[Conferences-discuss] What happened?

[Guido van Rossum]

> > 1. Have a full Python Conference co-located with OSCON 2003; this
> >    would probably be end of July in San Diego again.
> 
> Figured you'd handle this.  ;-)

Yes.

> > 2. Have a dirt cheap conference organized by YAS together with Python
> >    volunteers.  Kevin Lenzo of YAS once told me they can do it in June
> >    at CMU (Pittsburgh).
> 
> Seems to me that even more than most conventions, the critical resource
> for the dirt-cheap conference is facilities, so we need to find someone
> or some group willing to handle that (and pick a date) before we do
> anything else.

Read what I wrote again. :-)  Kevin was offering me specific
facilities at a specific date.  All we need is ask (I think David
Ascher offered to be the YAS relay).

> I suggested earlier that we ask YAS to set up a donation pool for
> getting the necessary front money, but I didn't get a clear response
> on what was needed for that.

I don't understand why you would need that money.  Is this how YAS
gets its YAPC going?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)