On Mar 16, 6:10 am, Bruce Eckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But it gets worse. The lightning talks, traditionally the best, newest > and edgiest part of the conference, were also sold like commercial air > time.
Thanks for being harsh here, Bruce. I've been responsible for organizing the lightning talks at PyCon over the past few years and Saturday's talks -- where a grand total of four community talks were given between twelve sponsor talks -- was the low point. I volunteer to run the lightning talks because they're usually by *far* my favorite time of the conference. Yesterday wasn't. > What was supremely frustrating was discovering that the people wanting > to give REAL lightning talks had been pushed off the end of the list > by this guarantee to vendors. We didn't get to see the good stuff, the > real stuff, because that time had been sold. Tell me about it. I felt like crap putting up a sign-up sheet with four names on it. Again, thanks for your harsh words, Bruce. Needed to be said. Jacob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
