[EuroPython] what about september?

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 11 November 2002 09:16, Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> > What about organizing the new conference in september 2003?
>
> In April, it is the Python UK conference. If we move the europython
> conference away from country-specific conferences and US-specific
> conferences, we will soon be unable to hold one since there are more than
> 12 countries in europe and more than one conference in the US. Python is
> gaining momentum, more conferences are organized, all the better. But we
> should try to make europython the event that everyone wants to attend
> rather than to shy away from the other events. No one would attend every
> python event anyway... except maybe some professionnal globe-trotters :-)

I agree with Nicolas. Also think of students. October is a bad time, since 
school is going on. The summer is nice, since students are out of school.

On the other hand it is much cheaper to travel in September and October, if 
you have to fly.

Regards,
Stephan
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