convore.json/groups/pycon-2011/feedback-for-the-organizers/messages.json

[{"user_id": 1305, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299815472.3228309, "message": "We are trying to put on a perfect PyCon, but try as we might, we know there are going to be things that we can do better. We need feedback so that we can improve. Please use this thread to give us specific suggestions on how we can change things (right now or for next year) to help us make PyCon great.", "group_id": 373, "id": 319123}, {"user_id": 20483, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299817569.431551, "message": "it would be good to ask the kitchen staff to prep the vegetarian meals so that they'll be delivered w/ everyone else's. at lunch today, i sat with someone waiting for their meal the whole time everyone else ate. they never got their lunch.", "group_id": 373, "id": 319296}, {"user_id": 1305, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299817110.7840509, "message": "+1", "group_id": 373, "id": 319276}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299880000.6988399, "user_id": 233}, {"date_created": 1299883571.1883221, "user_id": 3926}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299816424.0234201, "message": "Suggestion: We get the Conference Chair a cattle prod and a segway to rain fiery justice from.", "group_id": 373, "id": 319228}, {"user_id": 19747, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299818645.552526, "message": "The lunches are nasty and nearly inedible. Entrees are way too salty, and slathered in oil and butter, leaving a puddle of grease on the plate. Wednesday vegetarian meal consisted of a pile of papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 gloop that was supposed to be risotto. Today they tried to serve potato soup with animal-based stock to vegetarians. Fortunately I asked to confirm before eating it, and they returned with an overly salty onion(?) soup substitute, which I sent back. Eventually they brought a fruit plate as an appetizer. At least the servers were polite and understanding, but I wish the cooks tried half as hard as the wait staff.", "group_id": 373, "id": 319361}, {"user_id": 1930, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299822638.5502601, "message": "@holdenweb I think that will be insufficiently structured;  how would a new student find the instructors setup instructions from the stream of a topic?  instructor find student questions?  Students find Q/A? manage handouts / zips?   etc.", "group_id": 373, "id": 319672}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299950563.0731721, "user_id": 5852}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299822278.844002, "message": "Maybe each tutorial should have its own Convore topic? Then teachers can assist people getting ready before the con if they have time, and people unable to take the tutorial can still benefit from the chatter, and even ask questions.", "group_id": 373, "id": 319643}, {"user_id": 1930, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299821778.6107271, "message": "Helpful tutorial information distribution:   Email to class attendees isn't useful for 2 things: sharing info w/ late registrants, and asking questions of instructor before pycon. Signing up for tutorials should get you to an instructor lead ... something - blog, forum, etc.   - a central place for announcing prerequisites,  pre-class work (setup), questions, and class handouts / slides (and anything else the instructor cared to share).", "group_id": 373, "id": 319615}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299823162.9854569, "message": "Perhaps if there were a Convore feed that students could read but only the instructor could post to? I imagine Leah and Eric have that on a little list somewhere.", "group_id": 373, "id": 319724}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299822712.34161, "message": "You got me there. Good for student chatter, though, and that will get information out informally sometimes.", "group_id": 373, "id": 319678}, {"user_id": 1930, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299822753.9559331, "message": "A couple of attendees dropped classes today because of this, so it's a specific, real problem.", "group_id": 373, "id": 319681}, {"user_id": 1930, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299823788.6606951, "message": "... or perhaps if there were subgroups?", "group_id": 373, "id": 319776}, {"user_id": 1305, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299826616.302341, "message": "@pkropf  @steve_piercy: Thanks. Passing this feedback on to the hotel. Please let me know if there are continued problems with the vegetarian meals.", "group_id": 373, "id": 320156}, {"user_id": 1305, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299826442.3075371, "message": "Sounds good. Let's keep this to PyCon, though, not Convore. ;)", "group_id": 373, "id": 320143}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299827981.9287701, "message": "NOTE: I added a topic \"Ask PyCon Volunteers Anything\" https://convore.com/pycon-2011/ask-pycon-volunteers-anything/  for general Q&A which is not strictly feedback, and is intended for all volunteers to participate in a frank and open discussion about volunteering.", "group_id": 373, "id": 320276}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299856662.2848139, "message": "idea: Select a fraction of the lightning talk slots by having people post their proposals to a http://www.google.com/moderator/ topic and letting #pycon at large vote? (if not this year, maybe next year)", "group_id": 373, "id": 322995}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299880480.1073849, "user_id": 214}, {"date_created": 1299894930.2924139, "user_id": 6310}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299857247.493006, "message": "I've found that the name tags are apt to turn around, so approximately half the time they are useless. Possibly the name could be printed on both sides? Or a lanyard that doesn't turn as easily?", "group_id": 373, "id": 323064}, {"user_id": 19972, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299909322.542213, "user_id": 20742}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299857492.454411, "message": "Live webcasts for those of us who couldn't make the trip...", "group_id": 373, "id": 323120}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299857745.1633761, "user_id": 1924}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299857475.3603311, "message": "Regency V is noisy during talks due to the wide open doors in back and busy booth hall next door...", "group_id": 373, "id": 323115}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299858947.387893, "message": "maybe these belong in a pycon future brainstorming topic instead...", "group_id": 373, "id": 323584}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299857497.950192, "message": "@wolever yes double sided badges pleas!", "group_id": 373, "id": 323123}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299858683.5914979, "message": "https://us.pycon.org/ has an expired certificate.", "group_id": 373, "id": 323517}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299860125.874325, "message": "+1 on talk level \u2014 I'd like to know that.", "group_id": 373, "id": 323853}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299858915.449748, "message": "The mobile app for the schedule needs to integrate with http://us.pycon.org/2011/schedule/ so that stars on a schedule made in the mobile app show up on our website account. (toss the app and get someone to make a nice html5 schedule website even better than conventionist for 2012?)", "group_id": 373, "id": 323576}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863180.704031, "message": "@mishok @wolever thanks for the feedback we will try to get something out in the next rollout.", "group_id": 373, "id": 324603}, {"user_id": 1979, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299860108.814903, "user_id": 14463}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299860000.9268761, "message": "i know it's too late, but by simply looking at http://us.pycon.org/2011/schedule/ you can't tell if the talk is novice or experienced level", "group_id": 373, "id": 323826}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863272.8144701, "message": "@wolever Badges: we plan on having something much better next year. We did not expect to get this level of sponsorship.", "group_id": 373, "id": 324627}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863507.71437, "message": "Also, a badge quick fix: they attach nicely to shirt buttons.", "group_id": 373, "id": 324717}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863483.9007721, "message": "@dougn would printing on both sides add to the cost? Apart from the flipping around, the badges do their job admirably.", "group_id": 373, "id": 324702}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863613.4730029, "message": "@gpshead then\u2026 Duct tape?", "group_id": 373, "id": 324751}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863222.0659969, "message": "@wolever CERT: we know, and will fix just after conference (don't want to risk stability right now)", "group_id": 373, "id": 324616}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863543.90323, "message": "@wolever FTW. of course i donned a tshirt today, doh.", "group_id": 373, "id": 324730}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863359.2000661, "message": "@pheller sorry but we will not do this. The expense is extremely high, and doubling the cost of the conference for those whom can make it to pay for those whom could not is not something we will do.", "group_id": 373, "id": 324654}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863400.3153861, "message": "@gpshead Thank you I will instruct the runner/chair to close the door, as see what else I can do.", "group_id": 373, "id": 324670}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863496.4632771, "message": "future pycon suggestion: put the stage/podium and the presentation projection much closer together in all rooms so you watch both at the same time; with a better spotlight on the presenter. (using Centennial I and II as my references here but I expect others have a similar setup)", "group_id": 373, "id": 324709}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299863638.1714351, "message": "@gpshead A needle and thread? I have some, if you need it\u2026", "group_id": 373, "id": 324758}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299864304.4766541, "message": "@gpshead we will attempt to adjust the podium location, and we will dim the lights further and turn up the leko lighting. Last year we were blinding speakers, and we over adjusted.", "group_id": 373, "id": 324930}, {"user_id": 19972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299864061.6310999, "message": "@dougn I would gladly pay for access to live webcast....  Nevertheless, I do understand the difficulty in making it happen.", "group_id": 373, "id": 324870}, {"user_id": 20599, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299868661.250941, "user_id": 1175}, {"date_created": 1299879925.6808791, "user_id": 233}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299867604.170258, "message": "Is it possible to have the coffee flow all day?", "group_id": 373, "id": 325320}, {"user_id": 13222, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299867776.9567201, "message": "Could people try and sit towards the middle of the rows? All the talks I've been to today have been packed with people standing in the back while there were scattered empty seats in the middle of rows. I know not every seat will be filled, but I think a better effort can be made when the rooms start to fill up.