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Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
From: Fuzzyman <fuzzy...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:59:38 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, Mar 16 2008 10:59 am
Subject: Re: Pycon disappointment
On Mar 16, 11:10 am, Bruce Eckel <lists.ec...@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip..] > But it gets worse. The lightning talks, traditionally the best, newest I have a conflict of interests - coming to PyCon from a sponsor > and edgiest part of the conference, were also sold like commercial air > time. Vendors were guaranteed first pick on lightning talk slots, and > we in the audience, expectantly looking forward to interesting and > entertaining content, again started to feel like things were awfully > commercial. And what seemed like a good idea, moving lightning talks > into plenary sessions with no competition, began to look like another > way to deliver a captive audience to vendors. > coming. company and having given a lightning talk. But I *kind* of agree with you. Most of the sponsor lightning talks were pretty dull. I *hope* mine was one of the exceptions. (Resolver One demo.) ;-) This isn't new though. Last year (my only other PyCon) all the Personally I think 'sponsor keynotes' was a mistake. Not a huge Michael Foord You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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