On Friday 12 May 2006 10:03, Benedikt Hegner wrote: > By the way - what the current status for the track chairs?
How can I seriously ask people to propose talks when the organisers don't seem to understand the following: (after you've resolved the difficult part of finding a venue) * You make it easy for people to submit talks * You make it easy for people to register & pay By "organisers" here I mean the people who stood up and said "we would like to host/run Europython", not the people pushing you to do it. I've simply had no time recently to push for asking for talks, and quite frankly at the moment I have NO confidence that the current organisers can deliver what they offered. Also, I remember you, Benedikt, boasting loudly that you would want proposals in 6 months before the conference, and the same going for registration. I had high hopes that CERN could do this, given your long history. It now appears that you cannot get these 2 basic steps right. If you have internal politics, that is destroying the opportunity for this years Europython, we cannot solve it. I'm not saying I could do better, I'm just not sure I could do worse. The complete lack of communication from yourselves (Benedikt specifically) has been astonishing. On the off chance I've missed something: is it now possible to register and pay for registration? After all, I note I've only got 7 days to get early bird registration now!!!! cf: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2006-January/005555.html On a more serious note, can we find an alternate venue quickly ? I have zero confidence that this is happening. :-( Michael. _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