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325334}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299870103.366199, "message": "heh yeah I don't want blind speakers. though it is amusing the first two times someone falls off the stage.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325645}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299879940.5555539, "user_id": 233}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299868967.6501, "message": "@dcolish we feel your pain (and withdrawal). The prices from the hotel make this impossible. We tried very hard. You can't imagine how expensive it is.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325502}, {"user_id": 20599, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299869091.5028419, "message": "@dougn bummer, I'll have to provision!", "group_id": 373, "id": 325527}, {"user_id": 20683, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299880439.6596861, "user_id": 14463}, {"date_created": 1299883444.5237651, "user_id": 1169}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299879952.4048431, "message": "What happened to the chip-bucket voting for sessions from past years (good, meh, bad); was it statistically useless?", "group_id": 373, "id": 327616}, {"user_id": 20683, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299880068.9106779, "user_id": 20723}, {"date_created": 1299901775.8824251, "user_id": 12543}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299879899.5224581, "message": "Thanks, organizers, for providing food and caffeine for the tutorials; I know it's expensive, but much appreciated.", "group_id": 373, "id": 327598}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299880099.5864029, "user_id": 20683}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299880037.4465239, "message": "What happened to the voting buckets? Will there be some way for us to tell which talks were good/bad?", "group_id": 373, "id": 327645}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299880465.448333, "message": "@Shentonfreude haha I don't know how I missed this message when I posted mine\u2026", "group_id": 373, "id": 327707}, {"user_id": 20683, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299882410.119776, "message": "@wolever Coincidence: I posted only a minute before you :-)", "group_id": 373, "id": 328139}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299885255.6718471, "user_id": 1844}, {"date_created": 1299901762.5963659, "user_id": 12543}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299885243.5681379, "message": "Can we get both podiums going for the Lightening talks so that the next speaker is getting setup to present while the earlier one is speaking?  (worked well last year)", "group_id": 373, "id": 328627}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299885266.4248819, "message": "oh hey looks like that is happening now.  :)", "group_id": 373, "id": 328633}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299885322.86709, "message": "@wolever I believe consensus was that the buckets weren't used consistently enough to be worth it in past years", "group_id": 373, "id": 328644}, {"user_id": 2051, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299892436.2833681, "message": "Is it possible to have the conference in another city? SF perhaps?", "group_id": 373, "id": 329347}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299891884.2983761, "message": "@Shentonfreude the data was too noisy. When we were 800 people with similar attendance across talks, with a smaller expo room, no staggered talk times, and less open space available it was still quite noisy. Now it is useless. Please fill out the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RRSDGJZ", "group_id": 373, "id": 329301}, {"user_id": 1886, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299896691.276114, "message": "IIRC next year is going to be in Santa Clara, CA", "group_id": 373, "id": 329593}, {"user_id": 16551, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299897003.316407, "message": "Yep. Santa Clara. http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/News/PyCon-Personality-Steve-Holden-Python-Software-Foundation-Chairman", "group_id": 373, "id": 329602}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299904897.3645549, "user_id": 1886}, {"date_created": 1299933739.9302261, "user_id": 1979}, {"date_created": 1299938333.7317171, "user_id": 14463}, {"date_created": 1299942178.0150239, "user_id": 4156}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299901612.5370071, "message": "PyCon for the next two years will be in Santa Clara, CA - I will be conference chair, so I am watching things like this for thoughts to improve next year.", "group_id": 373, "id": 329865}, {"user_id": 20483, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299906768.2335391, "user_id": 1243}, {"date_created": 1299939116.6019001, "user_id": 927}, {"date_created": 1299946369.328891, "user_id": 20265}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299902080.702601, "message": "@jessenoller might be good to hold a newbies session either thursday evening or friday morning before the conference starts. give them an overview of the 6 facets of the conference: tutorials, sessions, lightning talks, open spaces, hallway sessions and sprints. what they are, how they work, how to navigate the conference.", "group_id": 