Where did the talks go? etc Was: Re: [EuroPython] Time-Schedule

[Magnus Lyckå]

At 19:23 2003-04-28 -0700, Anna Ravenscroft wrote:
> > Once again, impressive work done by one of our two grand organizers.
>
>Yes - very professional appearance. Thanks for all your hard work Tom!

Agreed, this is looking better and better, day by day.

But where did all the talks go? There was a bunch yesterday, and
now none at all!

It says "There won't be any talks available to public until the deadline
of submission is over." which is May 12th. Won't you display anything until
then?

If you feel that you are getting more proposals than you can handle and
must eliminate some, I can understand that you don't want to display things
that you might end up removing, but I'd still like to know what talks I can
hope to see as soon as possible, and I think others want that too... :)

I don't know if I have a good solution though: It might not be fun to
have been on the list and then to have disappeared. "So they ditched my
talk for his talk... :(" Naturally I want the best talks, rather then the
ones that were submitted first... It's also bad if people decide to come
based on some talk that is subsequently replaced with something else I
guess...

Perhaps I will just have to restrain myself and think of the things I'm
supposed to think of until after May 12... (Perhaps I should take a cold
shower. I'm starting to feel like a child who can't wait until christmas. ;)
Or could some "talks being considered" list be made available?

Anyway...

Something I realized that I'd like to see at Europython is a presentation
or tutorial of recent changes in Python 2.2 and 2.3. Particularly how
new classes work in practice with all bells and whistles. I've avoided them
in 2.2 since I was a bit sceptical about using the first release of such a
big change, but it seems they are getting fairly popular, and 2.3 is on it's
way... I don't want my skills to get stale! :)

Another subject which is typically ignored in python books, and very relevant
in a European and business perspective is localization and 
internationalization.
But I guess that's a subject for a little essay, rather than something for this
mail...


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