[EuroPython] EPC2003: program + length + public + fees

[Tom Deprez]

I still don't see why we need to seperate all the people. I honoustly
hate it when somebody puts me in square and tells me 'well, this is only
for X kind of people, you aren't an X person, so we don't want you
here'.
I always had the idea that people are complement to each other. A
business person needs the help from a programmer and a programmer can
learn from a business person as well.
If you put people in squares (are how do you say it in english), then it
looks more like privating your thingie.

Tom.

Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 07:31:39PM +0100, holger krekel wrote:
>> Were there any complaints from business or dev people last time?
>>
>> I enjoyed the mixture of business and development tracks.  I am
>> interested in certain businesses and certain python projects. There
>> is no clear barrier separating the groups which is a good thing IMO.
>>
>> It didn't occur to me that the python business people were extremely
>> eager to have a more formal type of environment.  Pythonic business
>> people seem more interesting than "usual" business people to me
>> as much as python developers are compared to many other communities.
>> Why not build on that?
>
> There was *no* business people at last year's conference. To be exact,
> there was some companies fishing for business, but not a single
> person that looked, even remotely, like someone would could write a
> check :-)
>
> We can go either way: hackers only event OR business and hackers
> event. Both are fine as long as the target is clearly defined. Last
> year was the former, *not* the latter.
>
> I was the one suggesting along with Nicolas Pettiaux that we could
> make it otherwise, but it does not *have* to be otherwise. There are
> other ways to get in touch with businesses than that kind of event.