From info at pycon.it  Wed Apr  4 15:39:09 2012
From: info at pycon.it (info at pycon.it)
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:39:09 -0000
Subject: [EuroPython] Talk voting results
Message-ID: <20120404133909.22028.33741@python.it>

We are pleased to publish the [final ranking of
proposals](https://ep2012.europython.eu/voting-results), after talk voting
closed last Sunday.

This year, 148 people joined the voting, casting a total 11780 votes!

It's really a great result, and we are happy that so many people are
contributing with their votes to make the best possible talk lineup for the
conference.

## Working on the schedule

We are now working on the [schedule](https://ep2012.europython.eu/schedule),
and will do our best to honor the April 18th deadline. We are still adjusting
the structure of the schedule, so we are not really sure how many talks will
make it to the final schedule.

To give you a rough number, we probably have room for 80 English talks and 10
trainings. Moreover, as anticipated, we have a few invited and sponsored
talks, in addition to the winning proposals.

And, while you are waiting, in the following days we will announce more events
that will take place during EuroPython. Stay tuned!

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From leonardo at nexedi.com  Wed Apr  4 16:45:33 2012
From: leonardo at nexedi.com (Leonardo Rochael Almeida)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:45:33 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Sprint
Message-ID: <CAMxX_oNhqDseDqi4yDh3sHW9=cS65cFutBRtBLTtktze9VP64g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I see that you opened the section on the Sprint, mentioning it will be
in the weekend.

IMO, two days tend to be a little on the short side for sprints, as
most of the first day is spent in design, education, dev. environment
preparation, etc.

Is there a possibility for stretching the sprint a bit somehow, or to
move it aftewards from the conference venue into nearby
internet-enabled caf?s or some-such?

Regards,

Leo

From s.federici at gmail.com  Wed Apr  4 17:01:23 2012
From: s.federici at gmail.com (Simone Federici)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:01:23 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Sprint
In-Reply-To: <CAMxX_oNhqDseDqi4yDh3sHW9=cS65cFutBRtBLTtktze9VP64g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAMxX_oNhqDseDqi4yDh3sHW9=cS65cFutBRtBLTtktze9VP64g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKsNYuh0yZ5JoOptQQwo3CRhpejYTCuC6PLYaWnoX-ZuAhxo8A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Leonardo,
the sprint for Django composite Key?

what do you think? how many people will attend to this kind of meetings?

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 16:45, Leonardo Rochael Almeida
<leonardo at nexedi.com>wrote:

> I see that you opened the section on the Sprint, mentioning it will be
> in the weekend.
>
> IMO, two days tend to be a little on the short side for sprints, as
> most of the first day is spent in design, education, dev. environment
> preparation, etc.
>
> Is there a possibility for stretching the sprint a bit somehow, or to
> move it aftewards from the conference venue into nearby
> internet-enabled caf?s or some-such?
>
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From leonardo at nexedi.com  Wed Apr  4 17:15:11 2012
From: leonardo at nexedi.com (Leonardo Rochael Almeida)
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:15:11 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Sprint
In-Reply-To: <CAKsNYuh0yZ5JoOptQQwo3CRhpejYTCuC6PLYaWnoX-ZuAhxo8A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAMxX_oNhqDseDqi4yDh3sHW9=cS65cFutBRtBLTtktze9VP64g@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAKsNYuh0yZ5JoOptQQwo3CRhpejYTCuC6PLYaWnoX-ZuAhxo8A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4F7C657F.9090709@nexedi.com>


Hi Simone,

On 04-04-2012 17:01, Simone Federici wrote:
> Hi Leonardo,
> the sprint for Django composite Key?

No, another sprint I'm considering proposing, on Python packaging/buildout.

> what do you think? how many people will attend to this kind of meetings?

Somewhere between 5 and 15.

