[EuroPython] managing a conference organisation through Plone?

[Chris Withers]

Laura Creighton wrote:

> (I am one of the organisers of the conference, and one of the
>  principal investors in Reportlab, and on its board of directors.
>  Andy was given every opportunity to showcase this _now_ but he said 
> _it's not ready yet_.)

That's why I said next year ;-)

> I appreciate the fact that things have slipped 2 weeks has left
> you with the impression  that  we don't know what the hell we
> are doing, but the fact of the matter is that this particular
> conference team has over 20 years of experience running things.

Not at all, I'm well aware of how much fun events can be to organise :-S

> Hey, your sig says that you are a Zope consultant!  Why don't
> you show up at #europython at irc.freenode.net and _help_ !?!

...I subscribe to the Fred Brookes view of throwing more people at a project to 
try and make it finish faster...

(that said, if you have any specific technical problems with Zope, do give me a 
shout)

> Complaining is _easy_.

...and what Stuart said ;-)

cheers,

Chris

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