From duffyd at kokorice.org  Thu Jul  1 07:14:27 2010
From: duffyd at kokorice.org (Tim Knapp)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:14:27 +1200
Subject: [Conferences] [Fwd: [nzpug] Kiwi PyCon 2010 - Call for
	Participation]
Message-ID: <1277961267.18873.93.camel@monty>

FYI
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Guy K. Kloss <g.kloss at massey.ac.nz>
> Reply-to: nzpug at googlegroups.com
> To: nzpug at googlegroups.com <nzpug at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [nzpug] Kiwi PyCon 2010 - Call for Participation
> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:40:46 +1200
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> we've got another Kiwi PyCon lined up, and we're all expecting it to be as 
> good as last year's event. This year it will be staged in lovely 
> Paihia/Waitangi in the sunny Bay of Islands. It is on the weekend 20-21 
> November.
> 
> Find attached the "Call for Participation". We are encouraging everybody to 
> come and to participate. Do not feel intimidated, this is a community 
> conference, and we are hosting talks and sessions for all knowledge levels. Be 
> it a tiny demo or show and tell (by doing a 5 minute Lightning Talk), or up to 
> running an hour long tutorial. Or are you interested in the dynamic evolution 
> of a session? Then the un-conference like Open Spaces will give you just the 
> platorm for interaction ...
> 
> Also ... make sure to spread the word. Tell everybody else about it. Forward 
> this mail, blog about it, post it on Twitter/Identi.ca, etc. This CfP will 
> soon also be posted on the Kiwi PyCon web site:
> 
> http://nz.pycon.org
> 
> So you can just post a link. We're just making it easier and easier for you 
> ...
> 
> Code and enjoy,
> 
> The Kiwi PyCon Committee
> 

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From duffyd at kokorice.org  Thu Jul  8 23:21:13 2010
From: duffyd at kokorice.org (Tim Knapp)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:21:13 +1200
Subject: [Conferences] Posting Kiwi PyCon CfP to PyCon blog
Message-ID: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>

Hello,

Sorry but I'm unsure who I contact re. posting the following blog entry
to pycon.blogspot.com - would someone on this list be able to post it
for me?

Thanks in advance,
Tim

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

We have another Kiwi PyCon lined up, and we're all expecting it to be
as good as last year's event. This year it will be staged in lovely 
Paihia/Waitangi in the sunny Bay of Islands. It is on the weekend 20-21 
November.

Find a link below to the "Call for Participation". We are encouraging
everybody to come and to participate. Do not feel intimidated, this is a
community conference, and we are hosting talks and sessions for all
knowledge levels. Be it a tiny demo or show and tell (by doing a 5
minute Lightning Talk), or up to running an hour long tutorial. Or are
you interested in the dynamic evolution of a session? Then the
unconference like Open Spaces will give you just the platform for
interaction.

Also ... make sure to spread the word. Tell everybody else about it.
Blog about it, post it on Twitter/Identi.ca, etc.

http://nz.pycon.org/2010/talks-cfp/call-for-papers/

...

Code and enjoy,

The Kiwi PyCon Committee


From aahz at pythoncraft.com  Thu Jul  8 23:59:40 2010
From: aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 14:59:40 -0700
Subject: [Conferences] Posting Kiwi PyCon CfP to PyCon blog
In-Reply-To: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
References: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
Message-ID: <20100708215940.GA8779@panix.com>

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010, Tim Knapp wrote:
>
> Sorry but I'm unsure who I contact re. posting the following blog entry
> to pycon.blogspot.com - would someone on this list be able to post it
> for me?

Can't answer that, but I do suggest that you send posts to
c.l.py.announce and to webmaster (the latter should be formatted
similarly to other news entries on www.python.org).
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"....Normal is what cuts off your sixth finger and your tail..."  --Siobhan

From doug.napoleone at gmail.com  Fri Jul  9 00:28:41 2010
From: doug.napoleone at gmail.com (Douglas Napoleone)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:28:41 -0400
Subject: [Conferences] Posting Kiwi PyCon CfP to PyCon blog
In-Reply-To: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
References: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinWwbhOqOl0oxGL_xhxW7g0pKvCZw_w8-Txa9AN@mail.gmail.com>

Done:
http://pycon.blogspot.com/2010/07/kiwi-pycon-2010-call-for-papers-and.html

    -Doug

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org> wrote:
> We have another Kiwi PyCon lined up, and we're all expecting it to be
> as good as last year's event. This year it will be staged in lovely
> Paihia/Waitangi in the sunny Bay of Islands. It is on the weekend 20-21
> November.
>
> Find a link below to the "Call for Participation". We are encouraging
> everybody to come and to participate. Do not feel intimidated, this is a
> community conference, and we are hosting talks and sessions for all
> knowledge levels. Be it a tiny demo or show and tell (by doing a 5
> minute Lightning Talk), or up to running an hour long tutorial. Or are
> you interested in the dynamic evolution of a session? Then the
> unconference like Open Spaces will give you just the platform for
> interaction.
>
> Also ... make sure to spread the word. Tell everybody else about it.
> Blog about it, post it on Twitter/Identi.ca, etc.
>
> http://nz.pycon.org/2010/talks-cfp/call-for-papers/

From duffyd at kokorice.org  Fri Jul  9 00:34:09 2010
From: duffyd at kokorice.org (Tim Knapp)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:34:09 +1200
Subject: [Conferences] Posting Kiwi PyCon CfP to PyCon blog
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinWwbhOqOl0oxGL_xhxW7g0pKvCZw_w8-Txa9AN@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
	<AANLkTinWwbhOqOl0oxGL_xhxW7g0pKvCZw_w8-Txa9AN@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1278628449.4679.0.camel@monty>

Thanks!

