Comments on The Python & Marc Garcia: DjangoCon is still alive?

Ok, it looks like my post sounded offensive to Dja...

2008-07-30T03:37:00.000+02:00

Ok, it looks like my post sounded offensive to DjangoCon organizers, and I just have to say, that it was my last intention.

I can imagine that organizing an event like this is a huge amount of work, and even the registration application I was joking about; I'm sure that it'll be difficult to program or modify anything to make sure that it behaves fair for everybody trying to register, specially because we all are programmers (and probably I'm not the only one that was wondering how to hack it to get one ticket ;)

So my apologies for everybody that felt unrecognized on his work, or just uncomfortable with my post; I just wanted to give the point of view of many people, in a funny way.

Hope to see you there! (if I'm not still banned, and flight tickets doesn't increase more ;)

In my oppinion, marc didn't mean to criticize the ...

2008-07-30T02:41:00.000+02:00

In my oppinion, marc didn't mean to criticize the people behind the djangocon, but to write some lines about something a lot of people probably think too. That is, for people outside the US the later we now if we will have a ticket, the harder (or more expensive) it would be for us to get the flying tickets (but, hey, everybody realizes that).

Of course this is not Robert's fault, as he (for sure) is having enough work to do, but I'm sure every djangonaut outside the US is worried about the very same thing now, "each day the flying tickets will be more expensive, and getting the tickets now wouldn't be a good idea, cause I could end myself without the opportunity to be there".

Anyway, as Doug wrote in the previous comment, thnx to Robert and everyone that is working hard to make it happen. (I'll meet you there! :D)

Robert beat me to it.

Speaking as the perso...

2008-07-30T02:14:00.000+02:00

Robert beat me to it.

Speaking as the person who wrote the registration software for PyCon US, and as one of the volunteer organizers of that conference, its no where near as easy as you make it sound.

Kudo's to all the people who are making this happen in such an insane time frame. Only wish I could go.

While I appreciate your comments, I'm not entirely...

2008-07-29T23:14:00.000+02:00

While I appreciate your comments, I'm not entirely sure I like the tone.

Conferences take around 6 months to plan, and thus far i've had about a month to get things together. Everyone is working pretty hard to make sure that the conference is enjoyable for the 200 that get to go, but also for everyone who can't make it as well.

While I appreciate that prices increase over time, we honestly can't move any faster than we are. It's not just about throwing up a registration site and that's it. There's a lot more to it than that. We simply haven't got time to build our own registration system this year.

All I can say is be patient. We've already announced the dates and times that tickets will be released, which David pointed out. We know what our priorities are and what we have left to do, and we're doing our best to give an awesome conference to the community in such a short space of time.

Also, the program is closed, we're just finalising a few details before committing them to the live site. BOF are not included in this conference, purely because we're stretched as it is.

Tickets are going out on the 31st at 12PM. Check ...

2008-07-29T20:20:00.000+02:00