From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 03:40:51 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 07:10:51 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The deadline is over and there is no news yet about the website. As I mentioned earlier, I'm ready to take the responsibility of setting up and maintaining a wiki + doattend website. In fact, my version was ready a week back. http://anandology.com:8088/ It requires some more fine tuning, but it is ready and functional. This website is powered by Infogami. Infogami is a powerful wiki. It can store different types of pages, including site layout, css and javascript. Infogami is very customizable. Look at some of the websites powered by it. http://infogami.org/sites If any of you want to play with it, create an account following the login link and send me an email, I'll give you the required permissions to edit the website. Anand From ideamonk at gmail.com Mon May 3 06:45:09 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:15:09 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Couldn't get infogami working in short time as my exams start the day after. Just played with the header offline. Preview - http://twitpic.com/1kj95b Some css/html changes made are here - http://github.com/ideamonk/inpycon-trash I think they can be merged back to infogami template if needed. Also whichever logo we choose, could the original creator also put them up in PNG format instead of JPEG (which reduces in quality everytime you save as jpeg). @anand Would we have some time to edit the website even after 13th May? Thats when my exams end. -- Abhishek On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > The deadline is over and there is no news yet about the website. > > As I mentioned earlier, I'm ready to take the responsibility of > setting up and maintaining a wiki + doattend website. In fact, my > version was ready a week back. > > http://anandology.com:8088/ > > It requires some more fine tuning, but it is ready and functional. > > This website is powered by Infogami. Infogami is a powerful wiki. It > can store different types of pages, including site layout, css and > javascript. > > Infogami is very customizable. Look at some of the websites powered by it. > http://infogami.org/sites > > If any of you want to play with it, create an account following the > login link and send me an email, I'll give you the required > permissions to edit the website. > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > From orsenthil at gmail.com Mon May 3 06:58:49 2010 From: orsenthil at gmail.com (Senthil Kumaran) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:28:49 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100503045849.GA4078@remy> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 07:10:51AM +0530, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > The deadline is over and there is no news yet about the website. > > As I mentioned earlier, I'm ready to take the responsibility of > setting up and maintaining a wiki + doattend website. In fact, my > version was ready a week back. Wherein you could have shared it a week ago too. I hope there is no competition/ deadlines as such as it is a fun activity that we are doing cooperatively. > > http://anandology.com:8088/ > It is quite good and it would serve very good for conference. I am personally, +1 for this site and of course as I shared, maintaining would be a task and I see another person has come forward to design too. It is certainly a good project. Thank you, Senthil From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 07:32:43 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:02:43 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <20100503045849.GA4078@remy> References: <20100503045849.GA4078@remy> Message-ID: 2010/5/3 Senthil Kumaran : > > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 07:10:51AM +0530, Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> The deadline is over and there is no news yet about the website. >> >> As I mentioned earlier, I'm ready to take the responsibility of >> setting up and maintaining a wiki + doattend website. In fact, my >> version was ready a week back. > > Wherein you could have shared it a week ago too. I hope there is no > competition/ deadlines as such as it is a fun activity that we are > doing cooperatively. I was just respecting the community decision to try to fossconf. I've proposed this solution long back, but nobody responded to that. So I just waited. Anand From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 07:49:29 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:19:29 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <20100503045849.GA4078@remy> Message-ID: Okay. We need a general decision on what to do with the site. I personally lean towards the Infogami + doattend solution but this is a personal feeling (albeit informed by me experiences with FOSSConf). I'm not sure what the status of FOSSConf is right now. Is it ready to be deployed? If not, do you guys think we should spend more time on it? I'm trying to get the other pieces like sponsors/venue and I think it would be good if the site was done and one less thing to worry about. What's the general feeling? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 07:50:44 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:20:44 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <20100503045849.GA4078@remy> References: <20100503045849.GA4078@remy> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 07:10:51AM +0530, Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> The deadline is over and there is no news yet about the website. >> >> As I mentioned earlier, I'm ready to take the responsibility of >> setting up and maintaining a wiki + doattend website. In fact, my >> version was ready a week back. > > Wherein you could have shared it a week ago too. I hope there is no > competition/ deadlines as such as it is a fun activity that we are > doing cooperatively.[..] I recollect Anand did mail about a wiki based site using Infogami that he could set up. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 07:57:19 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:27:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 03 May 2010 11:19:29 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Okay. We need a general decision on what to do with the site. > > I personally lean towards the Infogami + doattend solution but this is > a personal feeling (albeit informed by me experiences with FOSSConf). > since you are going to administer the thing - your opinion has the greatest weight > I'm not sure what the status of FOSSConf is right now. Is it ready to > be deployed? If not, do you guys think we should spend more time on > it? I'm trying to get the other pieces like sponsors/venue and I think > it would be good if the site was done and one less thing to worry > about. although I have full faith in fossconf, I am not in a position to host or tune it this time around. Ramdas had volunteered to do it, but so far there is no evidence of him having done anything - so it is your call, especially as Anand has already done something. However good a piece of software is, it is useless if not installed and maintained. If I was running the show, I would use fossconf as I know the software intimately and can make it do what I want - since I am not running the show this time, you need not worry about 'hurting' my feelings in this matter. Upto you to decide. As for payments online, I expect by then to have the payment portal for the society to be up - that could be used for payments - or, in the last event, that rails thingie. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 08:05:31 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:35:31 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/3 Abhishek Mishra : > Couldn't get infogami working in short time as my exams start the day > after. Just played with the header offline. Preview - http://twitpic.com/1kj95b > > Some css/html changes made are here - > http://github.com/ideamonk/inpycon-trash I think they can > be merged back to infogami template if needed. Abhishek, That is looking quite good. I gave you permissions to edit the website. I added your CSS changes. http://anandology.com:8088/css/style.css And the site layout is here: http://anandology.com:8088/templates/site.tmpl Feel free to improve it. > Also whichever logo we choose, could the original creator also put > them up in PNG format instead of JPEG (which reduces in quality > everytime you save as jpeg). Can try a different logo this time. Any body want to volunteer? Or shall we pick another one from the other logos that we got last year? http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaLogos > @anand Would we have some time to edit the website even after 13th > May? Thats when my exams end. I think we can start with the current design and improve it as we go along. I think improving it after May 13 should be okay? Can you take of website layout and stylesheets in the website? Anand From ideamonk at gmail.com Mon May 3 08:11:55 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:41:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/3 Abhishek Mishra : > Abhishek, > > That is looking quite good. > > I gave you permissions to edit the website. I added your CSS changes. > > http://anandology.com:8088/css/style.css > > And the site layout is here: > > http://anandology.com:8088/templates/site.tmpl > > Feel free to improve it. > Thanks! > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaLogos > >> @anand Would we have some time to edit the website even after 13th >> May? Thats when my exams end. > > I think we can start with the current design and improve it as we go > along. I think improving it after May 13 should be okay? > Can you take of website layout and stylesheets in the website? > > Anand Yes I think we should go ahead with current choice, once my exams get over on 13th, I can take care of improving it and would love to support it till PyCon :) regards, Abhishek From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 08:13:36 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:43:36 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [..] > although I have full faith in fossconf, I am not in a position to host or tune > it this time around. Ramdas had volunteered to do it, but so far there is no > evidence of him having done anything - so it is your call, especially as Anand > has already done something. However good a piece of software is, it is useless > if not installed and maintained. If I was running the show, I would use > fossconf as I know the software intimately and can make it do what I want - > since I am not running the show this time, you need not worry about 'hurting' > my feelings in this matter. Upto you to decide. As for payments online, I > expect by then to have the payment portal for the society to be up - that > could be used for payments - or, in the last event, that rails thingie. Shall we go ahead with Infogami/doattend then? I'm +1 for that. [..] Anand C. will be handling the day to day aspects of the site. It would be good if the other guys (Vivek, Ramdas, Anand Pillai etc.) pitched in with their opnions as well so that we can resolve this. I'm still wallowing in regret about the "website setup" mail I sent so I don't want to piss people off again. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ideamonk at gmail.com Mon May 3 08:15:27 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:45:27 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: @anand Are you also maintaining a repository on github/bitbucket? Let me know then, would be very helpful in tracking any changes and working parallely. -- Abhishek From ramdaz at gmail.com Mon May 3 08:16:53 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:46:53 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 11:19:29 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Okay. We need a general decision on what to do with the site. > > > > I personally lean towards the Infogami + doattend solution but this is > > a personal feeling (albeit informed by me experiences with FOSSConf). > > > > since you are going to administer the thing - your opinion has the greatest > weight > > > I'm not sure what the status of FOSSConf is right now. Is it ready to > > be deployed? If not, do you guys think we should spend more time on > > it? I'm trying to get the other pieces like sponsors/venue and I think > > it would be good if the site was done and one less thing to worry > > about. > > although I have full faith in fossconf, I am not in a position to host or > tune > it this time around. Ramdas had volunteered to do it, but so far there is > no > evidence of him having done anything - so it is your call, especially as > Anand > has already done something. However good a piece of software is, it is > useless > if not installed and maintained. If I was running the show, I would use > fossconf as I know the software intimately and can make it do what I want - > since I am not running the show this time, you need not worry about > 'hurting' > my feelings in this matter. Upto you to decide. As for payments online, I > expect by then to have the payment portal for the society to be up - that > could be used for payments - or, in the last event, that rails thingie. > > I had offered to host this, but was expecting someone to get in touch with me by mail or otherwise. I am sorry things didn't work the way we wanted it to. I have seen the code which Kenneth has written, and I feel with minor tweaking it can be made to be used for practically all conferences. > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Associate > NRC-FOSS > http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Ramdas S +91 9342 583 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 08:23:45 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:53:45 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: 2010/5/3 Abhishek Mishra : > @anand > > Are you also maintaining a repository on github/bitbucket? Let me know > then, would be very helpful in tracking any changes and working > parallely. Changes to the website can be tracked from: http://anandology.com:8088/recentchanges Infogami source code is on github. http://github.com/infogami/infogami Anand From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 08:25:28 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:55:28 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ramdas S wrote: [..] > I had offered to host this, but was expecting someone to get in touch with > me by mail or otherwise. I am sorry things didn't work the way we wanted it > to. No harm done. The problem (if you want to call it that) in my opinion is that we're all working in volunteer mode. That's all we can do. Because of this, I feel that we should try to get our aims achieved with as little work as possible (since there's only so much bandwidth). I felt that to get FOSSConf fully set up and running would require more coordination/time than what we have in our hands which is why I rather strongly voted against it. > I have seen the code which Kenneth has written, and I feel with minor > tweaking it can be made to be used for practically all conferences. I haven't seen the code but from experience, it's a quite feature rich. The problem is the time required for "minor tweaking". One person has to take up the "site" and handle all aspects of it from setup/deployment/maintenance and (if necessary), development. If this doesn't happen, these tiny issues will prevent us from having a full fledged site. Kenneth took it up last year but is tied up this year. Anand C. has agreed to take care of it this year using something other than FOSSConf and in my view, this is what's more important than the technical quality of the product or the language that it's written in. Misunderstandings about responsibility (e.g. in the above case - who will host it), familiarity with codebase, ownership of the VPS etc. will all work against us if we don't get them out of the way upfront. [..] Now that we have someone in charge of the site, I think we should put this behind us and move on to other aspects of the conference. What do you all feel? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 08:26:11 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:56:11 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > @anand > > Are you also maintaining a repository on github/bitbucket? Let me know > then, would be very helpful in tracking any changes and working > parallely.[..] Your enthusiasm is heart warming. :) Thanks Abhishek. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From steve at lonetwin.net Mon May 3 08:40:32 2010 From: steve at lonetwin.net (steve) Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 12:10:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <4BDE6FE0.5080705@lonetwin.net> Hi, Although, I am not really ^actively contributing^ towards much ...yet, I hope my vote still counts ... On 05/03/2010 11:46 AM, Ramdas S wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves > wrote: > > [...snip...] > I had offered to host this, but was expecting someone to get in touch > with me by mail or otherwise. I am sorry things didn't work the way we > wanted it to. > > I have seen the code which Kenneth has written, and I feel with minor > tweaking it can be made to be used for practically all conferences. > I think fossconf is a good idea in general but lets go with the infogami+doattend solution for this year, considering the fact that the other things (like sponsors) are being worked on and are falling in place. FWIW, I would be interested in seeing fossconf (in a fully 'ready-to-roll-out' form) being used inpycon next year as well as other conferences. cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:01:15 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:31:15 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB Message-ID: Hello everyone, I called up IIMBs executive education department and asked about using their facilities. Here's the scoop. * We'll need a person from IIMB to sign for using the venue. I can somehow get this I think. I know a few people there and can try get this done. It's a non-issue. * They have an auditorium that can hold 300 people - The rent for this is 35k per day. * In addition to this, they have classrooms that can hold 75 people - The rent for this is 10k per room per day. The rooms are air conditioned and have projectors in them (so that's one less thing for us to worry about). * They also have a/c rooms in the campus which people can stay in overnight. We can use these if we have foreign delegates. - 3k per room per day. So, the total cost will be 35 + 30 (3 rooms 2 for tracks and one for sprints and BOFHs) = 65k per day (i.e. 130k for two days). Opinions? Comments/Suggestions? Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From gora at srijan.in Mon May 3 09:08:22 2010 From: gora at srijan.in (Gora Mohanty) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:38:22 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100503123822.40d33952@ibis> On Mon, 3 May 2010 12:31:15 +0530 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Hello everyone, > I called up IIMBs executive education department and asked > about using their facilities. Here's the scoop. > > * We'll need a person from IIMB to sign for using the venue. I can > somehow get this I think. I know a few people there and can try > get this done. It's a non-issue. [...] If needed, I can also potentially help out here, as I have a cousin on the faculty. Please contact me off-list if this is needed. Regards, Gora From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:10:25 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:40:25 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > * They have an auditorium that can hold 300 people - The rent for this > is 35k per day. > * In addition to this, they have classrooms that can hold 75 people - > The rent for this is 10k per room per day. The rooms are air > conditioned and have projectors in them (so that's one less thing for > us to worry about). Rooms with capacity 75 is not sufficient for us. Last year the number of participants were around 400 and this year we can expect around 500. So we need at least two rooms with capacity 300 and 200. Anand From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:14:19 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:44:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: [..] > Rooms with capacity 75 is not sufficient for us. Last year the number > of participants were around 400 and this year we can expect around > 500. So we need at least two rooms with capacity 300 and 200. This occurred to me as well but the halls last year were almost never filled to 100% capacity. At most 70% or 80% and that for the keynotes (Prabhu's presentations). If we can put the "high profile" talks in the auditorium and the others in the classrooms, it might work. However, I'm not totally sure and so do partially agree with you. What does everyone else feel? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:15:13 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:45:13 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: <20100503123822.40d33952@ibis> References: <20100503123822.40d33952@ibis> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: [..] > If needed, I can also potentially help out here, as I have a cousin > on the faculty. Please contact me off-list if this is needed.[..] My contacts in IIMB are limited. If you can find out if there are any larger halls/classrooms with other departments that we can use for a conference, it would be useful. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:16:05 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:46:05 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/3 Noufal Ibrahim : > Hello everyone, > ? I called up IIMBs executive education department and asked about > using their facilities. Here's the scoop. > > * We'll need a person from IIMB to sign for using the venue. I can > somehow get this I think. I know a few people there and can try get > this done. It's a non-issue. > > * They have an auditorium that can hold 300 people - The rent for this > is 35k per day. > * In addition to this, they have classrooms that can hold 75 people - > The rent for this is 10k per room per day. The rooms are air > conditioned and have projectors in them (so that's one less thing for > us to worry about). > * They also have a/c rooms in the campus which people can stay in > overnight. We can use these if we have foreign delegates. - 3k per > room per day. > > So, the total cost will be 35 + 30 (3 rooms 2 for tracks and one for > sprints and BOFHs) = 65k per day (i.e. 130k for two days). > > ? Opinions? Comments/Suggestions? Couple of barcamps were hosted at NSRCEL, IIMB. We can contact them to see if they give us the space for free. IIRC, they have bigger class rooms. http://www.nsrcel.org/home/ Anand From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 09:12:08 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:42:08 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] bank account - urgent Message-ID: <201005031242.08837.lawgon@au-kbc.org> hi, finally made it to the bank and the manager was available. He made some noise, but has agreed to accept our paper work on condition that we give the additional stuff that he wants in due course. So this is what is needed: 1. Cheque from our friend from servelots (we need to deposit 25K to open the account, so the cheque will cover that). Whoever has it please speed post it to me (dont risk courier) 2. 2 extra photos from Noufal and one extra from Sree 3. Proof of residence from Sree (Passport is taken as id proof, a separate paper is needed for residence proof) 4. form 60 to be signed by Sree and Noufal and sent. (form 60 is for persons who do not have PAN/GIR numbers - the society does not have one yet) of the above the only essential thing is the cheque. The rest can be produced in due course. Ooty is in chaos due to the season, takes upto an hour to travel 1 kilometer, so if all this comes, I can just make one more trip and finish things off. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:17:49 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:47:49 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/3 Noufal Ibrahim : [..] > Couple of barcamps were hosted at NSRCEL, IIMB. We can contact them to > see if they give us the space for free. IIRC, they have bigger class > rooms. > > http://www.nsrcel.org/home/[..] I think we should explore this as well. I'll ask a friend who's working out of the NSRCEL to check. Thanks -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 09:14:02 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:44:02 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005031244.02637.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 03 May 2010 11:43:36 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > my feelings in this matter. Upto you to decide. As for payments online, I > > expect by then to have the payment portal for the society to be up - that > > could be used for payments - or, in the last event, that rails thingie. > > Shall we go ahead with Infogami/doattend then? I'm +1 for that. [..] > infogami is fine - not doattend. our portal should be up by then. If not, you can use doattend. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:20:10 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:50:10 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] bank account - urgent In-Reply-To: <201005031242.08837.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005031242.08837.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: Thanks Kenneth for all the work. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > > finally made it to the bank and the manager was available. He made some noise, > but has agreed to accept our paper work on condition that we give the > additional stuff that he wants in due course. So this is what is needed: > > 1. Cheque from our friend from servelots (we need to deposit 25K to open the > account, so the cheque will cover that). Whoever has it please speed post it > to me (dont risk courier) I believe Santhosh has the cheque with him. He can post it to you. I'll call him and give him your address if he doesn't have it. > > 2. 2 extra photos from Noufal and one extra from Sree > > 3. Proof of residence from Sree (Passport is taken as id proof, a separate > paper is needed for residence proof) > > 4. form 60 to be signed by Sree and Noufal and sent. (form 60 is for persons > who do not have PAN/GIR numbers - the society does not have one yet) Sree and I can meet up sometime in Bangalore, get all this stuff and send it to you in a single parcel. I think you'll receive 2 parcels (one from Santhosh for the cehque and the other from us with the above docs. ) Thanks again! -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:22:48 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:52:48 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <201005031244.02637.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005031244.02637.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: > infogami is fine - not doattend. our portal should be up by then. If not, you > can use doattend. What is the problem with doattend? Just because it is written in Ruby? How will the portal collect the money? It must go through some payment gateway, which not written in Python anyway. Anand From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 09:20:05 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:50:05 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <4BDE6FE0.5080705@lonetwin.net> References: <4BDE6FE0.5080705@lonetwin.net> Message-ID: <201005031250.05411.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 03 May 2010 12:10:32 pm steve wrote: > FWIW, I would be interested in seeing fossconf (in a fully > 'ready-to-roll-out' form) being used inpycon next year as well as other > conferences. > it *is* fully ready-to-roll-out - but it has to be installed and things like logo and css to be attached (which is the same amount of work as using a wiki. Wiki also needs logo and css. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 09:22:48 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:52:48 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 03 May 2010 12:40:25 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: > Rooms with capacity 75 is not sufficient for us. Last year the number > of participants were around 400 and this year we can expect around > 500. So we need at least two rooms with capacity 300 and 200. > last year around 200 were people completely new to python - we are not catering to them this year, so I think not more than 300 is a realistic figure -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:27:21 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:57:21 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005031244.02637.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> infogami is fine - not doattend. our portal should be up by then. If not, you >> can use doattend. > > What is the problem with doattend? Just because it is written in Ruby? > > How will the portal collect the money? It must go through some payment > gateway, which not written in Python anyway.[..] Let's not open this can of worms right now. The first thing is to get the account ready. Without that, doattend or our own portal are both equally useless since we can't get any money. Once we get that set up, we can cross this bridge. For the time being, let's get the infogami site up and ready. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 09:23:55 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:53:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005031253.55224.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 03 May 2010 12:31:15 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > So, the total cost will be 35 + 30 (3 rooms 2 for tracks and one for > sprints and BOFHs) = 65k per day (i.e. 130k for two days). > > Opinions? Comments/Suggestions? > sounds good - although I am personally against paying anything for venue and infrastructure, it is your call. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:29:18 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:59:18 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: <201005031253.55224.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005031253.55224.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 12:31:15 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> So, the total cost will be 35 + 30 (3 rooms 2 for tracks and one for >> sprints and BOFHs) = 65k per day (i.e. 130k for two days). >> >> ? ?Opinions? Comments/Suggestions? >> > > sounds good - although I am personally against paying anything for venue and > infrastructure, it is your call.[..] I think we had to pay some small amount last time as well. Do you have reasons for this? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:32:09 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:02:09 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005031244.02637.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: > > The first thing is to get the account ready. Without that, doattend or > our own portal are both equally useless since we can't get any money. We can let doattend take the money and transfer to our account once the bank account is ready. > Once we get that set up, we can cross this bridge. For the time being, > let's get the infogami site up and ready. Shall I set it up at http://in.pycon.org/2010/? Anand From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 09:28:20 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:58:20 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031244.02637.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005031258.20841.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 03 May 2010 12:52:48 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: > > infogami is fine - not doattend. our portal should be up by then. If not, > > you can use doattend. > > What is the problem with doattend? Just because it is written in Ruby? this has already been discussed > > How will the portal collect the money? It must go through some payment > gateway, which not written in Python anyway. > our side of the gateway is in python - as for doattend's gateway, it is also probably in asp or jsp or some such. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:35:50 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:05:50 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031127.20084.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005031244.02637.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: [..] > Shall I set it up at http://in.pycon.org/2010/? Yes. The date is 25/26 September and the city is Bangalore. Venue is not yet decided. > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From steve at lonetwin.net Mon May 3 09:42:26 2010 From: steve at lonetwin.net (steve) Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 13:12:26 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <201005031250.05411.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <4BDE6FE0.5080705@lonetwin.net> <201005031250.05411.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <4BDE7E62.8050305@lonetwin.net> On 05/03/2010 12:50 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 12:10:32 pm steve wrote: >> FWIW, I would be interested in seeing fossconf (in a fully >> 'ready-to-roll-out' form) being used inpycon next year as well as other >> conferences. >> > > it *is* fully ready-to-roll-out - but it has to be installed and things like > logo and css to be attached (which is the same amount of work as using a wiki. > Wiki also needs logo and css. Ok, my bad to assume is it not ready-to-roll-out. However, although the amount of work might be the same, there are people (Anand C and Abhishek for the CSS) who are ready to take the responsibility and do the work for the wiki whereas there isn't anyone (yet ?? / if i am not grossly mistaken) to take on the same responsibility for fossconf. I think that is what Noufal also said (unless my comprehension skill have decided to take a day off today). cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 09:38:54 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:08:54 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031253.55224.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005031308.54623.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 03 May 2010 12:59:18 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > sounds good - although I am personally against paying anything for venue > > and infrastructure, it is your call.[..] > > I think we had to pay some small amount last time as well. Do you have > reasons for this? > well, I have held conferences and workshops all over India over the past 4-5 years, and am yet to pay for a venue or infrastructure - the key thing is to conduct workshops and seminars in colleges, and the management themselves will bid for holding the conference. For example, in Tamilnadu there are at least 10-15 colleges ready to host this kind of thing. If it was in Kerala, the IT ministry itself would do it. It is similar in most parts of the country - but for some reason we have never operated in Karnataka, so my platter is empty there. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 09:39:44 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:09:44 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005031309.44512.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 03 May 2010 1:02:09 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: > Once we get that set up, we can cross this bridge. For the time being, > > > let's get the infogami site up and ready. > > Shall I set it up at http://in.pycon.org/2010/? > please do -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:44:18 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:14:18 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <4BDE7E62.8050305@lonetwin.net> References: <4BDE6FE0.5080705@lonetwin.net> <201005031250.05411.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <4BDE7E62.8050305@lonetwin.net> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM, steve wrote: [..] > Ok, my bad to assume is it not ready-to-roll-out. > > However, although the amount of work might be the same, there are people > (Anand C and Abhishek for the CSS) who are ready to take the responsibility > and do the work for the wiki whereas there isn't anyone (yet ?? / if i am > not grossly mistaken) to take on the same responsibility for fossconf. I > think that is what Noufal also said (unless my comprehension skill have > decided to take a day off today). I don't think this thread will go anywhere useful. A demo site is up. A person has taken ownership and is moving it to the production URL. Let's leave it at that and move on. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 09:48:27 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:18:27 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <201005031309.44512.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005031309.44512.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 1:02:09 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> Once we get that set up, we can cross this bridge. For the time being, >> >> > let's get the infogami site up and ready. >> >> Shall I set it up at http://in.pycon.org/2010/? >> > > please do You'll also need to redirect in.pycon.org to /2010. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 10:02:52 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:32:52 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 12:40:25 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> Rooms with capacity 75 is not sufficient for us. Last year the number >> of participants were around 400 and this year we can expect around >> 500. So we need at least two rooms with capacity 300 and 200. >> > > last year around 200 were people completely new to python - we are not > catering to them this year, so I think not more than 300 is a realistic figure Any other comments? I'm not totally okay with the 75 people rooms but I'm not sure they're insufficient either. IF the rooms could hold 100 or 150 people, we'd be in the clean for sure so atleast prices look fine. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ramdaz at gmail.com Mon May 3 10:29:38 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:59:38 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves > wrote: > > On Monday 03 May 2010 12:40:25 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> Rooms with capacity 75 is not sufficient for us. Last year the number > >> of participants were around 400 and this year we can expect around > >> 500. So we need at least two rooms with capacity 300 and 200. > >> > > > > last year around 200 were people completely new to python - we are not > > catering to them this year, so I think not more than 300 is a realistic > figure > > Any other comments? I'm not totally okay with the 75 people rooms but > I'm not sure they're insufficient either. IF the rooms could hold 100 > or 150 people, we'd be in the clean for sure so at least prices look > fine. > Can someone get in touch with Nimhans auditorium? They are perhaps a tad a more expensive, but its far closer to the city center? I believe FOSS.in was conducted there, so anyone from the organisation committee of FOSS.in here? > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Ramdas S +91 9342 583 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kunal.t2 at gmail.com Mon May 3 10:33:03 2010 From: kunal.t2 at gmail.com (kunal ghosh) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 14:03:03 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: i am not sure if there is a thread to discuss NIMHANS convention center as a prospective venue, but here goes. >From my past experience of FOSS.IN 2010, nimhans convention center is quite a good venue to host pycon. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves > wrote: > > On Monday 03 May 2010 12:40:25 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> Rooms with capacity 75 is not sufficient for us. Last year the number > >> of participants were around 400 and this year we can expect around > >> 500. So we need at least two rooms with capacity 300 and 200. > >> > > > > last year around 200 were people completely new to python - we are not > > catering to them this year, so I think not more than 300 is a realistic > figure > > Any other comments? I'm not totally okay with the 75 people rooms but > I'm not sure they're insufficient either. 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So we need at least two rooms with capacity 300 and 200. >> >> >> > >> > last year around 200 were people completely new to python - we are not >> > catering to them this year, so I think not more than 300 is a realistic >> figure >> >> Any other comments? I'm not totally okay with the 75 people rooms but >> I'm not sure they're insufficient either. IF the rooms could hold 100 >> or 150 people, we'd be in the clean for sure so atleast prices look >> fine. >> >> >> -- >> ~noufal >> http://nibrahim.net.in >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > > > > -- > regards > ------- > Kunal Ghosh > Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering. > Sir MVIT > Bangalore,India > > Quote: > "Ignorance is not a sin, the persistence of ignorance is" > -- > "If you find a task difficult today, you'll find it difficult 10yrs later > too !" > ----- > "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail" > > Blog:kunalghosh.wordpress.com > Website:www.kunalghosh.net46.net > V-card:http://tinyurl.com/86qjyk > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For the time being, >>> >>> > let's get the infogami site up and ready. >>> >>> Shall I set it up at http://in.pycon.org/2010/? >>> >> >> please do > > You'll also need to redirect in.pycon.org to /2010. Done! http://in.pycon.org/2010/ Anand From steve at lonetwin.net Mon May 3 11:10:44 2010 From: steve at lonetwin.net (steve) Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 14:40:44 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031309.44512.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <4BDE9314.6050706@lonetwin.net> Hi, On 05/03/2010 02:31 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/3 Noufal Ibrahim: >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >>> On Monday 03 May 2010 1:02:09 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: >>>> Once we get that set up, we can cross this bridge. For the time being, >>>> >>>> > let's get the infogami site up and ready. >>>> >>>> Shall I set it up at http://in.pycon.org/2010/? >>>> >>> >>> please do >> >> You'll also need to redirect in.pycon.org to /2010. > > Done! > > http://in.pycon.org/2010/ > Umm, for me both http://in.pycon.org/2010 and http://in.pycon.org/ ...redirect to: http://in.pycon.org/2009/2010/ cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ From ardsrk at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:19:01 2010 From: ardsrk at gmail.com (Arvind Jamuna Dixit) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 14:49:01 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > I believe FOSS.in was conducted there, so anyone from the organisation > committee of FOSS.in here? > >> NIMHANS auditorium looks very promising. I called Atul Chitnis ( founder of FOSS.in ) and he says they charge one lakh rupees as rent for one day for the whole auditorium. They also have many other plans wherein you can rent a section of the auditorium like specific rooms. He suggests someone meet the PRO in the NIMHANS administration block and book it since it's a popular venue it's always on the radar of people who want to host an event in the city. -- Arvind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For example, in Tamilnadu there are at least >10-15 colleges ready to host this kind of thing. If it was in Kerala, the IT >ministry itself would do it. It is similar in most parts of the country - but >for some reason we have never operated in Karnataka, so my platter is empty >there. -- >regards >Kenneth Gonsalves >Senior Associate >NRC-FOSS I do agree with Kenneth's suggestion of holding in colleges. IIT's & Govt. colleges are flooded with too many events and so to filter they make venue available at a cost. Also the support is not adequate. I don't know about other states but in Tamil Nadu, many College Management eagerly support not only in terms of Venue but also Buses to ply from major locations in the city. So the question of college is outer or inside city doesn't matter much. ?Most of them have good Air-conditioned Halls with LCD Projectors, Wi-fi and better internet connections in their campuses these days. There may be some deficiency but that can be solved by our team visiting the campus and placing our requirement to them. With regards, Benedict Jayaprakash Nicholas,M.E. Senior Lecturer, C.S.E. Department/ Coordinator, REC-FOSS Group, Rajalakshmi Engg. College, Thandalam, Chennai - 602105 www.rajalakshmi.org ????? ?????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:26:18 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 14:56:18 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Ramdas S wrote: >> >> I believe FOSS.in was conducted there, so anyone from the organisation >> committee of FOSS.in here? > > NIMHANS auditorium looks very promising. I called Atul Chitnis ( founder of > FOSS.in ) and he says > they charge one lakh rupees as rent for one day for the whole auditorium. > > They also have many other plans wherein you can rent a section of the > auditorium like specific rooms. > > He suggests someone meet the PRO in the NIMHANS administration block and > book it since > it's a popular venue it's always on the radar of people who want to host an > event in the city.[..] Is there someone on the list who can take up talking to them to figure out the prices/rates/rents and facilities? 1L is kind of high but it depends on what we get. Our initial budget was 1.5L for 2 days. Does someone stay close enough to the place to drop by and have a chat? Or maybe call the PRO dept. of the place? These are the phone numbers I got off justdial +(91)-(80)-26995370, 26995010, 26995011 Thanks -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:27:52 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 14:57:52 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Hosting events in Self-financing Colleges! In-Reply-To: <987286.6510.qm@web95505.mail.in.yahoo.com> References: <987286.6510.qm@web95505.mail.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:54 PM, benedict nicholas wrote: [..] > I do agree with Kenneth's suggestion of holding in colleges. IIT's & Govt. colleges are flooded with too many events and so to filter they make venue available at a cost. Also the support is not adequate. > > I don't know about other states but in Tamil Nadu, many College Management eagerly support not only in terms of Venue but also Buses to ply from major locations in the city. > So the question of college is outer or inside city doesn't matter much. > > ?Most of them have good Air-conditioned Halls with LCD Projectors, Wi-fi and better internet connections in their campuses these days. > > There may be some deficiency but that can be solved by our team visiting the campus and placing our requirement to them. [..] While the suggestion is a good one, unless *someone* starts talking to colleges to see if this is possible, it's not particularly useful. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:30:13 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:00:13 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031309.44512.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/3 Noufal Ibrahim : >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >>> On Monday 03 May 2010 1:02:09 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: >>>> Once we get that set up, we can cross this bridge. For the time being, >>>> >>>> > let's get the infogami site up and ready. >>>> >>>> Shall I set it up at http://in.pycon.org/2010/? >>>> >>> >>> please do >> >> You'll also need to redirect in.pycon.org to /2010. > > Done! > > http://in.pycon.org/2010/ Okay. If no one else sees issues with the site, please tweet/retweet/blog/shout/mention it to people. Send it out on some mailng lists that you're on etc. The twitter hashtag for Pycon india 2010 is #inpycon2010 and the URL for site updates is http://in.pycon.org/2010/feed (for RSS readers). Thanks -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From kausikram at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:30:17 2010 From: kausikram at gmail.com (kausikram krishnasayee) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:00:17 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Hosting events in Self-financing Colleges! In-Reply-To: <987286.6510.qm@web95505.mail.in.yahoo.com> References: <987286.6510.qm@web95505.mail.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > > [..] I do agree with Kenneth's suggestion of holding in colleges. IIT's & > Govt. colleges are flooded with too many events and so to filter they make > venue available at a cost. Also the support is not adequate. > > I don't know about other states but in Tamil Nadu, many College Management > eagerly support not only in terms of Venue but also Buses to ply from major > locations in the city. > So the question of college is outer or inside city doesn't matter much. > [...] [slightly OT] Quick headsup. Benedict had been the pillar behind ChennaiPy's bid. He got his managements support in hosting the event at their private college. [Back to topic] i am also for talking to private autonomous colleges. was this X-Posted to bangpypers? we need to push there. remember seeing a lot of students. -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: References: <987286.6510.qm@web95505.mail.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:00 PM, kausikram krishnasayee wrote: [..] > [Back to topic] i am also for talking to private autonomous colleges. was this X-Posted to bangpypers? we need to push there. remember seeing a lot of students. [..] Sent an email to the list last week. Someone needs to follow up. Can you? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ardsrk at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:37:28 2010 From: ardsrk at gmail.com (Arvind Jamuna Dixit) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:07:28 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Or maybe call the PRO dept. of the place? These are the phone > numbers I got off justdial > +(91)-(80)-26995370, 26995010, 26995011 > Atul says calling them does not help. They don't respond that way. 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They don't respond that way. > > He suggests someone go to the PRO office ask the guy to pull out > the register where details of bookings done by whom and for what date > is recorded. Verify if it's available for the days we need and then book it.[..] I tried calling them. No one picks up. Is there someone near there who can drop by to ask? Come on people! There *has* to be someone! :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 3 11:40:32 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:10:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005031510.33063.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 03 May 2010 2:31:44 pm Anand Chitipothu wrote: > > You'll also need to redirect in.pycon.org to /2010. > > Done! > > http://in.pycon.org/2010/ > I am getting redirected to http://in.pycon.org/2009/run.py/ and a 404 -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From kausikram at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:45:24 2010 From: kausikram at gmail.com (kausikram krishnasayee) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:15:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Hosting events in Self-financing Colleges! In-Reply-To: References: <987286.6510.qm@web95505.mail.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > > Sent an email to the list last week. Someone needs to follow up. Can you? will do. -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:46:26 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:16:26 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Hosting events in Self-financing Colleges! In-Reply-To: References: <987286.6510.qm@web95505.mail.in.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:15 PM, kausikram krishnasayee wrote: >> Sent an email to the list last week. Someone needs to follow up. Can you? > > will do.?[..] Cool. Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ardsrk at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:48:00 2010 From: ardsrk at gmail.com (Arvind Jamuna Dixit) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:18:00 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: <201005031309.44512.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > Done! > > http://in.pycon.org/2010/ > Working fine for me. -- Arvind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abpillai at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:48:16 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:18:16 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: > [..] > > Good. I will send an email to my editor and find out more > > information tomorrow. > > Cool. Thanks. > > [..] > > I might be doing a disservice to myself and the publisher if I discuss > > that in a public mailing list :). Anyway, it is a book on Python, I > cannot > > divulge more details right now.[..] > > Fair enough. All the best with it. > I created a new wiki page. Please use http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers when emailing sponsors, the other link has too much of private data to provide as a link to them. > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But you're right about the other page having too much info. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 11:53:14 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:23:14 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: <4BDE9314.6050706@lonetwin.net> References: <201005031309.44512.