This year the software for submitting proposals to PyCon was written
extremely hurriedly, and often new features were added just before (or
just after) a conference deadline.  I'd like to do better next time by
having the software be more polished before the proposal submission
madness begins.

To that end, a Wiki page for recording ideas for the conference
software is at http://www.amk.ca/ng-arch/ConferenceSWIdeas

Please add any suggestions you might have; suggestions from PyCon proposal
authors and reviewers will be especially valuable.

I've also set up a mailing list named 'conf' for people who want to
help test alphas and betas of software; you can join at
http://www.amk.ca/mailman/listinfo/conf .

The source will make a nice Quixote demonstration application (at
least once some of my SQL hackery is ripped out).  My plan is to hack
on the conference software fairly intensively for the next month or
two, with mailing list readers trying out the current snapshot and
offering comments/triggering bugs.  Then I'll move on to other
projects, at least until the CFP for PyCon 2005 goes out and new
feature requests begin arriving.

--amk