Regards,

Leo

> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 16:45, Leonardo Rochael Almeida
> <leonardo at nexedi.com <mailto:leonardo at nexedi.com>> wrote:
>
>     I see that you opened the section on the Sprint, mentioning it will be
>     in the weekend.
>
>     IMO, two days tend to be a little on the short side for sprints, as
>     most of the first day is spent in design, education, dev. environment
>     preparation, etc.
>
>     Is there a possibility for stretching the sprint a bit somehow, or to
>     move it aftewards from the conference venue into nearby
>     internet-enabled caf?s or some-such?
>
>
>


From s.federici at gmail.com  Wed Apr  4 17:27:17 2012
From: s.federici at gmail.com (Simone Federici)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:27:17 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Sprint
In-Reply-To: <4F7C657F.9090709@nexedi.com>
References: <CAMxX_oNhqDseDqi4yDh3sHW9=cS65cFutBRtBLTtktze9VP64g@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAKsNYuh0yZ5JoOptQQwo3CRhpejYTCuC6PLYaWnoX-ZuAhxo8A@mail.gmail.com>
	<4F7C657F.9090709@nexedi.com>
Message-ID: <CAKsNYujVobGF-oPJaTHmvwuED=W7DpQD6gsNcvv7HQv3NuSWXA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 17:15, Leonardo Rochael Almeida
<leonardo at nexedi.com>wrote:

> No, another sprint I'm considering proposing, on Python packaging/buildout.
> Somewhere between 5 and 15.
>

There are a lot of common spaces in Europython, I think you could begin to
work from the first day around the table.

Which is your idea?
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From leonardo at nexedi.com  Wed Apr  4 17:44:32 2012
From: leonardo at nexedi.com (Leonardo Rochael Almeida)
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:44:32 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Sprint
In-Reply-To: <CAKsNYujVobGF-oPJaTHmvwuED=W7DpQD6gsNcvv7HQv3NuSWXA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAMxX_oNhqDseDqi4yDh3sHW9=cS65cFutBRtBLTtktze9VP64g@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAKsNYuh0yZ5JoOptQQwo3CRhpejYTCuC6PLYaWnoX-ZuAhxo8A@mail.gmail.com>
	<4F7C657F.9090709@nexedi.com>
	<CAKsNYujVobGF-oPJaTHmvwuED=W7DpQD6gsNcvv7HQv3NuSWXA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4F7C6C60.3060805@nexedi.com>


On 04-04-2012 17:27, Simone Federici wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 17:15, Leonardo Rochael Almeida
> [...]
>
> There are a lot of common spaces in Europython, I think you could begin
> to work from the first day around the table.

Perhaps, but I wouldn't want to compete with the wonderful selection of 
talks available.

> Which is your idea?

I'll consider it, but it would be nice to know the possibilities for 
sprint venues before/after the conference schedule proper.

Thanks in advance,

Leo

From info at pycon.it  Fri Apr  6 01:10:43 2012
From: info at pycon.it (info at pycon.it)
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:10:43 -0000
Subject: [EuroPython] Announcing wifi and intranet servers at EuroPython
Message-ID: <20120405231043.20343.99464@python.it>

We are pleased to announce that this year we have partnered with Fastweb and
Devaus Oy to provide a top-notch Internet & Intranet wi-fi experience.

## Wifi and Internet

We know how much wifi and Internet connection is important at a technical
conference. Really, we do understand it. This is why we have started working
very early to plan the wifi service for EuroPython 2012, after last year's
problems.

To make sure that everything will go smooth, we have partnered with two
companies that we are truly confident will provide an egregious service:

  * **[Fastweb Spa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastweb_(telecommunications_company))**: It is the largest Italian ISP after the ex-incumbent. Together with the hotel staff, we found an agreement with them which will provide a **100 Mbps full-duplex fiber-optic link** for EuroPython. This link should provide more than enough bandwidth for handling the traffic (this year's PyCon US had a good wifi service with a 50Mbps link, with 2250 attendees).
  * **[Devaus Oy](http://devaus.net/)**: It is a company based in Finland, specialized in advanced networking services. It has already successfully handled wifi at large technical conferences, and this year, in cooperation with the [Plone project](http://plone.org), they will provide wired and wireless network at EuroPython.

Devaus has published an [initial page](http://devaus.net/conferences/) with
some information on the EuroPython network. We will obviously make more
information available later on.

## House your server/VM in our Intranet

We are also pleased to announce that, for the first time, we will be running
an Intranet at EuroPython, to let sponsors, startups, open-source projects and
speakers showcase their products directly within our network.

If you want to run a website, application or whatever else you want, we have
two different free offers for you:

  * **Housing**: you can bring your pre-configured computer or even laptop, and we will plug it in within our data center. The data center is always locked and accessed only by the EuroPython network staff.
  * **VM**: we can give you immediate root access to a small VM running on one of our servers; they are small instances, but you can start configuring them in next weeks and we will bring the servers to EuroPython so that you don't have to carry any hardware.

If you want to be part of the EuroPython intranet, just [drop us a
line](mailto:intranet at pycon.it) and we will find together the best solution
for your project.

## Why wifi didn't work well last year

Some people are still curious on why we had problems last year with the wifi.
Obviously there was no single problem, but there were a few concurrent causes:

  * **Insufficient bandwidth:** we planned for 2 ADSL lines with a real data rate of 15Mbps down and 1Mbps up. This planning looks ridiculous in retrospect, but it was based on our previous experience at PyCon Italy where 1 of those lines was mostly able to handle ~330 people. The main difference was that, at PyCon Italy, each user was aggressively shaped (limited in bandwidth) while EuroPython network didn't have any per-using shaping policy. In addition to this, the two DSL lines had noise because of cross-talking (we had tested them independently but not at the same time!), so one of the two couldn't really go more than 9Mbps down and 512Kbps up. 
  * **Insufficient extra bandwidth:** after the first morning, we already knew that upstream was the bottleneck; thus we pulled off some hat trick and managed to find a supplier that could activate a terrestrial 4Mbps symmetric radio link in 24 hours (that's the best we could do in one afternoon of phone calls!). Since the load-balancer could only handle two devices, we turned off one ADSL and started using the radio link and the other DSL. Alas, without any shaping policy, it looked like this setup was barely sufficient anyway.
  * **Scalability problems with the authentication portal:** Italy regulations forced us to use an authentication portal and to tunnel all the traffic via VPN to an ISP. The authentication portal (contrary to what one would expect) was running on _remote_ servers, and thus accessed through the Internet link. Because the Internet link was always saturated, most people could usually not get through the authentication portal; this also means that *lots* of people were constantly hitting it at the same time. The problem was made even worse because every time an user changed access point or even disconnected, he had to reauthenticate through the portal. This whole network design (remote authentication portal, no AP roaming) might seem absurd for a conference, but it was expected because we were basically reusing a hotspot service that was designed for different use cases. The authentication portal itself was seeing too much traffic and could simply not handle it fast enough, causing timeouts and thus further disconnections and traffic to it. Obviously, we tried our best to fix the scalability problems on the portal, but it's not easy to do that in a couple of days (especially since the portal was actually a complex piece of software of which only a very small part was visible and accessible from EuroPython).

Lesson learnt, though: for EuroPython 2012, we have allocated a larger part of
the budget for connectivity, and at the same time we worked hard to bring a
much fatter pipe at an affordable price. Meanwhile, regulations in Italy
changed and we will not be forced anymore to authenticate users: this means
that we will run a standard WPA2 network with no captive portal. And since we
have full trust in Devaus' proven expertise with technical conferences, we are
now really looking forward to providing a really outstanding Internet
experience at EuroPython. [Get a
ticket](https://ep2012.europython.eu/reguster) and see it yourself!

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From info at pycon.it  Thu Apr 19 20:27:43 2012
From: info at pycon.it (info at pycon.it)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:27:43 -0000
Subject: [EuroPython] Schedule is online!
Message-ID: <20120419182743.16818.59368@www.python.it>

7 days, 5 simultaneous tracks and 100+ talks are awaiting you at EuroPython!
Did someone say Guido?

The subject says it all ... but look at the first day:

  * **Guido Van Rossum will be with us!**

We just received the confirmation and we thought it is important to tell
everyone at once!

Guido's keynote at EuroPython 2012 will be: [Not the State of the Python
Union](https://ep2012.europython.eu/conference/talks/not-state-python-union)

[Browse the schedule!](https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/schedule/ep2012/)

## Browse the schedule and "star" your favorites talks

[Start browsing the
schedule](https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/schedule/ep2012/) now and see what
talks have made it thanks to the community voting.

As usual, providing a way to guide delegates through the conference and help
them not miss any event they like is our top priority.

Thanks to a brand new navigation panel, you will be able to:

  * Filter talks by type (training, partner program, sprint)
  * Jump to a specific day schedule
  * Put your preferred talks in _MySchedule_

Then you can turn on/off tracks that you are interested into (like the Italian
track if you don't speak italian); after login, you will have the **star
buttons** at your disposal to quickly like the talks, and a my schedule view
that **only show the talks that you like**.

Did you join the talk voting? If so, _your vote will appear next to each
talk_, to makes it even easier to find what you like most.

It's all a bit in beta right now, but rest assured that we will keep working
on it in the next few days. If you find bugs, report them directly in the chat
or by [e-mail](mailto:europython-contact at python.org).

[Start starring your talks!](https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/schedule/ep2012/)

### Book a Training

Reservation is not mandatory, but we will obviously give precedence to people
that have a reservation; if the training is full (no seats left) and you do
not have a reservation, you might be unable to attend the training. This is
why we suggest that you book your trainings in advance, to make sure that you
don't miss them.

You can book the trainings you want to attend, directly from the schedule
(click on the training, and then click on the "Book" button).

**Remember:** Access to trainings is limited to people that bought a standard ticket; lite tickets do not provide access to trainings.

## What is missing

We need another week or so to sort out the final details on:

  * Sprints: we will concentrate on organizing the sprints starting tomorrow. For people that need to know their exact schedule for travel arrangements, we plan to have sprints during the whole Saturday and Sunday, starting at 9:00 and ending at 19:00. More details in next weeks.
  * Evening events: don't believe the schedule that says "Finish" at 19:30, we will have **great** evening events even later in the evening, for those who can't really miss a single drop of EuroPython! We are really looking forward to announce them, so stay tuned!

We really hope that you will like our schedule browser!

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From GadgetSteve at hotmail.com  Mon Apr 23 20:32:19 2012
From: GadgetSteve at hotmail.com (Gadget/Steve)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:32:19 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] Query on (hotel) Dress Code
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP17730A97A17658B3C442479AA210@phx.gbl>

Hi All,

My wife, who is not into software but loves the idea of a visit to
Florence, has raised a question that I thought I would pass on as I can
not find any information on the web site.

What is the expected style of dress for:

    a) The hotel &
    b) The Conference?


While the conference code of conduct clearly states that excessive
sexuality would not be acceptable she would like know if, reasonable
length, shorts would be acceptable day wear about the hotel, etc.

Gadget/Steve


From giovanni at pycon.it  Mon Apr 23 22:15:12 2012
From: giovanni at pycon.it (Giovanni Bajo)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:15:12 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Query on (hotel) Dress Code
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP17730A97A17658B3C442479AA210@phx.gbl>
References: <BLU0-SMTP17730A97A17658B3C442479AA210@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <9BD5EF57-1161-4271-A196-CE7FBA4EFECE@pycon.it>

Il giorno 23/apr/2012, alle ore 20:32, Gadget/Steve ha scritto:

> Hi All,
> 
> My wife, who is not into software but loves the idea of a visit to
> Florence, has raised a question that I thought I would pass on as I can
> not find any information on the web site.
> 
> What is the expected style of dress for:
> 
>    a) The hotel &
>    b) The Conference?
> 
> 
> While the conference code of conduct clearly states that excessive
> sexuality would not be acceptable she would like know if, reasonable
> length, shorts would be acceptable day wear about the hotel, etc.


Hi Steve,

most people at the conference will simply dress casual; that's not unlike most technical conferences out there. The code of conduct is basically trying to address excessive sexualized clothing/costumes (eg: so-called "booth babes"); wearing shorts is absolutely acceptable per-se, and is surely a common clothing in the summer season.

While walking around the city, and in the hotel, you will find many different styles of dresses, including business suites in the day and very elegant dresses in the evenings, and lots of casual and informal dressing (very common among tourists). So for going around the city itself, I would say that any style of dress that makes you comfortable is OK. You can surely find many pictures of crowded Florence squares (on Flickr or Google) to get an idea of the mixed styles.

Please let me know if I can further help you on this matter.
--  
Giovanni Bajo

EuroPython 2012
https://ep2012.europython.eu

Python Italia APS
Non-profit association
Registered in Italy


From nicola.musatti at gmail.com  Mon Apr 23 22:25:40 2012
From: nicola.musatti at gmail.com (Nicola Musatti)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:25:40 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Query on (hotel) Dress Code
In-Reply-To: <9BD5EF57-1161-4271-A196-CE7FBA4EFECE@pycon.it>
References: <BLU0-SMTP17730A97A17658B3C442479AA210@phx.gbl>
	<9BD5EF57-1161-4271-A196-CE7FBA4EFECE@pycon.it>
Message-ID: <CACYX9ygEs+1Sz4hNtpLte32Et=VovbUCwJD_0bFc_y9GTs133w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Giovanni Bajo <giovanni at pycon.it> wrote:

> Il giorno 23/apr/2012, alle ore 20:32, Gadget/Steve ha scritto:
>

[I know you're not the OP, Giovanni, but I didn't want to quote the whole
message]

>
> While walking around the city, and in the hotel, you will find many
> different styles of dresses, including business suites in the day and very
> elegant dresses in the evenings, and lots of casual and informal dressing
> (very common among tourists). So for going around the city itself, I would
> say that any style of dress that makes you comfortable is OK. You can
> surely find many pictures of crowded Florence squares (on Flickr or Google)
> to get an idea of the mixed styles.
>
> Just keep in mind that people in shorts and / or sleeveless shirts might
not be admitted to churches, in case you plan to visit any (and you
definitely should!)

Cheers,
Nicola

-- 
Nicola.Musatti <at> gmail <dot> com
Home: http://nicola.musatti.googlepages.com/home
Blog: http://wthwdik.wordpress.com/
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From GadgetSteve at hotmail.com  Mon Apr 23 22:30:46 2012
From: GadgetSteve at hotmail.com (Gadget/Steve)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:30:46 +0100
Subject: [EuroPython] Query on (hotel) Dress Code
In-Reply-To: <CACYX9ygEs+1Sz4hNtpLte32Et=VovbUCwJD_0bFc_y9GTs133w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BLU0-SMTP17730A97A17658B3C442479AA210@phx.gbl>
	<9BD5EF57-1161-4271-A196-CE7FBA4EFECE@pycon.it>
	<CACYX9ygEs+1Sz4hNtpLte32Et=VovbUCwJD_0bFc_y9GTs133w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP1164972935AC9753961574AAA210@phx.gbl>

Thank-you (both) for the quick and informative replies.

Gadget/Stsve

From dghironi at crs4.it  Mon Apr 23 22:53:18 2012
From: dghironi at crs4.it (daniela ghironi)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:53:18 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Poster session
In-Reply-To: <9BD5EF57-1161-4271-A196-CE7FBA4EFECE@pycon.it>
References: <BLU0-SMTP17730A97A17658B3C442479AA210@phx.gbl>
	<9BD5EF57-1161-4271-A196-CE7FBA4EFECE@pycon.it>
Message-ID: <4D770ECE-4BDB-4766-BE4C-50FDD525CB7B@crs4.it>

Hi all! :)

As co-author of one of the submitted poster, 
I'm just wondering how many posters will be 
accepted for the poster session:  
in the final ranking 17 posters are listed, 
do you have room for all of them or do you plan to
exclude some?

Thanks in advance, 

Daniela



From marius at gedmin.as  Tue Apr 24 23:48:04 2012
From: marius at gedmin.as (Marius Gedminas)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:48:04 +0300
Subject: [EuroPython] Changing a personal ticket to a company one
Message-ID: <20120424214804.GA19923@platonas>

Hello, dear organizers!

I've bought a (personal) conference ticket and hotel reservation early
on, because I wasn't sure my company would decide in time how many
people it could afford to send to EP this year, and I didn't want the
hotel reservations to run out.  Now they have decided, and want me to
re-register for an official company ticket.

I've already paid (through PayPal), and I'm not sure it isn't too late
to get a refund, and also I'm not sure how I should go about asking for
it.  Well, I did click on the 'Refund this ticket' link out of
curiosity, and it popped up a box asking for a reason -- which I
neglected to provide, thinking I could repeat the process -- and now
that ticket is frozen with "refund pending", and I can't enter the
reason again....

I'd also hate to lose the room reservation in the main hotel (although
room sharing reservations for quadruple rooms appear to be still
available).  Personally, I'm fine with paying out of my own pocket, but
with a company ticket EP would get more money, which is also nice...

What should I do?

Marius Gedminas,
feeling rather stupid for this ill-formed open-ended question
-- 
We've found by experience that people who are careless and sloppy writers are
usually also careless and sloppy thinkers (often enough to bet on, anyway).
	-- ESR (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)
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From marius at gedmin.as  Wed Apr 25 00:07:16 2012
From: marius at gedmin.as (Marius Gedminas)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:07:16 +0300
Subject: [EuroPython] Changing a personal ticket to a company one
In-Reply-To: <20120424214804.GA19923@platonas>
References: <20120424214804.GA19923@platonas>
Message-ID: <20120424220716.GA20894@platonas>

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:48:04AM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> Hello, dear organizers!
> 
> I've bought a (personal) conference ticket and hotel reservation early
> on, because I wasn't sure my company would decide in time how many
> people it could afford to send to EP this year, and I didn't want the
> hotel reservations to run out.  Now they have decided, and want me to
> re-register for an official company ticket.
> 
> I've already paid (through PayPal), and I'm not sure it isn't too late
> to get a refund, and also I'm not sure how I should go about asking for
> it.  Well, I did click on the 'Refund this ticket' link out of
> curiosity, and it popped up a box asking for a reason -- which I
> neglected to provide, thinking I could repeat the process -- and now
> that ticket is frozen with "refund pending", and I can't enter the
> reason again....
> 
> I'd also hate to lose the room reservation in the main hotel (although
> room sharing reservations for quadruple rooms appear to be still
> available).  Personally, I'm fine with paying out of my own pocket, but
> with a company ticket EP would get more money, which is also nice...
> 
> What should I do?

I went ahead and ordered the new tickets and hotel reservations (for me
and my coworker), on the grounds of there still being some hotel reservations
available.

> Marius Gedminas,
> feeling rather stupid for this ill-formed open-ended question

Marius Gedminas
-- 
C++ is a loaded machine gun helpfully pointed at your feet with the safety off.
        -- ChaosDiscord on Slashdot
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From giovanni at pycon.it  Wed Apr 25 02:05:02 2012
From: giovanni at pycon.it (Giovanni Bajo)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:05:02 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Changing a personal ticket to a company one
In-Reply-To: <20120424214804.GA19923@platonas>
References: <20120424214804.GA19923@platonas>
Message-ID: <3BB48E68-2263-45CB-A570-A373426E26E0@pycon.it>

Il giorno 24/apr/2012, alle ore 23:48, Marius Gedminas ha scritto:

> Hello, dear organizers!
> 
> I've bought a (personal) conference ticket and hotel reservation early
> on, because I wasn't sure my company would decide in time how many
> people it could afford to send to EP this year, and I didn't want the
> hotel reservations to run out.  Now they have decided, and want me to
> re-register for an official company ticket.
> 
> I've already paid (through PayPal), and I'm not sure it isn't too late
> to get a refund, and also I'm not sure how I should go about asking for
> it.  Well, I did click on the 'Refund this ticket' link out of
> curiosity, and it popped up a box asking for a reason -- which I
> neglected to provide, thinking I could repeat the process -- and now
> that ticket is frozen with "refund pending", and I can't enter the
> reason again....
> 
> I'd also hate to lose the room reservation in the main hotel (although
> room sharing reservations for quadruple rooms appear to be still
> available).  Personally, I'm fine with paying out of my own pocket, but
> with a company ticket EP would get more money, which is also nice...
> 

You did the right thing: you asked for a refund on the previous ticket and room. We will approve and process the refund in 3 days, as specified.

The refund interface is still rusty, but it helps us on the backend side of things. We will eventually improve it.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

EuroPython 2012
https://ep2012.europython.eu

Python Italia APS
Non-profit association
Registered in Italy


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From info at pycon.it  Mon Apr 30 10:36:09 2012
From: info at pycon.it (info at pycon.it)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:36:09 -0000
Subject: [EuroPython] Early Bird will end in 3 days!
Message-ID: <20120430083609.8299.29553@www.python.it>

If you plan to attend, you could save quite a bit on registration fees! Buy
your ticket today!

The end of Early bird is on April 2nd, 23:59:59 CEST. We'd like to ask to you
to **forward this post to anyone that you feel may be interested**.

We have an amazing lineup of tutorials and talks. We have some excellent
keynote speakers and [Guido will be with
us!](https://ep2012.europython.eu/blog/2012/04/30/early-bird-will-end-3-days)
... but remember that **early bird registration ends in 3 days**!

Right now, you still get discounts on talks and tutorials so if you plan to
attend this year to the conference.

[Register Now!](https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/cart/)

### Things to Remember:

  * [House your server](https://ep2012.europython.eu/blog/2012/04/06/announcing-wifi-and-intranet-servers-europython): we will be running an Intranet at EuroPython, to let sponsors, startups, open-source projects and speakers showcase their products directly within our network.
  * [Book a Training](https://ep2012.europython.eu/training): You can book the trainings you want to attend, directly from the schedule (click on the training, and then click on the "Book" button).
  * [Sprints](https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/sprints/): wonderful hacking sessions during the weekend, learn from expert Python developers, and contribute to the Python ecosystem!
  * Probably we've already discussed about the fact that **Guido Van Rossum will be at Europython** in Florence :)

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From palla74 at gmail.com  Mon Apr 30 10:54:34 2012
From: palla74 at gmail.com (Palla)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:54:34 +0200
Subject: [EuroPython] Early Bird will end in 3 days!
In-Reply-To: <20120430083609.8299.28711@www.python.it>
References: <20120430083609.8299.28711@www.python.it>
Message-ID: <CAAF1pdpdAX7OH73vpwTsmsjjFCPAAEBJy6nsbYk9h3smby9Ftw@mail.gmail.com>

I'm sorry for the mistake.

The correct date for the end of Early Bird is: May 2nd

Regards,

--
Francesco Pallanti
EP2012 Staff


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:36 AM,  <info at pycon.it> wrote:
> If you plan to attend, you could save quite a bit on registration fees! Buy
> your ticket today!
>
> The end of Early bird is on April 2nd, 23:59:59 CEST. We'd like to ask to
> you to forward this post to anyone that you feel may be interested.
>
> We have an amazing lineup of tutorials and talks. We have some excellent
> keynote speakers and Guido will be with us! ... but remember that early bird
> registration ends in 3 days!
>
> Right now, you still get discounts on talks and tutorials so if you plan to
> attend this year to the conference.
>
> Register Now!
>
> Things to Remember:
>
> House your server: we will be running an Intranet at EuroPython, to let
> sponsors, startups, open-source projects and speakers showcase their
> products directly within our network.
> Book a Training: You can book the trainings you want to attend, directly
> from the schedule (click on the training, and then click on the "Book"
> button).
> Sprints: wonderful hacking sessions during the weekend, learn from expert
> Python developers, and contribute to the Python ecosystem!
> Probably we've already discussed about the fact that Guido Van Rossum will
> be at Europython in Florence :)
>
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