IRC Meeting #2

Time/Location

The meeting will take place on Thursday 7th February 2008 at 1900 CET in the #europython channel on freenode.

Resources

The proposed EuroPython logo as suggested on the europython-improve mailing list.

Agenda

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Minutes

• Talks

  • Samuele is in charge of talks.

  • Alex volunteered to help Samuele with reviewing talks
• Budget

  • Laura needs help with the budget, but few volunteers were forthcoming without more details. Laura and Aiste, being centrally involved, need to recruit people as needed.

  • John will send a spreadsheet he uses for such matters.

  • Paul will make attendee figures, distributions available based on more or less public information which he has from Indico. See here for this data.

• Web site

  • The new public Web site currently resides at http://www.europython.eu/

  • Currently we've managed to expose some known stability problems which Zeth will hopefully fix.

  • Paul will be responsible for content and assisting Zeth with infrastructure.

  • Some issues were raised with the "navibar", but these should be fixable: it concerns the width and number of entries.

  • Paul will attempt to provoke discussion on the new/proposed logo.

• Timetable

  • The aim is to announce a call for talks/proposals by the end of February with the capability present to receive proposals.

  • If nothing more complicated is considered, it was suggested to use an archived mailing list to collect proposals.

  • Paul will post a draft timetable based on previous patterns and other conferences. See here for this draft.

• Publicity

  • Paul will make an announcement about the dates and venue, probably to europython-announce initially.

  • Other publicity should be organised via the mailing lists.
• Sprints were not discussed at this meeting.
• Sponsorship was not discussed at this meeting.
• Keynotes

  • Several speakers were suggested, although availability of some of them was questioned, and one keynote may be done as a video conference (like Alan Kay at EuroPython2006).

  • Although not necessarily keynote speakers, some other suggestions were made.

• Themes

  • Suggested themes included Py3K, mobile computing, OpenMoko, OLPC (and other big "Python inside" projects), Web, open source software in government.

  • The prospect of having panel discussions was raised, especially around Py3K.

  • Other conferences can, of course, offer good ideas.
• Remaining agenda issues need input from Laura and Aiste and were not discussed.

• John aims to have the feedback results ready for next week.