[EuroPython] Press Release German finished

[Martijn Faassen]

Dinu Gherman wrote:
> Martijn Faassen <faassen@vet.uu.nl>:
> 
> > > * who is the, somewhat magic, EuroPython Conf.Team?
> > 
> > That's us. We're somewhat magic. :)
> > 
> > Please note that the whole process was started when I just ad-hoc
> > started
> > mailing a bunch of people I knew about in the python and zope worlds
> > whether they were interested in a conference. They were, and here we
> > are. :) 
> 
> Well, yes, but how should somebody *outside* know that?
> To somebody new (press, sponsors, ...) "Conference Team"
> just doesn't mean much, I think. But I also have no better
> solution to offer.

We offer a list of contacts at the bottom. Perhaps we should plaster
'conference team representatives' above it? :)

> > > * how many participants are eyxpected?
> > 
> > 200-300, but possibly quite a bit more if we're lucky. I don't think
> > there'll be less than 200.
> 
> Right, but then it should be in the announcementm if only as a
> figure like 250-350.

We should be announcing how many people will show up? Is that common
practice? We don't know how many people will show up, and I don't want
to announce stuff we don't know about.

> > It's Python Python Python first, and there'll be a Zope track.
> 
> Good, but then I see an inconsistency between "EuroPython"
> and "European Python and Zope Conference". Ideally, I feel
> like it should be "European Python Conference 2002" and 
> "EPC 2002" (like IPC10), with some subtitle emphasizing 
> Zope like "The first Major European Python and Zope Mee-
> ting".

Perhaps so, if you think that Python users who don't use Zope will be
so put off by the current title that they won't show up.

Regards,

Martijn