IRC log of #europython for Tuesday, 2009-03-10

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Martin_HellwigPRESENT19:00
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pinnerGood Evening!19:00
nickbookerPRESENT19:01
Martin_Hellwighey john!19:01
tartleyPRESENT19:01
nickbookerevening all.19:01
qwrightPRESENT19:01
pinnerPRESENT19:01
pinnertartley: is fuzzyman back in the land of the living yet?19:02
tartleyhowdy doody everyone19:02
jacob22PRESENT19:02
pinnerHello Jacob19:02
jacob22Hi everyone.19:03
tartleypinner: I'm afraid not, he's at QCon conference right now. Dunno if he can make this meeting.19:03
jacob22lac is napping. If you need her at a point in the agenda, I can wake her up.19:05
pinnerjacob22: OK, did you both see the Sponsors Brochure?19:06
nickbookerAPOLOGIES zeth19:06
pinnerOK, I guess we'd better start...19:06
pinner#startmeeting19:06
pinnerAPOLOGIES moreati19:06
pinnerAPOLOGIES fuzzyman19:07
pinnerAPOLOGIES zeth19:07
pinnerany more ?19:07
pinnerTOPIC Review Actions from Last Meeting19:07
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jacob22I've just been trough it. Looks very good.19:08
jacob22I don't know if Laura has sen it yet. She was asleep when I arrived home.19:08
pinnerjacob22: we try an give an air of professionalism, even if it isn't true ;-)19:08
qwrightjacob22:thanks for your contributions19:09
pinner[registration] Has got off to a good start, with hardly any problems19:09
jacob22qwright: You are most welcome.19:09
pinner[registration] 64 people had registered by 16:00 GMT today19:09
jacob22pinner: Did you resolve how people should calculate what they should pay in Euros?19:10
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qwright[registration] that's 14 peo19:10
qwrightle more than yesterday!19:10
Martin_Hellwig[registration] I have to say I am pretty impressed!19:11
jacob22This points to a record number of attendees.19:11
pinnerjacob22: You mean by bank transfer? I think they just ask the bank to pay sterling and the bank looks after it.19:11
pinnerjacob22: although a Ukrainian's bank couldn't do this so we agreed an exchange rate.19:11
pinner[privacy policy] we had to remove Switzerland contrary to last meeting's decision because of our Data Protection registration19:12
jacob22pinner: Apparently, there are EU payments, where the bank only supplies payment in Euro.19:12
pinnerjacob22: we'll monitor what's coming in, then, and suggest an exchange rate that works19:13
pinner[sponsorship brochure] is now complete, you can see it at http://brumpy.net/ep2009/19:14
Martin_Hellwigpinner: yes otherwise you need to do international foreign currency transfer, some banks charge a ridiculous prize for that, like 35 GBP some bank here in the UK, in NL theste transfers are usually free19:14
pinner[sponsorship brochure] We will have professionally printed brochures tomorrow and will send them out to the major sponsors19:15
pinnerMartin_Hellwig: you will be our consultant on this19:15
pinner[talks] First sub-committee meeting took place on 28th February19:16
Martin_Hellwigpinner: OK, no problem19:16
pinnertartley: do you wish to report on the talks meeting?19:16
tartleyhi19:16
tartleySure thing19:17
Martin_Hellwig[sponsorship brochure] it looks really, really good, compliments!19:17
pinner[talks] we have 29 good submissions, although one has been withdrawn, and another couple should be amalgamated19:17
tartleyWell, the talks subcommitee went through the first eighteen submissions19:17
tartleyWe pretty much decided across the board to accept each submission, some with caveats about desireable clarifications19:17
tartleyor evidence of ability to fit within the assigned time slot19:18
tartleywe assigned each talk a 'champion' from the subcommittee, to assist the submitter with jumping through19:18
tartleythose hoops19:18
tartley(ie. helping people if English isn't native language, or helping people plan the talk duration accuratly)19:19
pinnerI think it's fair to say that all the submissions looked good, with those provisos19:19
tartleyI can't speak for the other champions, but I just started drafting my feedback to submitters last night19:20
tartleythose are due to go out any hour now19:20
tartleyall done19:20
pinnerthat all sounds good, any questions for tartley?19:20
tartleyoh19:20
tartleyTo help me keep track19:21
qwrightis the mix right?19:21
tartleyI stuffed the talks into a google spreadsheet for my own benefit19:21
tartleyI realise it's silly to diverge storage of info like this19:21
tartleymaybe this info should be added to talks submissions directly?19:21
tartleyhttp://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=py4TiL9TBXvs-Q-yxcgOvIw19:21
qwrightparticularly if it's google...19:21
tartleyyeah19:21
tartleyi just shared it for your benefit19:22
pinnertartley: not until the submissions have been processed into separate talks and speaker bios19:22
tartleyi'll unshare it after this meeting19:22
qwrightI don't use google19:22
voidspace_sorry19:22
qwrighttoo dominant19:22
voidspace_got here as soon as I could19:22
tartleyunless others want specific invites to edit.19:22
tartleypinner & qwright: understood19:22
pinnervoidspace_: we already gave fuzzyman's apologies ;-)19:22
pinnerOK, talks looking good...19:23
pinner[pub guide] no progress I believe, zeth is away19:23
voidspace_he is grateful19:23
pinnerTOPIC Registration19:23
pinnerWe already covered this, fyi we have 64 delegates to date.19:24
pinnerTOPIC Talks19:24
pinnerI'm fouling up this agenda!19:24
pinnerProgress report on Talks software:19:24
pinnerBack end s/w is ready, the Django front end is still missing the bits between submissions and back end processing19:25
qwrightwho is doing these bits?19:26
pinnernickbooker and pinner and going to assist zeth with this19:26
pinnerand->are19:26
qwrightsmile!19:26
pinnerACTION nickbooker and pinner to assist zeth with remianing Talks software19:27
pinnerTOPIC Publicity19:27
pinnerMartin_Hellwig: over to you19:27
Martin_Hellwigmy apologies for the SNAFU on the last on (the dates)19:28
Martin_Hellwigin the future I will continue to post it out first before sending it out in the world19:28
pinnerMartin_Hellwig: accepted :-)19:28
Martin_Hellwignext public announcement is when the agenda is ready19:28
Martin_Hellwigthat's all for me I think19:29
qwrightwe are commissioning a poster19:29
pinnerShall we have another shot pointing out that EEB booking finishes on Saturday?19:29
qwrightgood idea19:29
Martin_Hellwigyes good idea, I will prepare a template tonight and send it around for sending out on Wednesday evening19:30
pinnerWe haven't had a vote yet...19:30
Martin_Hellwig+119:30
qwright+119:31
pinnerVOTE Publicity mailshot about Extra Early Bird rate finishing on 14th19:31
pinner+119:31
nickbooker+119:31
Martin_Hellwig+119:31
Martin_Hellwig:-)19:31
qwright+119:31
tartley-119:31
Martin_Hellwigtartley: like to elaborate?19:32
jacob22+119:32
pinnerENDVOTE19:32
tartleyonly that we seem to be doing well on numbers, and if one shoty has already mentiojned it, then why duplicate for people not alert enough to act on it? It's *E*EB, after all.19:32
pinnerDECISION Send out another publicity mailshot about Extra Early Bird rate finishing on 14th19:33
tartleydoubtless my inexperience talking. All good.19:33
pinnertartley: I see what you mean, OTOH the more publicity the better19:33
tartleycool19:34
pinnerTOPIC Sponsorship19:34
pinnerWho is going to contact whom?19:34
qwrightprospects: Google, Canonical, Sun,19:34
qwrightApress, O'Reilly, Microsoft19:35
qwrightPSF19:35
pinnerI can deal with MS (also fuzzyman), Sun, Novell, Google if you like19:35
Martin_Hellwigand that mysterious rdbm manufacturer19:35
qwrightResolver19:35
qwrightOh yes Oracle19:35
qwrightIBM19:35
pinnero'Reilly have already committed with their usual arrangement19:35
pinnerI've sent the brochure to Oracle19:35
qwrightWingware, Nokia19:35
qwrightActiveState19:36
tartleyI can contact Resolver, since I work there. Unless fuzzy is already all over it.19:36
Martin_Hellwigis BBC interested perhaps?19:36
qwrightThe Linux Emporium19:36
qwrightBBC - yes possibly19:36
pinnerI suggest that lac and jacob approach the PSF: they seem better than anyone else at getting cash from them19:36
qwrightBBC - Michael Sparkes has been our BBC contact19:36
qwrightMost of the above are previous PyConUK sponsors19:37
qwrightalso Nokia19:37
pinnerI've just spoken to Michael Sparks, he's too busy to take part, but I have the contact for sponsorship19:37
qwrightI'm out of the office, unfortunately I can't access Jacob's list easily19:38
pinnerOK, we seem to have a reasonable list there.19:38
qwrightothers: Symbian, Novell, HP, RedHat, SUSE19:39
pinnerI suggest that qwright coordinates this with jacob22 and they should produce a list assigning people to potential sponsors; this can  be done by email outside this list19:39
qwrightagreed, any other suggestions welcomed....19:40
voidspace_I can do anyone I am assigned so long as there are contact details19:40
voidspace_an email template would be nice19:40
qwrightvoidspace: thanks19:40
pinnerVOTE qwright and jacob22 to produce list of sponsors and divide among us19:41
qwrightvoidspace: the template isn't too difficult - mostly derived from the brochure copy19:41
pinnervoidspace: the brochure can be seen at http://www.brumpy.net/ep2009/19:42
nickbooker+119:42
voidspace_+119:42
tartley+119:42
Martin_Hellwig+119:42
jacob22+119:42
pinner+119:43
pinnerENDVOTE19:43
qwright+119:43
voidspace_too slow there quentin19:43
pinnerDECISION qwright and jacob22 to produce list of sponsors and divide among us19:43
qwrightsmile!19:43
pinnervoidspace: can be put right with vim ;-)19:44
pinnerTOPIC Budget19:44
pinnermoreati has started a shared Google sp19:44
pinnerreadsheet, but not got very far19:44
pinnerthey're about to release some software which is why he's not here tonight19:45
pinnerbut I'm seeing him on Thursday19:45
qwrightat the Bull or the Office?19:45
pinnerBut there is one budget item we do need to discuss19:45
qwright.......19:46
pinnerqwright: Bull19:46
qwrightpinner: and the budget item is?19:46
pinnerWe are being asked to sponsor students, also speakers' expenses from say the USA19:46
voidspace_right19:46
voidspace_we have several folk who have informally (non-formally?) requested assistance19:47
pinnerjacob22: what did you budget for these in the past?19:47
pinnerI think we should be thinking in terms of £5000, but that is a big hole in the finances19:48
pinnerso I suggest that is what we should ask for from the PSF, and if we get less we sponsor less19:48
jacob22pinner: We actually had a fair bit of budget. I'd say between 3000 and 6000 Euro. We have had quite a few people from Brazil and Argentina.19:49
pinnerand if a sugar daddy comes forward (Oracle?) we can allocate more19:49
pinnerjacob22: that ties in with what I was thinking19:49
pinnerat PyCon UK Hettinger and Beazley accounted for (probably) around $3000, but were worth it19:50
jacob22It's nice to have as a bit of a budget regulator. People who ask for sponsorships are understanding when you tell them that you need to see how much you can afford.19:50
pinnerVOTE Allocate provisional sum of £5000 for speaker and delegate sponsorship19:51
jacob22+119:51
nickbooker+119:52
qwright+119:52
Martin_Hellwig+019:52
tartley+119:52
voidspace_+119:52
pinnerENDVOTE19:52
pinnerDECISION Provisional sum of £5000 for speaker and delegate sponsorship allocated19:53
pinnerTOPIC Website and Wiki19:53
pinnerI'm concerned that we don't (apparently) have anyone monitoring and guiding wiki content19:54
pinnerthis is a function pboddie has done in the past, but he's taking a back seat this year19:54
pinnerdo we ask him to do it again, or get someone new?19:55
pinneror just leave it?19:55
voidspace_is it an actual problem or a potential problem?19:56
voidspace_do we need more wiki content?19:56
tartleyif we were to get someone new, it would require asking if anyone was interested in doing it? Is anyone interested in doing it? This is not a volunteering. :-)19:57
pinnervoidspace_ : you get information duplicated, and as soon as that happens one source by definition becomes incorrect19:57
qwrightI think it's more a matter of watching out for spam and obvious mistakes19:57
pinnerqwright: it also gets randomly disorganised19:57
voidspace_So we need a webmaster19:58
voidspace_isn't zeth good at these things?19:58
voidspace_:-)19:58
pinnervoidspace_ : he's very good at setting it up, and has a short attention span once that is done, like me19:59
pinnerlet's leave this for now - there are not enough people here anyway - and just keep an eye on it for now20:00
pinnerTOPIC Any Other Business20:00
pinnerany offers?20:00
tartleyQ:20:01
tartleyQ: can I pester you about getting my VoIP working? offline.20:01
qwrighttartley: Yes?20:01
tartleyI was told you are the man.20:01
qwrighttartley: Yes20:01
pinnerTOPIC Next Meeting20:02
pinnerMonday 24th April, 17:00 GMT, 18:00 CET OK for everyone?20:02
voidspace_Get Voip working offline - seems destined to fail20:02
tartley:-)20:02
Martin_Hellwigmaybe if you could route it over gprs20:03
qwrighttartley: can you hang around here afterwards or do you want to give things a go another time?20:03
tartleyI will be in Wales, but can take a laptop and look for wifi.20:03
tartleyqwright: Ah, am at work at the moment, I'll send you an email, just in case you think of something I haven't tried. Thanks!20:03
voidspace_I'll be on the way to PyCon US20:03
pinnerDECISION Next Meeting will be on Monday 24th April, 17:00 GMT, 18:00 CET20:03
qwrighttartley: 3g is an alternative in Wales20:04
jacob22pinner: 6 weeks form now?20:04
voidspace_Hmmm... I might be free20:04
pinnervoidspace_: there may be some things you can do for us while you're in the colonies ;-)20:04
pinnerCorrection!20:04
voidspace_pinner: if you have any specific requests then fine20:04
qwrightpinner: Did you mean March?20:04
voidspace_I assumed 24th March!20:05
pinnerDECISION Next Meeting will be on Monday 24th March, 17:00 GMT, 18:00 CET20:05
qwrightpinner: Sounds good to me...20:05
pinnerjacob22: just testing to see if you were awake ;-)20:05
jacob22Why are we changing day of the week? Any particular reason?20:05
qwrightvoidspace_: being in the US is not an excuse for non-attendance20:06
pinnerjacob22: is a Tuesday again, I think20:06
voidspace_ha20:06
voidspace_24th is a Tuesday20:06
tartleytue is day before pycon, presumably ppl R on planes20:06
tartleyI am20:06
voidspace_being on a plane might be a good excuse20:06
jacob22So Tuesday 24 March  17:00 GMT, 18:00 CET20:06
qwrightvoidspace_: 1700 UTC will be 1100 local20:07
tartleyI cannot do that date. Flying to PyCon.20:07
pinnervoidspace_: The obvious thing is to publicise EP, and get speakers, Iwill contact you re PyCon if I think of anything else.20:07
voidspace_I think I'll be on a plane20:07
voidspace_pinner: ok20:07
pinnerI think that's all20:07
qwrighttartley, voidspace_: change your flights?20:07
pinnerThanks for coming20:08
tartleyhoho20:08
pinner#endmeeting20:08
qwrightByeeeeeeeeeeeee20:08
voidspace_weeeeeeeeeeeeeee20:08
voidspace_are we there yet?20:08
tartleycheapy flights, I'm afraid, will incur change fees20:08
voidspace_qwright: I'll happily leave a day or two early if you pay the flight and hotel :-)20:08
tartleyand surfboard rental20:09
qwrighttartley: you may need skis20:09
qwrighttartley: do you want to chat about voip?20:10
tartleythanks Q, not right now, I'm not at home (where the problem is)20:10
voidspace_don't you have to go offline to do that Tart?20:10
tartleyI'll send you an email when I get there. LALALA I can't hear fuzzy.20:10
tartleybrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr20:11
qwrighttartley: so when are you likely to be at home+20:11
qwright?20:11
Martin_Hellwigif only there was an invention when you can call somebody when you are not at home or have an laptop20:12
qwrightmobile phone?20:12
Martin_Hellwig:-)20:12
tartleyon reflection, not until late. HAR. I want to be sat next to the defective hardware so I can report symptoms and try out any suggestions, silly people.20:13
Martin_Hellwighehe20:13
qwrightit's 53F in Chicago today - toasty, but forecast to be 34F tomorrow20:13
tartleyQ: I'll ping you thursday, respond at your leisure. Mucho thanks20:13
Martin_Hellwigq: is the voip conferece reachable from a normal number?20:14
qwrighttartley: fine - not sure how you ping me will be at clockwork 0121 313 385020:14
qwrightMartin_Hellwig: yes, I can't remember what it is at the moment20:15
Martin_Hellwigno worries20:15
qwrightMartin_Hellwig: have you no voip capability at all?20:15
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Martin_HellwigI have a very lousy connection20:16
qwrightMartin_Hellwig: is that broadband+20:16
qwright?20:16
Martin_Hellwigyup btinternet, problems is the streetpole20:17
tartleybye all.20:17
qwrightbyeeeeeee120:17
Martin_Hellwigbye tartley20:17
qwrightcan't they fix it20:17
* tartley waves while slowly melting into a puddle that slips through the flagstones...20:17
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tartleydamn!20:18
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Martin_Hellwigyes the are going to, scheduled at November20:18
qwright!! my pole has been struck by lightning twice, but each time they were round inside 24 hours20:18
ThomasWaldmannre :)20:19
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Martin_Hellwigwell, it seems that the problems is in line that burried under a house20:19
Martin_Hellwigwhich leads to the pole20:19
ThomasWaldmannbtw, is there some great computer shop in birmingham that has a good choice of small laptops?20:20
qwrighthmmm - not worth switching to Virgin (ex NTL)?20:20
ThomasWaldmannmy current one is falling apart and I want a US (or similar) kbd anyway20:21
Martin_HellwigI conciderd it, but I probably will be moving soon20:21
qwrightThomasWaldmann: you'll have difficulties getting a US keyboard....20:21
qwrightMartin_Hellwig: yes it won't be transferabe20:22
pinnerqwright: we have the technology to get one ;-)20:22
Martin_Hellwigtipex?20:22
qwrightwell I recommend spraying all the keys black or else using a dvorak layout, or both20:23
pinnerMartin_Hellwig: no, genuine US kb20:23
Martin_Hellwigah :-)20:23
voidspace_qwright: dvorak - the man was a con artist!20:24
Martin_Hellwigyou mean the reporter?20:25
qwrightthat's just an evil rumour20:25
voidspace_the keyboard man20:25
qwrightno the reporter is a different person20:25
Martin_Hellwighe too? :-)20:25
voidspace_yeah - him too20:26
qwrightdvorak is loads easier to type with than qwerty - no finger stretching20:27
qwrightI was getting rsi, but all symptoms have gone away since I switched20:27
Martin_Hellwigyes but typing takes ages now ;-)20:28
voidspace_qwright: that's because it's slower20:28
voidspace_I use a kinesis keyboard20:28
qwrightnope, after a year or two it's faster20:28
voidspace_similar - no stretching20:28
voidspace_can reach every key without moving your hand20:28
voidspace_it also supports Dvorak20:28
voidspace_expensive, but I'm a big fan20:28
qwrightI've gone down the happy hacker pathway, also Thinkpad keyboards are very good20:30
qwrightAll has gone quiet??!!20:32
qwrightI'm going to have to stop now ......20:33
Martin_Hellwigkeeping my son happy, typing with one hand20:33
voidspace_...20:33
Martin_Hellwigokay that doesn't sound right20:33
qwrightThat's right - start them young!!!20:33
Martin_Hellwigactually, just feeding him another bottle20:34
qwrightwell keyboard skills will have to wait a little while I suppose20:35
Martin_Hellwig8 weeks might be a bit young :-)20:35
Martin_Hellwigf,llglptlvhf20:36
qwrightwith my children I had programs that would respond to a single key - any key - and do something - like beep or flash the screen....20:36
Martin_Hellwigwell that was my sons writing20:36
Martin_Hellwighmm that might be good idea20:37
Martin_Hellwigwell I am leaving now, nappy change, I spare you the details20:38
Martin_Hellwigbye20:39
qwrightAh the joys of fatherhood!!!20:39
qwrightOK bye! me too, bye voidspace_20:39
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MatthewWilkesAh, shame, I almost hoped there's be a few hundred brummies in here22:20
MatthewWilkes"Python's bostin'" etc22:20
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