From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Tue Sep 4 15:33:19 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:33:19 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyCon blog access Message-ID: Greetings Jesse Noller has given me access to post announcements and update to the PyCon blog http://pycon.blogspot.com/. All posts need to include PyCon ZA in the title. We shouldn't abuse this privilege obviously but let's aim to post a few update between now and the conference. Schiavo Simon From sam at speakerscorner.co.za Tue Sep 4 20:04:22 2012 From: sam at speakerscorner.co.za (Samantha Manclark) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:04:22 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyCon blog access In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Simon, Great idea. I am chasing Gustav for comments from the sponsors. If we don't get any feedback by Thursday I think we should go with the release as is without any sponsors comments. The next release I'd like to work on is the speakers release. How far are we from securing the final programme? Many thanks Sam On 4 September 2012 15:33, Simon Cross wrote: > Greetings > > Jesse Noller has given me access to post announcements and update to > the PyCon blog http://pycon.blogspot.com/. All posts need to include > PyCon ZA in the title. We shouldn't abuse this privilege obviously but > let's aim to post a few update between now and the conference. > > Schiavo > Simon > -- Sam Manclark | Better World Network | Speakers Corner | +27 825565188 | +27 11 327 1540 skype | sammanclark twitter | @sammanclark speakerscorner.co.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Wed Sep 5 11:21:54 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:21:54 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Organizing volunteers Message-ID: Greetings Anyone feeling like volunteering to help organize the volunteers? Mostly what's need is to: * Find things for them to do (e.g. help at registration, pack swag). * Track who has volunteered for what. * Liaise with potential volunteers. * Make sure the volunteer program gets advertised on the site, via Twitter, etc (i.e. keep poking the right people until they do it). Schiavo Simon From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Wed Sep 5 12:50:49 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:50:49 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Stats update Message-ID: Greetings Current stats from the pyconza database: Attendees: 140 Corporate: 47 Individual: 43 Student: 50 Paid: 75 Unpaid: 65 Speakers: Total: 4* * This is just people signed up on the site -- a few others have confirmed or offered but I'm still chasing them to get them in the database. From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Wed Sep 5 14:42:27 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:42:27 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Stats update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Simon Cross wrote: > Attendees: 140 Now at 156. Schiavo Simon From graemeglass at gmail.com Wed Sep 5 14:59:25 2012 From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:59:25 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Organizing volunteers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I will volunteer :-D Do we have any idea of volunteer numbers atm? On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Simon Cross wrote: > Greetings > > Anyone feeling like volunteering to help organize the volunteers? > Mostly what's need is to: > > * Find things for them to do (e.g. help at registration, pack swag). > * Track who has volunteered for what. > * Liaise with potential volunteers. > * Make sure the volunteer program gets advertised on the site, via > Twitter, etc (i.e. keep poking the right people until they do it). > > Schiavo > Simon > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Wed Sep 5 15:14:24 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:14:24 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Organizing volunteers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Graeme Glass wrote: > Do we have any idea of volunteer numbers atm? 1. :) Actually that's supplemented by a fair number of sponsored students who I'd like to get involved in the conference as much as possible. Schiavo Simon From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Wed Sep 5 23:43:35 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:43:35 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Armin Ronacher has accepted Message-ID: Greetings I'm pleased to announce that Armin Ronacher has accepted our offer to come speak at PyCon ZA. Next on the list to invite is Michael Foord. Schiavo Simon From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Thu Sep 6 00:07:49 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 00:07:49 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Michael Foord declined Message-ID: Greetings Michael Foord declined. Next on the list is Alex Gaynor. Schiavo Simon From graemeglass at gmail.com Thu Sep 6 06:53:50 2012 From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 06:53:50 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Armin Ronacher has accepted In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Simon Cross wrote: > Greetings > > I'm pleased to announce that Armin Ronacher has accepted our offer to > come speak at PyCon ZA. Excellent news! From simon at praekeltfoundation.org Thu Sep 6 09:31:35 2012 From: simon at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon de Haan) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 09:31:35 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Armin Ronacher has accepted In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Brilliant! On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Graeme Glass wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Simon Cross > wrote: >> Greetings >> >> I'm pleased to announce that Armin Ronacher has accepted our offer to >> come speak at PyCon ZA. > > Excellent news! > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za -- Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Thu Sep 6 10:24:37 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:24:37 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyConZA morning stats Message-ID: Attendees: 174 Corporate: 82 Individual: 42 Student: 50 Paid: 100 Unpaid: 74 Speakers: Total: 6 And we have 26 tickets that we're committed to in other ways that aren't yet on the system (mostly two Gold sponsors who haven't given lists of attendees yet) so we've officially hit 200. Schiavo Simon From graemeglass at gmail.com Thu Sep 6 10:34:46 2012 From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:34:46 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyConZA morning stats In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Simon Cross wrote: > Attendees: 174 > > Corporate: 82 > Individual: 42 > Student: 50 > > Paid: 100 > Unpaid: 74 > > Speakers: > > Total: 6 > > And we have 26 tickets that we're committed to in other ways that > aren't yet on the system (mostly two Gold sponsors who haven't given > lists of attendees yet) so we've officially hit 200. > > Schiavo > Simon Fantastic news! Well done! From euan at unomena.com Thu Sep 6 10:51:25 2012 From: euan at unomena.com (Euan Jonker) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:51:25 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyConZA morning stats In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That's Awesome! Looking good! On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Simon Cross < simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote: > Attendees: 174 > > Corporate: 82 > Individual: 42 > Student: 50 > > Paid: 100 > Unpaid: 74 > > Speakers: > > Total: 6 > > And we have 26 tickets that we're committed to in other ways that > aren't yet on the system (mostly two Gold sponsors who haven't given > lists of attendees yet) so we've officially hit 200. > > Schiavo > Simon > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > -- *Euan Jonker* *UNOMENA** *http://unomena.com +27 83 400 2042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Thu Sep 6 15:39:32 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:39:32 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Waiting list activated on za.pycon.org Message-ID: Greetings We hit 215 tickets committed so we took a decision to switch registration on za.pycon.org to a waiting list. The information captured is the same but there's a red box letting people know they're signing up to a waiting list and the emails sent out are different (they explain the waiting list and don't contain an invoice). This doesn't mean no more tickets are available for PyConZA -- just that we have to limit things carefully from here. Step one is chasing current sponsors and people who haven't paid to make sure they either use their tickets or free them up for people who will. Step two will be contacting people on the waiting list if spaces become available. Schiavo Simon From euan at unomena.com Thu Sep 6 16:52:46 2012 From: euan at unomena.com (Euan Jonker) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:52:46 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Waiting list activated on za.pycon.org In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Perhaps we should update Quicket as well, because you can still sign up there and pay. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Simon Cross < simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote: > Greetings > > We hit 215 tickets committed so we took a decision to switch > registration on za.pycon.org to a waiting list. The information > captured is the same but there's a red box letting people know they're > signing up to a waiting list and the emails sent out are different > (they explain the waiting list and don't contain an invoice). > > This doesn't mean no more tickets are available for PyConZA -- just > that we have to limit things carefully from here. Step one is chasing > current sponsors and people who haven't paid to make sure they either > use their tickets or free them up for people who will. Step two will > be contacting people on the waiting list if spaces become available. > > Schiavo > Simon > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > -- *Euan Jonker* *UNOMENA** *http://unomena.com +27 83 400 2042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Thu Sep 6 16:56:25 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:56:25 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Waiting list activated on za.pycon.org In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Euan Jonker wrote: > Perhaps we should update Quicket as well, because you can still sign up > there and pay. Good point! Hmm. Not quite sure what to do there since we still need to let people pay. Lauren, any thoughts? Maybe shutting it down is best? Or perhaps we can just put a notice there too telling people not to pay unless they've received an invoice? Schiavo Simon From lauren.kotze at praekeltfoundation.org Thu Sep 6 17:00:08 2012 From: lauren.kotze at praekeltfoundation.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lauren_Kotz=E9?=) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 17:00:08 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Waiting list activated on za.pycon.org In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is a good point. I dont think I can put a notice up but let me check it out quickly. On 6 September 2012 16:56, Simon Cross wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Euan Jonker wrote: > > Perhaps we should update Quicket as well, because you can still sign up > > there and pay. > > Good point! > > Hmm. Not quite sure what to do there since we still need to let people pay. > > Lauren, any thoughts? Maybe shutting it down is best? Or perhaps we > can just put a notice there too telling people not to pay unless > they've received an invoice? > > Schiavo > Simon > -- *LAUREN KOTZE* | Programme Manager: Southern Africa *PRAEKELTFOUNDATION*.ORG | *PRAEKELT*.COM *M*: +27 76 738 4103 | ***S*: lauren.kotze3 | *Tw*: lauren_kotze -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 7 03:11:30 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 03:11:30 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft Schedule planning meeting Message-ID: Greetings Neil and I are planning to meet at 16:00 on Saturday afternoon and hash out the draft schedule for the conference. Anyone who wants to help is welcome to join us. Venue is currently up for debate. Schiavo Simon From graemeglass at gmail.com Fri Sep 7 08:00:39 2012 From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 08:00:39 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft Schedule planning meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Simon Cross wrote: > Greetings > > Neil and I are planning to meet at 16:00 on Saturday afternoon and > hash out the draft schedule for the conference. Anyone who wants to > help is welcome to join us. Venue is currently up for debate. > > Schiavo > Simon Great, I am busy for till early evening on Sat, so can pop in after 6ish, so please announce the venue once it has been decided. Thanks From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 7 09:09:13 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:09:13 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft Schedule planning meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Graeme Glass wrote: > I am busy for till early evening on Sat, so can pop in after 6ish, so > please announce the venue once it has been decided. I'm hoping it won't take us quite that long to get the draft schedule down. From graemeglass at gmail.com Fri Sep 7 10:00:29 2012 From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:00:29 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Organizing volunteers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Greetings, I have set up a group to help coordinate the volunteer effort, and keep track of the task that need to be done. pycon-za-volunteers at googlegroups.com Feel free to throw tasks our way :-) As it stands the first 2 tasks we have is: help at registration desk (welcoming attendees, name badges?, etc) pack swag I have tweeted calling for volunteers, if someone could tweet from the pycon twitter account with the address to volunteers mailing list, that would be great. Here's to a fantastic conference! G From graemeglass at gmail.com Fri Sep 7 10:19:01 2012 From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:19:01 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Organizing volunteers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: sigh... By 'is' I mean 'are' and the singular task should be tasks. Don't change the number of elements in a list without checking the previous statements From noreply at googlegroups.com Fri Sep 7 08:27:02 2012 From: noreply at googlegroups.com (Graeme Glass (Google Groups)) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:27:02 +0000 Subject: [pycon-za] Google Groups Invitation: PYCON ZA Volunteers Message-ID: <3XCtDH04C7zQJD@mail.python.org> Graeme Glass graemeglass at gmail.com has invited you to join the PYCON ZA Volunteers group with this message: Greetings, I have set up a mailing list to help co-ordinate volunteering efforts for pycon-za. Regards, Graeme Here is the group's description: A place to coordinate volunteer efforts for http://za.pycon.org/ ---------------------- Google Groups Information ---------------------- You can accept this invitation by clicking the following URL: http://groups.google.com/group/pycon-za-volunteers/sub?s=EM8oyxQAAAAyZzIXgPaDkGVbWeUBU9laYwWnTL5a1pcw4UL93CJxpg&hl=en-GB --------------------- If This Message Is Unwanted --------------------- If you feel that this message is abuse, please inform the Google Groups staff by using the URL below. http://groups.google.com/groups/abuse?invite=YQAAAL4V-j2wAAAAkuiEVVEAAABzWK79j1X0YkHgapk3g3tdXce1GVc&hl=en-GB From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 7 15:44:01 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:44:01 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Google Groups Invitation: PYCON ZA Volunteers In-Reply-To: <3XCtDH04C7zQJD@mail.python.org> References: <3XCtDH04C7zQJD@mail.python.org> Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Graeme Glass (Google Groups) wrote: > Graeme Glass has invited you to join the PYCON ZA I don't think inviting a mailing list to a Google Group works. :) From graemeglass at gmail.com Fri Sep 7 16:02:56 2012 From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 14:02:56 +0000 Subject: [pycon-za] Google Groups Invitation: PYCON ZA Volunteers Message-ID: <1628915855-1347026577-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-710047144-@b14.c17.bise7.blackberry> indeed, was not intentional ------Original Message------ From: Simon Cross To: graemeglass at gmail.com Cc: pycon-za at python.org Subject: Re: [pycon-za] Google Groups Invitation: PYCON ZA Volunteers Sent: Sep 7, 2012 15:44 On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Graeme Glass (Google Groups) wrote: > Graeme Glass has invited you to join the PYCON ZA I don't think inviting a mailing list to a Google Group works. :) From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 7 18:01:25 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:01:25 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft Schedule planning meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Simon Cross wrote: > Neil and I are planning to meet at 16:00 on Saturday afternoon and > hash out the draft schedule for the conference. Anyone who wants to > help is welcome to join us. Venue is currently up for debate. The venue will be Maciej's place -- near Beleza on Kloof Nek Road. The meeting will last one hour so don't be (too) late. :) Contact me off list if you want to come and need directions. Schiavo Simon From fijall at gmail.com Fri Sep 7 18:12:18 2012 From: fijall at gmail.com (Maciej Fijalkowski) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:12:18 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft Schedule planning meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Simon Cross wrote: > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Simon Cross > wrote: >> Neil and I are planning to meet at 16:00 on Saturday afternoon and >> hash out the draft schedule for the conference. Anyone who wants to >> help is welcome to join us. Venue is currently up for debate. > > The venue will be Maciej's place -- near Beleza on Kloof Nek Road. The > meeting will last one hour so don't be (too) late. :) > > Contact me off list if you want to come and need directions. > > Schiavo > Simon > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za Hey. Any chance to move it slightly later (like 7) so I can go climb? From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 7 18:15:10 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:15:10 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft Schedule planning meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > Hey. Any chance to move it slightly later (like 7) so I can go climb? Hmm. Not now really. We can just meet at Beleza if that's better? :) Schiavo Simon From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 7 18:25:24 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:25:24 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft Schedule planning meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Simon Cross wrote: > The venue will be Maciej's place -- near Beleza on Kloof Nek Road. The > meeting will last one hour so don't be (too) late. :) Very slight change of venue. The venue is now Beleza on Kloof Nek Road. Schiavo Simon From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Tue Sep 11 00:46:27 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:46:27 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyConZA stats update Message-ID: Attendees: 216 Registered: 201 Paid: 146 Unpaid: 55 Waiting: 15 Speakers: 8 From euan at unomena.com Tue Sep 11 09:43:15 2012 From: euan at unomena.com (Euan Jonker) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:43:15 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyConZA stats update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I think that is really good stats for the first PyCon ZA! Well done Simon! On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Simon Cross < simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote: > Attendees: 216 > Registered: 201 > Paid: 146 > Unpaid: 55 > Waiting: 15 > > Speakers: 8 > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > -- *Euan Jonker* *UNOMENA** *http://unomena.com +27 83 400 2042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lauren.kotze at praekeltfoundation.org Tue Sep 11 09:49:49 2012 From: lauren.kotze at praekeltfoundation.