[Pycon-se] New mailing list, meeting?

[Fredrik Håård]

I'm slightly opposed to community voting, at least without vetting
and/or balancing topics against each other.
Case in point: as a speaker, I know I can talk at EP since I can craft
a proposal people will vote for, but as an attendee I actually think
the quality may be suffering from very same fact - hype is what gets
you through the door.

I think mid-May is a good time, in between PyCon NA in March and EP in July.

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2013/7/17 Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki at spotify.com>:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:42 AM, George Brocklehurst
> <george at thoughtbot.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone. Putting together a national PyCon is a great idea!
>>
>> A few thoughts …
>>
>> On 17 July 2013 11:25, Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki at spotify.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Fredrik Håård <fredrik at haard.se>
>> > wrote:
>> >> B) size of the program - length, number of tracks, tutorials, sprints
>> >
>> > First event should be a kick-ass, memorable one, to make it boost the
>> > organizing next year's event. What I mean by this that we should aim for
>> > high quality speakers for the first event and if we throw a good
>> > conference
>> > on the first year, it's easier to lure in people next year via call for
>> > proposals etc. There's nothing stopping us setting up a call for
>> > proposal
>> > for the first year either, but picking out good speakers of CFPs is
>> > hard,
>> > inviting the good ones you know directly is easier.
>> >
>> > That said, we should probably live some room for new speakers / not so
>> > veteran ones, to serve the community to provide people a place to hone
>> > their
>> > speaking skills!
>>
>> Ruby Manor (a small Ruby conference in the UK) have had a lot of
>> success with a public, anonymous, vote-base talk selection process
>> using an app they wrote called Vestibule:
>> http://vestibule.rubymanor.org/
>>
>> It does require a lot of community participation, but both times I've
>> been (once as a speaker, once as an attendee) it's produced a really
>> interesting conference. It does attract new speakers, but the
>> organisers preview all of the talks and give feedback a week or two
>> before the conference to make sure the quality is high.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this would be right for us, it's just another approach
>> to consider in addition to an invited speaker list or a traditional
>> CFP.
>>
>
> EuroPython uses a voting too (sans keynotes), seems to work good for them.
> My only concern is that these probably work better with an established
> conference than with a new one. However, I like the voting aspect more than
> the traditional CFP :)
>
>>
>> >> C) budget - number of sponsors, venue, dinner etc
>>
>> A few of us from the Stockholm user group went and spoke about Python
>> at Stockholm University a couple of months ago, so we know some people
>> there who we could talk to about using SU as the venue if that's
>> useful.
>
>
> To keep costs reasonable, something like this would be awesome!
>
> One more thing came to mind: The time of the conference.
>
> Fall is usually pretty riddled with Python conferences, for some reason. In
> October alone there will be PyCon Brazil, Ploneconf, PyCon DE, PyCon IE,
> Rupy and PyCon Finland (IIRC, PSF hosts a calendar). On the other hand, the
> springtime usually only has PyCon (which next year will be in Montreal in
> the beginning of April).
>
> Given the weather et al. factors a conference in May could be something to
> think about. It's also far enough in the distant future given all the
> organizing hassle :)
>
> - Jyrki
>



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