[EuroPython] AW: Sprints and some ideas for it

[Laura Creighton]

> I do not think MS integration should be the target of a sprint though; 
> don't think you'll too many hackers with that. And I'd say sprints are for 
> hackers primarily, not for business people. :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn
> 

I had enormous success at an open source conference where we just 
took requests from business people and fixed them up with solutions.
A team had 3 hours to produce one.  The whole idea was to impress
business people that you could actually order an open source solution
to any problem you had.  Admittedly, this conference was put on
by idependent open source consultants who had come there to impress
the hell out of the suits so they could get nice new paying 
contracts --- but there is nothing in my experience that says we
are in any way short of such people in the python community.  So
I would say, give it a chance.

Laura Creighton