Re: Talk voting is now open
Giovanni Bajo <[email protected]>
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Il giorno 26/mar/2012, alle ore 12:24, M.-A. Lemburg ha scritto: > [email protected] wrote: >> We are pleased to announce that the [community talk >> voting](https://ep2012.europython.eu/talk-voting) is now open, and will last >> until Sunday, 23:59:59 CEST >> >> As you know, EuroPython is a conference made _by_ the Python community _for_ >> the Python community. This is the basic principle that we respect and that >> makes us believe that the best way to select and filter the 200+ proposals we >> received is through a public voting process. >> >> We feel that the Python community is nowadays so diverse and rich that a small >> group of organizers cannot fully represent it in choosing the talks. At the >> same time, we want to make sure that only actual EuroPython participants will >> be able to select the talks to prevent abuses, and this is why we will give >> access to talk voting only to people that [buy a >> ticket](https://ep2012.europython.eu/registration). >> >> ## A few suggestions on voting >> >> With over 200 proposals among talks, >> [trainings](https://ep2012.europython.eu/trainings), and >> [posters](https://ep2012.europython.eu/poster-session), voting will take some >> time. >> >> Make sure to take your time to analyze the proposals and express your >> preference. We offer several different filters to help you wade through the >> proposals, including a complete tag taxonomy that has been manually reviewed >> and refined by our talk manager Lorenzo. >> >> If you have some questions on a proposal, you will be abel to leave a comment >> to the speaker: he/she will receive it in the mailbox and will hopefully >> answer you and clarify the abstract for everybody else. > > Thanks for the announcement and congratulations for attracting more > then 200+ talk proposals. > > One question: Can you give a rough idea of how many talk slots are > available for the EuroPython 2012 conference ? > > I've just gone through the list and there are so many interesting > talks, that you could easily fill two conference weeks :-) We should have room for roughly 110 talks, 10 trainings and 10 posters. This is an estimate though. -- Giovanni Bajo EuroPython 2012 https://ep2012.europython.eu Python Italia APS Non-profit association Registered in Italy _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2011 - Florence June 20-26 http://ep2011.europython.eu/ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython