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by jnoller 14y ago
Yes, it is legal. It's a private event, with written guidelines. Also, what would you prefer; no written guidelines with me as chair able to do whatever I wanted to whoever I wanted to with no oversight . With no written rules, staff would
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by jnoller 14y ago
I've got two kids in school. I know the pain of the inane zero tolerance policies such as those. However, harassment in any form, when corroborated, is just unacceptable.
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by jnoller 14y ago
Only after the deadline to be fair.
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by jnoller 14y ago
Well - if you look at Gold and Silver sponsorship alone, Silver is 2000$ for companies under 25 employees, Gold is 4000$. Many companies - not even startups - take advantage of these discounts. These discounts to SMBs is part of the PyCon 1
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by jnoller 14y ago
We prefer to showcase the smaller / bootstrapped / cash strapped startups over those with more capital. For the latter group, we offer 50% discounts ( https://us.pycon.org/2013/sponsors/prospectus/ ) on Silver and Gold Pycon sponsorships (a
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Announcing Startup row: PyCon 2013 Edition(pycon.blogspot.com)
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by jnoller 14y ago
~500 give or take
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by jnoller 14y ago
Same here! (Conference Chair)
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by jnoller 14y ago
Yup. That's the idea. Want to help out as a fellow organizer? We're lookin for this to help js, python, etc conferences If we can get women, men - everyone, over that 90% hump and get them into the CFPs and systems for conferences and coach
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by jnoller 14y ago
Excellent suggestion - suggestions on how? Filed: https://github.com/jnoller/talk-mentorship/issues/11
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by jnoller 14y ago
Also, since your points will come up time and time again - I filed a bug: https://github.com/jnoller/talk-mentorship/issues/10
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by jnoller 14y ago
It's not just speaking skills: you're right, the best way to do that is to present. But there's a lot more than just talking. That's where the team comes in - how to structure a successful talk, how to submit it to a conference or user grou
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by jnoller 14y ago
It's important to remember this is for men and women, to give them a safe environment with access to people who are willing to help them. We welcome people from any language/conference background. Also, I wasn't don't fleshing out the site,
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by jnoller 14y ago
Until we hit close to the final major milestone for delivery and payment, it's up to the team. After that it's all open source and community.
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by jnoller 14y ago
Uh. No. The website, all source and everything will be open source, based on django and other open source python work/etc. You missed a great deal of facts.
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by jnoller 14y ago
Yup. Already passed on to the team.
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by jnoller 14y ago
And most would love to have people working on it for years to scrimp and save the money, evaluate proposals, fight the stop energy and "good enough" crowd. Money was the least of the problems. That, at least you can make through hard work a
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by jnoller 14y ago
No need to go site/language bashing :) We're going to make it look good, usable and a showcase for Python. Other language sites while good for "competitive analysis" aren't needed to make ours shine. Let's just stay civil
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by jnoller 14y ago
thank you
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by jnoller 14y ago
Added to my cache: http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/
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by jnoller 14y ago
http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/
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by jnoller 14y ago
And a cached copy: http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/
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by jnoller 14y ago
Cached version (thanks github pages): http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/
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by jnoller 14y ago
I have put up a gh-pages quick and dirty cached version here: http://jnoller.github.com/redesign_cache/ I sincerely apologize for the total hosting fail.
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by jnoller 14y ago
Just to add - a comparison to the lowest common denominator is not what we're after :)
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by jnoller 14y ago
Ugh. My host is giving me nothing but heartburn. Great. Link to the original RFP: http://pythonorg-redesign.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ PSF Blog post: http://pyfound.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/pythonorg-is-getting-m... Link to the winning bi
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by jnoller 14y ago
The docs are not part of the redesign except perhaps for updated style sheets. See http://pythonorg-redesign.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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by jnoller 14y ago
Yes while it may be better than some we can do all whole lot better and that's the goal
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by jnoller 14y ago
Thank you for the feedback I will take it and give it to the team
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by jnoller 14y ago
We are definitely keeping an eye on usability we have several experts on the team reviewing each design bit by bit

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