373, "id": 329902}, {"user_id": 19747, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299903463.125303, "message": "+1 per pkropf comment, from a newbie. Thanks to Peter providing me and my fellow newbie roomie with this information, I hope to have a much richer and worthwhile pycon experience to which I would have otherwise been completely oblivious.", "group_id": 373, "id": 329962}, {"user_id": 19747, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299903834.6850309, "message": "@jessenoller p.s., I may be able to help with some local hospitality for 2012, since I live about 30 minutes from Santa Clara.", "group_id": 373, "id": 329973}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299904151.067554, "message": "given the santa clara decision, we'll have a bunch more people eligible to come next year. that's really great to hear", "group_id": 373, "id": 329994}, {"user_id": 20742, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299946375.5770259, "user_id": 20265}, {"date_created": 1299949359.912904, "user_id": 1175}, {"date_created": 1299951125.3072331, "user_id": 19652}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299909444.56971, "message": "QR code on the badges, so we can scan with our phones", "group_id": 373, "id": 330382}, {"user_id": 20742, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299949364.2900009, "user_id": 1175}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299909528.969332, "message": "printed (and updated!) schedules on visible places.  with the network so bad, it's not easy to go http://us.pycon.org/2011/schedule/  all the time", "group_id": 373, "id": 330389}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299938958.227309, "user_id": 1243}, {"date_created": 1299939335.9540119, "user_id": 16263}, {"date_created": 1299950774.2792461, "user_id": 20910}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299938881.430799, "message": "note: the conventionist app is updated and the data is stored locally. the website schedule has an iCal export link to copy locally too.", "group_id": 373, "id": 331820}, {"user_id": 20508, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299939632.475522, "message": "If past years are any indication, the slides and videos will be linked from the schedule pages.", "group_id": 373, "id": 331923}, {"user_id": 20954, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299939166.264538, "message": "where are the slides from Friday's talks?  I've been told that people uploaded them, but the main pycon website doesn't have an obvious link.", "group_id": 373, "id": 331842}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299938766.5878921, "message": "we should have new schedules room the printer shortly. not sure if we got them updated. we set to print before all changes occurred.", "group_id": 373, "id": 331806}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299939018.3495891, "message": "AR codes: we have been working with the expo vendors on this. (don't ask, it's silly.) it will happen next year.", "group_id": 373, "id": 331828}, {"user_id": 20508, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299939573.4247439, "message": "@drewfisher314 The talks are being collected on USB sticks by the Session Runners before or after each talk. It may take a few days for them to get uploaded to the site.", "group_id": 373, "id": 331909}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299942800.0882859, "user_id": 14463}, {"date_created": 1299942815.9356289, "user_id": 927}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299942727.634151, "message": "@wolever we wanted to allow for some response to the answers. it is being controlled. strictly.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332564}, {"user_id": 20954, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299939643.719837, "message": "@callahad great!  thanks!", "group_id": 373, "id": 331926}, {"user_id": 20508, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299942052.7544279, "user_id": 3926}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299941733.8693709, "message": "The fireside chat format is getting some love in #fireside-chat-w-gvr -- this works really well.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332375}, {"user_id": 19788, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299941805.8243239, "message": "@wolever Based on my experience at past Pycons, the alternative is worse.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332387}, {"user_id": 210, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299942652.1251891, "user_id": 927}, {"date_created": 1299954136.4871449, "user_id": 18843}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299942523.64855, "message": "Loving the fireside chat. Much better than the Twitter-powered one last year.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332521}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299941486.2050951, "message": "I don't know if there is anything that can be done about this, but I've found all the rooms to be uncomfortably chilly.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332326}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299942794.8663421, "message": "@dougn ah, I hadn't realized that. Please forgive me for my lack of faith.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332573}, {"user_id": 16714, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299945930.29828, "user_id": 20508}, {"date_created": 1299954173.0166249, "user_id": 18843}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945130.3531711, "message": "Well, looks like I'll be the first to say it: More women presenters in the sessions please.