[EuroPython] Re: EuroPython decision process

Nicolas Chauvat Nicolas.Chauvat@logilab.fr
Wed, 9 Jul 2003 10:00:20 +0200


On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:13:11PM +0200, Dinu Gherman wrote:
> But it is hard for me to understand why people here are so scared of
> having more than one big event? Instead of talking the only (success-
> ful) one we had to death, why can't we just have a tiny bit of com-
> petition and have more than one great event??

As I said in private e-mail: because it does not work that way.

If their is competition, one of the two will kill the other one. In the worst
case, both will die. The community *is* to small to reach critical mass for
two events. The winner will probably want to be called EuroPython or
Pan-European Python or whatever, but we'll be back to step one: a single
event.

What we have been saying is "instead of competition, we want cooperation".
This does not exclude the possibility of having a second event when 
the community will be bigger, but at the moment, this would be a waste
of the fragile things we have built with EP02 and EP03.

I'm starting to think that it boils down to more fundamental opinions
and views on life... doesn't it?

-- 
Nicolas Chauvat

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