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lauren_Kotz=E9?=) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:49:49 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyConZA stats update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: yup - very exciting! On 11 September 2012 09:43, Euan Jonker wrote: > I think that is really good stats for the first PyCon ZA! > > Well done Simon! > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Simon Cross < > simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote: > >> Attendees: 216 >> Registered: 201 >> Paid: 146 >> Unpaid: 55 >> Waiting: 15 >> >> Speakers: 8 >> _______________________________________________ >> PyCon-ZA mailing list >> PyCon-ZA at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za >> > > > > -- > *Euan Jonker* > > *UNOMENA** > *http://unomena.com > +27 83 400 2042 > > > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > > -- *LAUREN KOTZE* | Programme Manager: Southern Africa *PRAEKELTFOUNDATION*.ORG | *PRAEKELT*.COM *M*: +27 76 738 4103 | ***S*: lauren.kotze3 | *Tw*: lauren_kotze -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Tue Sep 11 17:50:32 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:50:32 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up Message-ID: Greetings The draft schedule is up at https://docs.google.com/a/praekeltfoundation.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArtGEjT77bXodHlZZU5kQzRkczl1RktaX2lBNFd0LUE#gid=0 . Now is the time to give feedback. There's still quite a lot of work to be done to firm up the draft and confirm everything with the speakers. Thank you Jeremy, Neil, Adrianna and Maciej for helping me hash it out on Saturday. Notes: * Gustav: We'd like you to give an example of a lightning talk so people know what the format is like. Probably during the opening. Maybe we should get some of the other sponsors to do one too. Ideally should just be fun and inspiring. * We're a little short on scientific talks that cover numpy and scipy. I'm hitting people up for them but assistance with that would be helpful. * We're short a proper talk on Django and web talks in general (I'm trying to get Alex and maybe St James Software to give a talk). * There are potentially about ten talk slots still available. * All the organizers should wear funny hats so they're easily identifiable (although Wendy is getting shirts made for them). Schiavo Simon From graemeglass at gmail.com Wed Sep 12 08:57:58 2012 From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:57:58 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Line-up looking great! On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Simon Cross wrote: > Greetings > > The draft schedule is up at > https://docs.google.com/a/praekeltfoundation.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArtGEjT77bXodHlZZU5kQzRkczl1RktaX2lBNFd0LUE#gid=0 > . > > Now is the time to give feedback. There's still quite a lot of work to > be done to firm up the draft and confirm everything with the speakers. > > Thank you Jeremy, Neil, Adrianna and Maciej for helping me hash it out > on Saturday. > > Notes: > > * Gustav: We'd like you to give an example of a lightning talk so > people know what the format is like. Probably during the opening. > Maybe we should get some of the other sponsors to do one too. Ideally > should just be fun and inspiring. > * We're a little short on scientific talks that cover numpy and scipy. > I'm hitting people up for them but assistance with that would be > helpful. > * We're short a proper talk on Django and web talks in general (I'm > trying to get Alex and maybe St James Software to give a talk). > * There are potentially about ten talk slots still available. > * All the organizers should wear funny hats so they're easily > identifiable (although Wendy is getting shirts made for them). > > Schiavo > Simon > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za From euan at unomena.com Wed Sep 12 09:41:43 2012 From: euan at unomena.com (Euan Jonker) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:41:43 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Should we not allow 5 minutes between sessions, just in-case someone wants to move from one venue to another to catch another session there? I'm interested in a session in one room but am afraid I won't make the start of the next in the other room and find a seat before it starts. #just a thought - I may be way off on this. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Simon Cross < simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote: > Greetings > > The draft schedule is up at > > https://docs.google.com/a/praekeltfoundation.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArtGEjT77bXodHlZZU5kQzRkczl1RktaX2lBNFd0LUE#gid=0 > . > > Now is the time to give feedback. There's still quite a lot of work to > be done to firm up the draft and confirm everything with the speakers. > > Thank you Jeremy, Neil, Adrianna and Maciej for helping me hash it out > on Saturday. > > Notes: > > * Gustav: We'd like you to give an example of a lightning talk so > people know what the format is like. Probably during the opening. > Maybe we should get some of the other sponsors to do one too. Ideally > should just be fun and inspiring. > * We're a little short on scientific talks that cover numpy and scipy. > I'm hitting people up for them but assistance with that would be > helpful. > * We're short a proper talk on Django and web talks in general (I'm > trying to get Alex and maybe St James Software to give a talk). > * There are potentially about ten talk slots still available. > * All the organizers should wear funny hats so they're easily > identifiable (although Wendy is getting shirts made for them). > > Schiavo > Simon > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > -- *Euan Jonker* *UNOMENA** *http://unomena.com +27 83 400 2042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From drnlmuller at gmail.com Wed Sep 12 10:01:06 2012 From: drnlmuller at gmail.com (Neil Muller) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:01:06 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 12 September 2012 09:41, Euan Jonker wrote: > Should we not allow 5 minutes