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332864}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299942583.0518329, "message": "Agreed. I just wish they would stick to the questions we voted on\u2026 There were a bunch of good questions there, and we got to decide which we care about.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332531}, {"user_id": 16263, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299943937.4802041, "message": "@wolever yep I'm thinking on wearing my coat inside the talk rooms. My nose is cold.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332743}, {"user_id": 16714, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945679.9768741, "message": "@jessenoller so, after the presentations are selected do you 'unblind' and check for stats on submissions?", "group_id": 373, "id": 332955}, {"user_id": 16714, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945730.4235029, "message": "Well then there's some feedback - please consider doing so because that information would be very valuable", "group_id": 373, "id": 332969}, {"user_id": 16714, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299963698.571563, "user_id": 14463}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945531.03583, "message": "At the same time I must say that it seems like there are more women attending, so ++ on that!", "group_id": 373, "id": 332930}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299953120.6709061, "user_id": 18972}, {"date_created": 1299959180.340167, "user_id": 1289}, {"date_created": 1299963702.4868701, "user_id": 14463}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945555.332623, "message": "@lsblakk If we have more female presenters propose talks, we will have them. The program committee is intentionally blind to anything but experience and the quality of the submission.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332936}, {"user_id": 5575, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299944686.0599811, "message": "This is obviously something venue-dependent, but in the future could we please make sure that the projectors are in focus?  Centennial IV and Regency V are particularly bad, reading even large title text is difficult.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332811}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945696.8566179, "message": "@lsblakk No", "group_id": 373, "id": 332962}, {"user_id": 16714, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299946076.028214, "message": "@jessenoller I appreciate any and all efforts so far, this is a feedback thread and I'm just trying to point out that it is a PyCon issue as well as an issue in other places.  It's not just a 'reserved to one place' issue. I'm very interested in helping and not just pointing or blaming, stats on submissions would be a great place to start in order to target outreach better.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333019}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299946593.598258, "user_id": 1243}, {"date_created": 1299946635.442775, "user_id": 4748}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299946509.652518, "message": "@offby1 No worries. We know it's something we need to focus on, and it's something that we can improve. It's discussed frequently. My only point was to state that I strongly dislike collecting stats about people/gender and other things as part of the PyCon process.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333102}, {"user_id": 16714, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945919.4573569, "message": "@coderanger ok then, let's carry on and pretend there's not a problem here.  wouldn't want to annoy anyone.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332999}, {"user_id": 16714, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945639.0607929, "message": "'consider'?", "group_id": 373, "id": 332949}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945784.6304729, "message": "@lsblakk Even if we did unblind it, we would not share the stats publicly. We consider all submissions in confidence. All acceptance and rejections are between the committee and the proposer.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332978}, {"user_id": 20508, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299946108.4225769, "message": "FWIW, yesterday I had a female conference attendee express disappointment in the number of women speaking. But I'm also aware that the organizers and the PSF are aware of it.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333021}, {"user_id": 8984, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299947199.9868579, "user_id": 16263}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299946611.098561, "message": "more screens in larger rooms (1/2 way back) would be useful for those not in the front with aging eyesight ;)", "group_id": 373, "id": 333127}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299945934.5726221, "user_id": 1736}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945927.5666151, "message": "@coderanger We don't collect the information", "group_id": 373, "id": 333000}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945565.301532, "message": "@lsblakk Gender is not something we consider for talks", "group_id": 373, "id": 332938}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945762.3688071, "message": "@lsblakk Valuable for what?", "group_id": 373, "id": 332975}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945876.8528409, "message": "@lsblakk I'm pretty sure we don't even collect that info during signup, we might have age for legal reasons, but anything else would just be annoying to users of the website.", "group_id": 373, "id": 332991}, {"user_id": 19788, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299946416.1783271, "user_id": 20265}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945911.745239, "message": "Hope that wall between Centennial 3/4 gets fixed soon...", "group_id": 373, "id": 332995}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945978.9616361, "message": "@lsblakk We (the PSF) are already working on outreach, especially on the diversity front, and intend on doing more. It's less of a PyCon issue, then a PSF-Outreach and education issue, which we know about and want to work on.