Alas, I still cannot get them to remove my name from the list of presenters. Forward from Python-organisers From: Brian Ray <bray@sent.com> To: pycon-organizers Pycon-Organizers <Pycon-organizers@python.org> Since we are nearing the 50% participation mark on survey collection, I think it is fair to start analyzing the results. Once the paper forms are hand entered, I am happy to say, we will pass 50% user participation in the survey. This alone, speaks volumes. Here is a link, if you prefer raw data view: <http://tinyurl.com/2eoab2> <snip> OVERVIEW ======== On the highest level, here are some comparisons between the last year data (found here <http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2007/Feedback>): - 500+ Surveys were filled out this time, versus 150, last time - There were slightly more first timers this year 60.6% than last year 56% - Overall satisfaction dropped slightly from 3.62/4 to 3.28/4 - Satisfaction with keynotes dropped from 3.28/4 to 2.78/4 - Satisfaction with talks dropped from 3.12/4 to 2.81/4 - Satisfaction with the network dropped sharply from 3.01/4 to 2.19/4 - Satisfaction with the food dropped from 3.0/4 to 2.61/4 - Likelihood of attending next year dropped from 3.4/4 to 3.26/4 - There was an increase of attendance of tutorials from 31.1% to 44.4% The results on preference of Only weekdays, including one weekend days, and including two weekend days, remained about the same. The top 5 talks (including keynotes) were: - Keynote: Guido van Rossum 41.4% 173 - Core Python Containers -- Under the Hood Mr. Raymond D Hettinger 20.1% 84 - Keynote: Brian 'Fitz' Fitzpatrick 18.9% 79 - The State of Django Adrian Holovaty 17.7% 74 - Keynote: Van Lindberg 16.3% 68 The top 10 talks not including keynotes: - Core Python Containers -- Under the Hood Mr. Raymond D Hettinger 20.1% 84 - The State of Django Adrian Holovaty 17.7% 74 - Sights and sounds with pyglet Mr. Alex Holkner 14.8% 62 - The State of PyPy Maciej Fijalkowski (merlinux GmbH) ; Ms. Laura A Creighton (Open End AB) 13.6% 57 - SQLAlchemy 0.4 and Beyond Mike Bayer 13.2% 55 - Using PyGame and PySight to Create an Interactive Halloween Activity Mr. John Harrison (Insight Industries) 12.9% 54 - Consuming HTML Ian Bicking (The Open Planning Project) 11.2% 47 - nose: testing for the lazy coder Jason Pellerin (Leapfrog Online) 10.5% 44 - IronPython: The Road Ahead Mr. Jim Hugunin (Microsoft) 10.5% 44 - Tahoe: A Robust Distributed Secure Filesystem Brian Warner 10.3% 43 ------- End of Forwarded Message