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 18:28 -0400, Douglas Napoleone wrote:
> Done:
> http://pycon.blogspot.com/2010/07/kiwi-pycon-2010-call-for-papers-and.html
> 
>     -Doug
> 
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org> wrote:
> > We have another Kiwi PyCon lined up, and we're all expecting it to be
> > as good as last year's event. This year it will be staged in lovely
> > Paihia/Waitangi in the sunny Bay of Islands. It is on the weekend 20-21
> > November.
> >
> > Find a link below to the "Call for Participation". We are encouraging
> > everybody to come and to participate. Do not feel intimidated, this is a
> > community conference, and we are hosting talks and sessions for all
> > knowledge levels. Be it a tiny demo or show and tell (by doing a 5
> > minute Lightning Talk), or up to running an hour long tutorial. Or are
> > you interested in the dynamic evolution of a session? Then the
> > unconference like Open Spaces will give you just the platform for
> > interaction.
> >
> > Also ... make sure to spread the word. Tell everybody else about it.
> > Blog about it, post it on Twitter/Identi.ca, etc.
> >
> > http://nz.pycon.org/2010/talks-cfp/call-for-papers/



From goodger at python.org  Fri Jul  9 01:10:57 2010
From: goodger at python.org (David Goodger)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:10:57 -0400
Subject: [Conferences] Posting Kiwi PyCon CfP to PyCon blog
In-Reply-To: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
References: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimJXeT05IaxFaj3U9z1Ugpi_IkI6MiJeMZks2_w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 17:21, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org> wrote:
> Sorry but I'm unsure who I contact re. posting the following blog entry
> to pycon.blogspot.com - would someone on this list be able to post it
> for me?

I can send you an author invitation so you can post directly yourself
in future. A Google account (@gmail.com) is easiest, but any email
should work. Interested?

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

From duffyd at kokorice.org  Fri Jul  9 01:17:41 2010
From: duffyd at kokorice.org (Tim Knapp)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:17:41 +1200
Subject: [Conferences] Posting Kiwi PyCon CfP to PyCon blog
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimJXeT05IaxFaj3U9z1Ugpi_IkI6MiJeMZks2_w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
	<AANLkTimJXeT05IaxFaj3U9z1Ugpi_IkI6MiJeMZks2_w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1278631061.4679.4.camel@monty>

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 19:10 -0400, David Goodger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 17:21, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org> wrote:
> > Sorry but I'm unsure who I contact re. posting the following blog entry
> > to pycon.blogspot.com - would someone on this list be able to post it
> > for me?
> 
> I can send you an author invitation so you can post directly yourself
> in future. A Google account (@gmail.com) is easiest, but any email
> should work. Interested?

Yes please. I have a google account: duffyd at kokorice dot org.

Thanks,
Tim


From goodger at python.org  Fri Jul  9 01:40:25 2010
From: goodger at python.org (David Goodger)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:40:25 -0400
Subject: [Conferences] Posting Kiwi PyCon CfP to PyCon blog
In-Reply-To: <1278631061.4679.4.camel@monty>
References: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
	<AANLkTimJXeT05IaxFaj3U9z1Ugpi_IkI6MiJeMZks2_w@mail.gmail.com>
	<1278631061.4679.4.camel@monty>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikt879ir1AHWOVtN2Na7VubYQhnAdwQDPtlqIWW@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 19:17, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 19:10 -0400, David Goodger wrote:
>> I can send you an author invitation so you can post directly yourself
>> in future. A Google account (@gmail.com) is easiest, but any email
>> should work. Interested?
>
> Yes please. I have a google account: duffyd at kokorice dot org.

Invite sent.

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

From duffyd at kokorice.org  Fri Jul  9 01:43:48 2010
From: duffyd at kokorice.org (Tim Knapp)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:43:48 +1200
Subject: [Conferences] Posting Kiwi PyCon CfP to PyCon blog
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikt879ir1AHWOVtN2Na7VubYQhnAdwQDPtlqIWW@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1278624073.31580.14.camel@monty>
	<AANLkTimJXeT05IaxFaj3U9z1Ugpi_IkI6MiJeMZks2_w@mail.gmail.com>
	<1278631061.4679.4.camel@monty>
	<AANLkTikt879ir1AHWOVtN2Na7VubYQhnAdwQDPtlqIWW@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1278632628.4679.5.camel@monty>

Excellent, successfully joined.

Thanks again,
Tim

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 19:40 -0400, David Goodger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 19:17, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 19:10 -0400, David Goodger wrote:
> >> I can send you an author invitation so you can post directly yourself
> >> in future. A Google account (@gmail.com) is easiest, but any email
> >> should work. Interested?
> >
> > Yes please. I have a google account: duffyd at kokorice dot org.
> 
> Invite sent.
> 



From mal at egenix.com  Mon Jul 12 11:10:00 2010
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:10:00 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
Message-ID: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>

Hello,

I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
user groups.

In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
attendees of the various Python conferences.

This is the list of regular conferences I currently have:

EuroPython
EuroSciPy
Kiwi PyCon (New Zealand)
OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention)
PyCon US (US / North America)
PyCon Argentina
PyCon Asia Pacific
PyCon AU (Australia)
PyCon Brasil
PyCon FR (France)
PyCon India
PyCon Ireland
PyCon Italia
PyCon PL (Poland)
PyCon UK
PyOhio
SciPy (US)
SciPy (India)
UKUUG Spring Conference ? includes a one day Python track
DZUG Tagung ? includes a Python track

Please let me know if I have missed an event and, if possible,
report the approx. number of attendees coming to the events.

I'm assuming that the conferences are yearly events. If that's
not the case, I'd also appreciate feedback.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

Professional Python Services directly from the Source  (#1, Jul 12 2010)
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________________________________________________________________________
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From duffyd at kokorice.org  Mon Jul 12 11:14:24 2010
From: duffyd at kokorice.org (Tim Knapp)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:14:24 +1200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <1278926064.17542.9.camel@monty>

Hi Marc-Andrew,

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 11:10 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
> user groups.
> 
> In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
> and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
> attendees of the various Python conferences.
> 
> This is the list of regular conferences I currently have:
> 
> EuroPython
> EuroSciPy
> Kiwi PyCon (New Zealand)

The event was held for the first time last year and we had 150 register
to attend the event. This year we're expecting 180.

Thanks,
Tim

> OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention)
> PyCon US (US / North America)
> PyCon Argentina
> PyCon Asia Pacific
> PyCon AU (Australia)
> PyCon Brasil
> PyCon FR (France)
> PyCon India
> PyCon Ireland
> PyCon Italia
> PyCon PL (Poland)
> PyCon UK
> PyOhio
> SciPy (US)
> SciPy (India)
> UKUUG Spring Conference ? includes a one day Python track
> DZUG Tagung ? includes a Python track
> 
> Please let me know if I have missed an event and, if possible,
> report the approx. number of attendees coming to the events.
> 
> I'm assuming that the conferences are yearly events. If that's
> not the case, I'd also appreciate feedback.
> 
> Thanks,



From facundobatista at gmail.com  Mon Jul 12 14:37:32 2010
From: facundobatista at gmail.com (Facundo Batista)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:37:32 -0300
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinwGt4EQO6oR9CLWypBXiVuPqU3aqKG0IhCsSCd@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> PyCon Argentina

We had a little over 400 attendees last year for this event (across
the two days the conference took).

Regards,

-- 
.? ? Facundo

Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/
PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/

From delta at rybnik.net.pl  Tue Jul 13 08:25:09 2010
From: delta at rybnik.net.pl (Filip =?UTF-8?Q?K=C5=82=C4=99bczyk?=)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:25:09 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <1279002309.1612.19.camel@filipk-netbook>

Dnia 2010-07-12, pon o godzinie 11:10 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg pisze: 
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
> user groups.
> 
> In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
> and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
> attendees of the various Python conferences.

PyCon PL 2009 had about 145 attendees. This year there will be probably
160 attendees.

Regards,
Filip


From mal at egenix.com  Tue Jul 13 09:35:06 2010
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:35:06 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <1279002309.1612.19.camel@filipk-netbook>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
	<1279002309.1612.19.camel@filipk-netbook>
Message-ID: <4C3C172A.4020809@egenix.com>

Filip K??bczyk wrote:
> Dnia 2010-07-12, pon o godzinie 11:10 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg pisze: 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
>> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
>> user groups.
>>
>> In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
>> and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
>> attendees of the various Python conferences.
> 
> PyCon PL 2009 had about 145 attendees. This year there will be probably
> 160 attendees.

Thanks for the feedback.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

Professional Python Services directly from the Source  (#1, Jul 13 2010)
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>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ...             http://zope.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ...        http://python.egenix.com/
________________________________________________________________________
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From whykay at gmail.com  Tue Jul 13 10:00:49 2010
From: whykay at gmail.com (Vicky Twomey-Lee)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:00:49 +0100
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikBLfyqwGLP2NDYqug3sJ0HhWF1vxTCQHNf9nne@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
> user groups.
>
> In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
> and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
> attendees of the various Python conferences.
>
>
This is Python Ireland's first PyCon Ireland this year and we are limiting
the numbers to 100 (currently around 80 delegates).