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333009}, {"user_id": 16714, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945808.2131081, "message": "@coderanger for figuring out if there are a) lots of women submitting proposals but lacking experience and quality or b) few women and thus more outreach could be done to solicit a fair amount of proposals or c) something else", "group_id": 373, "id": 332981}, {"user_id": 16714, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299945822.3873069, "message": "@jessenoller anonymous data would be fine", "group_id": 373, "id": 332986}, {"user_id": 4748, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299950691.7520289, "user_id": 8649}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299946230.599036, "message": "@lsblakk Passive-aggressive accusations that the PSF is ignoring the issue are not helpful, I suspect.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333031}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299946046.9300599, "message": "Also the PyCon committee is always working on speaker outreach, and it seems to be working given the number of submissions goes up every year.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333015}, {"user_id": 20984, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299947176.287827, "user_id": 4748}, {"date_created": 1299947187.8877089, "user_id": 16263}, {"date_created": 1299948597.8221481, "user_id": 6471}, {"date_created": 1299948895.424963, "user_id": 15296}, {"date_created": 1299969912.9511139, "user_id": 21092}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299946945.047977, "message": "Lunch is a problem, we should know what we eat, even before it's served to us (e.g. a signpost). It's also nice to have an alternative.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333185}, {"user_id": 19784, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299948781.6089001, "message": "I'm concerned about the lack of options for recycling.  It's 2011, are we still throwing everything in one bin and burying it outside atlanta somewhere?  Where are the plastic paper and trash bins?", "group_id": 373, "id": 333517}, {"user_id": 20624, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299948659.3479691, "user_id": 1243}, {"date_created": 1299948694.682173, "user_id": 20984}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299948644.8641341, "message": "Not just their time, but conference time (see: the buildout talk)", "group_id": 373, "id": 333484}, {"user_id": 1333, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299948620.1057789, "user_id": 20624}, {"date_created": 1299948645.608458, "user_id": 4156}, {"date_created": 1299948902.949595, "user_id": 15296}, {"date_created": 1299948660.409466, "user_id": 1243}, {"date_created": 1299948968.222991, "user_id": 20265}, {"date_created": 1299950194.4854729, "user_id": 20783}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299948600.0057199, "message": "Session runners need to get up and stop speakers when they're running over.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333480}, {"user_id": 20265, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299949309.6633661, "user_id": 1243}, {"date_created": 1299959577.266263, "user_id": 16263}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299949014.696744, "message": "@djdarkbeat the triangular bins in the conference lobby are divided for recycling", "group_id": 373, "id": 333563}, {"user_id": 20984, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299948726.6964459, "message": "yes, agreed, otherwise they also make others run out of time.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333506}, {"user_id": 20984, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299949292.3920219, "message": "taterware is popular in sfbay area, there are other compostable options.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333611}, {"user_id": 4748, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299950632.368645, "message": "How is that impacting lunch?", "group_id": 373, "id": 333963}, {"user_id": 4748, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299950733.694535, "message": "Okay, cool. I'm at the API talk, and I really want to get to the Continuous deployment talk but still somehow eat :)", "group_id": 373, "id": 333984}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299951423.2807741, "message": "@offby1 no late starts. that leaves 35 to 50 min for lunch. sorry.", "group_id": 373, "id": 334077}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299951910.1777871, "user_id": 20265}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299950699.9418249, "message": "We are not causing one speaker to shortchange another. we are running the sessions independently as it is the only way to make things fair. we are running lunch late.