[Baypiggies] QCon - introducing a new software developers conference

[Guido van Rossum]

On 9/26/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Well said. Especially at $1600 or more (which was stated nowhere in

Make that $1800 until 9/30, or $1900 after that; the lower prices
(still listed) were only available for very early birds.

> 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:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hallo Baypiggies,
> >
> > You *DO* know that the "p" there stands for Python, right?
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The conference is providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking
> > innovation in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities also with a
> >
> > 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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