[Baypiggies] QCon - introducing a new software developers conference

[Guido van Rossum]

Well said. Especially at $1600 or more (which was stated nowhere in
the email, nor on the front page of the conference website, but only
on the registration page). What's so different about this conference?
I very much doubt that if it was really organized "by software
developers, for software developers" it would cost that much. I don't
know any software developers who know how to spend that much money on
swag.

On 9/26/07, Alex Martelli <aleax at google.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Liv Beswick Skov <lbs at innovationcenterdenmark.com> wrote:
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> > Hallo Baypiggies,
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> You *DO* know that the "p" there stands for Python, right?
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> > The conference is providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking
> innovation in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities also with a
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> Explicitly listing these two languages (Java and Ruby), and just as
> explicitly leaving Python out of the list of languages, makes this sentence
> appear quite inimical to the Python community, by making it clear that the
> Python language is NOT a "first-class citizen" from your point of view when
> compared to Java and Ruby.  Please go spam mailing lists that are devoted to
> the communities you list, and stop spamming lists devoted to languages you
> so blatantly exclude from your purview.
>
>
> Alex
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