IRC Meeting #7

Time/Location

The meeting will take place in the #europython channel on freenode at 19:00 CET on Friday 21st March.

Present

Laura, David, Paul, Lennart, John, Samuel, Marius, Jacob, ...

Agenda/Minutes

• Talks/Themes

  • We decided the basic ground rules for themes and the durations of talks in the last meeting.

  • Laura mentioned Steve Holden's [http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2008/03/teach-me-twisted.html Teach Me Twisted] presentation at PyCon. People seem generally positive about trying the same thing at EuroPython, perhaps as part of an Open Space/Unconference day.

  • Workflow discussion (how the talks will be handled)

  • Samuel asked about the call for talks. Laura asked about the system used for PyCon UK. John mentioned using e-mail for submissions, and another system for putting the material online, with scripts to generate the HTML for a manually-organised schedule.

  • Jacob suggested using this simple, manual system, just to get going. David suggested setting up a private mailing list for submissions.

  • Paul will report back on any feedback about themes and theme captains.
  • David will report back on any progress in asking people about tutorials.
  • More discussion is expected about open spaces, Laura's code clinic idea and the unconference concept that Christian helpfully described on the list.
  • Marius will tell us what he found out about the hotel's video conferencing capabilities.
  • Christian will report back about copyright assignment forms for filmed contributors.

  • Useful link: http://www.europython.org/community/Talk_Suggestions

• Registration/Budget
  • Progress of the test registration page

  • Progress of the budget and fees - Laura/Jacob may have obtained more information about this from Aiste.

  • Payment systems - investigations and discoveries - Laura will report about the current status with WorldPay

• Feedback/Surveys
  • Progress on the processing of last year's surveys
• Sponsorship

  • Offers/packages/candidates - we need more information about costs from the venue for having booths, streamers, etc.

  • Here is a draft of SponsorOffers

• In the last meeting, we talked about potentially offering sponsors the opportunity to have their own SponsorSpaces in extra rooms at the venue.

• Discussion is expected following the happenings at PyCon

• Publicity/Web site (status of previously discussed fixes/enhancements)
• General discussion (if necessary)
  • Sprints
  • Keynotes

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