[EuroPython] Diversity of attendees

[Dinu Gherman]

Hi all,

I appreciate the recent vivid discussions on this list around important topics like diversity. Many interesting opinions have been given about how to improve the EuroPython conference experience to an even wider target group and make it more balanced along multiple vectors. Some seemed to have been formulated under a combination of stress and/or frustration. This might be expected in the context of a complex project like organizing a conference for 1200 people, where there are many people, opinions and interests involved, and often contradicting ones, but not always clearly communicated.

While all this can be certainly improved I would hope to see this happening in a way that doesn't inject previously accumulated frustration of various stakeholders into the currently ongoing project, namely making happen what is likely going to be the largest EuroPython conference organized so far ("large" as in historically-grown, not as in think-big). I'm afraid that we're moving into this direction which might reduce people's interest in attending this conference as well as the current organizers' motivation for doing what they do in their spare time.

So I dare remind us of the fact that we do have, in fact, two mailing lists, Europython and Europython-Improve with the following current descriptions taken from their Mailman listinfo pages below. I feel like we have stretched the term "diversity" enough to start reconsidering continuing this discussion on the Europython-Improve list, revitalizing it, much as it deserves.

Best,

Dinu


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