[Chicago] selecting talks Re: [PyCON-Organizers] Talk slot durations (was: FWD: Re: Pycon disappointment)

[Martin Maney]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:56:49PM -0700, Feihong Hsu wrote:
> scale. So I argue that the only way to learn how to do a conference
> talk is to actually do it.  A certain number of talks should be

Which suggests that we need "minor league" conferences where people can
get more practice.  Smaller, more regional, more diverse...  More like
PyCon back when it started, maybe, in some ways.  Quantity has a virtue
all its own, but so does it have the vices of its virtues.

Besides, Big PyCon comes at a time of year when I'm just not free.  :-U

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