On Mar 16, 8:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > If you did not like the programming this year (aside from the sponsor > talks) and you did not participate in organizing PyCon or in delivering > presentations, it is YOUR FAULT. PERIOD. EXCLAMATION POINT!
I find this insulting, inexcusable, and utter nonsense. If putting the blame for a failed experiment on the backs of the good folks who paid good money for travel, lodging, and registration is also an experiment, you can hereby consider it also failed. The bottom line is that the people who are providing feedback in this forum are doing so *voluntarily*, and for the good of future PyCon events. They were sold a bill of goods, it was ill-comunicated, and they have taken their time to express that this is not a good idea moving forward. If it weren't for these people giving feedback, you would not have a complete experiment, because you would never have been able to prove or disprove your hypothesis. In fact, the people in this forum are just as important to the process as those who devised the experiment. As an experiment, it would seem that having an event organizer, who is presumably interested in the future success of the event, talking down to the people who would also like to see a better event in the future (and think they can make that happen - otherwise why bother giving feedback?), is doomed to failure. Of course, I'm only looking at how the experiment is being carried out. I claim ignorance as to the hypothesis. The rest of the points in your rant are all pretty commonly known by now, to most. At the end of the day, the buck has to stop somewhere, and that somewhere has to be with the organization that were charged with motivating a volunteer force, and the organization who set the expectations of the attendees. If you think that PyCon would've been better had there been more volunteers, then you should feed that back to the folks in charge of attracting and motivating said force. If you think it was simply a mis-labeling of the different classes of talks, feed that back to the folks who are in charge of such things. The point is that there are endless things that can be done which are more useful and productive than pointing fingers back at the people who support the conference by being attendees. They help build the conference too. A conference answers to its attendees, and that should be an expectation of anyone concerned with conference organization. Period. Exclamation point. Brian K. Jones Editor in Chief Python Magazine -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