Regards,

/// Vicky Lee (PyCon Ireland 2010)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~
~~       http://www.python.ie     ~~
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From mal at egenix.com  Tue Jul 13 10:21:46 2010
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:21:46 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikBLfyqwGLP2NDYqug3sJ0HhWF1vxTCQHNf9nne@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
	<AANLkTikBLfyqwGLP2NDYqug3sJ0HhWF1vxTCQHNf9nne@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4C3C221A.2020301@egenix.com>

Vicky Twomey-Lee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
>> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
>> user groups.
>>
>> In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
>> and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
>> attendees of the various Python conferences.
>>
>>
> This is Python Ireland's first PyCon Ireland this year and we are limiting
> the numbers to 100 (currently around 80 delegates).

Thanks for the feedback and good luck with the conference !

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

Professional Python Services directly from the Source  (#1, Jul 13 2010)
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>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ...             http://zope.egenix.com/
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________________________________________________________________________
2010-07-19: EuroPython 2010, Birmingham, UK                 5 days to go

::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! ::::


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From whykay at gmail.com  Tue Jul 13 10:29:14 2010
From: whykay at gmail.com (Vicky Twomey-Lee)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:29:14 +0100
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3C221A.2020301@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
	<AANLkTikBLfyqwGLP2NDYqug3sJ0HhWF1vxTCQHNf9nne@mail.gmail.com> 
	<4C3C221A.2020301@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimce5Moivxl08r5AK66EjFWaWZrHKvMdJnl6yOi@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Marc-Andre,

Thanks, the limitation is due to physical capacity more than anything else.

Regards,

/// Vicky

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~
~~       http://www.python.ie     ~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:21 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> Vicky Twomey-Lee wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
> >> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
> >> user groups.
> >>
> >> In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
> >> and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
> >> attendees of the various Python conferences.
> >>
> >>
> > This is Python Ireland's first PyCon Ireland this year and we are
> limiting
> > the numbers to 100 (currently around 80 delegates).
>
> Thanks for the feedback and good luck with the conference !
>
> --
> Marc-Andre Lemburg
> eGenix.com
>
> Professional Python Services directly from the Source  (#1, Jul 13 2010)
> >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ...        http://www.egenix.com/
> >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ...             http://zope.egenix.com/
> >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ...        http://python.egenix.com/
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 2010-07-19: EuroPython 2010, Birmingham, UK                 5 days to go
>
> ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! ::::
>
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From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:36:27 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinwGt4EQO6oR9CLWypBXiVuPqU3aqKG0IhCsSCd@mail.gmail.com>
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Facundo Batista wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> PyCon Argentina
> 
> We had a little over 400 attendees last year for this event (across
> the two days the conference took).

Impressive ! Thanks for the feedback.

Do you think we'd need an English brochure would work well with the
attendees ?

If we get enough interest from Spanish and French speaking countries,
we may be able to run additional print jobs with a translated versions.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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From tansell at google.com  Tue Jul 13 10:37:14 2010
From: tansell at google.com (Timothy Robert Ansell)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:37:14 +1000
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
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PyCon AU had 205 people registered (we had a maximum of 200 at the venue).

Next year we are hoping for around 300.

Tim

On 13 July 2010 18:00, Vicky Twomey-Lee <whykay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
>> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
>> user groups.
>>
>> In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
>> and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
>> attendees of the various Python conferences.
>>
>>
> This is Python Ireland's first PyCon Ireland this year and we are limiting
> the numbers to 100 (currently around 80 delegates).
>
> Regards,
>
>  /// Vicky Lee (PyCon Ireland 2010)
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From: liew_beng_keat at rp.sg (Liew Beng Keat)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:40:22 +0800
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> PyCon Asia Pacific

We had abt 200 attendees this year

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From: "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com>
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Hello,

I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
user groups.

In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
attendees of the various Python conferences.

This is the list of regular conferences I currently have:

EuroPython
EuroSciPy
Kiwi PyCon (New Zealand)
OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention)
PyCon US (US / North America)
PyCon Argentina
PyCon Asia Pacific
PyCon AU (Australia)
PyCon Brasil
PyCon FR (France)
PyCon India
PyCon Ireland
PyCon Italia
PyCon PL (Poland)
PyCon UK
PyOhio
SciPy (US)
SciPy (India)
UKUUG Spring Conference ? includes a one day Python track
DZUG Tagung ? includes a Python track

Please let me know if I have missed an event and, if possible,
report the approx. number of attendees coming to the events.

I'm assuming that the conferences are yearly events. If that's
not the case, I'd also appreciate feedback.

Thanks,
--
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:14:24 +1200
From: Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org>
To: conferences at python.org
Subject: Re: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
Message-ID: <1278926064.17542.9.camel at monty>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hi Marc-Andrew,

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 11:10 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
> user groups.
>
> In order to come up with reasonable figures for the number of brochures
> and flyers to print, I'd like to get some idea about the number of
> attendees of the various Python conferences.
>
> This is the list of regular conferences I currently have:
>
> EuroPython
> EuroSciPy
> Kiwi PyCon (New Zealand)

The event was held for the first time last year and we had 150 register
to attend the event. This year we're expecting 180.

