[EuroPython] send out press release

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> 
> > > > And the header like:
> > > >
> > > >         Charleroi, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, xxx, February 11
> 
> THis stresses the point that there is much local support. Good idea.
> 
>  > We should just use Charleroi, since that's where the EuroPython
> > > Conference Team is "officially" located.
> 
> We can distinguish the location from the annoucenement places, can't we ?
> 
> > That's an option. But giving a lot of places is a way to say this is trully
> > a european event.
> 
> YES

Except that it looks silly and is not what you'd normally put 
into a press release text. Since the organization team has it's
official lieu in Chareloi, that's the place to put into the text.

> > > >         Conference 2002 will take place on June 26-28 in Charleroi,
> > > > Belgium.  This conference is an unique opportunity to bring together
> > > > developers and users of
> > >
> > > The press release has the order right: "users and developers" :-)
> >
> > OK.
> >
> > > >         Python, the fastest growing open source / free software
> > > > scripting language, and Zope, the leading open source / free software
> > > > application server and content management platform.  [Add more
> > > > important information here]
> > >
> > > Let's just leave it at "open source". I wouldn't want us to get
> > > into discussions about what definition of "free" we mean here and,
> > > most of all, avoid any confusion this whole discussion might
> > > cause. Again, the press release is right here.
> 
> this is true but in MANY places at the European Commission and public
> adminsitrations, people are not anymore saying open source byut free or libre
> software, stressing the freedom it gives.
> 
> I propose to keep Stefane's proposal and refuse to debate about that (for
> many it is the same anyway)

I'm strongly -1 on that one and refuse any discussion on that 
one :-)

Seriously, we don't need politics in the announcement. This is
not the FSF, it's EuroPython. It is generally understood that 
open source is a superset of free software.
 
> > > Something I changed in the press-release is the mentioning of
> > > Java: you don't want to compare Python to Java or Zope to J2EE;
> > > that's a road with a dead end in business talks.
> >
> > Right.
> 
> but the reference was good. need to find somthing else.

The web-sites should have enough information on this. I don't
really think we do ourselves any good by trying to compress
a comparison into one short sentence.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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