On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai@gmail.com> wrote: [..]
We need to iron out all major issues with the website and templates/CSS etc within 2-3 weeks max and open it up by June end at least. Otherwise we could get derailed. [..]
That's too late. We need to get this thing out in early June. If it's ready only by early July, we'll have just 2 month (July and August) to take care of sponsorships, CFPs and other logistics. I think that will be too tight. Without the site, we can't do any publicity or call for CFPs and that's why I'm pushing for it. I assume that Kenneth and his team is harvesting the bug reports from the mailing list and keeping track of them. I suggest that we put a deadline (say 7th June) and then if the site is not completely functional and ready for release by then, we fall back to using a bunch of static pages and an authenticated wiki (similar to the PyCon UK site). It will be a little more work but things will move. As for the registration, we can develop a tiny app which shoves user information into a database and keeps a list so that we can use it to charge only early bird fees for the people who register early. Talk scheduling and stuff must be handled manually (and I don't think it will be *that* hard). Opinions? -- ~noufal