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Glad you like the app! I wrote it back in 2006 (used for pycon 2007, 2008 and now 2009). It is quite long in the tooth and needs a rewrite.

I have planned to move over to the icon way of selecting talks (just have not had time).

Some other interesting features that are not obvious:

1. The talk selections are stored in a cookie and are not communicated to the server as AJAX (CONFoo seems to be doing the same thing)

2. We parse the selected talk information and use it to track talk interest. (This came in handy back in 2007 when we had space restrictions and were able to move popular talks to the one room with more seating).

3. Volunteer management. The session chairs and runners are managed using the app.

4. Video and talk materials integration. Speakers can upload talk materials directly to the schedule. (see last years): http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/

5. There is a new json export of the information (will soon be updated) http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/events.json

(mashup baby)

1. A volunteer has set up eitherpad integration which will arrive soon.

2. The printed out schedule is generated directly from this app and sent to the printer. (check out the print feature in the upper right hand corner).

3. We can print out room specific schedules to hang out side the conference rooms with the app.

4. We can print out custom speaker information handouts tailored to individual speakers including which volunteers they will be working with and their contact info.

5. We can print out custom info sheets for our session staff.

NOTE: WE NEED MORE SESSION STAFF!!! http://us.pycon.org/2010/helping/session_staff/

In the end there are a ton of features built into it (not all of which are obvious). Features 5,6,9,10 are the only ones I did not have implemented for the 2007 conference... 9, 10 are from last year, and 5,6 are new this year.

Still need to find time to do a complete rewrite...

On a side note: I consider ConFoo's website to be a fantastic design. The navigation is simple and direct.

PyCon can learn much from it.

Hey Yannick,

As a side note, I am at the FOSDEM today, and they have this really nice Android application we can use to look at the agenda, select talk, tweet our selection, etc.

This is very useful : http://sourceforge.net/projects/fosdem-android/

Thanks again, Doug, for these informations on how PyCon works behind the seen. I hope I will get to meet you in Atlanta.

Facebook is just YAAP (Yet Another Advertising Platform).

Note: You did not close your account, you unfortunately only deactivated it.

It's scheduled for deletion; you have to go through a 14 days deactivation period before the account is deleted.

You will re-connect before those 14 days because of social ads addiction.

Félicitation! De mon côté ça fait à peu près un an que j'ai désactivé mon compte Facebook. Maintenant j'utilise Twitter. Mais même Twitter devient une perte de temps pour moi donc j'ai commencé à le pointer vers 127.0.0.1 dans mon fichier hosts (pour être sûr de ne plus y retourner à moins de manuellement éditer mon hosts file, chose que je fais rarement).

J'ai fais la même chose pour Facebook (entrée dans /etc/hosts) pendant deux semaines. Apès confirmation que c'était vraiment mieux pour mon morale, j'ai officialisé ma résolution.

Pivotal Payments treats their customers like complete and utter crap. What a truly horrible company you worked for. The fact that they are downsizing is hopefully a sign these con-artists are finally going out of business.

Hope you've found another job though.