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Wednesday

  • More than 5 minutes are needed to switch rooms
  • Parallel food lines necessary
  • "I'm sick; no place to take a nap"
  • A bookstore would be nice
  • Lightning talks should have had more publicity
  • Label talk locations more clearly
  • Stay on schedule
  • People talking close to auditoriums; should close the doors
  • Ballroom too hot

Gripes: poor audio; flickering projector; rooms too hot; not enough room (not all seats being filled).

Thursday

  • Point to papers from pycon.org
  • Rate talks: beginners, intermediate, advanced
  • Temperatures too warm
  • Difficult to read bulletin board for open space; too disorganized
  • Print small daily schedules that fit in back of badge holder
  • Food: more of: veggie options, water, coffee, cookies

Friday

  • Have speakers immediately leave, going to a breakout room where discussions can continue
  • Make Open Space available after 5PM
  • Possibly have lunch tickets to restaurants downstairs

Summary form

  • Dim lights in ballroom
  • Have a teenagers track (at reduced cost)
  • Have white or black T-shirts, not flesh-coloured
  • There were a few calls to ensure that speakers can present well by previewing their talks, or making them practice it.
  • Sessions chairs *must* keep on time so talks are in sync
  • Blanks on name badges to write interests
  • Warn registrants that e-mail address is on badge

Hotel survey

Question as posed: "Assuming you attend next year, would you stay at a hotel with other PyCon attendees if we can coordinate a bulk room discount? Y/N" "If yes, what is your nightly room budget?"

Choice

Votes

%

No

32

33%

$70/night

27

28%

$95/night

18

19%

$125/night

10

10%

$150/night

9

9%

Requested talks

Wednesday

22

Web

21

Python Implementations/Development (PyPy, CPython, Jython)

14

Optimizations (Psyco, Starkiller)

12

Math/Science

9

Applications

9

Twisted

7

Crypto

7

Basic tutorials

6

IronPython

6

VoIP

5

GUI

3

Wrapper generators (SWIG, etc)

3

Databases

2

OO programming

2

Pyrex

2

Game programming

1

Komodo

1

Unicode

1

Programming methodology (XP, etc.)

1

Python and COM/XPCOM

1

Advocacy

Thursday

17

Graphics/GUI

15

Web

15

C Extensions

13

Tutorials

12

Testing/XP/Software development

4

Education

4

Databases

3

Applications

3

Jython/IronPython

2

Twisted

1

Games

1

Python Development

Friday

7

Education

6

Web

4

Distutils

3

MacPython

3

Tutorials

3

Applications

2

Twisted

2

Python internals

1

Audio

1

Aspect-oriented programming

1

GUI

Summary form

28

Tutorials

26

Web

25

GUI/graphics

14

Math/science

12

Twisted

12

Python Development

11

C extensions

10

Testing/XP

10

Stackless/PyPy

9

Applications

5

Education

5

Databases

4

Performance

4

MacPython

4

Distutils

2

Games

1

Chandler


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