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <4BDE9314.6050706@lonetwin.net> Message-ID: > Umm, for me both > ?http://in.pycon.org/2010 and > ?http://in.pycon.org/ > ...redirect to: > ?http://in.pycon.org/2009/2010/ There were these redirection errors while I was setting that up. You must have visited that url then and your browser cached that redirect. Please try again after clearing your browser cache. Anand From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 12:02:14 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:32:14 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/3 Anand Chitipothu : > The deadline is over and there is no news yet about the website. > > As I mentioned earlier, I'm ready to take the responsibility of > setting up and maintaining a wiki + doattend website. In fact, my > version was ready a week back. > > http://anandology.com:8088/ > > It requires some more fine tuning, but it is ready and functional. Now that http://in.pycon.org/2010/ is live, I'm taking down the test server at http://anandology.com:8088/. Anand From abpillai at gmail.com Mon May 3 12:08:38 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:38:38 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: > [..] > > I created a new wiki page. > > > > Please use http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers > > when emailing sponsors, the other link has too much of private data > > to provide as a link to them. > [..] > > We should really pdf'ify the information and mail it to them as an > attachment. But you're right about the other page having too much > info. > Status update: I have written to Packt, expect to get the reply from the editor within 1-3 days max. > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hiddenharmony at gmail.com Mon May 3 12:49:07 2010 From: hiddenharmony at gmail.com (Vivek Khurana) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 16:19:07 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > Status update: I have? written to Packt, expect to get the reply > from the editor within 1-3 days max. For packt you should contact Kshipra Singh in marketing department instead of the editor. regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 12:50:51 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 16:20:51 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Vivek Khurana wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: >> >> Status update: I have? written to Packt, expect to get the reply >> from the editor within 1-3 days max. > > ?For packt you should contact Kshipra Singh in marketing department > instead of the editor. [..] Are you in touch them directly? It usually helps if people who are familiar with the decision makers in these companies initiate the conversations. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From abpillai at gmail.com Mon May 3 13:05:02 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 16:35:02 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Vivek Khurana wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: > > > > Status update: I have written to Packt, expect to get the reply > > from the editor within 1-3 days max. > > For packt you should contact Kshipra Singh in marketing department > instead of the editor. > I am already in touch with Kshipra also. It is CCed to her. > > regards > Vivek > > -- > The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hiddenharmony at gmail.com Mon May 3 13:07:29 2010 From: hiddenharmony at gmail.com (Vivek Khurana) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 16:37:29 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > [..] > > Are you in touch them directly? > > It usually helps if people who are familiar with the decision makers > in these companies initiate the conversations. > Not directly, I was wrting a book for packt last year but pulled out mid way due to some issues in book format. I can email you her id offlist, and if you drop an email she will respond in time. regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! From abpillai at gmail.com Mon May 3 13:22:01 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 16:52:01 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Vivek Khurana wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > [..] > > > > Are you in touch them directly? > > > > It usually helps if people who are familiar with the decision makers > > in these companies initiate the conversations. > > > > Not directly, I was wrting a book for packt last year but pulled out > mid way due to some issues in book format. I can email you her id > offlist, and if you drop an email she will respond in time. > Pulled out due to some issues in book format ? That is odd. Please let me know regarding this off list. Btw, I have her email address, so don't need it. > > regards > Vivek > -- > The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Thanks, -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 15:22:53 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:52:53 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit wrote: >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >>> >>> Or maybe call the PRO dept. of the place? These are the phone >>> numbers I got off justdial >>> +(91)-(80)-26995370, 26995010, 26995011 >> >> Atul says calling them does not help. They don't respond that way. >> >> He suggests someone go to the PRO office ask the guy to pull out >> the register where details of bookings done by whom and for what date >> is recorded. Verify if it's available for the days we need and then book it.[..] > > I tried calling them. No one picks up. > > Is there someone near there who can drop by to ask? > > Come on people! There *has* to be someone! :)[..] This is a tad depressing. Isn't there anyone on the list that can drop by sometime this week to see if we can use the venue? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ideamonk at gmail.com Mon May 3 16:45:10 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 20:15:10 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Anand, I was able to add new css pages - fonts.css and style2.css, but I'm not able to change the site template due to some reasons. Could you try putting this template - http://github.com/ideamonk/inpycon-design/raw/master/onsite/site.html onto it and let me know if it works right. Corresponding style2.css ( http://in.pycon.org/2010/css/style2.css ) and fonts.css ( http://in.pycon.org/2010/css/fonts.css ) should too be present on wiki. Will get in touch after exams then, regards, Abhishek On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/3 Anand Chitipothu : >> The deadline is over and there is no news yet about the website. >> >> As I mentioned earlier, I'm ready to take the responsibility of >> setting up and maintaining a wiki + doattend website. In fact, my >> version was ready a week back. >> >> http://anandology.com:8088/ >> >> It requires some more fine tuning, but it is ready and functional. > > Now that http://in.pycon.org/2010/ is live, I'm taking down the test > server at http://anandology.com:8088/. > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > From ideamonk at gmail.com Mon May 3 18:11:48 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 21:41:48 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Will update more later. Any feedbacks on this - http://twitpic.com/1koik4/full (cheap/okay/suggestions) ?? Anyways time for exams... :) -- Abhishek On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > Hi Anand, > From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 3 18:12:55 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 21:42:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/3 Abhishek Mishra : > Hi Anand, > > I was able to add new css pages - fonts.css and style2.css, but I'm > not ?able to change the site template due to some reasons. Can we club these two CSS files together? It is better to reduce the number of server requests. > Could you try putting this template - > http://github.com/ideamonk/inpycon-design/raw/master/onsite/site.html > onto it and let me know if it works right. > > Corresponding style2.css ( http://in.pycon.org/2010/css/style2.css ) > and fonts.css ( http://in.pycon.org/2010/css/fonts.css ) should too be > present on wiki. Sure, will do it tomorrow. > Will get in touch after exams then, Wish you all the best for your exams! Anand From kausikram at gmail.com Mon May 3 18:19:10 2010 From: kausikram at gmail.com (kausikram krishnasayee) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 21:49:10 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > Will update more later. Any feedbacks on this - > http://twitpic.com/1koik4/full (cheap/okay/suggestions) ?? > > love the buttons hate the background makes it look like * shudder * orkut. -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I don't do Orkut so can't comment on that. :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From vid at svaksha.com Mon May 3 18:33:19 2010 From: vid at svaksha.com (=?UTF-8?B?IOCkuOCljeCkteCkleCljeCktyA=?=) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 22:03:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 21:41, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > Will update more later. Any feedbacks on this - > http://twitpic.com/1koik4/full (cheap/okay/suggestions) ?? Is it just my lucid upgrade or do others also see the scaling problem --the 'pycon 2010 and all the buttons start out more to the right making the user scroll to the right and also the bottom. Although a 'ctrl -' does improve things, its not without loss of readability. > Anyways time for exams... :) all the best! -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com From kausikram at gmail.com Mon May 3 18:41:37 2010 From: kausikram at gmail.com (kausikram krishnasayee) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 22:11:37 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > > Is it just my lucid upgrade or do others also see the scaling problem > --the 'pycon 2010 and all the buttons start out more to the right > making the user scroll to the right and also the bottom. Although a > 'ctrl -' does improve things, its not without loss of readability. > i think its your screen resolution are you on 1024 or 1280? 800 will make you scroll. -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best of luck for exams :) On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > this one from my netbook - http://twitpic.com/1kotfr which would be > 1024x600. > > at this point I can't talk of how it would look on different setups, > its more of a webkit and firefox 3.6+ friendly with all the future > compatibility. > > have pushed any updates on http://github.com/ideamonk/inpycon-design > but that one would take some minor tweaks to convert to a infogami > template. > > @anand yes, fonts.css was nothing but a 2 liner out of which only 1 > line was useful :) have merged both. > > the css right now dictates it to stick to 780 pixels of width. > > @kausikram have run out of some creative juice right now :) > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:18 PM, ?????? wrote: > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 22:11, kausikram krishnasayee > > wrote: > >> i think its your screen resolution are you on 1024 or 1280? 800 will > make > >> you scroll. > > > > 1024. > > > > -- > > thanks and regards, > > vid || http://svaksha.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Inpycon mailing list > > Inpycon at python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best of luck for exams :) > From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 3 20:57:59 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 00:27:59 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > I guess we need some more serious looks to the website... the current > one looks midway between ugly and pro :)[..] Your mockups look good. If you can CSSify those, I think we're done on the design front. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From gora at srijan.in Tue May 4 04:05:33 2010 From: gora at srijan.in (Gora Mohanty) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 07:35:33 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <20100503123822.40d33952@ibis> Message-ID: <20100504073533.14f95540@ibis> On Mon, 3 May 2010 12:45:13 +0530 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Gora Mohanty > wrote: [..] > > If needed, I can also potentially help out here, as I have a > > cousin on the faculty. Please contact me off-list if this is > > needed.[..] > > My contacts in IIMB are limited. If you can find out if there are > any larger halls/classrooms with other departments that we can > use for a conference, it would be useful. [...] Have talked to my cousin, and she has agreed in principle to sign on for the rental of the halls. However, she would like more details about what is expected of her, and what facilities are needed for the conference. Noufal, if you can provide me with details of that, and the contact number of the person in the executive education department that you talked to, I can try to take this forward. Regards, Gora From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 04:20:24 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 07:50:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: <20100504073533.14f95540@ibis> References: <20100503123822.40d33952@ibis> <20100504073533.14f95540@ibis> Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: [..] > Have talked to my cousin, and she has agreed in principle to sign on > for the rental of the halls. However, she would like more details > about what is expected of her, and what facilities are needed for > the conference. Noufal, if you can provide me with details of that, > and the contact number of the person in the executive education > department that you talked to, I can try to take this forward.[..] I'll send you the details offlist if there are no other venues suggested and nothing else to move on. Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 05:46:49 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 09:16:49 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: [..] > This is a tad depressing. Isn't there anyone on the list that can drop > by sometime this week to see if we can use the venue? [..] Anyone? This is going to be a pretty dull conference if no one is really interested. :-/ Kunal, Shashwat, Ramdas? All you guys supported using NIMHANS. Can one of you guys drop by to see if they're available? Are there any other venues we need to consider? Any places we can go to? PESSIT is a little outside the city (I think IIMB is much more inside). Same problem with RV. Any others? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 06:01:01 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 09:31:01 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : St. Johns Message-ID: Hello everyone, A friend during a conversation suggested St. Johns. They have a huge campus and have facilities for this kind of thing. Thoughts/comments and more importantly.. .Volunteers? Thanks -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 06:32:12 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:02:12 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031252.48514.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > [..] >> This is a tad depressing. Isn't there anyone on the list that can drop >> by sometime this week to see if we can use the venue? > > [..] > > Anyone? This is going to be a pretty dull conference if no one is > really interested. :-/ > > Kunal, Shashwat, Ramdas? All you guys supported using NIMHANS. Can one > of you guys drop by to see if they're available? FYI, I am on the way to NIMHANS now. -- Baiju M From ardsrk at gmail.com Tue May 4 06:47:59 2010 From: ardsrk at gmail.com (Arvind Jamuna Dixit) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:17:59 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Baiju M wrote: > FYI, I am on the way to NIMHANS now. > Cool. The PRO office is not in the same complex as the NIMHANS auditorium. Its opposite to the NIMHANS auditorium on the other side of the road. Thanks. -- Arvind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 08:02:20 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:32:20 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Baiju M wrote: [..] > FYI, I am on the way to NIMHANS now. [..] NIMHANS is not available on Sep 25/26. That's that. What are the opinions on the capacities of the rooms at IIMB? Vikas called me about BMS and their capacities are similar (250 in the audi and 50-75 per classroom). I think this is representative of what we can get generally. Do you guys feel that it's too small? thanks -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 08:06:16 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:36:16 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, NIMHANS is not available. So, we can look for other options. Regards, Baiju M On 5/4/10, Arvind Jamuna Dixit wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Baiju M wrote: > >> FYI, I am on the way to NIMHANS now. >> > > Cool. The PRO office is not in the same complex as the NIMHANS auditorium. > Its opposite to the NIMHANS auditorium on the other side of the road. > > Thanks. > > -- > Arvind > From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 09:46:03 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 13:16:03 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: <201005031308.54623.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005031253.55224.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005031308.54623.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 12:59:18 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> > sounds good - although I am personally against paying anything for venue >> > and infrastructure, it is your call.[..] >> >> I think we had to pay some small amount last time as well. Do you have >> reasons for this? >> > > well, I have held conferences and workshops all over India over the past 4-5 > years, and am yet to pay for a venue or infrastructure - the key thing is to > conduct workshops and seminars in colleges, and the management themselves will > bid for holding the conference. For example, in Tamilnadu there are at least > 10-15 colleges ready to host this kind of thing. If it was in Kerala, the IT > ministry itself would do it. It is similar in most parts of the country - but > for some reason we have never operated in Karnataka, so my platter is empty > there.[..] Some of the colleges will give us the venue for free if we say "India Python Software Society along with J. Random college presents PyCon India 2010". I wouldn't like to put a companys name up in the banner but I'm somewhat okay with a college. What do you guys feel? It will give us the venue for free. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From kausikram at gmail.com Tue May 4 10:06:07 2010 From: kausikram at gmail.com (kausikram krishnasayee) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 13:36:07 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031253.55224.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005031308.54623.