Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Ciaran Mooney
> Were there any recordings made at PyCon UK. I know we had plans. > There were lots of recordings made, whether they are edited and > published yet I am not sure. That is always the problem, time for > editing them. Yes! The majority of the talks were recorded, and we have permission for most (b

[Europython-improve] EuroPython: Twitter and Blog

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, I have removed the links to the EP Twitter and Blog pages as they are hopelessly out of date and we look a little silly. Will those who know about these things please update them to reflect EP2009 and they can be re-instated. Also who is responsible for them? How for example do we get the

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Foord
Ciaran Mooney wrote: Were there any recordings made at PyCon UK. I know we had plans. There were lots of recordings made, whether they are edited and published yet I am not sure. That is always the problem, time for editing them. Yes! The majority of the talks were recorded, and

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hi, 2008/12/18 Michael Foord : > Ciaran Mooney wrote: >>> >>> Were there any recordings made at PyCon UK. I know we had plans. >>> >> >> >>> >>> There were lots of recordings made, whether they are edited and >>> published yet I am not sure. That is always the problem, time for >>> editing them. >

Re: [Europython-improve] [EuroPython] [ANN] EuroPyt hon 2009 – Call for Participation!

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Martin, I have announced to ACCU, pywm, pyconuk and UKUUG. Will some one take on the LUGS? @fuzzyman will you do the MS people? Thanks, John -- ___ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Europython-improve] [EuroPython] [ANN] EuroPython 2009 – Call for Participation!

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Foord
John Pinner wrote: Martin, I have announced to ACCU, pywm, pyconuk and UKUUG. Will some one take on the LUGS? @fuzzyman will you do the MS people? I've just done python-uk and IronPython mailing lists. There are some MS centric calendars I can get us put on as well. Michael Thanks, Jo

Re: [Europython-improve] [EuroPython] [ANN] EuroPython 2009 – Call for Participation!

2008-12-18 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
John Pinner wrote: Martin, I have announced to ACCU, pywm, pyconuk and UKUUG. Will some one take on the LUGS? @fuzzyman will you do the MS people? Thanks John, I'll updated it on my sheet, btw I have send out the messages to all the other channels, some of them returned rejected as spam

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-12-18 13:16, John Pinner wrote: > Hi, > > 2008/12/18 Michael Foord : >> Ciaran Mooney wrote: Were there any recordings made at PyCon UK. I know we had plans. >>> There were lots of recordings made, whether they are edited and published yet I am not sure. That is always

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython: Twitter and Blog

2008-12-18 Thread Christian Scholz
Hi! > I have removed the links to the EP Twitter and Blog pages as they are > hopelessly out of date and we look a little silly. Sorry, I had some crazy days and didn't come to updating it. I at least replaced the logo on the blog now and will post some posts later. I will then also update the tw

Re: [Europython-improve] [EuroPython] [ANN] EuroPyt hon 2009 – Call for Participation!

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, 2008/12/18 Michael Foord : > John Pinner wrote: >> >> Martin, >> >> I have announced to ACCU, pywm, pyconuk and UKUUG. >> >> Will some one take on the LUGS? >> >> @fuzzyman will you do the MS people? >> > > I've just done python-uk Martin had done this already! At least it's our own we'r

Re: [Europython-improve] [EuroPython] [ANN] EuroPyt hon 2009 – Call for Participation!