Thanks,
Tim

> OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention)
> PyCon US (US / North America)
> PyCon Argentina
> PyCon Asia Pacific
> PyCon AU (Australia)
> PyCon Brasil
> PyCon FR (France)
> PyCon India
> PyCon Ireland
> PyCon Italia
> PyCon PL (Poland)
> PyCon UK
> PyOhio
> SciPy (US)
> SciPy (India)
> UKUUG Spring Conference ? includes a one day Python track
> DZUG Tagung ? includes a Python track
>
> Please let me know if I have missed an event and, if possible,
> report the approx. number of attendees coming to the events.
>
> I'm assuming that the conferences are yearly events. If that's
> not the case, I'd also appreciate feedback.
>
> Thanks,




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From mal at egenix.com  Tue Jul 13 10:47:27 2010
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:47:27 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Conferences Digest, Vol 13, Issue 3
In-Reply-To: <70C1A5315505C942A8274FCA16F363AF489B77C372@STAFFMAIL1.rp.edu.sg>
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Message-ID: <4C3C281F.7040606@egenix.com>

Liew Beng Keat wrote:
>> PyCon Asia Pacific
> 
> We had abt 200 attendees this year

Thanks.

Would an English brochure work well with your attendees ?

-- 
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eGenix.com

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From facundobatista at gmail.com  Tue Jul 13 18:53:29 2010
From: facundobatista at gmail.com (Facundo Batista)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:53:29 -0300
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3C258B.4010507@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:36 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> Do you think we'd need an English brochure would work well with the
> attendees ?
>
> If we get enough interest from Spanish and French speaking countries,
> we may be able to run additional print jobs with a translated versions.

We're producing all printing material in Spanish.

Which kind of brochures are you aiming to create?

Regards,

-- 
.? ? Facundo

Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/
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From mal at egenix.com  Tue Jul 13 19:25:00 2010
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:25:00 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinemgrBXBGa2L0Qg0-Ocgf7YdQEC3ewtNMxZfjq@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>	<AANLkTinwGt4EQO6oR9CLWypBXiVuPqU3aqKG0IhCsSCd@mail.gmail.com>	<4C3C258B.4010507@egenix.com>
	<AANLkTinemgrBXBGa2L0Qg0-Ocgf7YdQEC3ewtNMxZfjq@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4C3CA16C.4010406@egenix.com>

Facundo Batista wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:36 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do you think we'd need an English brochure would work well with the
>> attendees ?
>>
>> If we get enough interest from Spanish and French speaking countries,
>> we may be able to run additional print jobs with a translated versions.
> 
> We're producing all printing material in Spanish.
> 
> Which kind of brochures are you aiming to create?

It's going to be a general purpose high quality Python image brochures
to promote Python.

One of the ideas behind this is to reach out to
people who are not directly involved in programming, e.g. higher
level management, school administrations, governments, customers
who you need to convince of the usefulness of Python, students/parents
you want to convince that learning Python is a good thing, etc. etc.

We also plan to extract information from the brochure to produce flyers.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

Professional Python Services directly from the Source  (#1, Jul 13 2010)
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>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ...             http://zope.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ...        http://python.egenix.com/
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From paul at boddie.org.uk  Tue Jul 13 19:49:55 2010
From: paul at boddie.org.uk (Paul Boddie)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:49:55 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3CA16C.4010406@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
	<AANLkTinemgrBXBGa2L0Qg0-Ocgf7YdQEC3ewtNMxZfjq@mail.gmail.com>
	<4C3CA16C.4010406@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <201007131949.55679.paul@boddie.org.uk>

On Tuesday 13 July 2010 19:25:00 M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
> One of the ideas behind this is to reach out to
> people who are not directly involved in programming, e.g. higher
> level management, school administrations, governments, customers
> who you need to convince of the usefulness of Python, students/parents
> you want to convince that learning Python is a good thing, etc. etc.
>
> We also plan to extract information from the brochure to produce flyers.

I think it would also be good for finding sponsors for conferences. If 
sponsors of one conference realised that there are other conferences that 
might be worth supporting, perhaps in regions where they have a particular 
interest, then such a brochure would be very useful indeed.

Paul

P.S. Maybe you said this already, but it's worth repeating. ;-)

From facundobatista at gmail.com  Tue Jul 13 20:01:27 2010
From: facundobatista at gmail.com (Facundo Batista)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:01:27 -0300
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3CA16C.4010406@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:25 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> It's going to be a general purpose high quality Python image brochures
> to promote Python.
>
> One of the ideas behind this is to reach out to
> people who are not directly involved in programming, e.g. higher
> level management, school administrations, governments, customers
> who you need to convince of the usefulness of Python, students/parents
> you want to convince that learning Python is a good thing, etc. etc.
>
> We also plan to extract information from the brochure to produce flyers.

I'd be glad to help you to produce Spanish versions of them.

Thank you!!

-- 
.? ? Facundo

Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/
PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/

From noufal at gmail.com  Tue Jul 13 20:42:42 2010
From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:12:42 +0530
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3CA16C.4010406@egenix.com> (M.'s message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2010
	19:25:00 +0200")
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
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	<4C3CA16C.4010406@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <87bpab1avx.fsf@gmail.com>

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> writes:


[...]

> One of the ideas behind this is to reach out to
> people who are not directly involved in programming, e.g. higher
> level management, school administrations, governments, customers
> who you need to convince of the usefulness of Python, students/parents
> you want to convince that learning Python is a good thing, etc. etc.

[...]

The FOSSEE project in India (fossee.in) aims to provide Free/Open Source
tools to (non-programming) scientists and engineers in India. Their main
offerings are the SciPy suite. It might be worth your while to contact
them. Your agendas seem to overlap.


-- 

From mal at egenix.com  Tue Jul 13 22:07:06 2010
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:07:06 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <87bpab1avx.fsf@gmail.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>	<AANLkTinwGt4EQO6oR9CLWypBXiVuPqU3aqKG0IhCsSCd@mail.gmail.com>	<4C3C258B.4010507@egenix.com>	<AANLkTinemgrBXBGa2L0Qg0-Ocgf7YdQEC3ewtNMxZfjq@mail.gmail.com>	<4C3CA16C.4010406@egenix.com>
	<87bpab1avx.fsf@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4C3CC76A.20606@egenix.com>

Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> writes:
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
>> One of the ideas behind this is to reach out to
>> people who are not directly involved in programming, e.g. higher
>> level management, school administrations, governments, customers
>> who you need to convince of the usefulness of Python, students/parents
>> you want to convince that learning Python is a good thing, etc. etc.
> 
> [...]
> 
> The FOSSEE project in India (fossee.in) aims to provide Free/Open Source
> tools to (non-programming) scientists and engineers in India. Their main
> offerings are the SciPy suite. It might be worth your while to contact
> them. Your agendas seem to overlap.

Thanks for the note.

This is getting off-topic for the list, but anyway:

One of our next steps will be contacting various special interest
groups to get feedback from them and learn about their views of how
Python helps in their field. This will certainly also include
contacting groups such as SciPy community and the EduPython community.

-- 
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From aahz at pythoncraft.com  Tue Jul 13 22:11:23 2010
From: aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:11:23 -0700
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3CA16C.4010406@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
> It's going to be a general purpose high quality Python image brochures
> to promote Python.
>
> One of the ideas behind this is to reach out to people who are not
> directly involved in programming, e.g. higher level management, school
> administrations, governments, customers who you need to convince of
> the usefulness of Python, students/parents you want to convince that
> learning Python is a good thing, etc. etc.
>
> We also plan to extract information from the brochure to produce
> flyers.

You've seen the OSCON flyer from last year?  That might have a bit or two
that would be useful.
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"....Normal is what cuts off your sixth finger and your tail..."  --Siobhan

From ziade.tarek at gmail.com  Tue Jul 13 22:12:42 2010
From: ziade.tarek at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tarek_Ziad=E9?=)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:12:42 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikoww12dtFkg7yrPYXq9fF-CGEc7MNQEuaTcxEJ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
...
> PyCon FR (France)

We have around 200 attendees, and willing to help in translating any material,

Cheers
Tarek
-- 
Tarek Ziad? | http://ziade.org

From mal at egenix.com  Tue Jul 13 22:15:12 2010
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:15:12 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikoww12dtFkg7yrPYXq9fF-CGEc7MNQEuaTcxEJ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
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Message-ID: <4C3CC950.8090204@egenix.com>

Tarek Ziad? wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> ...
>> PyCon FR (France)
> 
> We have around 200 attendees, and willing to help in translating any material,

Thanks, Tarek !

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From rasky at develer.com  Fri Jul 16 17:00:28 2010
From: rasky at develer.com (Giovanni Bajo)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:00:28 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>
Message-ID: <4C40740C.1000603@develer.com>

On 7/12/2010 11:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
> user groups.

I don't meant to be rude, but what is the point of marketing Python at a 
Python conference, where (given our statistics, at least) almost 
everybody already uses Python?

> PyCon Italia

In the last 3 years, we got between 300 and 400 attendees. We usually 
ask for 450 items of everything, so that there are always enough spares 
if people ask for them.
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From rasky at develer.com  Fri Jul 16 18:27:57 2010
From: rasky at develer.com (Giovanni Bajo)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:27:57 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikPtFniCvYI31UeZgbuTzBmM430Gk9SPR4SEBDm@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com>	<4C40740C.1000603@develer.com>
	<AANLkTikPtFniCvYI31UeZgbuTzBmM430Gk9SPR4SEBDm@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4C40888D.6030306@develer.com>

On 7/16/2010 6:04 PM, Yarko Tymciurak wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com
> <mailto:rasky at develer.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 7/12/2010 11:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
>         for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
>         user groups.
>
>
>     I don't meant to be rude, but what is the point of marketing Python
>     at a Python conference, where (given our statistics, at least)
>     almost everybody already uses Python?
>
>
> I would think resources - if you are at the concert of your favorite
> musical group, you might like the poster of the group to display after
> the concert, and either just be proud you like the group, or help get
> others to hear the group too.
>
> No?

