Steve Holden wrote: > So by this reasoning there should have been no "Python UK" conference > for the last four years (in case you didn't know it ran as a track of > the C/C++ conference, but ths track has now broadened to include all > scripting languages). And what about the people who can't get the time > and/or money to attend EuroPython?
I am afraid there is a misunderstanding. I have no problem with PyCon UK but would like to have elements to help me choose (the official language of PyCon Uno Italy is Italian so that fixes it :P). > Diversity is good, so it isn't one vs. the other. And the UK really *is* > part of Europe (no matter how its politicians behave) :P I agree that diversity is good (you won't hear me say that there are too many web frameworks in Python :D) but isn't dilution a danger? If Guido was a rock star and I was a groupie, I would want to know which festival to attend to see him on stage. I guess there is always Google Video ;) More seriously in Geneva there were people from all over the place, speakers and attendees, which is one of the reason why such conferences are interesting (or am I deluded?). It is harder for someone from Australia to come twice to Europe in the space of 2 months than for a pythoneer lambda to spend a couple of days studying another web framework to see if it fits how his brain works and the problem he's got to solve. Looking at the reactions to my post, I must be wrong. I didn't mean to offend anyone if I did. I'll go to Vilnius because I have never seen the city and try to go to Birmingham if the program looks interesting (not very rational or is it?). Cheers, EuGeNe -- http://www.3kwa.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list