Re: suggestions for increasing Python 11 submissions?

Kevin:

I plan to submit a tutorial proposal and maybe a talk. I've been a bit busy
with PyCon, but I'm hoping things have cooled down enough now for me to get
something in by the deadline.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Altis" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:21 PM
Subject: [Conferences-discuss] suggestions for increasing Python 11
submissions?


> I plan to post another reminder this week to c.l.py... about the upcoming
> February 15th deadline for OSCON/Python 11 proposals, but I would
appreciate
> suggestions for increasing the number of proposals.
>
> Nathan Torkington just posted the following numbers to give an idea what
has
> already been submitted:
>
> "
> This report breaks the incoming proposals down by track, and whether
> they're a tutorial or talk.  I've put some Tomcat proposals into the
> Apache track--Rich and James should decide whose track (Apache or
> Java) those go into.
>
> Current numbers:
>
>   Track          Tutorial Talk Uncategorized
>   Perl           16       14   0
>   PHP             4        3   0
>   Python          1        2   0
>   Apache          6       15   0
>   Apps            6       11   0
>   XML             4        1   0
>   MySQL           0        0   0
>   PostgreSQL      2        1   0
>   Ruby            1        2   0
>   Emerging Topics 1        9   0
>   Java            0        0   0
>   Undefined       0        0  14
>
>   TOTAL = 113    41       58  14
> "
>
>
> As you can see, Python only has 3 submissions so far. I think the basic
> problem is that we only recently found out about the deadline and there
are
> already three other Python conferences this year before OSCON/Python 11,
so
> people simply aren't thinking ahead to Python 11.
>
> http://www.python.org/workshops/
>
> March 26-28: PyCon DC 2003 (Washington, DC)
> April 2-3, 2003: Python UK Conference 2003 (Oxford, UK)
> June 25-27, 2003: EuroPython 2003 Charleroi (Belgium)
>
> My inclination is to have people that would like to attend Python 11 in
July
> submit their proposals for these other conferences to Python 11 as well.
> OTOH, it might be that with EuroPython conference so close to Python 11,
few
> Europeans, if any, will be attending Python 11.
>
> Robin Dunn, Patrick K. O'Brien, and I have already had some discussions
> about trying to do a full day of wxPython-related tutorials; a proposal
will
> be submitted before the deadline. Both Robin and I live in Portland, so
this
> would be very convenient for us if it fits the schedule. It would be nice
to
> see other GUI tutorial session proposals as well to provide some balance.
>
> ka
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