[EuroPython] Information and Questions - please read and vote!

[Harald Armin Massa]

Hello dear EuroPythonistas!

while doing the mass-email I also worked some with indico, and had
also lots of questions answered by Benedikt.

The good news is: most stuff that Jacob could not yet see is allready
present in indico or with applications outside:

1) timetable: total management is included, and printout possibilite
exists, is just hidden in the upper right corner

2) book of abstracts: that's what we called "conference brochure"
before. Actual challenge: integrate sponsor adds. Bene was willing to
find a way to integrate them. As a backup: Andy Robinson donated this
"make a conference brochure out of a database" before; and all the
abstracts can be exported as CSV.

3) badges: together with the WEB, some elemental particels the CERN
also developed a software to create badges. As a reminder: First Name
BIG, last name SMALL, bonus for "Track Chair", "Speaker", "Sponsor",
"Failure"

4) bills.
a) At the moment there is no integrated solution.
 - Bene is checking to integrate some templating.
- As a backup: it is possible to export the registrants via CSV, use
that CSV as an OpenOffice / MS Word Mail Merge database and have the
bills done via OpenOffice
b) Niels Mache of Struktur AG is willing to sponsor electronic signing
of the bills. That would give them a valid signature and make them
"real"

c) WHO exactly is the one billing (legally, not operative)? My warm
guess is the Europython Society, so, I guess the legal data like
"registration number", "tax number" and that games of EP Society
should be passed on to Bene.

5) registrations: We had quite a rush untill the end of early bird.
Now it got slow. My proposol to get another rush: to add some "way
before deadline" discount. That would make it possible for people to
sign up for 150€ regular or 85€ student up to 1 week after publishing
of talks, that would be 2006-05-11. In a first rough calculation Bene
guessed that it will be financable; he will recalculate and confirm.

So I ask the following todos:

a) Point 5: vote: shall we do it or not? (all)
b) Point 4: who is the legal entity which is doing the bills, please
pass on to Bene (Dario, Jacob)
c) I still need translators and mavens for the Press Release. Finland!
Israel! Hungary! Turkey! Luxembourg! Italy! Spain! Greece! please,
contact me.

Best wishes,

Harald




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