[Conferences] FWD: [PyCon-Organizers] What's in a name?

[Giovanni Bajo]

FWIW, as a PyCon Italy organizer, I can't see any problem with it. To me,
PyCon US has always been *the* PyCon.

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:41:11 -0700, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:01:42 -0400
> From: Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>
> To: "Pycon-Organizers at Python.Org" <pycon-organizers at python.org>
> Subject: [PyCon-Organizers] What's in a name?
> 
> I see there was some discussion late in today's meeting about "PyCon"
> vs. "PyCon US", and some trepidation about whether simply calling the US
> conference "PyCon" would step on European sensibilities. For what it's
> worth I don't think there'd be any problem with retaining the name
> "PyCon" for the US event.
> 
> When I was at EuroPython I acknowledged (so some applause) that
> EuroPython was the first community Python conference. You have to
> remember, though, that EuroPython is a trans-national event, not a
> national one. (For the benefit of the geographically-challenged Europe
> is a continent, not a country).
> 
> We have seen the emergence of many national conferences, and so far it
> seems that most of them have chosen to use the PyCon name with a country
> subscript, whether a two-letter code as in the case of Argentina (AR)
> and France (FR) or with a full country designation such as Italy
> (Italia). The exception is New Zealand, who are currently designating
> their conference "Kiwi PyCon". That's OK with me too.
> 
> EuroPython remains special, however, and I doubt very much, given that
> the even is run by the "EuroPython Society" that they would ever want to
> become "PyCon Europe" or "PyCon EU". If you want to avoid treading on
> toes don't worry about the naming, simply acknowledge that EuroPython
> started about six months before PyCon (US) did.
> 
> As its founder I think PyCon in the US deserves to use the name without
> any suffix simply by virtue of its pre-emininence in terms of both size
> and longevity, and I don't think this would ruffle any feathers with the
> other national conferences. I'd be happy for someone to forward this
> message to the conferences discussion list (of which I am not a member)
> to see whether or not I am correct.
> 
> regards
>  Steve
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