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Foord
John Pinner wrote: Hello, 2008/12/18 Michael Foord : John Pinner wrote: Martin, I have announced to ACCU, pywm, pyconuk and UKUUG. Will some one take on the LUGS? @fuzzyman will you do the MS people? I've just done python-uk Martin had done this already! At least it

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, 2008/12/18 M.-A. Lemburg : > On 2008-12-18 13:16, John Pinner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 2008/12/18 Michael Foord : >>> Ciaran Mooney wrote: > Were there any recordings made at PyCon UK. I know we had plans. > > There were lots of recordings made, whether they are edited and >

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython: Twitter and Blog

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, 2008/12/18 Christian Scholz : > Hi! > >> I have removed the links to the EP Twitter and Blog pages as they are >> hopelessly out of date and we look a little silly. > > Sorry, I had some crazy days and didn't come to updating it. I at least > replaced the logo on the blog now and will post

[Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, After beta testing the Submissions Form release candidate is available at http://www.europython2009.eu/submission/ note the trailing slash Please check it out and give your feedback before it goes live. Do not make any real talk submissions (unless you're prepared to lose them), because

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Wow! Cool. Some Feedbacks: a) Submission type DEFINITELY needs a "lightning talk" option b) "One line summary" should be longer, because 1 line usually has 80chars (or one sentence) c) I like the explanations / Examples below the inputs. Lower down (@ photo etc.) they get hard to separate from b

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 14:54, John Pinner wrote: > Hello, > > After beta testing the Submissions Form release candidate is available at > > http://www.europython2009.eu/submission/ > > note the trailing slash > > Please check it out and give your feedback before it goes live. I think you should

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Foord
Harald Armin Massa wrote: Wow! Cool. Some Feedbacks: a) Submission type DEFINITELY needs a "lightning talk" option We don't need or take submissions for lightning talks (isn't that kind of the point of them...). Michael b) "One line summary" should be longer, because 1 line usually has

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Michael, >> a) Submission type DEFINITELY needs a "lightning talk" option > We don't need or take submissions for lightning talks (isn't that kind of > the point of them...). We do not need them. But we should take them - as we need some initial soup to make the submissions come in on site. And

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello Ghum. 2008/12/18 Harald Armin Massa : > Wow! Cool. Some Feedbacks: > > a) Submission type DEFINITELY needs a "lightning talk" option I don't think so, because Lightning Talks get proposed at the conference, usually they are impromptu. Maybe we need to make this clear. > b) "One line summar

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, Thanks for the feedback. 2008/12/18 Lennart Regebro : > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 14:54, John Pinner wrote: >> Hello, >> >> After beta testing the Submissions Form release candidate is available at >> >> http://www.europython2009.eu/submission/ >> >> note the trailing slash >> >> Please che

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Dinu Gherman
M.-A. Lemburg: Sure, there's always a benefit in being able to access presentations after they have been given. However, in the past, not even the slides were made available by all speakers. IMHO, tt would be far better to at least get all those together on the website, rather than discussing th

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, 2008/12/18 Dinu Gherman : > M.-A. Lemburg: > >> Sure, there's always a benefit in being able to access presentations >> after they have been given. However, in the past, not even the slides >> were made available by all speakers. IMHO, tt would be far better to >> at least get all those tog

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
The "This field is required." lines should somehow be placed in way that actually allows them to be associated with a field. BTW: I'd use a CSS class for this that marks the border in red and post a single message at the top. After clicking the button, I get an error 500: Page can not be displaye

[Europython-improve] volunteering

2008-12-18 Thread Jonathan Hartley
Hey Christian et al, > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:27:44 +0100 > From: Christian Scholz > Subject: Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython: Twitter and Blog > To: John Pinner > Cc: europython-improve > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO

Re: [Europython-improve] volunteering

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, 2008/12/18 Jonathan Hartley : > Hey Christian et al, > > >> Message: 1 >> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:27:44 +0100 >> From: Christian Scholz >> Subject: Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython: Twitter and Blog >> To: John Pinner >> Cc: europython-improve >> Message-ID: <494a4fd0.4040...@comlou

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, 2008/12/18 M.-A. Lemburg : > The "This field is required." lines should somehow be placed in > way that actually allows them to be associated with a field. > > BTW: I'd use a CSS class for this that marks the border in red > and post a single message at the top. I'll leave that to Zeth. >

