On Mar 18, 12:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Amen on the diamond keynotes and lightning talks. The lightning talks > were a great disappointment. Sponsor talks (or any such talks pitched > at selling or recruiting) should go in their own, clearly labeled > group so those of us who don't care about them can avoid them...
Seconded. I haven't been at a Python Conf for a long time but as a former attendee and (not very good) organizer I have a couple suggestions based on my past experience and mistakes: - The conference is too long and it shouldn't be on the weekend. - Almost all talks should be 10 minutes at most with prepared slides and extended abstract with references. - With much shorter talks you should be able to accept just about any properly prepared talk (with abstract and slides) and this should reduce the politics and increase the attendance (with speakers and some colleagues and maybe broader interest). I don't know about this conference, but in past conferences I've been frustrated by people who give out a train of conscience meander including popping in and out of various console prompts, editors, web pages, guis... without conveying any useful information (to me) in 30 minutes. If you tell them they have 10 minutes and make them get organized in advanced they are much more likely to get to the point and everyone can see something else before they run out of attention span. -- Aaron Watters === bye bye petroleum! good riddance. http://biofuels.usu.edu/htm/initiative http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=pretty+boring -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
