Mailman 3 September 2012 - PyCon-ZA

Draft Schedule planning meeting
by Simon Cross Sept. 7, 2012

Sept. 7, 2012

Greetings Neil and I are planning to meet at 16:00 on Saturday afternoon and hash out the draft schedule for the conference. Anyone who wants to help is welcome to join us. Venue is currently up for debate. Schiavo Simon

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Re: [pycon-za] Google Groups Invitation: PYCON ZA Volunteers
by Graeme Glass Sept. 7, 2012

Sept. 7, 2012

indeed, was not intentional ------Original Message------ From: Simon Cross To: graemeglass(a)gmail.com Cc: pycon-za(a)python.org Subject: Re: [pycon-za] Google Groups Invitation: PYCON ZA Volunteers Sent: Sep 7, 2012 15:44 On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Graeme Glass (Google Groups) <noreply(a)googlegroups.com> wrote: > Graeme Glass has invited you to join the PYCON ZA I don't think inviting a mailing list to a Google Group works. :)

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Google Groups Invitation: PYCON ZA Volunteers
by Graeme Glass (Google Groups) Sept. 7, 2012

Sept. 7, 2012

Graeme Glass graemeglass(a)gmail.com has invited you to join the PYCON ZA Volunteers group with this message: Greetings, I have set up a mailing list to help co-ordinate volunteering efforts for pycon-za. Regards, Graeme Here is the group's description: A place to coordinate volunteer efforts for http://za.pycon.org/ ---------------------- Google Groups Information ---------------------- You can accept this invitation by clicking the following URL: http://groups.google.com/group/pycon-za-volunteers/sub?s=EM8oyxQAAAAyZzIXgP… --------------------- If This Message Is Unwanted --------------------- If you feel that this message is abuse, please inform the Google Groups staff by using the URL below. http://groups.google.com/groups/abuse?invite=YQAAAL4V-j2wAAAAkuiEVVEAAABzWK…

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Re: [pycon-za] Organizing volunteers
by Graeme Glass Sept. 7, 2012

Sept. 7, 2012

Greetings, I have set up a group to help coordinate the volunteer effort, and keep track of the task that need to be done. pycon-za-volunteers(a)googlegroups.com Feel free to throw tasks our way :-) As it stands the first 2 tasks we have is: help at registration desk (welcoming attendees, name badges?, etc) pack swag I have tweeted calling for volunteers, if someone could tweet from the pycon twitter account with the address to volunteers mailing list, that would be great. Here's to a fantastic conference! G

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Waiting list activated on za.pycon.org
by Simon Cross Sept. 6, 2012

Sept. 6, 2012

Greetings We hit 215 tickets committed so we took a decision to switch registration on za.pycon.org to a waiting list. The information captured is the same but there's a red box letting people know they're signing up to a waiting list and the emails sent out are different (they explain the waiting list and don't contain an invoice). This doesn't mean no more tickets are available for PyConZA -- just that we have to limit things carefully from here. Step one is chasing current sponsors and people who haven't paid to make sure they either use their tickets or free them up for people who will. Step two will be contacting people on the waiting list if spaces become available. Schiavo Simon

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PyConZA morning stats
by Simon Cross Sept. 6, 2012

Sept. 6, 2012

Attendees: 174 Corporate: 82 Individual: 42 Student: 50 Paid: 100 Unpaid: 74 Speakers: Total: 6 And we have 26 tickets that we're committed to in other ways that aren't yet on the system (mostly two Gold sponsors who haven't given lists of attendees yet) so we've officially hit 200. Schiavo Simon

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Armin Ronacher has accepted
by Simon Cross Sept. 6, 2012

Sept. 6, 2012

Greetings I'm pleased to announce that Armin Ronacher has accepted our offer to come speak at PyCon ZA. Next on the list to invite is Michael Foord. Schiavo Simon

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Michael Foord declined
by Simon Cross Sept. 5, 2012

Sept. 5, 2012

Greetings Michael Foord declined. Next on the list is Alex Gaynor. Schiavo Simon

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Organizing volunteers
by Simon Cross Sept. 5, 2012

Sept. 5, 2012

Greetings Anyone feeling like volunteering to help organize the volunteers? Mostly what's need is to: * Find things for them to do (e.g. help at registration, pack swag). * Track who has volunteered for what. * Liaise with potential volunteers. * Make sure the volunteer program gets advertised on the site, via Twitter, etc (i.e. keep poking the right people until they do it). Schiavo Simon

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Stats update
by Simon Cross Sept. 5, 2012

Sept. 5, 2012

Greetings Current stats from the pyconza database: Attendees: 140 Corporate: 47 Individual: 43 Student: 50 Paid: 75 Unpaid: 65 Speakers: Total: 4* * This is just people signed up on the site -- a few others have confirmed or offered but I'm still chasing them to get them in the database.

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