[EuroPython] Voting structure on the web

[Dario Lopez-Kästen]

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From: "Magnus Lyckå" <magnus@thinkware.se>


> At 12:11 2003-07-14 +0200, Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
> >PBF anyone ?
>
> I don't quite understand the question.
>

I think he meant that PBF would be a good candidate to be the formal body
that would take EPC under it's wings.

I guess it would be OK, though I fear that a) this might not be within the
scope of activities of the PBF (this is just a guess from reading the
bylaws) and b) since the PBF is not a community oriented society - on the
contrary it is a society with a rather well-defined target group: companies
doing commercial work with Python - this perhaps would have a dampening
effect on the "communitiveness" of the EPC. Again this is a guess.

Nevertheless I do think that some sort of formal/legal body is needed to
make it easier to make more EPC's in the future

I must say that I am still a little surprised at the fact we have somehow
seem to have reached some sort of ad-hoc concensus that the EPC needs the
backing of a more formal body, while at the same time  the very idea of
creating such a body **with a community focus** seems unacceptable to most -
this is the impression I have from the postings to the mailinglist.

A loose community based on a mailinglist is not enoguh for this, and as I
mentioned above, my personal feeling is that the EPC, while no doubt being
important to the PBF, probably should not be, so to speak, "in the hands" of
it.

I think there is a case for a low-profile but nevertheless formalised
society of European Python users that, among its more important activities,
is responsible for nurturing and taking care of the EPC.

Anyways, these were my personal ramblings - I off to vacation. Happy summer
to all :-)

/dario

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Dario Lopez-Kästen, IT Systems & Services Chalmers University of Tech.