[Conferences] Add PyCon Ireland 2010 to pycon.org's list?

[Carl Karsten]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:15 AM, John Pinner <funthyme at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 20 April 2010 12:14, Mike Müller <mmueller at python-academy.de> wrote:
>>
>> Seems to me that it kind of overlaps with EuroPython:
>>
>> http://www.europython.eu/
>>
>> Is this intended or accident?
>>
> It's intended in so far as it's known about: as I recall Vicky had problems
> in finding another date, and asked if the overlap was OK with us at EP.
>
> On the basis that the Irish event overlaps just the EP tutorials, we thought
> it was OK. As Birmingham is just a short hop from Dublin, people can attend
> both events quite easily.
>
>> I guess, people would have to decide to attend one of
>> these conference. I don't know if this a good idea.
>>
> Well, it's not a good idea for EP organisers! I'd wanted to go to the Dublin
> event, but now I can't :-(
>
> FWIW, 11 people came from Ireland to last year's EP, and 2 of them have
> booked for EP2010 so far.
>

I am guessing there is 0.0 chance of rescheduling.  If so, lets see
how things play out and put some extra effort into gathering
statistics to help plan future events.

-- 
Carl K