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-12-18 19:40, John Pinner wrote: > Hello, > > 2008/12/18 M.-A. Lemburg : >> The "This field is required." lines should somehow be placed in >> way that actually allows them to be associated with a field. >> >> BTW: I'd use a CSS class for this that marks the border in red >> and post a sing

Re: [Europython-improve] volunteering

2008-12-18 Thread Jonathan Hartley
Hey, John Pinner wrote: Hello, 2008/12/18 Jonathan Hartley : Hey Christian et al, Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:27:44 +0100 From: Christian Scholz Subject: Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython: Twitter and Blog To: John Pinner Cc: europython-improve Message-ID: <494a4fd0.4040...@com

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Jonathan Hartley
Hi, John Pinner wrote: Hello, 2008/12/18 Dinu Gherman : M.-A. Lemburg: Sure, there's always a benefit in being able to access presentations after they have been given. However, in the past, not even the slides were made available by all speakers. IMHO, tt would be far better to at least get

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hi, 2008/12/18 Jonathan Hartley : > Hi, > > John Pinner wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> 2008/12/18 Dinu Gherman : >>> >>> M.-A. Lemburg: >>> Sure, there's always a benefit in being able to access presentations after they have been given. However, in the past, not even the slides were made

Re: [Europython-improve] volunteering

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hi, 2008/12/18 Jonathan Hartley : > Hey, > John Pinner wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> 2008/12/18 Jonathan Hartley : >>> >>> Hey Christian et al, >>> >>> Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:27:44 +0100 From: Christian Scholz Subject: Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython: Twitter and

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Zeth
2008/12/18 Dinu Gherman : > M.-A. Lemburg: > >> Sure, there's always a benefit in being able to access presentations >> after they have been given. However, in the past, not even the slides >> were made available by all speakers. IMHO, tt would be far better to >> at least get all those together on

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Zeth
>> I think you should be warned that you can't edit the submission after >> submitting. I was a bit surprised, as I expected something more like >> the PyCon process. (Not that this is necessary, just what I expected). 2008/12/18 John Pinner : > That would require you to create a login before you

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Zeth
2008/12/18 Harald Armin Massa : > Michael, > >>> a) Submission type DEFINITELY needs a "lightning talk" option >> We don't need or take submissions for lightning talks (isn't that kind of >> the point of them...). > > We do not need them. But we should take them - as we need some initial > soup to

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Zeth
2008/12/18 John Pinner : >> After clicking the button, I get an error 500: Page can not be displayed > > The problem is that us Brits don't understand Unicode. Unicode, horrible stuff, it worked with the one Finnish text I tried, but that was clearly not exotic enough. It didn't lose the talk thou

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-12-18 21:09, Zeth wrote: > 2008/12/18 Dinu Gherman : >> M.-A. Lemburg: >> >>> Sure, there's always a benefit in being able to access presentations >>> after they have been given. However, in the past, not even the slides >>> were made available by all speakers. IMHO, tt would be far better

Re: [Europython-improve] volunteering

2008-12-18 Thread Christian Scholz
Hi! John Pinner wrote: > Hi, > > 2008/12/18 Jonathan Hartley : >> Hey, >>> John >>> -- >>> >> 'Tis done, saved as a draft and submitted for approval, but to go live it >> requires someone with more privs than me to approve it. > > 'I guess' that means pboddie, I don't have a login or admin priv

Re: [Europython-improve] volunteering

2008-12-18 Thread Zeth
2008/12/18 Christian Scholz : > BTW, the exact date of the conference is now 28th or 29th to 4th? > I think it said 29th in the mail but 28th on the website. I might have > to change the header again then. I now edited it to fit the website (28th) It is an evolving plan it seems. But as far as I u

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-12-18 16:37, Dinu Gherman wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg: > >> Sure, there's always a benefit in being able to access presentations >> after they have been given. However, in the past, not even the slides >> were made available by all speakers. IMHO, tt would be far better to >> at least get all t

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Christian Scholz
Hi! M.-A. Lemburg schrieb: On 2008-12-18 16:37, Dinu Gherman wrote: M.-A. Lemburg: Here's another example that was recorded this year at PyCon 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cecJ9o5GGmw Without the slides at hand, you can't read anything on the screen, except for the title line.

