Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: > PyCon does it on the weekend, but that's US. My feeling is that > EuroPython has a smaller percentage of hobbyists, but that could be > because it isn't on a weekend, as well as a reason not to have it on a > weekend. :-) For us, E

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Nicolas, > For us, EuroPython is work and we try very hard not to work on > week-ends and enjoy the non-pythonic life instead. Thank you very much! I guess that really points out an essential difference of a European conference to an US conference. The spirit of France and Italy; or more exactly,

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread John Pinner
2008/5/22 John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/5/22 Nicolas Chauvat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: >>> PyCon does it on the weekend, but that's US. My feeling is that >>> EuroPython has a smaller percentage of hobbyists, but that could be

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread Lennart Regebro
How about the conference being wednesday-friday? That way the two first sprint days would be a weekend, which might get more people interested in sprinting? -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 ___ E

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread John Pinner
2008/5/22 Nicolas Chauvat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: >> PyCon does it on the weekend, but that's US. My feeling is that >> EuroPython has a smaller percentage of hobbyists, but that could be >> because it isn't on a weekend, as well as a

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:22:07AM +0200, Harald Armin Massa wrote: > Nicolas, > > > For us, EuroPython is work and we try very hard not to work on > > week-ends and enjoy the non-pythonic life instead. > > Thank you very much! I guess that really points out an essential > difference of a Europea

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:18:19AM +0100, John Pinner wrote: > But I agree that EuroPython is probably best held during the week. > Maybe the more local events like PyCon IT and FR are better over the > weekend. I understand that. I was just stating *my* opinion. > Nicolas, as EP2008 is during th

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread John Pinner
2008/5/22 Lennart Regebro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How about the conference being wednesday-friday? That way the two > first sprint days would be a weekend, which might get more people > interested in sprinting? Good idea, but for EP2009 maybe not so good, from my earlier post: """ As far as EP 200

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:44 PM, John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as EP 2009 is concerned, the location of the venue in the > city's night life area means that a weekday conference > (Monday-Wednesday, plus sprints) is easier - at the weekend we have > the clubbers to compete with f

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread John Pinner
2008/5/22 Lennart Regebro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:44 PM, John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As far as EP 2009 is concerned, the location of the venue in the >> city's night life area means that a weekday conference >> (Monday-Wednesday, plus sprints) is easier - at

[EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread Fabio Pliger
> > 2008/5/22 John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/5/22 Nicolas Chauvat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: > >>> PyCon does it on the weekend, but that's US. My feeling is that > >>> EuroPython has a smaller percentage of hobbyists, but t

Re: [EuroPython] EuroPython 2009 Dates

2008-05-22 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 22 May 2008 00:52:54 BST, "John Pinner" writes: >>>John >> >> It's early. :-) > >Except that we will need to confirm the booking soon. > >John I just meant that it was early to say if the 'keep in July'er' outvote me, the 'I like Septemeberer'. :-) with only 4 votes in. La