[python-events] Sprints in the Event Calendar
Sergey Sokolov
dmemory7 at ya.ru
Thu May 31 17:43:08 EDT 2018
Hello,
> If you look at the sprints page, there are only around 20-30
> sprinters noted.
Okay, it makes sense this way.
> To get such user group sprints more attention,
> it makes sense to add them as full day events. That way they
> show up more prominently in the calendars.
>
> For example. I always add DjangoGirls or similar workshop events
> that way, rather than putting in the exact times as I do for
> user group meetings.
Ah, that’s where I had a misunderstanding. For some reason I took your words from earlier for "to get more attention put them to Events calendar", rather than just making them all day events in User Group calendar. Thanks for the clarification :)
> If in doubt, simply ask
That’s what I definitely should do more.
And props to you for making this whole calendars thing in the first place!
Kind regards,
Sergey Sokolov
https://teners.me <https://teners.me/>
> On 31 May 2018, at 9:47 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at python.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sergey,
>
> On 31.05.2018 01:10, Sergey Sokolov wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Sorry that it took me a while to reply—the email went to a wrong
>> mailbox, almost missed it.
>>
>> To be honest, I’m not sure which sprints you’re talking about.
>
> I noticed the PyPA sprints showing up in my calendar and
> wondered how they ended up there :-)
>
>> I didn’t
>> add too much of them lately, so my guess is it’s about these PyPA
>> sprints. Which is strange—both of them went to the Events calendar
>> rather than the User Group calendar as they are two-day events with
>> around 60 and 80 attendees. At least, that’s what Sumana’s letter says :)
>
> If you look at the sprints page, there are only around 20-30
> sprinters noted. That's how much we get at our user group
> sprints. To get such user group sprints more attention,
> it makes sense to add them as full day events. That way they
> show up more prominently in the calendars.
>
> For example. I always add DjangoGirls or similar workshop events
> that way, rather than putting in the exact times as I do for
> user group meetings.
>
>> Yet for me it’s still confusing where to add one or the other event once
>> in a way. Thanks for reaching out, I'll try to pay more attention to the
>> calendar choice guidelines.
>
> Thanks, Sergey. The guidelines are pretty straight forward
> I believe, but you're right that it does take some getting used
> to and there are cases where it's not clear where to draw the
> line.
>
> If in doubt, simply ask on the mailing list. You can also
> ping me on Telegram @malemburg.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Marc-Andre Lemburg
> Python Software Foundation
> http://www.python.org/psf/ <http://www.python.org/psf/>
> http://www.malemburg.com/ <http://www.malemburg.com/>
>
>
>>> On 25 May 2018, at 2:25 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at python.org <mailto:mal at python.org>
>>> <mailto:mal at python.org <mailto:mal at python.org>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Sergey,
>>>
>>> thank you for keeping up and usually beating me to adding the
>>> events in recent weeks !
>>>
>>> One nit I have is how you sometimes categorize sprints: we usually
>>> only assign them to the events calendar if they are large sprints
>>> with more than 30 attendees.
>>>
>>> For smaller sprints such as the packaging ones, it's better to use
>>> the user group calendars. Otherwise, we add too much noise to the
>>> events calendar, which is meant to focus on the larger events.
>>>
>>> Other than that, you're doing an excellent job !
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> Marc-Andre Lemburg
>>> Python Software Foundation
>>> http://www.python.org/psf/
>>> http://www.malemburg.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> python-events mailing list
>> python-events at python.org <mailto:python-events at python.org>
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-events <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-events>
>>
>> Calendar wiki page: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar <https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-events/attachments/20180601/5b910217/attachment-0001.html>
More information about the python-events
mailing list