[BangPypers] Open source India

[Ramdas S]

Last time when we tried which was 2 years back, we actually had three to
four sponsors willing to cough up something like 10-20 K each which was
pretty good to organize a single day event.

If I remember to do an event in Bangalore at St Joseph College Auditorium,
our budget was around 40-50 K which included a CD and T Shirt each for
approx 200 participants.

We even planned to charge a delegate fee of Rs 99/ which would have covered
lunch and refreshments, plus housekeeping charges.

Things fizzled out since few were willing to volunteer beyond a point. What
we require is some legs (young and old) to run around.

Btw the Barcamp guys had offered to actually host a Python conference within
their unconference. So that could also be a start. Someone need to hook up

Ramdas

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Amit k. Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
> <abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy <ramkrsna at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
> >> <abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I skip fsck.in, missed freed.in and it seems osidays
> >>> are for suits.  So where am I placed ?
> >>
> >>  +1. Lets have a PyCon India, on a the similar lines of Pycon,
> >> community run.  Nothing big and fancy, but proper Developer | System
> >> Administrator | user mini conference or a Python Activity Day.
> >> Sometime later this year. I personally would not prefer fsck.in. Not
> >> everone is a developer :P but with python you can become one in a few
> >> hours. I still believe there is lot we can do in order to spread
> >> python . Over past few years I have seen Ruby. Rails as a framework
> >> picking up only with the hype around the technologies.
> >
> > +1  for this (for long time, it must be now carrying interest).
> > We have mooted this idea here and even tried to pull one
> > but I guess the planning was not good.
> >
> > I think a conference where everything down from concept,
> > planning, motives and finances were open and not
> > controlled by a secret cabal is what we want.  It should
> > be for developers, but for anyone who has even written
> > only one line of code in Python.  Still, it should not be
> > too generic so that it becomes an unconference.
> >
> > Also, we will accept all fruits and vegetables,
> > including high and low hanging, not just people making
> > omlettes ;)
>
> Lol.
>
>
> >
> > I think, if we can get a discussion going around this topic,
> > we can form ideas concrete enough to organize
> > PyCon India at least in 2010.
>
> +1
>
> -Amit
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> regards
> >> --
> >> Ramakrishna Reddy                                               GPG
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