Re: conference length
Martijn Faassen <[email protected]>
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On 04/24/2014 01:13 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: [snip] >> Yes, I understand PyCon US is more like EuroPython back in 2009, with 3 days conference proper, 2 >> days training. I've been talking about the actual conference days. > > Yep, but the total length is two days more. In 2009 at EuroPython I participated in the sprints for I think 3 days too. So there were 8 days in all I think. (with a much smaller attendance for sprints) > For many attendees > of PyCon, the sprints are the most important part. Judging from the > lunch attendance at this years PyCon, about 1/4 - 1/3 of the attendees > stayed for the first sprint day. Yes, that's what I expressed early on in this discussion; I do value the sprints at EuroPython a lot, and if you add 5 days conference proper before it, the whole thing becomes rather long at a stretch, for me, as an individual attendee. So it's a matter of capacity, and goals. I can fully see there's not enough capacity to organize a 9 day sequence of events. For someone who likes trainings this program is probably better than a training/conference split, I can see that. For someone who likes sprints this is a rather heavy program. > Thanks. I've fixed the dates now. The 2005 edition had conference days on > June 27 - 29, with sprints from June 30 - July 3. The tutorials were > mixed into the conference talk days, just like is done now. Looks like EuroPython had a lot of different formats over the years! Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2014 - July 21th-27th in Berlin EuroPython mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython