On Mar 16, 11:10 am, Bruce Eckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip..] > But it gets worse. The lightning talks, traditionally the best, newest > and edgiest part of the conference, were also sold like commercial air > time. Vendors were guaranteed first pick on lightning talk slots, and > we in the audience, expectantly looking forward to interesting and > entertaining content, again started to feel like things were awfully > commercial. And what seemed like a good idea, moving lightning talks > into plenary sessions with no competition, began to look like another > way to deliver a captive audience to vendors. > coming.
I have a conflict of interests - coming to PyCon from a sponsor company and having given a lightning talk. But I *kind* of agree with you. Most of the sponsor lightning talks were pretty dull. I *hope* mine was one of the exceptions. (Resolver One demo.) ;-) This isn't new though. Last year (my only other PyCon) all the sponsors gave lightning talks. The difference is that there were more sponsors this year I guess... Personally I think 'sponsor keynotes' was a mistake. Not a huge mistake, but nonetheless... Michael Foord Resolver Systems -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
