a head start if we don't need to look > for a different space. I think we had 65 or so last year, so let's > try to configure the room for at least 100 and see if we can get a > larger turnout. What's the official room capacity? > > James Thiele offered to coordinate the talks again, so take it away > James. He had some new ideas for this year although I can't remember > them exactly. But I think the initial talk proposals will still go on > the wiki. > > Lightning talks at the beginning and end has worked well at PyCon. > > So let's start filling in some jobs: > - venue: Justin Cappos > - talks: James Thiele > - overall schedule: Mike Orr > - supplies/food/nametags: Mike Orr > - coffee: ? > - web page (info, talks link, sprints link): ? > - invitations/marketing: ? > - sprints: ? > > For the sprints, I'd suggest a wiki page for topics, and tentatively > reserving two rooms. If we have a few potential topics by December's > meeting, we can confirm the rooms. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> >
