[EuroPython] A bunch of questions

[Paul Everitt]

Others have responded, I'll add some points as well.

On mercredi, mars 12, 2003, at 23:59 Europe/Paris, Heimo Laukkanen 
wrote:

>> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:32:57 +0100
>> To: Paul Everitt <paul@eurozope.org>
>> Cc: europython@python.org
>> Subject: Re: [EuroPython] Version 0.0.1 of CFP announcement
>> From: Martijn Faassen <faassen@vet.uu.nl>
>>
>> [tutorials being associated by tracks and organized by track chairs]
>> This sounds like a good idea to me. Tutorials should still be in a 
>> different
>> slot timewise from the tracks themselves.
>
> # Been a week sick, so catching up on emails, discussions and all the 
> work. Going to ask some stupid questions too. #
>
> Is there a full day track reserved for tutorials from the timetable at 
> the moment on some day - and was there allready an agreement of the 
> format of tutorials ( 30 minute, 2 hour? ,-)?

Yes there will be tutorials, and the proposed format is 2 hours.  
Tutorials will be managed by the track managers.

> If all the tutorials share the same one track - how will it be shared 
> between different categories. Any thoughts on that yet?

There are a certain number of rooms available and thus a certain number 
of slots.  It is up to the to track managers to negotiate on how many 
slots each track gets.

Otherwise, someone needs to step forward and be the track manager for 
tutorials.

> I'm asking because from my Zopish and Plonish point of view there 
> might be interest to have quick tips and tricks sessions about CMF, 
> Plone, Silva etc., in the same way as lightning talks - except that 
> the presentations really only take that 10 - 15 minutes. Ofcourse some 
> subjects do require a longer time for tutorial, but then again there 
> are  a lot of things that could be explained in short periods of time.

You could treat this as one of your tutorial slots, where the topic was 
"Practicial Zope".

> These tips&tricks sessions could make an impact even for quite newbie 
> users in Zope world - and that sense this could be also a marketing 
> benefit for the EuroPython. People who are starting to use Zope / 
> Plone at their organisations could get funding to come and get even 
> more info that they wanted. That is what happened to me, when I came 
> to Europython 2002. Before Europython I thought Python as a necessary 
> evil for Zope - and then I started to care more also for Python > itself.

Understand, though, that this increases expectations from that group.  
If the only reason they are paying for travel, time away from work, and 
registration is to increase their proficiency, then the tutorials had 
better be pretty good.  This will require more time investment by the 
presenters and also by the track chairs (as oversight).

> BTW. There are no benefits in conference fee for people who do 
> lightning talks?

Correct.

--Paul