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333979}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299950568.3756559, "message": "They were major problems with the hotel and we told the session staff to let speakers have 25min. the alternative was to cancel five talks completely from the schedule.", "group_id": 373, "id": 333949}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299950902.3176751, "message": "@offby1 I've the same exact problem and I'm running the session staff to boot", "group_id": 373, "id": 333998}, {"user_id": 4748, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299950930.608094, "message": "So, the after-lunch talks are back on the usual schedule, then? No late starts there?", "group_id": 373, "id": 334001}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299954802.6281121, "message": "re:lunch - the hotel is trying and failing to provide good hot meals. I'd have preferred a decent sandwich to either lunch so far and it'd have been a bit faster to serve", "group_id": 373, "id": 334444}, {"user_id": 20267, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299954728.6725831, "message": "Projector in room 2 is bad, I'm sitting inthe", "group_id": 373, "id": 334427}, {"user_id": 20267, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299954756.4573519, "message": "Second row and can't read the alides", "group_id": 373, "id": 334431}, {"user_id": 20508, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299957200.6096411, "message": "Yeah. The Go presenter had already had his talk moved once. Seemed very unhappy with folks coming in towards the end of his talk.", "group_id": 373, "id": 335192}, {"user_id": 20709, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299957353.905436, "user_id": 927}], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299957010.470716, "message": "not sure the 45 minute staggered talks are working well for people,  I've been in several talks that were effectively 30 min talks then the people leave and disrupt adjacent talks", "group_id": 373, "id": 335141}, {"user_id": 20709, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299957041.8212509, "message": "esp the go/seleect talk, it weems like the incoming audience shut down the prresenter and he seems a bit insulted/peeved", "group_id": 373, "id": 335152}, {"user_id": 20792, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299957172.5756509, "message": "it is too cold", "group_id": 373, "id": 335186}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299957265.4640279, "message": "Could we have a \"chairs' channel\" or something - a feed of some kind that accepts central announcements so the session chairs can use talk changeover times to keep people up to date?", "group_id": 373, "id": 335203}, {"user_id": 20750, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299957898.043694, "message": "The pycon5 network in IV is not servicing DHCP", "group_id": 373, "id": 335368}, {"user_id": 21035, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299957947.3148601, "message": "next year, how about letting people during signup setup contact info and putting that in a QR code on their badge.  Smart phones could scan it and import it", "group_id": 373, "id": 335388}, {"user_id": 20750, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299957904.1863091, "message": "pycon worked ok", "group_id": 373, "id": 335371}, {"user_id": 1289, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299959371.5730951, "message": "@kevbo That talk ran over because the wall was broken and there was a lift in the room to fix the wall, and it also crushed one of the supports for the screen almost causing it to fall over.", "group_id": 373, "id": 335671}, {"user_id": 1924, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299958476.0270929, "message": "@holdenweb Left an expanded note on that at https://convore.com/pycon-2011/convore-love/335499/", "group_id": 373, "id": 335523}, {"user_id": 14957, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299959819.6705439, "message": "@jtate our network person is working on rolling it out network updates right now", "group_id": 373, "id": 335731}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299962435.292851, "message": "Moved", "group_id": 373, "id": 336091}, {"user_id": 1152, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299962428.1011031, "message": "@callahad no one move that presenters talk.", "group_id": 373, "id": 336089}, {"user_id": 20508, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299967532.614527, "message": "Thanks, @mishok13", "group_id": 373, "id": 336888}, {"user_id": 20508, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299967099.139853, "message": "@jessenoller Sorry, I must've been confused by the printed program. It had that talk listed for the end of Friday. I presumed that the change to Saturday meant the talk had been moved.", "group_id": 373, "id": 336804}, {"user_id": 1979, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299967298.6433811, "message": "Well, afaiu Andrew Francis (Go presenter) couldn't make it on Friday and that's why the talk was actually moved", "group_id": 373, "id": 336849}, {"user_id": 20508, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299967528.142889, "message": "Ah, that makes sense.", "group_id": 373, "id": 336887}, {"user_id": 1169, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299968981.875556, "message": "just wanted to vote in favor of the 45-minute staggered talks, I liked it.", "group_id": 373, "id": 337144}, {"user_id": 19784, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299969448.460037, "message": "@pimlottc I saw them about a minute after posting", "group_id": 373, "id": 337174}, {"user_id": 7563, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12243, "date_created": 1299971487.0627351, "message": "A little late, but the projectors in Centennial 2 and 3 seem to be cutting off the left portion of the slides of every speaker. Can this be fixed (e.g., by adjusting the projectors) or is this just a weird A/V issue?", "group_id": 373, "id": 337467}]