That would be merchandising, not maketing material. With marketing 
material, I think of leaflets that explain how cool Python is compared 
to Java, or how many big companies use Python. I don't believe this kind 
of marketing material would be very useful at PyCon conferences (at 
least, not at Python Italia where most of the people already are Python 
programmers in a way or another).

I want to raise the merchandising point, though.

At the latest PyCon Italy we were able to raise ?2500 in donations[1] by 
giving away non-sponsored "lame" merchandising material. With "lame", I 
meant something as easy as getting one of the 400 cups donated by a 
sponsor and asking Micheal Foord or Armin Rigo to put a signature on it:
http://twitpic.com/1t1rg9

I believe the Italian community was really generous; it was the first 
year we attempted selling merchandising, and it's been an incredible 
success; maybe next year we won't get as much. But it is still an 
interesting point of data. After all, geeks like buying geek 
merchandising (think of... thinkgeek!).

So I think that it would be a good idea if PSF prepared some cool 
merchandising material to donate to the conferences, maybe asking just a 
part of the donation back (eg: splitting income 80/20 or something like 
that).

[1] We used the formula of "free donation for merchandising gifts" 
beacuse it is a tax relief for us. Had we really SOLD the merchandising 
stuff, we would have lost 20% of VAT.
-- 
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Develer S.r.l.  ::  http://www.develer.com


From yarkot1 at gmail.com  Fri Jul 16 18:41:43 2010
From: yarkot1 at gmail.com (Yarko Tymciurak)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:41:43 -0500
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C40888D.6030306@develer.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com> <4C40740C.1000603@develer.com>
	<AANLkTikPtFniCvYI31UeZgbuTzBmM430Gk9SPR4SEBDm@mail.gmail.com>
	<4C40888D.6030306@develer.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimT2CmJzJ7jEb-Qh16SQ5mMToBqHybGEXEyIp4W@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com> wrote:

> On 7/16/2010 6:04 PM, Yarko Tymciurak wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com
>> <mailto:rasky at develer.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 7/12/2010 11:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>
>>        Hello,
>>
>>        I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing
>> material
>>        for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
>>        user groups.
>>
>>
>>    I don't meant to be rude, but what is the point of marketing Python
>>    at a Python conference, where (given our statistics, at least)
>>    almost everybody already uses Python?
>>
>>
>> I would think resources - if you are at the concert of your favorite
>> musical group, you might like the poster of the group to display after
>> the concert, and either just be proud you like the group, or help get
>> others to hear the group too.
>>
>> No?
>>
>
> That would be merchandising, not maketing material. With marketing
> material, I think of leaflets that explain how cool Python is compared to
> Java, or how many big companies use Python. I don't believe this kind of
> marketing material would be very useful at PyCon conferences (at least, not
> at Python Italia where most of the people already are Python programmers in
> a way or another).
>

Not to split hairs too finely, but my point was:  if I like something, and I
want to share how I like it with others, I appreciate having "stuff"
available to me that helps me share my enthusiasm --- I think of it as
materials for willing evangelists ....

perhaps there is some other / additional intent, but that much makes
intuitive sense to me.

I've seen how people appreciate both *reinforcement* of their use, and ways
to *share* their enthusiasm (if that be the case) with others, if desired.

Separately, I find your merchandising ideas / story interesting.

- Yarko


> I want to raise the merchandising point, though.
>
> At the latest PyCon Italy we were able to raise ?2500 in donations[1] by
> giving away non-sponsored "lame" merchandising material. With "lame", I
> meant something as easy as getting one of the 400 cups donated by a sponsor
> and asking Micheal Foord or Armin Rigo to put a signature on it:
> http://twitpic.com/1t1rg9
>
> I believe the Italian community was really generous; it was the first year
> we attempted selling merchandising, and it's been an incredible success;
> maybe next year we won't get as much. But it is still an interesting point
> of data. After all, geeks like buying geek merchandising (think of...
> thinkgeek!).
>
> So I think that it would be a good idea if PSF prepared some cool
> merchandising material to donate to the conferences, maybe asking just a
> part of the donation back (eg: splitting income 80/20 or something like
> that).
>
> [1] We used the formula of "free donation for merchandising gifts" beacuse
> it is a tax relief for us. Had we really SOLD the merchandising stuff, we
> would have lost 20% of VAT.
>
> --
> Giovanni Bajo   ::  rasky at develer.com
> Develer S.r.l.  ::  http://www.develer.com
>
>


-- 
Regards,
- Yarko
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From catherine.devlin at gmail.com  Sun Jul 18 13:25:30 2010
From: catherine.devlin at gmail.com (Catherine Devlin)
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:25:30 -0400
Subject: [Conferences] flossspeakher
Message-ID: <AANLkTilGumXBJiF_mRwcUaV_uHYfSYsut_EYWYpBHYVM@mail.gmail.com>

The FSF has created a new mailing list, flossspeakher:

"The goal of this list is to increase women's visibility in the free
software community by encouraging more women to present at free software
events. Feel free to post speaking opportunities and speaker training
resources."