Re: [Europython-improve] volunteering

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, 2008/12/18 Zeth : > 2008/12/18 Christian Scholz : >> BTW, the exact date of the conference is now 28th or 29th to 4th? >> I think it said 29th in the mail but 28th on the website. I might have >> to change the header again then. I now edited it to fit the website (28th) > > It is an evolvin

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hi, We have the audio recording thing pretty well licked. This will be the fourth conference we have done and Zeth and Ciaran now know pretty well how to do it. 2008/12/18 Christian Scholz : > Hi! > > M.-A. Lemburg schrieb: >> >> On 2008-12-18 16:37, Dinu Gherman wrote: >>> >>> M.-A. Lemburg: >>>

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 18 December 2008 21:35:59 Zeth wrote: > 2008/12/18 John Pinner : > >> After clicking the button, I get an error 500: Page can not be displayed > > > > The problem is that us Brits don't understand Unicode. > > Unicode, horrible stuff, it worked with the one Finnish text I tried, > but t

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Christian Scholz
Hi! John Pinner schrieb: Hi, 2008/12/18 Jonathan Hartley : Hi, I don't want to muddy the waters creating *more* work, but does anyone think there is any value in creating transcripts from the video or audio? Is it feasible that this could possibly be done with minimal manpower on our part b

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hi, 2008/12/18 Paul Boddie : > On Thursday 18 December 2008 21:35:59 Zeth wrote: >> 2008/12/18 John Pinner : >> >> After clicking the button, I get an error 500: Page can not be displayed >> > >> > The problem is that us Brits don't understand Unicode. >> >> Unicode, horrible stuff, it worked with

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:44:00 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > Without the slides at hand, you can't read anything on the > screen, except for the title line. The audio isn't great > either. The problem with the PyCon videos, as far as I can tell, is that they are shot from far back in the room a

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hello, 2008/12/18 Paul Boddie : > On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:44:00 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> Without the slides at hand, you can't read anything on the >> screen, except for the title line. The audio isn't great >> either. > > The problem with the PyCon videos, as far as I can tell, is that

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 19 December 2008 00:52:11 John Pinner wrote: > > Speaking of which, what happened to the 2006 EP website, we have links > to all the others on the About page, it would be nice to complete the > set. In 2006 we were using CPS, but did so again in 2007. I imagine that a lot of content was

Re: [Europython-improve] Permission to Record/Publish Recordings of Talks

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hi, 2008/12/19 Paul Boddie : > On Friday 19 December 2008 00:52:11 John Pinner wrote: >> >> Speaking of which, what happened to the 2006 EP website, we have links >> to all the others on the About page, it would be nice to complete the >> set. > > In 2006 we were using CPS, but did so again in 200

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread Zeth
>>> Roll on Python 3 when us English speakers can forget about Unicode >>> again without hurting anyone ;)>> >> That's what you think! ;-) > >it still has to interface with the outside world, where input may be >ASCII, Latin1, utf-8 and God knows what else. I Well I did spend some time recently co

Re: [Europython-improve] EuroPython Talk Submissions

2008-12-18 Thread John Pinner
Hi, 2008/12/19 Zeth : Roll on Python 3 when us English speakers can forget about Unicode again without hurting anyone ;)>> >>> That's what you think! ;-) >> >>it still has to interface with the outside world, where input may be >>ASCII, Latin1, utf-8 and God knows what else. I > > Well I

[Europython-improve] Europython wiki and ReStructuredText?

2008-12-18 Thread Zeth
Hello Everyone, The new EuroPython static pages are built using the Python website system thing which uses ReStructuredText ( http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html ). The Django based submission system allows submitters to use ReStructuredText if they want any formatting in their text. I was