[Conferences-discuss] Re: [Pycon-organizers] PyCon 2004

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Mon, 02 Jun 2003 12:15:09 PDT, "Kevin Altis" writes:
>> From: Guido van Rossum
>>
>> > Now that we've had two months to rest and relax, I think it's about
>> > time we started moving on next year's PyCon, particularly if we
>> > don't want to rely on YAS for processing registration.  If nobody
>> > responds to this message, I'll assume nobody agrees with me.  ;-)
>>
>> Right.  I'm all for a repeat of the best things of PyCon 2003: the
>> venue, the organizing team led by Steve Holden, the time of year.  I
>> really hope that we can do online registration without help this time!
>> Now's the time to reserve the prime spot at GWU.
>>
>> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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>Do we need to cross-post to conferences-discuss and pycon-organizers? I
>guess I can join pycon-organizers if you just want to have discussions ov
>er
>there.
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>I think that it is reasonable to assume we will have as many or more peop
>le
>at PyCon 2004 as attended last March; it is hard to imagine the USA timin
>g
>another invasion to coincide with the conference and the economy being in
> as
>bad shape as it was two months ago. With that in mind, do we need one or 
>two
>more rooms for presentations? I definitely want to have the large room wi
>th
>tables and chairs available for Open Spaces each day since that was one o
>f
>the great things at PyCon 2003. That room looked like it could accomodate
>300-350 easily. If not, space for a slightly larger crowd than we had las
>t
>March should be considered.

I agree about the desirability of having Open Spaces every day, but I
disagree about the desirability of having 300+ people in one room, all
trying to talk about something.  Nobody will be able to hear anything.

Given that we expect to have more people, we need to know whether what
we intend to do is to have a) about the same number, (i.e. 3 concurrent)
Open Space talks, but with the expectation that there will be more 
people attending each talk, or b) more talks with the expectation that
each will have about the same number of attendees (somewhere between
that which can fit comfortably around a table, and twice that was typical)
though some had more.

Expect that more people will bring slides than last year.

Then we need more space to suit.  I think that many more small rooms 
would be best, but I do not know if such things are offerred.

>
>Also, if anyone knows if/when Europython 2004 will be held that would be
>good to know for planning. I don't know when O'Reilly will commit to a ve
>nue
>and time for OSCON 2004, but I'll go ahead and ask Gina.

We don't know yet about EuroPython, because we plan to decide things such
as 'where' at Europython 2003 (at the end of the month).  'Where' will 
influence 'when'.

Laura Creighton

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