between sessions, just in-case someone wants > to move from one venue to another to catch another session there? > > I'm interested in a session in one room but am afraid I won't make the start > of the next in the other room and find a seat before it starts. The current plan is 30 minutes for the actual talk, with the rest for questions, overrun management, talk setup and venue swapping. -- Neil Muller drnlmuller at gmail.com I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool? From fijall at gmail.com Wed Sep 12 10:05:30 2012 From: fijall at gmail.com (Maciej Fijalkowski) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:05:30 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Speakers Message-ID: Hi Would it be any useful if I prepare some materials for speakers aka stuff that's on pycon US? Also I can do some briefing before the actual conference (like Monday during registration or so) We should also have session chairs have usb sticks to get presentation materials from speakers just after their talk. I'm not a great speaker, but I'm still very good in theory :) Cheers, fijal From wendy at speakerscorner.co.za Wed Sep 12 10:11:23 2012 From: wendy at speakerscorner.co.za (Wendy Griffiths) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:11:23 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: good stuff Wendy Griffiths I Executive Producer I Speakers Corner I +27 11 327 1540 I +27 823775913 I www.speakerscorner.co.za I skype: princesswendilz On 12 September 2012 10:01, Neil Muller wrote: > On 12 September 2012 09:41, Euan Jonker wrote: > > Should we not allow 5 minutes between sessions, just in-case someone > wants > > to move from one venue to another to catch another session there? > > > > I'm interested in a session in one room but am afraid I won't make the > start > > of the next in the other room and find a seat before it starts. > > The current plan is 30 minutes for the actual talk, with the rest for > questions, overrun management, talk setup and venue swapping. > > > -- > Neil Muller > drnlmuller at gmail.com > > I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool? > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gustav at praekelt.com Wed Sep 12 09:57:58 2012 From: gustav at praekelt.com (Gustav) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:57:58 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Simon This is looking really great. Some comments: 1. Lightning Talk. Happy to oblige. Have we finalised what the format is? 2. Django. That really is a glaring omission. A lot of the attendees will be either planning to use it or actively using it, I would think at least an advanced and intermediate/beginner level talk would be useful (or maybe a have a beginner tutorial? 3. Mobile. Do we have no potential talks on mobile development, especially on Android. I know Python isn't heavily used in this arena, but given the importance/relevance in Africa would be great to have a specific talk around that? Where google not interested in maybe doing this? 4. The two SKA back-to-back talks look a bit weird, any particular reason for scheduling them together? 5. Twisted or Gevent. Do we not have someone who can talk about event-driven stuff (given the interest level in node.js especially). G * GUSTAV PRAEKELT* | CEO *PRAEKELT*.COM | *PRAEKELTFOUNDATION*.ORG *Mobile *+27.82.459.3656 | *Skype* gustav.praekelt On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Simon Cross < simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote: > Greetings > > The draft schedule is up at > > https://docs.google.com/a/praekeltfoundation.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArtGEjT77bXodHlZZU5kQzRkczl1RktaX2lBNFd0LUE#gid=0 > . > > Now is the time to give feedback. There's still quite a lot of work to > be done to firm up the draft and confirm everything with the speakers. > > Thank you Jeremy, Neil, Adrianna and Maciej for helping me hash it out > on Saturday. > > Notes: > > * Gustav: We'd like you to give an example of a lightning talk so > people know what the format is like. Probably during the opening. > Maybe we should get some of the other sponsors to do one too. 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URL: From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Thu Sep 13 17:52:13 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:52:13 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Gustav wrote: > 1. Lightning Talk. Happy to oblige. Have we finalised what the format is? No. :) The PyCon US 2012 lightning talks were 5 minutes long with 4 or 5 slides per talk. That gives us 9 talks in 45 minutes. > 2. Django. That really is a glaring omission. A lot of the attendees will be > either planning to use it or actively using it, I would think at least an > advanced and intermediate/beginner level talk would be useful (or maybe a > have a beginner tutorial? If we don't get Alex Gaynor we'll definitely need to get someone to fill that dap. > 3. Mobile. Do we have no potential talks on mobile development, especially > on Android. I know Python isn't heavily used in this arena, but given the > importance/relevance in Africa would be great to have a specific talk around > that? Where google not interested in maybe doing this? Google have promised me a talk on Python on Android but I haven't got a speaker's name from them yet. > 4. The two SKA back-to-back talks look a bit weird, any particular reason > for scheduling them together? It seemed like they would fit thematically but there wasn't a super strong reason. > 5. Twisted or Gevent. Do we not have someone who can talk about event-driven > stuff (given the interest level in node.js especially). This is definitely a gap I'd like to cover. I've prodded the Vumi team a bit. Other suggestions of local Twisted devs I could prod welcomed. Schiavo Simon From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Thu Sep 13 18:02:17 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:02:17 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Speakers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > Would it be any useful if I prepare some materials for speakers aka > stuff that's on pycon US? Also I can do some briefing before the > actual conference (like Monday during registration or so) We should > also have session chairs have usb sticks to get presentation materials > from speakers just after their talk. I'm not a great speaker, but I'm > still very good in theory :) Some recommendations for speakers to put on the site and email to speakers would be awesome. Briefing speakers, and having session chairs collect talk materials on USB sticks all sound good -- I've added them to Trello and the schedule. From fijall at gmail.com Thu Sep 13 18:16:19 2012 From: fijall at gmail.com (Maciej