Re: [EuroPython] Reality Check in Winter

2007-12-11 Thread kirby urner
Laura: > I want the site to be foremost for the organisers of the conference, > to help organise the conference. And if you're not an organiser, > then -- why not? I'd like it if the site said 'you're supposed to > be doing something around here to help put on the conference' and > not 'here is t

Re: [EuroPython] Reality Check in Winter

2007-11-28 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:31:50 +0100, Christian Scholz writes: >Hi! > >So here is my $0.02 for that front page :-) > >(not sure this was the right thread) > >First of all the question is for whom that web site is and I think we >have some audiences here: > >- people new to EuroPython, m

Re: [EuroPython] Reality Check in Winter

2007-11-27 Thread Christian Scholz
Hi! So here is my $0.02 for that front page :-) (not sure this was the right thread) First of all the question is for whom that web site is and I think we have some audiences here: - people new to EuroPython, maybe even Python, might want to know what it is - regular visitors of EP, they know

Re: [EuroPython] Reality Check in Winter

2007-11-27 Thread kirby urner
Oops, Bavaria, sorry (still have my stick) -- anyway, T-shirts work. I've said all I need to say re web framework and internationalization goals, appreciate the invite to -improve though. Given my very distant location, I think I'd best leave it to the pros closer to the action. Urner out. On

Re: [EuroPython] Reality Check in Winter

2007-11-27 Thread kirby urner
On Nov 26, 2007 4:14 PM, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: << SNIP >> > Perhaps we should have badges or medals for display to other conference > participants, showing which of the previous conferences we've been to. :-) > > Paul Yeah, or walking sticks, like you get in Baveria (lots of lit

Re: [EuroPython] Reality Check in Winter

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 26 November 2007 21:57:04 kirby urner wrote: > Yo EuroFolk! (Volk or whatever)... Just thought I'd drop in from a > frosty Pacific coastal rain forest, heavy into chip fab, to ask about > the state of the web framework as of today. We're currently discussing stuff on the europython-impr

Re: [EuroPython] Reality Check in Winter

2007-11-27 Thread kirby urner
Plus on another front I wanted to add how encouraging it would seem, to me at least, to have a way to toggle into Cyrillic versions of the Europython site, for two reasons: (1) having Europython as far eastward as Vilnius is a deliberate invitation to would-be attenders even further east, or in th

[EuroPython] Reality Check in Winter

2007-11-26 Thread kirby urner
Yo EuroFolk! (Volk or whatever)... Just thought I'd drop in from a frosty Pacific coastal rain forest, heavy into chip fab, to ask about the state of the web framework as of today. We know we don't want to go with CERN's again right? as it depended too much on specific inhouse assumptions. Event