[Inpycon] Fwd: [PyCon-Organizers] PyCon 2010 Theme Part II - It's about the community

[vid]

Hi,
Since we were discussing pycon-india's future, here is an interesting
mail (forwarded with permission) on the focus for US-Pycon, whose
theme is "connecting the python community". I liked it and wanted to
share it for more thoughts.
-vid

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From: Trevor Toenjes <ttoenjes at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 21:48
Subject: [PyCon-Organizers] PyCon 2010 Theme Part II - It's about the community
To: "pycon-organizers at python.org" <pycon-organizers at python.org>


good morning - I was thinking about the theme again after reading all
the great slogans about Python.
And I started questioning the whole approach.  It seems most of the
ideas are focused on Python - including my culinary analogy.

But now I wonder if that approach is slightly misaligned - because
PyCon is about "connecting the community."  Should we really be
promoting Python?  I suspect not, because everyone who attends PyCon
already knows Python and has their own reasons for using it.  We don't
really need to tell PyCon attendees and potential attendees about
Python's attributes - do we?  We can take those ideas to python.org
for an annual theme if we want to use them.

What I suspect we really need for PyCon is a theme that promotes an
idea why PyCon is so *awesome* to attend as a Python
user/developer/community member.  We need to focus on the
collaboration, the community, the personal touches and relationships,
etc.  An effective theme can be terse, non-technical, and address
PyCon as the experience and the feeling for an individual or community
and how it all relates.  (PyCon *is* the real world, social networking
experience - not just the virtual, technology kind)

I deserve flames if you think this is too 'conceptual' and too much
fluff  or touchy-feely and what people really want are explicit Python
fan-boy phrases.

that said, I havent given much thought to an actual theme yet along
these lines. so here is my first attempt to focus on the community and
personal aspects of PyCon, and still trying to be whimsical or
tongue-in-cheek so it has a little personality.
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