Consider performing a
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
Posted in this message.
Minutes
- 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.
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.