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I don't know of a good place to put this on the python.org site, but I (a PSF board member) can confirm that it is indeed a PSF project done in cooperation with the Caktus Group. This was something that was done by them to go along with PyCon 2013's wide promotion of the Raspberry Pi.

The article says node.js support is on the way.

This can't be all that far away. At the size of a baseball field, I'm told it's a no-brainer to go turf at this point.

I don't actually know the prices, I'm trusting the college coaches who have mentioned this to me over the last several years (I umpire on the side). One has been on artificial turf for three years, another put turf in this year, and the rest want them.

I believe you're thinking of Andrew Godwin's schema migration kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...

This has come up a few times for PyCon, but we get a very wide range of proposal qualities from a wide range of people that would make it hard to come up with the best schedule we can, which is the ultimate goal of the Program Committee. Some of the best speakers submit relatively poor proposals if you read them without their name and experience. Those things obviously aren't everything, but they do hold some weight in the review process.

Anyway, we ended up with 20% women on the schedule, up from 6% in 2012. We did it purely through outreach.

PyCon has been around 25% the last couple of years. For 2013 we accepted 114 out of 458 proposals, and in 2012 we accepted 95 out of 378 proposals.

For 2014 we're more than likely going back to 95 slots, and I'd expect the number of proposals submitted to be roughly the same or higher. That'll put us closer to 20%.

Plenty of mere mortals get on stage at PyCon. Speaking experience does hold some weight with reviewers, but a well organized and interesting topic will take you pretty far.

It's not that curious. People make typos from time to time on the internet.

PyCon reserves a few spaces in the expo hall for community organizations and open source projects to run a booth free of charge.

PyAr (Argentina) also wanted to run a booth to interest people in heading down there, especially because the conference occurs close to PythonBrazil, but we were full when they asked.

The details of the settlement are not public.

-press release author

Yep, this is a part of our documentation for the case.

FYI, there is now a mention on the news list (also shown on the front page) which links to the blog post.

Shahrokh, great to see this. I'll pass it on and see what we can work out.

Yep, good point - I'm working on it (blog poster who is on a new laptop without a working website checkout).

That's what the whole site is.

What do you plan to offer over the free job board on python.org to make it worth $249? http://www.python.org/community/jobs/

Please get over yourself.

Very doubtful. I would find it hard to believe that he hasn't committed code in a week.

Anyway, most of what he was working on was AppEngine itself.

> Never heard of elevator gate?

No, but I'm not sure what its relevance is to this code of conduct and your wild hyperbole.

> And 'unwanted' sexual advances? How the hell can you know if the girl wants to talk to you, without talking to her?

Start with general conversation? "Hi, how are you?" when asked face-to-face is probably a good first step towards figuring out if your later sexual advances will be wanted.

> I would be pissed if they threw me out ...<snip>... for (horror) talking to girls in an elevator.

I would be pissed if that happened to me too. Good thing that's not even remotely close to what any of this is even about.

You are probably thinking of the Poster Session: https://us.pycon.org/2013/posters/

Proposals are being accepted through January 16th. I had a poster in it last year and had some really good talks with people. It's a pretty cool environment.

Working from home changed the game for me. I used to sit outside of the busiest conference room on the floor and not only did it affect me, but it opened my eyes to how many meetings people were going to.

I understand PMs being in a bunch of meetings, but I'd see devs and testers in that room multiple times a day. The worst would be how many 3 minute meetings would go on there that started 2 minutes late. People would show up a minute early, leave a few minutes later, then be back to their desk a minute later. They probably tuned out of work five minutes before that, wasted five or so minutes with this "meeting", then weren't back in the flow for another 10 minutes after that. Some useless or empty "status update" cost 25 minutes, and I think that's being pretty generous.

We can give feedback directly to PyCon proposers who weren't selected. We have logs of the discussions that have happened at each stage of review that a proposal goes through.

For future editions of PyCon, the SpeakUp! list would be a great place to get feedback on pre-deadline proposals.

> Otherwise your local Toastmaster group is going to be a much more effective way to improve speaking skills.

This is probably accurate, but speaking skills are only part of presentation skills. A lot of what this group will help with is structuring proposals, structuring the actual presentation, working with talk reviewers, understanding CFPs, finding topics, finding audiences for topics, etc.

The mailing list can't help you with your enunciation, but it can help you turn a one paragraph thought into a structured outline.

Where do any of the posts, documentation, or other information suggest that any part of this would be closed source?

Asking because I will update that mistake immediately, so I could use a pointer or two.

We've heard this a lot, and I think many of us on the team do still have a soft spot for the current site. It has served us well over time, but it's really time to grow the site along with Python - the language, the community, and everything that goes with it.

One of the biggest parts of this redesign is happening on the back end. One thing I look after on the site is the PSF board resolutions and minutes pages. Oh you see a typo in the latest page? Here's how you fix it:

    Get to machine that has the checkout > svn up > edit file > rebuild website locally > run webserver and check local instance > svn ci > wait for server cron job to catch the change and update the live site > confirm on live site

That sucks. For me it's not unworkable because it's not far from what I do as a developer, but it's definitely a hassle more times than not. However, getting less technically savvy contributors is not very easy. We had an administrator who was tasked with updating the pages I look after, and this person didn't know what an SSH key was (not their fault). The whole thing became a non-starter.

The new backend will continue to support the developer-like workflow (which really is good in some cases), and it'll support online editing which will be nice for a lot of things as well.

Yes. We were approved to share those documents.

Most (all?) of the team is based in Argentina. I'll bring it up to one of the devs (a coworker).

"I wanna open up with SEOmoz, because they are one of our favorite brands. Their logo doesn’t blow me away necessarily, but it is really great because their company is great."

The first of the 30 best web industry logos doesn't blow us away, but we'll include them because they're a great company. Flagged.