Fijalkowski) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:16:19 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Simon Cross wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Gustav wrote: >> 1. Lightning Talk. Happy to oblige. Have we finalised what the format is? > > No. :) The PyCon US 2012 lightning talks were 5 minutes long with 4 or > 5 slides per talk. That gives us 9 talks in 45 minutes. > >> 2. Django. That really is a glaring omission. A lot of the attendees will be >> either planning to use it or actively using it, I would think at least an >> advanced and intermediate/beginner level talk would be useful (or maybe a >> have a beginner tutorial? > > If we don't get Alex Gaynor we'll definitely need to get someone to > fill that dap. > >> 3. Mobile. Do we have no potential talks on mobile development, especially >> on Android. I know Python isn't heavily used in this arena, but given the >> importance/relevance in Africa would be great to have a specific talk around >> that? Where google not interested in maybe doing this? > > Google have promised me a talk on Python on Android but I haven't got > a speaker's name from them yet. > >> 4. The two SKA back-to-back talks look a bit weird, any particular reason >> for scheduling them together? > > It seemed like they would fit thematically but there wasn't a super > strong reason. > >> 5. Twisted or Gevent. Do we not have someone who can talk about event-driven >> stuff (given the interest level in node.js especially). > > This is definitely a gap I'd like to cover. I've prodded the Vumi team > a bit. Other suggestions of local Twisted devs I could prod welcomed. idnar also known as mithrandi, he's from joburg, I hope he's coming. From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Thu Sep 13 18:25:13 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:25:13 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > idnar also known as mithrandi, he's from joburg, I hope he's coming. He's not, unfortunately. :/ From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 14 00:57:14 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:57:14 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyCon ZA stats update Message-ID: Attendees: 235 Registered: 207 Paid: 160 Unpaid: 47 (about 10 of these are group invoices we're still processing) Waiting: 28 Corporate: 105 Individual: 73 Student: 57 Speakers: Total: 11 From euan at unomena.com Fri Sep 14 08:44:13 2012 From: euan at unomena.com (Euan Jonker) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:44:13 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] PyCon ZA stats update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Nice. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Simon Cross < simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote: > Attendees: 235 > > Registered: 207 > Paid: 160 > Unpaid: 47 (about 10 of these are group invoices we're still > processing) > > Waiting: 28 > > Corporate: 105 > Individual: 73 > Student: 57 > > Speakers: > > Total: 11 > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > -- *Euan Jonker* *UNOMENA** *http://unomena.com +27 83 400 2042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 14 08:56:04 2012 From: simon at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon de Haan) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:56:04 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm happy to chat on Django or Twisted. Would prefer to chat on Vumi + Twisted and why Twisted & Python are a good fit for distributed networks applications. Also, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on Twisted but I think between the people working on Vumi we've got more than enough experience to put together a decent talk. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Simon Cross wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >> idnar also known as mithrandi, he's from joburg, I hope he's coming. > > He's not, unfortunately. :/ > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za -- Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn From fijall at gmail.com Fri Sep 14 11:22:36 2012 From: fijall at gmail.com (Maciej Fijalkowski) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:22:36 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Simon de Haan wrote: > I'm happy to chat on Django or Twisted. Would prefer to chat on Vumi + > Twisted and why Twisted & Python are a good fit for distributed > networks applications. Also, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on > Twisted but I think between the people working on Vumi we've got more > than enough experience to put together a decent talk. I'm definitely not representative, but I think talks like "how we used twisted to create vumi, pluses and minuses" are much better than raw twisted talks. But then again, I'm nowhere near interested in "introduction to twisted". Also, people who talk what they really want to talk about are generally better speakers ;-) > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Simon Cross > wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >>> idnar also known as mithrandi, he's from joburg, I hope he's coming. >> >> He's not, unfortunately. :/ >> _______________________________________________ >> PyCon-ZA mailing list >> PyCon-ZA at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > > > > -- > Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation > > praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com > M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn From simon at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 14 11:24:39 2012 From: simon at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon de Haan) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:24:39 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Cool, put me down as a candidate speaker then. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Simon de Haan > wrote: >> I'm happy to chat on Django or Twisted. Would prefer to chat on Vumi + >> Twisted and why Twisted & Python are a good fit for distributed >> networks applications. Also, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on >> Twisted but I think between the people working on Vumi we've got more >> than enough experience to put together a decent talk. > > I'm definitely not representative, but I think talks like "how we used > twisted to create vumi, pluses and minuses" are much better than raw > twisted talks. But then again, I'm nowhere near interested in > "introduction to twisted". Also, people who talk what they really want > to talk about are generally better speakers ;-) > >> >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Simon Cross >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >>>> idnar also known as mithrandi, he's from joburg, I hope he's coming. >>> >>> He's not, unfortunately. :/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PyCon-ZA mailing list >>> PyCon-ZA at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za >> >> >> >> -- >> Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation >> >> praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com >> M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn -- Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn From fijall at gmail.com Fri Sep 14 11:32:09 2012 From: fijall at gmail.com (Maciej Fijalkowski) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:32:09 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Simon de Haan wrote: > Cool, put me down as a candidate speaker then. I think you have to put yourself down :) > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Simon de Haan >> wrote: >>> I'm happy to chat on Django or Twisted. Would prefer to chat on Vumi + >>> Twisted and why Twisted & Python are a good fit for distributed >>> networks applications. Also, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on >>> Twisted but I think between the people working on Vumi we've got more >>> than enough experience to put together a decent talk. >> >> I'm definitely not representative, but I think talks like "how we used >> twisted to create vumi, pluses and minuses" are much better than raw >> twisted talks. But then again, I'm nowhere near interested in >> "introduction to twisted". Also, people who talk what they really want >> to talk about are generally better speakers ;-) >> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Simon Cross >>> wrote: >>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >>>>> idnar also known as mithrandi, he's from joburg, I hope he's coming. >>>> >>>> He's not, unfortunately. :/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> PyCon-ZA mailing list >>>> PyCon-ZA at python.org >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation >>> >>> praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com >>> M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn > > > > -- > Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation > > praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com > M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn From simon at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 14 11:49:28 2012 From: simon at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon de Haan) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:49:28 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Right, done. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Simon de Haan > wrote: >> Cool, put me down as a candidate speaker then. > > I think you have to put yourself down :) > >> >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Simon de Haan >>> wrote: >>>> I'm happy to chat on Django or Twisted. Would prefer to chat on Vumi + >>>> Twisted and why Twisted & Python are a good fit for distributed >>>> networks applications. Also, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on >>>> Twisted but I think between the people working on Vumi we've got more >>>> than enough experience to put together a decent talk. >>> >>> I'm definitely not representative, but I think talks like "how we used >>> twisted to create vumi, pluses and minuses" are much better than raw >>> twisted talks. But then again, I'm nowhere near interested in >>> "introduction to twisted". Also, people who talk what they really want >>> to talk about are generally better speakers ;-) >>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Simon Cross >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >>>>>> idnar also known as mithrandi, he's from joburg, I hope he's coming. >>>>> >>>>> He's not, unfortunately. :/ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> PyCon-ZA mailing list >>>>> PyCon-ZA at python.org >>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation >>>> >>>> praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com >>>> M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn >> >> >> >> -- >> Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation >> >> praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com >> M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn -- Simon de Haan | Chief Engineer Praekelt Foundation praekeltfoundation.org | praekelt.com M: +27 (0) 76 449 3806 | twitter.com/smn From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 14 11:51:25 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:51:25 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Draft schedule up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Simon de Haan wrote: > Right, done. Woot! From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Wed Sep 19 02:23:04 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:23:04 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] We have a schedule! Message-ID: Greetings I've just finished heavily updating the draft schedule and speaker status spreadsheet. Schedule: * is full (although we have a day or so to decide to bump talks out if we want) * has something close to the correct structure, I think. * needs work to fine-tune the placement of talks (suggestions appreciated) Status document: * listing all speakers I've also: * Uploaded all the talk information I have into the pyconza site database so it's ready for populating the schedule on the site. * Chased all the speakers who haven't uploaded talks yet. A big thank you to Adrianna for proof-reading all the submissions for me and fixing many talk title capitalizations. Schiavo Simon From drnlmuller at gmail.com Wed Sep 19 11:01:32 2012 From: drnlmuller at gmail.com (Neil Muller) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:01:32 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] We have a schedule! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 19 September 2012 02:23, Simon Cross wrote: > Greetings > > I've just finished heavily updating the draft schedule and speaker > status spreadsheet. > Thanks for that. > Schedule: > * is full (although we have a day or so to decide to bump talks out if we want) > * has something close to the correct structure, I think. > * needs work to fine-tune the placement of talks (suggestions appreciated) > I see 4 talks proposals from SKA and 2 SKA slots. I think keeping it to 2 is the correct number, but we do need to decide on which two. Based on the abstracts, I'd vote for "MeetKAT and Python" as SKA-1, but I don't have a good reason to prefer any of the other proposals as SKA-2. If we choose one of the testing related ones, do we want to move it to after the TDD tutorial? -- Neil Muller drnlmuller at gmail.com I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool? From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Wed Sep 19 16:47:01 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:47:01 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] We have a schedule! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Neil Muller wrote: > I see 4 talks proposals from SKA and 2 SKA slots. I think keeping it > to 2 is the correct number, but we do need to decide on which two. > Based on the abstracts, I'd vote for "MeetKAT and Python" as SKA-1, > but I don't have a good reason to prefer any of the other proposals as > SKA-2. If we choose one of the testing related ones, do we want to > move it to after the TDD tutorial? I pinged all the SKA speakers last night and asked them to rework their 4 talks into 2. From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 21 13:37:18 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:37:18 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Confirming speakers Message-ID: Greetings I want to send confirmations to all the speakers on the schedule this evening. There are two last minute changes: - Hedley's would like to make his Jmbo tutorial a talk instead. - We've been offered a talk by Bryn Divey on creating RESTful service-orientated architectures with twisted. I can fit those in if we make Bradley Whittington and Laurens Van Houtven's talks non-keynote/plenary talks. People happy with that? Please send suggestions and comments before this evening. :) Schiavo Simon From drnlmuller at gmail.com Fri Sep 21 14:10:48 2012 From: drnlmuller at gmail.com (Neil Muller) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:10:48 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Confirming speakers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 21 September 2012 13:37, Simon Cross wrote: > Greetings > > I want to send confirmations to all the speakers on the schedule this evening. > > There are two last minute changes: > > - Hedley's would like to make his Jmbo tutorial a talk instead. > - We've been offered a talk by Bryn Divey on creating RESTful > service-orientated architectures with twisted. > > I can fit those in if we make Bradley Whittington and Laurens Van > Houtven's talks non-keynote/plenary talks. People happy with that? I have no objections. > Please send suggestions and comments before this evening. :) Do we have any idea how quickly we can convert the venue from being setup for the keynote talks into two rooms? We may need to move the first tea break to immediately after the keynote on day two to accomodate the switch if we add both extra talks. -- Neil Muller drnlmuller at gmail.com I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool? From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 21 15:32:47 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:32:47 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Confirming speakers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Neil Muller wrote: > Do we have any idea how quickly we can convert the venue from being > setup for the keynote talks into two rooms? We may need to move the > first tea break to immediately after the keynote on day two to > accomodate the switch if we add both extra talks. The Baltic (keynote venue) and Caspian (break-away venue) are completely separate rooms so no conversion is necessary. The plan is to split the Caspian up and use 2/3rds for the break-away talks and 1/3rd for the tutorials. We can collapse that back into one big venue during lunch on both days if needed. From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Sat Sep 22 00:31:05 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:31:05 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Speaker confirmations sent Message-ID: Greetings I've finished sending confirmation emails to speakers. Two last minute changes: * I added a talk from David Campey on migrating a development team from .Net to Python * Bryn Divey volunteered to be our back-up speaker (in case an important speaker gets a stomach bug) Aiming to have the schedule up on the website early next week. Schiavo Simon From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Tue Sep 25 17:11:44 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:11:44 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Schedule finalized Message-ID: Greetings The schedule in the Google doc is now finalized and should go live on the site later tonight. I'm sure there will be minor tweaks as the event approaches but if anyone has any serious objections, please raise them ASAP. Schiavo Simon From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Wed Sep 26 10:28:46 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:28:46 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Schedule live on za.pycon.org Message-ID: See http://za.pycon.org/schedule.html Shout if you see any errors. The talk pages aren't up yet -- will get those up later today. Schiavo Simon From simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org Fri Sep 28 01:17:46 2012 From: simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org (Simon Cross) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:17:46 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Talk pages live Message-ID: Links at http://za.pycon.org/schedule.htm Please try out the Disqus comments. Shout if you see any issues. From euan at unomena.com Fri Sep 28 08:20:29 2012 From: euan at unomena.com (Euan Jonker) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:20:29 +0200 Subject: [pycon-za] Talk pages live In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That would be http://za.pycon.org/schedule.html On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Simon Cross < simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote: > Links at http://za.pycon.org/schedule.htm > > Please try out the Disqus comments. > > Shout if you see any issues. > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > -- *Euan Jonker* *UNOMENA** *http://unomena.com +27 83 400 2042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ruan Zeelie *UNOMENA* http://unomena.com | 082 576 5085 On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Euan Jonker wrote: > That would be http://za.pycon.org/schedule.html > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Simon Cross < > simon.cross at praekeltfoundation.org> wrote: > >> Links at http://za.pycon.org/schedule.htm >> >> Please try out the Disqus comments. >> >> Shout if you see any issues. >> _______________________________________________ >> PyCon-ZA mailing list >> PyCon-ZA at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za >> > > > > -- > *Euan Jonker* > > *UNOMENA** > *http://unomena.com > +27 83 400 2042 > > > _______________________________________________ > PyCon-ZA mailing list > PyCon-ZA at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: