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| pboddie | OK, so there should be a meeting around now, according to the weekly schedule. | 18:51 |
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| pboddie | I forgot to send a mail out, but I'm sure that a lot of people know the routine. | 18:52 |
| pboddie | Agenda was posted here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2008/IRCMeetings/IRCMeeting11 | 18:55 |
| pboddie | Anyone? | 19:00 |
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| david_boddie | Hi! | 19:01 |
| pboddie | I guess no-one else is going to show up. Perhaps the logs will be the main beneficiary of this meeting. | 19:05 |
| david_boddie | Well, we can wait a while longer. People usually show up during discussions. | 19:07 |
| pboddie | And there's the time zone issue, too. | 19:08 |
| david_boddie | OK, well, the only development that I have to report is on the tutorials. | 19:09 |
| david_boddie | I contacted Stefan Behnel and he wants to give a tutorial about lxml. I suggested that we could schedule something like that alongside talks. | 19:10 |
| pboddie | I think the Call for Participation is broad enough that anyone wanting to submit tutorials could send in a proposal for that, if they wanted. | 19:11 |
| david_boddie | He thinks we should schedule some time each day for a tutorial slot. | 19:11 |
| david_boddie | So, we could potentially do a tutorial on each day of the conference. | 19:12 |
| pboddie | OK. Well, regarding some of the other points... | 19:13 |
| pboddie | Registration: it would seem that PayPal will be the payment system if the paperwork gets through (which it hopefully will, given the recent correspondence on the matter). | 19:14 |
| david_boddie | (Yes, those were just his suggestions. I should probably just forward on that information to the mailing list.) | 19:14 |
| pboddie | There's really nothing else on the agenda that I can comment on. | 19:14 |
| pboddie | John brought up the matter of using PyCon UK's talks Web page mechanism, but in a EuroPython wrapper, but... | 19:15 |
| pboddie | 1) It's too late: we've already told people where to send their talks. | 19:15 |
| pboddie | 2) Sending talks to a mail address is what other conferences do - it's not rocket science. | 19:15 |
| pboddie | 3) I'm becoming reluctant to do any more Web-related stuff. | 19:16 |
| david_boddie | The idea of using a mailing list was to allow us to get at the raw information and put it into a system, if required. | 19:16 |
| david_boddie | There should be no problem with switching at a later point, to allow people to upload slides, for example. | 19:16 |
| pboddie | Indeed, the Wiki should really be sufficient for this, if we don't want to develop a fancy but nasty CMS solution. | 19:19 |
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| Aiste_ | hi people, sorry I'm late | 19:21 |
| pboddie | Aiste_: Hello! I'm not sure if there's much to discuss, and it's only me and Dave currently. | 19:21 |
| Aiste_ | got lost on the border crossing :) | 19:21 |
| Aiste_ | ah, right | 19:21 |
| pboddie | Which border?! | 19:22 |
| Aiste_ | Polish Lithuanian :) | 19:22 |
| Aiste_ | it's a day off today here in Lithuania | 19:22 |
| pboddie | Ah, not a difficult one, then! | 19:22 |
| Aiste_ | and tomorrow and Monday as well | 19:22 |
| Aiste_ | so we have a 5 day weekend | 19:22 |
| pboddie | Yes, it's a public drinking holiday in Norway, too. Tomorrow isn't a holiday, though. | 19:22 |
| Aiste_ | heh, here it is | 19:23 |
| david_boddie | Aiste_: Right, so we shouldn't keep you here for too long, then. | 19:23 |
| Aiste_ | I'm afraid i won't be able to keep myself here long either -- long night last night | 19:23 |
| pboddie | I guess you've already seen the mails about registration, which are really about the mechanics of the Web page, connections to payment systems, and so on. | 19:23 |
| Aiste_ | yes. I had | 19:24 |
| Aiste_ | nothing about tshirts though, which is a bit annoying | 19:24 |
| Aiste_ | as we do need to print the m in advance if we do at all | 19:24 |
| pboddie | I don't think anyone will say anything until mid-May, given previous experiences. There'll be a sudden waking up and "Oh, did someone mention T-shirts?" | 19:25 |
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| Aiste_ | sorry, xchat crashed | 19:25 |
| david_boddie | Yes, it would be good to follow up on Harald's suggestion about xkcd. | 19:25 |
| Aiste_ | yeah, that's possible, mid May is not that late though | 19:26 |
| david_boddie | I don't know if he was going to do that, or if it was just a suggestion. | 19:26 |
| david_boddie | I'll have to scroll back in the logs when I'm in work tomorrow. | 19:26 |
| pboddie | Mid-May was just a guess. Who knows what schedule people really have? | 19:26 |
| pboddie | I think the main sticking point involving you and/or local people was the connectivity: GvR's video link and any possibilities for video streaming. | 19:27 |
| Aiste_ | my guess is that it's doable | 19:29 |
| Aiste_ | I will talk to the hotel people next week -- have been busy with moving offfices for some time | 19:30 |
| david_boddie | Aiste_: Looking at the agenda, the only other thing I can see which you might be able to clear up is last year's surveys. | 19:31 |
| Aiste_ | i think we did paper surveys yes? | 19:31 |
| Aiste_ | and then handed them to John Pinner if I recall correctly | 19:32 |
| pboddie | No problem! The video link is obviously central to the "GvR experience", whereas the streaming thing is something which we haven't managed to get to grips with. I think it's a good idea, but I'm not sure we have full "buy in", and without that there's a risk we'll end up not doing it. | 19:32 |
| david_boddie | Aiste_: OK. I'm not sure how much we really need to mine the results now. | 19:32 |
| pboddie | david_boddie: John has the surveys. | 19:32 |
| david_boddie | Well, as long as there were no surprises in there. I'm sure he would have said something if there were. | 19:33 |
| david_boddie | Is there anything going on behind the scenes with sponsorship? | 19:33 |
| Aiste_ | pboddie: as far as GVR goes we are talking to people about getting the special equipment needed tothe hotel, so there is progress | 19:33 |
| pboddie | david_boddie: Not that I've heard. | 19:33 |
| pboddie | Aiste_: Great! I'm sure the Google machine can make this happen. ;-) | 19:34 |
| david_boddie | Keynotes? Who makes sure that the other guy has somewhere to stay? | 19:34 |
| Aiste_ | I think last year they talked to the hotel directly | 19:35 |
| Aiste_ | and then there was an arrangement of refunding their costs or something like that | 19:35 |
| pboddie | I guess I can send a message to Laura and ask her what the situation is. | 19:36 |
| david_boddie | Right. I heard that Laura was handling that, so presumably it's all happening. | 19:36 |
| david_boddie | Other than just pushing people to submit talks and prepare to register, is there anything else we can do? | 19:36 |
| pboddie | I'll send a message to John about the audio/video policy, too. He can then decide whether that should go on the registration page or not. | 19:37 |
| pboddie | david_boddie: I'd like to see a lot more publicity going on. I've done some stuff, but we should avoid the drop in talks that we experienced last year. | 19:37 |
| Aiste_ | yeah, that would be good | 19:37 |
| pboddie | Aiste_: What's the publicity situation like in your "neighbourhood"? | 19:38 |
| Aiste_ | it's quite good, people are interested and we are spreading info through our local channels | 19:38 |
| david_boddie | pboddie: Shall we duplicate http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython/2007/PublicRelations for 2008? | 19:39 |
| pboddie | Are they interested in doing talks? Last year there was a guy from Russia (I think) who gave an off-programme talk about a video sharing site which was arguably better than many of the on-programme talks. | 19:39 |
| pboddie | david_boddie: http://www.europython.org/community/Planning/Publicity | 19:40 |
| Aiste_ | I'm not sure about the russians I will poke them | 19:40 |
| Aiste_ | Lithuanians are too inexperienced (appart from my guys) to do any talks | 19:40 |
| pboddie | It was interesting to look at the distribution of attendees last year. Quite a few people from Poland! | 19:41 |
| Aiste_ | yeah, well they have a big python community, but it is very introvert if you can say so | 19:42 |
| Aiste_ | they do not share anything with the outside world it seems | 19:42 |
| pboddie | I should probably send a message to no.it.programmering.python, although it's quite dormant. | 19:43 |
| david_boddie | Well, I'll try and fill in some of gaps in that table. | 19:44 |
| Aiste_ | ok, and I'll talk to the russian guys and maybe try to persuade my boys to give some talks | 19:45 |
| Aiste_ | is it ok if I go now? :) I'm trying not to fall asleep and that does not help comming up with good ideas | 19:45 |
| pboddie | I think you know the local scene(s) best. Dave and I will try and tackle the wider community. | 19:45 |
| pboddie | Yes, I think we've discussed everything we need to. I'll send mails to John and Laura. | 19:46 |
| david_boddie | Aiste_: See you! | 19:46 |
| Aiste_ | ok, thanks, talk to you later | 19:46 |
| Aiste_ | bye | 19:46 |
| pboddie | Aiste_: Bye! | 19:46 |
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