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PyCon Submission Rejected

Just got the rejection notice for my PyCon submission on pyjamas. The non-positives all had a single criticism: pyjamas isn't mature enough.

I don't quite agree—pyjamas is actually quite far along. Probably didn't help that I conservatively called the last release 0.1 even though it was probably more of a 0.5 :-)

They had a lot more submissions than places, though, so it looks like it will be a great programme, with or without pyjamas.

UPDATE (2006-11-30): The above makes me sound more upset than I am. I know how hard it is to draw a cut line when there are many more submissions than places so I don't envy the job the committee had. I was actually quite pleased that (lack of) maturity was the only negative reason given. That's easy to fix :-) But I'm still wondering if the 0.1 designation counted against me.

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Tennessee Leeuwenburg on Nov. 29, 2006:

G'day. If you'd like, submit it to The Python Papers and we'll see what we can do. (http://pythonpapers.org)

As an online magazine we don't face the same problems over a limited number of seats.

If your paper / submission has good content, it's not important how far along the underlying application is. It's also the story we're interested in.

Cheers,
-T

p.s. does that mean I should get the maths wrong to prove I'm only human?

Michael Bernstein on Nov. 29, 2006:

James,

I think you should do a demo as a Lightning Talk. What I saw of the examples are really quite cool, and deserve to be showcased more widely.

BTW, can you get Pyjamas to produce anything like this?:
http://www.blobsallad.se/

Jack Diederich on Nov. 29, 2006:

I put up a proposal last year which was not accepted in a a year with much less competition (80+% were accepted instead of 50% this year - same slots but less competition). Don't take it as rejection just tweak it next year based on feedback and/or focus on a part that has a wider audience. The volunteers who rate PyCon proposals aren't cut-throat they are just trying to maximise the incidence of talks and atendee interest.

Phillip J. Eby on Dec. 3, 2006:

You should have called it, "Building AJAX Applications In Python -- Without Using JavaScript". Always put the benefit in the headline. ;-)

(Otherwise, the people who aren't paying attention don't know why they should care about some "pyjamas" thing they haven't heard of.)

Frenchy on Dec. 4, 2006:


I just found Pyjamas though delicious where you already 320 people who think your project is "del.icio.us" :)

http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=ajax+python&type=all

Pyjamas sounds very interesting !

cheers

Frenchy

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Created: Nov. 29, 2006
Last Modified: Nov. 30, 2006
Author: jtauber