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: > > [...]I wouldn't like to put a companys name up in the banner but I'm > somewhat okay with a college. What do you guys feel? It will give us > the venue for free. [...] +1 -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I would bet that rubyconf was plastered everywhere with the name of the hosting company -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From kunal.t2 at gmail.com Tue May 4 11:19:13 2010 From: kunal.t2 at gmail.com (kunal ghosh) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:49:13 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: <201005041414.02351.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005031308.54623.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005041414.02351.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: +1 MSRIT's auditoriums are very nice. we could check that college out. Anybody from MSRIT on the list ? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tuesday 04 May 2010 1:16:03 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Some of the colleges will give us the venue for free if we say "India > > Python Software Society along with J. Random college presents PyCon > > India 2010". > > > > I wouldn't like to put a companys name up in the banner but I'm > > somewhat okay with a college. 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And this will be a free venue, we will be required to give a nominal amount for Electricity, AC etc. Since this college is in Mysore road, there are lots of BMTC buses from City. (There is a satellite Bustand in Mysore road - 20 rupees for Auto from there to college). If everyone is fine with this venue, we can finalize and move move forward with other agenda. Regards, Baiju M From anand.shashwat at gmail.com Tue May 4 11:29:49 2010 From: anand.shashwat at gmail.com (Shashwat Anand) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:59:49 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031308.54623.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005041414.02351.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: +1 On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:49 PM, kunal ghosh wrote: > +1 > MSRIT's auditoriums are very nice. we could check that college out. > > Anybody from MSRIT on the list ? > > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> On Tuesday 04 May 2010 1:16:03 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> > Some of the colleges will give us the venue for free if we say "India >> > Python Software Society along with J. Random college presents PyCon >> > India 2010". >> > >> > I wouldn't like to put a companys name up in the banner but I'm >> > somewhat okay with a college. What do you guys feel? It will give us >> > the venue for free. >> > >> >> go for it, not an unreasonable request. I would bet that rubyconf was >> plastered everywhere with the name of the hosting company >> -- >> regards >> Kenneth Gonsalves >> Senior Associate >> NRC-FOSS >> http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > > > > -- > regards > ------- > Kunal Ghosh > Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering. > Sir MVIT > Bangalore,India > > Quote: > "Ignorance is not a sin, the persistence of ignorance is" > -- > "If you find a task difficult today, you'll find it difficult 10yrs later > too !" > ----- > "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail" > > Blog:kunalghosh.wordpress.com > Website:www.kunalghosh.net46.net > V-card:http://tinyurl.com/86qjyk > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He also suggested, they can provide their > computer lab with internet access, if required (May be we can use > it for Sprint, if there is any). > > And this will be a free venue, we will be required to give > a nominal amount for Electricity, AC etc. > > Since this college is in Mysore road, there are lots of BMTC buses > from City. (There is a satellite Bustand in Mysore road - > 20 rupees for Auto from there to college). > > If everyone is fine with this venue, we can finalize and move > move forward with other agenda. > > Regards, > Baiju M > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Arvind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Satyanarayana) and Prof Narahari ( He is placement officer) "Prof. B.S. Satyanarayana" , nsnarahari at gmail.com Do let me know if i can talk to them and finalize it. If you guys need contact information, do let me know. Regards Kunal Kant Sen 09241009423 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:13:59 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:43:59 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] FAQ page Message-ID: Hi All, I just added an FAQ page here: http://in.pycon.org/2010/faq If you think a question in more frequently asked, please let me know, I can add it there. Regards, Baiju M From kunalkantsen at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:18:53 2010 From: kunalkantsen at gmail.com (kunalkant sen) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:48:53 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options Message-ID: Hi Guys, New horizon college of engg is located at Outer Ring Road, near Marathalli. They recently build new auditorium with capcity of 250+ people, and thier classroom can accommodate 70 students. Oxford Engg college is located in Electronics city Road, near Bhumshendra. They have infrastructure ready and same size as New Horizon. The Institute for Enggineers is great place, they have two big auditorium ( 250+) and one small room(70+). They provide infrastructure in dirt cheap rate. They r located near Shivai Nagar. If you guys feel, it would be good venue, i can talk to these people and finalize the venue. Do let me know. Regards Kunal Kant Sen 09241009423 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Unless we have serious detractors there, I think we should go for it. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From abpillai at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:23:50 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:53:50 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005031308.54623.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005041414.02351.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Santhosh Divakar wrote: > > I contacted R.V College of Engineering through Renuka Prasad >> (Faculty member of Computer Science Department). Two years >> back I have conducted a Python workshop there: >> http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html >> >> > +1 > The location is on the highway itself and finding it and connectivity is > good. > > Very good. +1 > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaganadhg at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:28:08 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:58:08 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Hello everyone, > Vijay Bang (CCed on this email) has agreed to be our sponsorship > coordinator. > > I think after fleshing out the list of people we're approaching, we > need to settle on the venue and dates. Once that's done, we can > officially start the sponsorship drive. > > Can we use the details available http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html for contact the big G for sponsership -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:39:02 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:09:02 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:58 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> ?Vijay Bang (CCed on this email) has agreed to be our sponsorship >> coordinator. >> >> ?I think after fleshing out the list of people we're approaching, we >> need to settle on the venue and dates. Once that's done, we can >> officially start the sponsorship drive. >> > > Can we use the details available > http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html > for contact the big G for sponsership[..]] I'm quite sure that Eric Schmidt and the others won't respond to us asking them casually if they're willing to sponsor PyCon. :) The right way to go if we don't have any direct contacts would be to talk to the PSF and ask them who they contacted at Google to sponsor the US PyCon and then try on that front. However, we'll keep this aside till we finalise the venue. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:39:24 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:09:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Baiju M wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Baiju M wrote: >> Hi, >> >> NIMHANS is not available. So, we can look for other options. > > I contacted R.V College of Engineering through Renuka Prasad > (Faculty member of Computer Science Department). ?Two years > back I have conducted a Python workshop there: > http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html > > They are ready to provide their facilities. ?There is a hall with 250+ > seating capacity (Non-AC) and two rooms with 110 seating capacity > (AC rooms). ?They also have some other rooms with 150+ seating > capacity (Non-AC). He also suggested, they can provide their > computer lab with internet access, if required (May be we can use > it for Sprint, if there is any). > > And this will be a free venue, we will be required to give > a nominal amount for Electricity, AC etc. > > Since this college is in Mysore road, there are lots of BMTC buses > from City. ?(There is a satellite Bustand in Mysore road - > 20 rupees for Auto from there to college). > > If everyone is fine with this venue, we can finalize and move > move forward with other agenda. There seems to be four +1 for RVCE: Arvind Jamuna Dixit Abhishek Mishra Santhosh Divakar Anand Balachandran Pillai Noufal, what about you ? I talked to Kunal Kant in phone, he has some contacts there as well. (Mentioned in another thread) If we can proceed with option, I will co-ordinate with him on this. Regards, Baiju M From abpillai at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:42:07 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:12:07 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:58 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Noufal Ibrahim > wrote: > >> > >> Hello everyone, > >> Vijay Bang (CCed on this email) has agreed to be our sponsorship > >> coordinator. > >> > >> I think after fleshing out the list of people we're approaching, we > >> need to settle on the venue and dates. Once that's done, we can > >> officially start the sponsorship drive. > >> > > > > Can we use the details available > > http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html > > for contact the big G for sponsership[..]] > > I'm quite sure that Eric Schmidt and the others won't respond to us > asking them casually if they're willing to sponsor PyCon. :) > > The right way to go if we don't have any direct contacts would be to > talk to the PSF and ask them who they contacted at Google to sponsor > the US PyCon and then try on that front. > Ok, I will email David Goodger and Mertz at PSF to find this out.We can also keep up with the local contacts if any. Meanwhile, I got a reply from Packt and my request has been forwarded to the correct person. Waiting for a reply from her now. > > However, we'll keep this aside till we finalise the venue. > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:44:40 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:14:40 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Baiju M wrote: [..] > There seems to be four +1 for RVCE: > > Arvind Jamuna Dixit > Abhishek Mishra > Santhosh Divakar > Anand Balachandran Pillai > > Noufal, what about you ? I counted 6 (yours plus Shashwat and Jaganadh). I'm +1 too so that makes us 7. Are there any people who feel negatively about it? We'll need food to be catered to the venue during the event. Can you enquire with them whether this is possible? If they have some caterer they usually use, we could go with them. Otherwise, we'll have to find another one. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:45:51 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:15:51 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: [..] > Ok, I will email David Goodger and Mertz at PSF > to find this out.We can also keep up with the local contacts > if any. If you're mailing them, do ask about the sponsorship of an international candidate as well. > Meanwhile, I got a reply from Packt and my request > has been forwarded to the correct person. Waiting > for a reply from her now. Excellent! -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:45:46 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:15:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/4 Baiju M : > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Baiju M wrote: >> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Baiju M wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> NIMHANS is not available. So, we can look for other options. >> >> I contacted R.V College of Engineering through Renuka Prasad >> (Faculty member of Computer Science Department). ?Two years >> back I have conducted a Python workshop there: >> http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html >> >> They are ready to provide their facilities. ?There is a hall with 250+ >> seating capacity (Non-AC) and two rooms with 110 seating capacity >> (AC rooms). ?They also have some other rooms with 150+ seating >> capacity (Non-AC). He also suggested, they can provide their >> computer lab with internet access, if required (May be we can use >> it for Sprint, if there is any). >> >> And this will be a free venue, we will be required to give >> a nominal amount for Electricity, AC etc. >> >> Since this college is in Mysore road, there are lots of BMTC buses >> from City. ?(There is a satellite Bustand in Mysore road - >> 20 rupees for Auto from there to college). >> >> If everyone is fine with this venue, we can finalize and move >> move forward with other agenda. > > There seems to be four +1 for RVCE: > > Arvind Jamuna Dixit > Abhishek Mishra > Santhosh Divakar > Anand Balachandran Pillai > > Noufal, what about you ? > > I talked to Kunal Kant in phone, he has some contacts there as well. > (Mentioned in another thread) > If we can proceed with option, I will co-ordinate with him on this. I think we should first contact IIMB to see if they can provide the space for free. IIMB will be more comfortable for people coming from other cities and abroad because it has accommodation available in the campus. Anand From abpillai at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:51:26 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:21:26 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: > [..] > > Ok, I will email David Goodger and Mertz at PSF > > to find this out.We can also keep up with the local contacts > > if any. > > If you're mailing them, do ask about the sponsorship of an > international candidate as well. > Done. I had finished writing the email already and I discussed both topics. > > > Meanwhile, I got a reply from Packt and my request > > has been forwarded to the correct person. Waiting > > for a reply from her now. > > Excellent! > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:51:57 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:21:57 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/4 Baiju M : [..] > I think we should first contact IIMB to see if they can provide the > space for free. IIMB will be more comfortable for people coming from > other cities and abroad because it has accommodation available in the > campus. [..] Is there someone on the list with some clout at IIMB that can try for this? Saju? Kunal? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 12:59:33 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:29:33 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorship coordinator (Was: Re: Volunteer needed! - Sponsorship coordinator) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai >> wrote: >> [..] >> > Ok, I will email David Goodger and Mertz at PSF >> > to find this out.We can also keep up with the local contacts >> > if any. >> >> If you're mailing them, do ask about the sponsorship of an >> international candidate as well. > > Done. I had finished writing the email already and I > discussed both topics. Cool. Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 13:00:37 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:30:37 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > We'll need food to be catered to the venue during the event. Can you > enquire with them whether this is possible? If they have some caterer > they usually use, we could go with them. Otherwise, we'll have to find > another one. I will check and get back here. Regards, Baiju M From ramdaz at gmail.com Tue May 4 13:06:24 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:36:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: There seems to be a general consensus on RV. Unless we have serious > detractors there, I think we should go for it. Sorry. This is really far, and from anywhere in the city it takes more than one hour to commute, and 2 hours for people who live in East of Bangalore. I for one would recommend a place which is near city center. Why not IISC again? Why not places like St Josephs? I attended a 3 day workshop recently there (St josephs), and it was a great place.... Ramdas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 13:07:00 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:37:00 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > I think we should first contact IIMB to see if they can provide the > space for free. IIMB will be more comfortable for people coming from > other cities and abroad because it has accommodation available in the > campus. I will check accommodation facility in RVCE also. If accommodation is not available within campus, delegates/guests may need to find hotel in Mysore Road, Bansankari 2nd or 3rd Stage. Regards, Baiju M From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 13:08:58 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:38:58 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Ramdas S wrote: >> There seems to be a general consensus on RV. Unless we have serious >> detractors there, I think we should go for it. > > > Sorry. This is really far, and from anywhere in the city it takes more than > one hour to commute, and 2 hours for people who live in East of Bangalore. BTW, it's only for two days :) Regards, Baiju M From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 13:11:04 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:41:04 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Baiju M wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> I think we should first contact IIMB to see if they can provide the >> space for free. IIMB will be more comfortable for people coming from >> other cities and abroad because it has accommodation available in the >> campus. > > I will check accommodation facility in RVCE also. > > If accommodation is not available within campus, delegates/guests may > need to find hotel in Mysore Road, ?Bansankari 2nd or 3rd Stage. They'll have to do the same with IIMB as well. However, if we have foreign delegates, then we can book a room for them at IIMB which will be good. Apart from that, it's pretty much the same. Each room at IIMB costs 3k. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 13:12:27 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:42:27 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > > >> There seems to be a general consensus on RV. Unless we have serious >> detractors there, I think we should go for it. > > > Sorry. This is really far, and from anywhere in the city it takes more than > one hour to commute, and 2 hours for people who live in East of Bangalore. > > I for one would recommend a place which is near city center. > > Why not IISC again? We can do better than the lecture halls this time I think. It was getting cramped there for some of the talks. JN TATA is to expensive. > Why not places like St Josephs? I attended a 3 day > workshop recently there (St josephs), and it was a great place....[..] I think we should explore St. Josephs. Is there anyone here with contacts there? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From abpillai at gmail.com Tue May 4 13:25:46 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:55:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Baiju M wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > >> There seems to be a general consensus on RV. Unless we have serious > >> detractors there, I think we should go for it. > > > > > > Sorry. This is really far, and from anywhere in the city it takes more > than > > one hour to commute, and 2 hours for people who live in East of > Bangalore. > > BTW, it's only for two days :) > Yes. I am not sure why it should be a problem if you start early. Btw New Horizon if we get could be good in terms of location since it is on outer ring road and not too far off the city centre. > > Regards, > Baiju M > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lawgon at au-kbc.org Tue May 4 13:43:48 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:13:48 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005041713.48346.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Tuesday 04 May 2010 4:55:46 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > > Sorry. This is really far, and from anywhere in the city it takes more > > > > than > > > > > one hour to commute, and 2 hours for people who live in East of > > > > Bangalore. > > > > BTW, it's only for two days :) > > Yes. I am not sure why it should be a problem if you start early. > Btw New Horizon if we get could be good in terms of location > since it is on outer ring road and not too far off the city > centre. > I once held a workshop in Coimbatore, and a lot of attendees made the 3-4 hour trip from places like Pollachi and further, twice a day for two days. And a lot of us will be coming from places slightly further than east bangalore. And if the commute is all that much, what is wrong with taking a hotel room for one night? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From mail at manishsinha.net Tue May 4 13:49:30 2010 From: mail at manishsinha.net (Manish Sinha) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:19:30 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > > Yes. I am not sure why it should be a problem if you start early. > Btw New Horizon if we get could be good in terms of location > since it is on outer ring road and not too far off the city > centre. > One of my colleague is an alumni of New Horizon college of Engg and he says that the new Auditorium is pretty big and can host more than 400 people and is fully Air conditioned. The place has pretty good connectivity and is inside the city, so no one can have problems reaching it. He gave me the number to contact. It is of the college reception. Probably they can connect us to the Director or concerned authority. Number: 080-66297777 -- Manish Sinha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 13:52:24 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:22:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Baiju M wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Ramdas S wrote: >> >> There seems to be a general consensus on RV. Unless we have serious >> >> detractors there, I think we should go for it. >> > >> > >> > Sorry. This is really far, and from anywhere in the city it takes more >> > than >> > one hour to commute, and 2 hours for people who live in East of >> > Bangalore. >> >> BTW, it's only for two days :) > > Yes. I am not sure why it should be a problem if you start early. > Btw New Horizon if we get could be good in terms of location > since it is on outer ring road and not too far off the city > centre. We should not make it as a "City" PyCON for those who happened to live in the center of city. We have many people coming all over India and abroad. They will come and stay near to venue, so that won't be a problem. I remember, the Chicago PyCON venue far away from Downton Chicago. To see the Skyscrapers & other attractions in Downtown, we reached there one day before. I think people will do the same, if they want to see Lalbagh and other attractions in city. Regards, Baiju M From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 14:19:39 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:49:39 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options In-Reply-To: <201005041713.48346.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005041713.48346.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [..] > I once held a workshop in Coimbatore, and a lot of attendees made the 3-4 hour > trip from places like Pollachi and further, twice a day for two days. And a > lot of us will be coming from places slightly further than east bangalore. And > if the commute is all that much, what is wrong with taking a hotel room for > one night?[..] Well, we have one person with a -1. Anyone else? Are there any negative points apart from the distance? I'm not sure about the area. Is it possible to get food from outside there assuming people want to go out for dinner or something? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 14:21:13 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:51:13 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Baiju M wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> We'll need food to be catered to the venue during the event. Can you >> enquire with them whether this is possible? If they have some caterer >> they usually use, we could go with them. Otherwise, we'll have to find >> another one. > > I will check and get back here. I am copy pasting the reply I got from Renuka Prasad: ----------------------- there are college mess which are there for students , in fact for most of our national conferences and workshops we will order there only it costs 30 to 35 rs per plate of lunch which is unlimited -- chapathis /poori , rice bath , dal, gravy , pappad , curds , pickle rice + sambar , rasam on sunday it is Rs 50 ( if ice cream is taken ) all the above are normal day to day business --- if any customization required that also could be done , serving near venue is not adviced -- the college mess and the venue will be 200 mtrs away ( which is even better always from our previous experience ) ----------------------- It looks fine, any concern ? Regards, Baiju M From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 14:28:53 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:58:53 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Baiju M wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> I think we should first contact IIMB to see if they can provide the >> space for free. IIMB will be more comfortable for people coming from >> other cities and abroad because it has accommodation available in the >> campus. > > I will check accommodation facility in RVCE also. > > If accommodation is not available within campus, delegates/guests may > need to find hotel in Mysore Road, ?Bansankari 2nd or 3rd Stage. There is a guest house in RV college, but Renuka Prasad don't recommend it as it is not well maintained and no service. His recommendation for guests (copy pasting his reply): -------------------------- there is avery good hotel 200 mts away from college which is a bit costly , double bed rooms ranging from 2000 to 4,000 Rs are available -- hotel name is airavatha but right now i do not have any more information about hotels , we might have to check -- definitely there will be some hotels within the range of 3-4 kms that is for sure -------------------------- If we have any guests, I think we can use that hotel (I hope we can meet that expense). That would be better than asking the guest to stay in college guest house. Any concerns ? Regards, Baiju M From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 14:35:31 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:05:31 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Baiju M wrote: [..] > there are college mess which are there for students , in fact for most > of our national conferences and workshops we will order there only > > it costs 30 to 35 rs per plate of lunch which is unlimited -- > chapathis /poori , rice bath , dal, gravy , pappad , curds , pickle > rice + sambar , rasam > > on sunday it is Rs 50 ( if ice cream is taken ) > > all the above are normal day to day business --- if any customization > required that also could be done , serving near venue is not adviced > -- the college mess and the venue will be 200 mtrs away ( which is > even better always from our previous experience ) > -----------------------[..] I think it's okay. It's similar to the fare we had last year. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From jaganadhg at gmail.com Tue May 4 14:37:32 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:07:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > I am copy pasting the reply I got from Renuka Prasad: > > ----------------------- > there are college mess which are there for students , in fact for most > of our national conferences and workshops we will order there only > > it costs 30 to 35 rs per plate of lunch which is unlimited -- > chapathis /poori , rice bath , dal, gravy , pappad , curds , pickle > rice + sambar , rasam > > on sunday it is Rs 50 ( if ice cream is taken ) > > all the above are normal day to day business --- if any customization > required that also could be done , serving near venue is not adviced > -- the college mess and the venue will be 200 mtrs away ( which is > even better always from our previous experience ) > ----------------------- > sounds good. Shall we go for this +1 for this -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 14:40:19 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:10:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: [..] > I think we should first contact IIMB to see if they can provide the > space for free. IIMB will be more comfortable for people coming from > other cities and abroad because it has accommodation available in the > campus. Kunal called me a while ago and says that the IIMB will not give it for free. We'll have to pay. Also, the rooms on campus will be costly and beyond the means of most of the people coming in from nearby places (3k per day). I think we're all confirmed with RV then? If so, perhaps we should give a token advance or something to get it booked? And update the site to mention the venue. If that's done, we have a ver 0.1-alpha of the conference. No wifi, no swag, no papers, no speakers but atleast the infrastructure is in place. :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 14:45:09 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:15:09 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Baiju M wrote: [..] > There is a guest house in RV college, but Renuka Prasad don't > recommend it as it is not well maintained and no service. > > His recommendation for guests (copy pasting his reply): > > -------------------------- > there is avery good hotel 200 mts away from college which is a bit > costly , double bed rooms ranging from 2000 to 4,000 Rs are available > -- hotel name is airavatha > but right now i do not have any more information about hotels , we > might have to check -- definitely there will be some hotels within the > range of 3-4 kms that is for sure > -------------------------- > > If we have any guests, I think we can use that hotel (I hope we can meet > that expense). ?That would be better than asking the guest to stay in > college guest house. > > Any concerns ? I think it's perfect. Invited guests are budgeted separately so we should be able to manage. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 14:49:05 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:19:05 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue options In-Reply-To: References: <201005041713.48346.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > [..] >> I once held a workshop in Coimbatore, and a lot of attendees made the 3-4 hour >> trip from places like Pollachi and further, twice a day for two days. And a >> lot of us will be coming from places slightly further than east bangalore. And >> if the commute is all that much, what is wrong with taking a hotel room for >> one night?[..] > > Well, we have one person with a -1. Anyone else? Are there any > negative points apart from the distance? I'm not sure about the area. > Is it possible to get food from outside there assuming people want to > go out for dinner or something? Here is the details about the hotel Renuka Prasad mentioned: http://www.asklaila.com/listing/Bangalore/Kengeri/Airavath+Highway+%28Motel%29/ra8mtikr/ There is another hotel nearby Satellite Bustand: http://www.cleartrip.com/hotels/info/hotel-sharada-residency-166108/ I hope there will be many small hotels nearby Satellite Bustand. (BTW, Satellite Bustand is a KSRTC Bustand from where you will get Buses to Kerala & Tamilnadu - services from Majestic is moved to here) Regards, Baiju M From abpillai at gmail.com Tue May 4 15:07:31 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:37:31 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Baiju M wrote: > [..] > > There is a guest house in RV college, but Renuka Prasad don't > > recommend it as it is not well maintained and no service. > > > > His recommendation for guests (copy pasting his reply): > > > > -------------------------- > > there is avery good hotel 200 mts away from college which is a bit > > costly , double bed rooms ranging from 2000 to 4,000 Rs are available > > -- hotel name is airavatha > > but right now i do not have any more information about hotels , we > > might have to check -- definitely there will be some hotels within the > > range of 3-4 kms that is for sure > > -------------------------- > > > > If we have any guests, I think we can use that hotel (I hope we can meet > > that expense). That would be better than asking the guest to stay in > > college guest house. > > > > Any concerns ? > > It is a crowded area with narrow roads and traffic in the evenings could be a problem, especially close to the satellite bus stand. In our recent Mysore trip, our car almost collided against an auto there, I should know :) Apart from that, I am fine. > I think it's perfect. Invited guests are budgeted separately so we > should be able to manage. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Tue May 4 15:16:16 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:46:16 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > [..] >> I think we should first contact IIMB to see if they can provide the >> space for free. IIMB will be more comfortable for people coming from >> other cities and abroad because it has accommodation available in the >> campus. > > Kunal called me a while ago and says that the IIMB will not give it > for free. We'll have to pay. > > Also, the rooms on campus will be costly and beyond the means of most > of the people coming in from nearby places (3k per day). > > I think we're all confirmed with RV then? If so, perhaps we should > give a token advance or something to get it booked? And update the > site to mention the venue. Before finalizing, we need to directly talk to them. I can make free myself on this week (Wed,Thu & Fri) - will take half-day leave. Though, I would prefer morning time (9am to12pm) so, that I can get back to office afternoon. If Kunal, Noufal or somebody else can come with me, that would be great. This is my number: 09945973441 Regards, Baiju M From lawgon at thenilgiris.com Tue May 4 15:19:28 2010 From: lawgon at thenilgiris.com (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:49:28 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005041849.28490.lawgon@thenilgiris.com> On Tuesday 04 May 2010 6:37:31 pm Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > It is a crowded area with narrow roads and traffic in the evenings > could be a problem, especially close to the satellite bus stand. > In our recent Mysore trip, our car almost collided against an auto > there, I should know :) > > Apart from that, I am fine. > worst traffic in Bangalore - last time I passed by I saw a 5 kilometer long traffic jam on the lane going towards mysore -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 4 19:17:28 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 22:47:28 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCON venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Aditya, On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Aditya C.S wrote: > I am Aditya.C.S from MVIT college, Bangalore. I have been following the > discussion on inpycon mailing list about the venue. My brother working under > FOSSEE team at IIT Bombay, under Prof.Prabhu Ramachandran informed me that > MSRIT would be a good venue to check. I have spoken with a student who is > involved with FOSS and stuff in MSRIT. He tells that he can get the > auditorium for sure. He will speak with his Principal tomorrow(5th may > 2010). He will be confirming it by tomorrow. MSRIT is inside city, so that > place wolud be better. > > ? Also I realized from very recent developments that you guys have almost > confirmed RVCE as the venue. So please let me know if I should ask my friend > at MSRIT to go ahead and contact his principal. Please do. We're open to options. If MSRIT has facilities similar to RV, I think people would prefer that. However, don't ask your friend to confirm anything. Just a "if we do plan to hold it here, what will be available?" kind of conversation would be good. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From aditya.gnu at gmail.com Tue May 4 19:26:32 2010 From: aditya.gnu at gmail.com (Aditya C.S) Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 22:56:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCON venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for the reply.I will tell my friend to make the necessary enquiries and i will reply you by tomorrow On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Hi Aditya, > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Aditya C.S wrote: > > I am Aditya.C.S from MVIT college, Bangalore. I have been following the > > discussion on inpycon mailing list about the venue. My brother working > under > > FOSSEE team at IIT Bombay, under Prof.Prabhu Ramachandran informed me > that > > MSRIT would be a good venue to check. I have spoken with a student who is > > involved with FOSS and stuff in MSRIT. He tells that he can get the > > auditorium for sure. He will speak with his Principal tomorrow(5th may > > 2010). He will be confirming it by tomorrow. MSRIT is inside city, so > that > > place wolud be better. > > > > Also I realized from very recent developments that you guys have almost > > confirmed RVCE as the venue. So please let me know if I should ask my > friend > > at MSRIT to go ahead and contact his principal. > > Please do. We're open to options. If MSRIT has facilities similar to > RV, I think people would prefer that. However, don't ask your friend > to confirm anything. Just a "if we do plan to hold it here, what will > be available?" kind of conversation would be good. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lawgon at au-kbc.org Wed May 5 02:36:05 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 06:06:05 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Tuesday 04 May 2010 6:10:19 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > I think we're all confirmed with RV then? If so, perhaps we should > give a token advance or something to get it booked? And update the > site to mention the venue. > btw, if you do not mind my giving some avuncular advice, I would suggest that a group of people from our side - preferably including society office bearers - seek an appointment with the Principal/correspondent/HOD and have a formal meeting with them. In this meeting they can be briefed on what python is and also we can offer our services in conducting a workshop or two to bring the students up to speed. It is important to build a cordial working relationship with the management so that they go the extra mile in making the conference a success. I would further suggest that the delegation dresses formally (suits if you have them) - this makes a good impression on academics who are unlikely to be impressed by geeks with scruffy beards, jeans and teeshirts. This meeting should also arrange one or two people from each side as liason. I would further suggest that this be given utmost priority. I have seen several collaborations between colleges and open source groups go belly up because of the casual attitude from our side - we do not mean disrespect, but our attitude is interpreted that way. India is still largely a feudal society, and we should realise this. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS http://certificate.nrcfoss.au-kbc.org.in From vid at svaksha.com Wed May 5 03:25:22 2010 From: vid at svaksha.com (=?UTF-8?B?IOCkuOCljeCkteCkleCljeCktyA=?=) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 06:55:22 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 06:06, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > [......] > if you have them) - this makes a good impression on academics who are unlikely > to be impressed by geeks with scruffy beards, jeans and teeshirts. This meeting > should also arrange one or two people from each side as liason. [........] > our attitude is interpreted that way. India is still largely a feudal society, > and we should realise this. you nailed it. -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Wed May 5 03:25:46 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 06:55:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tuesday 04 May 2010 6:10:19 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> I think we're all confirmed with RV then? If so, perhaps we should >> give a token advance or something to get it booked? And update the >> site to mention the venue. >> > > btw, if you do not mind my giving some avuncular advice, I would suggest that > a group of people from our side - preferably including society office bearers - > seek an appointment with the Principal/correspondent/HOD and have a formal > meeting with them. In this meeting they can be briefed on what python is and > also we can offer our services in conducting a workshop or two to bring the > students up to speed. It is important to build a cordial working relationship > with the management so that they go the extra mile in making the conference a > success. I would further suggest that the delegation dresses formally (suits > if you have them) - this makes a good impression on academics who are unlikely > to be impressed by geeks with scruffy beards, jeans and teeshirts. This meeting > should also arrange one or two people from each side as liason. > > I would further suggest that this be given utmost priority. I have seen > several collaborations between colleges and open source groups go belly up > because of the casual attitude from our side - we do not mean disrespect, but > our attitude is interpreted that way. India is still largely a feudal society, > and we should realise this. I & Kunal was planning to go tomorrow (May 6th - around 2 pm) to meet principal of RVCE. If any society office bearers can come, please let me know by today. I am fine with post-pone this meeting, but that will delay our plan. If a second meeting need to be arranged, that also can be done. Regards, Baiju M From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 04:48:47 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:18:47 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Baiju M wrote: [..] > I & Kunal was planning to go tomorrow (May 6th - around 2 pm) to meet > principal of RVCE. ?If any society office bearers can come, please let me > know by today. ?I am fine with post-pone this meeting, but that will > delay our plan. ?If a second meeting need to be arranged, that also > can be done. Kenneth's point is valid I would have come with you guys with appropriate overalls but I won't be around weekend and have other plans for Thursday. Vikas (who mailed earlier in this list/thread) is looking at some colleges and will be back by Monday. Aditya too. Perhaps you guys should go and talk to Renuka Prasad on a personal level (i.e. - look at the college, judge the distance from the city, look at the surroundings etc.) Once we get information about the other colleges, we can go there as a formal delegation and confirm everything. I can pitch in for that. What do you guys feel? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Wed May 5 05:08:56 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:38:56 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Baiju M wrote: > [..] >> I & Kunal was planning to go tomorrow (May 6th - around 2 pm) to meet >> principal of RVCE. ?If any society office bearers can come, please let me >> know by today. ?I am fine with post-pone this meeting, but that will >> delay our plan. ?If a second meeting need to be arranged, that also >> can be done. > > > Kenneth's point is valid > > I would have come with you guys with appropriate overalls but I won't > be around weekend and have other plans for Thursday. > Vikas (who mailed earlier in this list/thread) is looking at some > colleges and will be back by Monday. Aditya too. > > Perhaps you guys should go and talk to Renuka Prasad on a personal > level (i.e. - look at the college, judge the distance from the city, > look at the surroundings etc.) > > Once we get information about the other colleges, we can go there as a > formal delegation and confirm everything. I can pitch in for that. As I mentioned in the other mail, I have been to that college two years back: http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html Kunal is also familiar with this place. So, if somebody else want to see this place before meeting Principal, we can go for that. Today Renuka Prasad will meet Principal and fix an appointment for us. Can I ask him to post-pone the appointment time to next week ? So that we can wait for Vikas report. Regards, Baiju M From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 05:11:15 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:41:15 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Baiju M wrote: [..] > As I mentioned in the other mail, I have been to that college two years > back: http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html > Kunal is also familiar with this place. So, if somebody else > want to see this place before meeting Principal, we can go for that. > > Today Renuka Prasad will meet Principal and fix an appointment for us. > Can I ask him to post-pone the appointment time to next week ? > So that we can wait for Vikas report. [..]. I think that would be best. Sometime next week. Tuesday/Wednesday perhaps? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 05:15:51 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:45:51 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Baiju M wrote: > [..] >> As I mentioned in the other mail, I have been to that college two years >> back: http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html >> Kunal is also familiar with this place. So, if somebody else >> want to see this place before meeting Principal, we can go for that. >> >> Today Renuka Prasad will meet Principal and fix an appointment for us. >> Can I ask him to post-pone the appointment time to next week ? >> So that we can wait for Vikas report. > > [..]. > > I think that would be best. Sometime next week. Tuesday/Wednesday perhaps? Actually, it might get a little complicated. David is visting next week and I'm not sure if I'll be free. I'll probably be attending his formal classes and will be busy in the evenings. If someone else from the list of office bearers will be available (they're listed here http://wiki.python.org/moin/CommitteeResolutions), they can accompany you. If not, we might have to keep this aside for the week starting on 17. Is anyone available? Anand? Srikanth? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Wed May 5 05:19:19 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:49:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Baiju M wrote: >> [..] >>> As I mentioned in the other mail, I have been to that college two years >>> back: http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html >>> Kunal is also familiar with this place. So, if somebody else >>> want to see this place before meeting Principal, we can go for that. >>> >>> Today Renuka Prasad will meet Principal and fix an appointment for us. >>> Can I ask him to post-pone the appointment time to next week ? >>> So that we can wait for Vikas report. >> >> [..]. >> >> I think that would be best. Sometime next week. Tuesday/Wednesday perhaps? > > Actually, it might get a little complicated. David is visting next > week and I'm not sure if I'll be free. I'll probably be attending his > formal classes and will be busy in the evenings. > > ?If someone else from the list of office bearers will be available > (they're listed here > http://wiki.python.org/moin/CommitteeResolutions), they can accompany > you. If not, we might have to keep this aside for the week starting on > 17. Is anyone available? Anand? Srikanth? Ok, I will tell Renuka Prasad not to fix the date of appointment. Regards, Baiju M From rmathews at gmail.com Wed May 5 05:19:58 2010 From: rmathews at gmail.com (Roshan Mathews) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:49:58 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 08:45, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Actually, it might get a little complicated. David is visting next > week and I'm not sure if I'll be free. I'll probably be attending his > formal classes and will be busy in the evenings. > OT, but, what formal classes? Roshan Mathews From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 05:25:09 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:55:09 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 08:45, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> Actually, it might get a little complicated. David is visting next >> week and I'm not sure if I'll be free. I'll probably be attending his >> formal classes and will be busy in the evenings. >> > OT, but, what formal classes? Dabeaz is coming here to teach Python to some chaps at my office. I'll be there with them as well. :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From rmathews at gmail.com Wed May 5 05:40:45 2010 From: rmathews at gmail.com (Roshan Mathews) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 09:10:45 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 08:55, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Dabeaz is coming here to teach Python to some chaps at my office. I'll > be there with them as well. :) > Wow ... this course: http://www.dabeaz.com/advpython.html ? Roshan Mathews From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 05:43:10 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 09:13:10 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 08:55, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> Dabeaz is coming here to teach Python to some chaps at my office. I'll >> be there with them as well. :) >> > Wow ... this course: http://www.dabeaz.com/advpython.html ? Mostly a basic one but I think he's covering *some* topics from that. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 07:38:24 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:08:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: I spoke to Baiju over the phone. It seems that Renuka Prasad is very eager to have the conference at RV and would be quite helpful for all the work there. Because of the following reasons, I think we'll confirm RV as our venue and stop searching. - Lots of people (around 7 or 8) +1d the venue - We have a good channel (Baiju on our end and Renuka Prasad on their end) - The facilities sound fine. - The cost is low So, shall we just stop searching and officially fix RV college of Engineering as our venue? I can go along with Baiju and Kunal sometime after 17th to actually discuss matters with the Principal and others. If we're all agreed, I can ask Vikas and Aditya to not to continue talks with the colleges they're looking at. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at thenilgiris.com Wed May 5 08:00:18 2010 From: lawgon at thenilgiris.com (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:30:18 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005051130.19108.lawgon@thenilgiris.com> On Wednesday 05 May 2010 11:08:24 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > So, shall we just stop searching and officially fix RV college of > Engineering as our venue? I can go along with Baiju and Kunal sometime > after 17th to actually discuss matters with the Principal and others. > one faculty member on our side is worth 500 students. I think you should go ahead with RV, and make sure one or more python workshops are conducted to generate interest. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com From abpillai at gmail.com Wed May 5 08:05:13 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:35:13 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Baiju M wrote: > > [..] > >> As I mentioned in the other mail, I have been to that college two years > >> back: http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html > >> Kunal is also familiar with this place. So, if somebody else > >> want to see this place before meeting Principal, we can go for that. > >> > >> Today Renuka Prasad will meet Principal and fix an appointment for us. > >> Can I ask him to post-pone the appointment time to next week ? > >> So that we can wait for Vikas report. > > > > [..]. > > > > I think that would be best. Sometime next week. Tuesday/Wednesday > perhaps? > > Actually, it might get a little complicated. David is visting next > week and I'm not sure if I'll be free. I'll probably be attending his > formal classes and will be busy in the evenings. > > If someone else from the list of office bearers will be available > (they're listed here > http://wiki.python.org/moin/CommitteeResolutions), they can accompany > you. If not, we might have to keep this aside for the week starting on > 17. Is anyone available? Anand? Srikanth? > I can make myself available on 17th. So far nothing in the calendar to stop me. > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaganadhg at gmail.com Wed May 5 08:27:46 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:57:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > I spoke to Baiju over the phone. It seems that Renuka Prasad is very > eager to have the conference at RV and would be quite helpful for all > the work there. > > Because of the following reasons, I think we'll confirm RV as our > venue and stop searching. > > - Lots of people (around 7 or 8) +1d the venue > - We have a good channel (Baiju on our end and Renuka Prasad on their end) > - The facilities sound fine. > - The cost is low > > So, shall we just stop searching and officially fix RV college of > Engineering as our venue? > Seems things are very positive to select RVC. So I think we can proceed with this option -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ramdaz at gmail.com Wed May 5 08:53:12 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:23:12 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpillai at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Baiju M wrote: >> > [..] >> >> As I mentioned in the other mail, I have been to that college two years >> >> back: http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html >> >> Kunal is also familiar with this place. So, if somebody else >> >> want to see this place before meeting Principal, we can go for that. >> >> >> >> Today Renuka Prasad will meet Principal and fix an appointment for us. >> >> Can I ask him to post-pone the appointment time to next week ? >> >> So that we can wait for Vikas report. >> > >> > [..]