PyCon Wiki: tender loving care needed

[Steve Holden]

Hello. You may be wondering about PyCon DC 2004, the media having been
noticeably quiet on the topic recently. You should be seeing an announcement
about registration Real Soon Now. The chairman is a real slacker, so nothing
much has happened yet ;-)

In the meantime, for those of you who might be wondering "what can *little
old me* do to help the Python community?", there's a major opportunity going
begging in the PyCon section of the python.org wiki. If you donn't know
anything about wikis, you could do worse than take a look at

http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki

The PyCon section of the python.org wiki really starts, I suppose, at

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PyCon

The trouble is that there's a good amount of material about *this* year's
conference, which we need to archive in some relatively organized way and
then get ready for the exciting stuff that's going to happen *next* year.

The nature of wiki is particularly anarchic, which appeals to some and
appalls others. If you find the idea appealling rather than appalling I'd be
very grateful if you would become a PyConWikiGnome (see
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiGnome) - this would be an invaluable service to
the community, with the advantage that it requires more everyday skills than
those of the megaprogrammers who normally inhabit these corridors. So if
you're looking for some way to help but don't feel you know enough about
Python, here's a job that mostly needs editing and organizational skills.
Please help if you can. Yes, this *does* mean you.

See you at PyCon DC 2004, I hope, for more fun and lots of Python.

regards

 

[Mike Rovner]

The trouble is that there's a good amount of material about *this*
year's conference, which we need to archive in some relatively
organized way and then get ready for the exciting stuff that's going
to happen *next* year.

Manual rearrangement is very tedious. It's better to have a script to move
almost all PyCon part under PyCon2003 or PyCon/2003 and ajust links.
However that requires direct access to the wiki.

Mike

 

[Peter Hansen]

Manual rearrangement is very tedious. It's better to have a script to move
almost all PyCon part under PyCon2003 or PyCon/2003 and ajust links.
However that requires direct access to the wiki.

Without having seen the wiki pages, I can't be sure, but I suspect
they contain some "dated" information which would be wrong or confusing
if it were just mechanically renamed to new pages. For example, there
are probably lots of pages with future references to this that will
happen, yet the 2003 convention is of course in the past.

I suspect what Steve wants is people who are willing/able to pull
out any information that *still has relevance*, and remove the remainder.

Yes, the request is ambiguous, but so are wikis. ;-)

-Peter

 

[Mike Rovner]

I suspect what Steve wants is people who are willing/able to pull
out any information that *still has relevance*, and remove the
remainder.

I wish I had visited PC03 to separate one from another.

Mike