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