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/flossspeakher

... so there's one more channel for you to get your Calls for Proposals into
relevant eyeballs.  (Note the similarity in mission to geekspeakr.org)

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From aahz at pythoncraft.com  Sun Jul 18 15:06:18 2010
From: aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz)
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:06:18 -0700
Subject: [Conferences] flossspeakher
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilGumXBJiF_mRwcUaV_uHYfSYsut_EYWYpBHYVM@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTilGumXBJiF_mRwcUaV_uHYfSYsut_EYWYpBHYVM@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20100718130617.GA5647@panix.com>

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010, Catherine Devlin wrote:
>
> The FSF has created a new mailing list, flossspeakher:

Thanks!

> ... so there's one more channel for you to get your Calls for Proposals into
> relevant eyeballs.  (Note the similarity in mission to geekspeakr.org)

That doesn't seem to be a valid domain.
-- 
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From noufal at gmail.com  Sun Jul 18 16:28:46 2010
From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:58:46 +0530
Subject: [Conferences] flossspeakher
In-Reply-To: <20100718130617.GA5647@panix.com> (aahz@pythoncraft.com's message
	of "Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:06:18 -0700")
References: <AANLkTilGumXBJiF_mRwcUaV_uHYfSYsut_EYWYpBHYVM@mail.gmail.com>
	<20100718130617.GA5647@panix.com>
Message-ID: <87lj98q2xt.fsf@gmail.com>

Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010, Catherine Devlin wrote:
>>
>> The FSF has created a new mailing list, flossspeakher:
>
> Thanks!
>
>> ... so there's one more channel for you to get your Calls for Proposals into
>> relevant eyeballs.  (Note the similarity in mission to geekspeakr.org)
>
> That doesn't seem to be a valid domain.

I think it's a .com - geekspeakr.com



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From whykay at gmail.com  Wed Jul 28 22:28:53 2010
From: whykay at gmail.com (Vicky Twomey-Lee)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:28:53 +0100
Subject: [Conferences] What PyCons are on in 2011 and when?
Message-ID: <AANLkTikSWNv9VRO61YcBZSf3hcF1EuRibP9Pi4WDPoCH@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

PyCon Ireland 2010 went really well, we were actually packed, and 98 people
attended.

Based on the success and excitement of the conference, we are all talking
about next year's conference. Is there a place where can find out what
PyCons (and other opensource events) are held on what date? I know there was
a thread about long term planning of events, was there a resolution for
that?

Thanks,

/// Vicky

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From dstanek at dstanek.com  Thu Jul 29 05:29:16 2010
From: dstanek at dstanek.com (David Stanek)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:29:16 -0400
Subject: [Conferences] What PyCons are on in 2011 and when?
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikSWNv9VRO61YcBZSf3hcF1EuRibP9Pi4WDPoCH@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikSWNv9VRO61YcBZSf3hcF1EuRibP9Pi4WDPoCH@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinmANipRMOv0=owy1Ra7CDaaxK_cUOLg7A+3WHp@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Vicky Twomey-Lee <whykay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> PyCon Ireland 2010 went really well, we were actually packed, and 98 people
> attended.
> Based on the success and excitement of the conference, we are all talking
> about next year's conference. Is there a place where can find out what
> PyCons (and other opensource events) are held on what date? I know there was
> a thread about long term planning of events, was there a resolution for
> that?

I know that there is a list[1] of Python conferences, but AFAIK no
single table of dates for each of them.

1. http://www.python.org/community/workshops/


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From mal at egenix.com  Fri Jul 30 15:38:41 2010
From: mal at egenix.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:38:41 +0200
Subject: [Conferences] Python conference attendee statistics
In-Reply-To: <4C40740C.1000603@develer.com>
References: <4C3ADBE8.8050103@egenix.com> <4C40740C.1000603@develer.com>
Message-ID: <4C52D5E1.9090309@egenix.com>

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> On 7/12/2010 11:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am currently working on a PSF project to create marketing material
>> for Python with the aim of providing this to Python conferences and
>> user groups.
> 
> I don't meant to be rude, but what is the point of marketing Python at a
> Python conference, where (given our statistics, at least) almost
> everybody already uses Python?

To give those attending something at hand that they can present
to managers, administration, friends, etc. Think of the attendees
as multipliers.

It's not about marketing Python to the attendees, it's about reaching
out to the people that are not a the conferences.

>> PyCon Italia
> 
> In the last 3 years, we got between 300 and 400 attendees. We usually
> ask for 450 items of everything, so that there are always enough spares
> if people ask for them.

Thanks for the information.

-- 
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eGenix.com

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