Anyone in the Python community care to help in the organization?
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you might have noticed after the successful OSDC in 2006 > I got so busy with work that in 2007 I could only organize a one day > Perl Workshop right in the last minute. This year seem to pass without a > conference but in the beginning of 2009 I'd like to have another > OSDC in Israel. > > If you happened to forget or never heard about it then OSDC stands for > Open Source Developers' Conference. It originates from Australia just as > the kangaroo and the koala bear. > > In Israel it was the natural enlargement of the YAPCs > (Yet Another Perl Conferences) that were held since 2003. > > In the previous OSDC in 2006 there were about 200 visitors > including Larry Wall, developer of Perl and Audrey Tang, > developer of Pugs. > They could select from about > 47.3% of Perl talks as the Perl community had been quite > organized in the previous years already > 33.1% of Python talks as they just started to meet before the > conference > 2 Ruby and > 0 PHP presentations. > > Since then the Perl community got more silent. > The Python mailing list and meetings have faded away. > The Ruby developers had a few meetings but then declared their > mailing list to be dead just to have a surge of messages. > The PHP community while hardly has any messages on the mailing list > have monthly meetings in Zend. > > So things have changed in the Israeli Open Source communities. > > In order to make this conference successful I need several people to > help in the organization. I have started to list the needs for organizers > on the web conference web page on http://act.osdc.org.il/ . > The details are being formed on > http://act.osdc.org.il/osdc2009il/organizers.html > > In all the previous conferences people told me that being involved in > the organization made the conference much more enjoyable. > So if you want to enjoy the next conference and if you'd like to shape it > to your taste then come and help organizing it. > (Did that sound like only the organizers will enjoy it? ;-) > > > regards > Gabor > > -- > Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html > Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html > _______________________________________________ Python-il mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-il