. >> > >> > I think that would be best. Sometime next week. Tuesday/Wednesday >> perhaps? >> >> Actually, it might get a little complicated. David is visting next >> week and I'm not sure if I'll be free. I'll probably be attending his >> formal classes and will be busy in the evenings. >> >> If someone else from the list of office bearers will be available >> (they're listed here >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/CommitteeResolutions), they can accompany >> you. If not, we might have to keep this aside for the week starting on >> 17. Is anyone available? Anand? Srikanth? >> > > I can make myself available on 17th. So far nothing in the calendar > to stop me. > guys, please confirm address of the college and which campus. If its in Mysore Road, trust me it's a bad idea. There are no good accomadation near by, and this place is really far > > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ~noufal >> http://nibrahim.net.in >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > > > > -- > --Anand > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- Ramdas S +91 9342 583 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 09:00:17 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:30:17 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ramdas S wrote: [..] > guys, please confirm address of the college and which campus. If its in > Mysore Road, trust me it's a bad idea. There are no good accomadation near > by, and this place is really far [..] It's not perfect but it's got lots of positives. Unless there are more negative points raised (or a better venue negotiated), I think we'll go with this. Do you (or anyone else) have any contacts with any of the other academic institutes in Bangalore where we can get a similar package? If so, we can reconsider. If not, I think a venue slightly away from the city is okay for a 2 day event. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Wed May 5 09:02:10 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:32:10 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >>> > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Baiju M wrote: >>> > [..] >>> >> As I mentioned in the other mail, I have been to that college two >>> >> years >>> >> back: http://baijum81.livejournal.com/27913.html >>> >> Kunal is also familiar with this place. So, if somebody else >>> >> want to see this place before meeting Principal, we can go for that. >>> >> >>> >> Today Renuka Prasad will meet Principal and fix an appointment for us. >>> >> Can I ask him to post-pone the appointment time to next week ? >>> >> So that we can wait for Vikas report. >>> > >>> > [..]. >>> > >>> > I think that would be best. Sometime next week. Tuesday/Wednesday >>> > perhaps? >>> >>> Actually, it might get a little complicated. David is visting next >>> week and I'm not sure if I'll be free. I'll probably be attending his >>> formal classes and will be busy in the evenings. >>> >>> ?If someone else from the list of office bearers will be available >>> (they're listed here >>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/CommitteeResolutions), they can accompany >>> you. If not, we might have to keep this aside for the week starting on >>> 17. Is anyone available? Anand? Srikanth? >> >> I can make myself available on 17th. So far nothing in the calendar >> to stop me. > > > guys, please confirm address of the college and which campus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtreeya_Vidyalaya_College_of_Engineering > If its in > Mysore Road, trust me it's a bad idea. There are no good accomadation near > by, and this place is really far There are some hotels near by: http://www.asklaila.com/listing/Bangalore/Kengeri/Airavath+Highway+%28Motel%29/ra8mtikr/ http://www.cleartrip.com/hotels/info/hotel-sharada-residency-166108/ Towards Bansankari 2nd & 3rd Stage - Katriguppe, Kamakya etc. there will be many other good hotels. Regards, Baiju M From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Wed May 5 09:08:19 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:38:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > [..] >> guys, please confirm address of the college and which campus. If its in >> Mysore Road, trust me it's a bad idea. There are no good accomadation near >> by, and this place is really far > [..] > > It's not perfect but it's got lots of positives. Unless there are more > negative points raised (or a better venue negotiated), I think we'll > go with this. > > Do you (or anyone else) have any contacts with any of the other > academic institutes in Bangalore where we can get a similar package? > If so, we can reconsider. If not, I think a venue slightly away from > the city is okay for a 2 day event. For BangPypers meet this location may not be good, but not for a nationwide event. As you can see in the wiki, this is prestigious college established in 1963: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtreeya_Vidyalaya_College_of_Engineering It's a very good campus for a conference. Regards, Baiju M From sree at mahiti.org Wed May 5 11:02:56 2010 From: sree at mahiti.org (Sreekanth S Rameshaiah) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:32:56 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue option : IIMB In-Reply-To: References: <201005050606.05618.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On 5 May 2010 11:08, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > I spoke to Baiju over the phone. It seems that Renuka Prasad is very > eager to have the conference at RV and would be quite helpful for all > the work there. > > Because of the following reasons, I think we'll confirm RV as our > venue and stop searching. > > - Lots of people (around 7 or 8) +1d the venue > - We have a good channel (Baiju on our end and Renuka Prasad on their end) > - The facilities sound fine. > - The cost is low > > So, shall we just stop searching and officially fix RV college of > Engineering as our venue? I can go along with Baiju and Kunal sometime > after 17th to actually discuss matters with the Principal and others. +1 for RV Thanks Baiju for all the quick work. - sree -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have total of 6 audis, our biggest audi, which will be inaugurated by the end of this month is having a approx capacity of 1K, each audi is well equipped with projectors, enough power points, wifi connectivity etc.. The college is near the heart of city and reachable within 15 to 20mins from majestic (also from BIAS, it will hardly take 1hr). We have previously hosted Adobe Flex boot camp[600+ participants], Honeywells Noble lecture series[by a Nobel Laureate], and multiple national level conferences. We have spoken with principal sir and there is no problem in getting the resources approved from college. [ We can take care of the booking of halls on those days(Most probably college wont charge any fee for audi, if our user group is also involved) ]. I will be out of town for next couple of weeks and hence the following person can be contacted for any further information: Point of contact: Anil Kumar M 9739754227 mak at vrglinug.org / anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com Regards, Adarsh J (alternate mail: adarshaj [at] gmail.com) PS. Sorry for the previous blank mail (problem with net connectivity) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 12:14:47 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 15:44:47 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Okay. Now we have an option. We've come quite far with RV. I think if we just settle on that, we'd get this over with and done. The Baiju-Renuka Prasad link we have trumps the facilities mentioned in the email below I feel. What do you all feel? On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adarsh J wrote: > Hi, > ??? I am Adarsh, Co ordinator for GNU/Linux User group (VRGLINUG) at MSRIT, > I have been following the discussions and aditya cs had contacted me for > msrit as one of venue options, It would be our pleasure to host the pycon > event, we have excellent infrastructure in place, the whole of user group is > highly eager to help in organizing and volunteering for the event. We have > total of 6 audis, our biggest audi, which will be inaugurated by the end of > this month is having a approx capacity of 1K, each audi is well equipped > with projectors, enough power points, wifi connectivity etc.. The college is > near the heart of city and reachable within 15 to 20mins from majestic (also > from BIAS, it will hardly take 1hr). We have previously hosted Adobe Flex > boot camp[600+ participants], Honeywells Noble lecture series[by a Nobel > Laureate], and multiple national level conferences. We have spoken with > principal sir and there is no problem in getting the resources approved from > college. [ We can take care of the booking of halls on those days(Most > probably college wont charge any fee for audi, if our user group is also > involved) ]. > > ?? I will be out of town for next couple of weeks and hence the following > person can be contacted for any further information: > > Point of contact: > Anil Kumar M > 9739754227 > mak at vrglinug.org / anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com > > Regards, > Adarsh J > (alternate mail: adarshaj [at] gmail.com) > PS. Sorry for the previous blank mail (problem with net connectivity) > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ardsrk at gmail.com Wed May 5 12:51:54 2010 From: ardsrk at gmail.com (Arvind Jamuna Dixit) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:21:54 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: >The Baiju-Renuka Prasad link we have >trumps the facilities mentioned in the email below I feel. Location wise MSRIT is attractive. But as you mentioned Baiju is already in talks with RV college. We can keep MSRIT as backup if anything unforeseen prevents us from hosting PyCon with RV college. -- Arvind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Baiju-Renuka Prasad link we have > trumps the facilities mentioned in the email below I feel. > > What do you all feel? > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adarsh J wrote: > > Hi, > > I am Adarsh, Co ordinator for GNU/Linux User group (VRGLINUG) at > MSRIT, > > I have been following the discussions and aditya cs had contacted me for > > msrit as one of venue options, It would be our pleasure to host the pycon > > event, we have excellent infrastructure in place, the whole of user group > is > > highly eager to help in organizing and volunteering for the event. We > have > > total of 6 audis, our biggest audi, which will be inaugurated by the end > of > > this month is having a approx capacity of 1K, each audi is well equipped > > with projectors, enough power points, wifi connectivity etc.. The college > is > > near the heart of city and reachable within 15 to 20mins from majestic > (also > > from BIAS, it will hardly take 1hr). We have previously hosted Adobe Flex > > boot camp[600+ participants], Honeywells Noble lecture series[by a Nobel > > Laureate], and multiple national level conferences. We have spoken with > > principal sir and there is no problem in getting the resources approved > from > > college. [ We can take care of the booking of halls on those days(Most > > probably college wont charge any fee for audi, if our user group is also > > involved) ]. > > > > I will be out of town for next couple of weeks and hence the following > > person can be contacted for any further information: > > > > Point of contact: > > Anil Kumar M > > 9739754227 > > mak at vrglinug.org / anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com > > > > Regards, > > Adarsh J > > (alternate mail: adarshaj [at] gmail.com) > > PS. Sorry for the previous blank mail (problem with net connectivity) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Inpycon mailing list > > Inpycon at python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > > > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ideamonk at gmail.com Wed May 5 14:36:17 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:06:17 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: +1 to the new Audi +1 to a record of hosting past events Lets see how this goes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ideamonk at gmail.com Wed May 5 14:49:53 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:19:53 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Oh just came to know that we've almost stopped searching now. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > +1 to the new Audi > +1 to a record of hosting past events > > Lets see how this goes. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anandology at gmail.com Wed May 5 15:43:18 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:13:18 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/5 Noufal Ibrahim : > Okay. Now we have an option. > > We've come quite far with RV. I think if we just settle on that, we'd > get this over with and done. The Baiju-Renuka Prasad link we have > trumps the facilities mentioned in the email below I feel. > > What do you all feel? I think it is worth preferring MSRIT over RV. Reasons: * it is in the middle of the city * wifi is already available (it is tough to get wifi working otherwise) * more importantly, proposal came come the students of the institute. So we'll get lot of volunteers to help us there. Also, we should appreciate the enthusiasm of the students who have come forward with this offer. Remember that for R V College, we have approached them. +1 for MSRIT. Anand From abpillai at gmail.com Wed May 5 16:03:14 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:33:14 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/5 Noufal Ibrahim : > > Okay. Now we have an option. > > > > We've come quite far with RV. I think if we just settle on that, we'd > > get this over with and done. The Baiju-Renuka Prasad link we have > > trumps the facilities mentioned in the email below I feel. > > > > What do you all feel? > > I think it is worth preferring MSRIT over RV. > > Reasons: > > * it is in the middle of the city > * wifi is already available (it is tough to get wifi working otherwise) > * more importantly, proposal came come the students of the institute. > So we'll get lot of volunteers to help us there. > > Also, we should appreciate the enthusiasm of the students who have > come forward with this offer. Remember that for R V College, we have > approached them. > > +1 for MSRIT. > Location and traffic wise it is better. If we can convert the student enthusiasm to actual ground level support, this can work out well. Personally, I am ok with either venues. > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From orsenthil at gmail.com Wed May 5 16:12:15 2010 From: orsenthil at gmail.com (Senthil Kumaran) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:42:15 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100505141215.GA7783@remy> > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > * it is in the middle of the city > * wifi is already available (it is tough to get wifi working otherwise) > * more importantly, proposal came come the students of the institute. > So we'll get lot of volunteers to help us there. > > Also, we should appreciate the enthusiasm of the students who have > come forward with this offer. Remember that for R V College, we have > approached them. > > +1 for MSRIT. Valid points. +1 from my side too. -- Senthil From ramdaz at gmail.com Wed May 5 16:14:27 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:44:27 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpillai at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> 2010/5/5 Noufal Ibrahim : >> > Okay. Now we have an option. >> > >> > We've come quite far with RV. I think if we just settle on that, we'd >> > get this over with and done. The Baiju-Renuka Prasad link we have >> > trumps the facilities mentioned in the email below I feel. >> > >> > What do you all feel? >> >> I think it is worth preferring MSRIT over RV. >> >> Reasons: >> >> * it is in the middle of the city >> * wifi is already available (it is tough to get wifi working otherwise) >> * more importantly, proposal came come the students of the institute. >> So we'll get lot of volunteers to help us there. >> >> Also, we should appreciate the enthusiasm of the students who have >> come forward with this offer. Remember that for R V College, we have >> approached them. >> >> +1 for MSRIT. >> > > Location and traffic wise it is better. If we can convert the > student enthusiasm to actual ground level support, this > can work out well. > > Personally, I am ok with either venues. > I'd prefer MSRIT over RVCE. It's anyway 10 mis from IISC. I have had very bad experience reaching RVCE in mornings. I am against holding it in RVCE! However someone staying JP nagar would also have similar thoughts about MSRIT. I would any day prefer a place that's central to everyone rather than these two places. That's irrespective of where you stay in bangalore you must be able to reach within an hour using public transport. I completely understand that for someone who's travelling in from outside the city, the venue doesn't matter, and it matters more for someone residing in the city, as they need to travel more from their homes. The only place which I know is central and may come within our budgets could be St Josephs college. I am going there on Friday to take a look. This is off Residency Road, and is most accessible to just about anyone staying at any part of Bangalore. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Points which Anand mentioned were strong enough in its favor. -- Senthil From jaganadhg at gmail.com Wed May 5 16:22:23 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:52:23 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: <20100505141926.GB7783@remy> References: <20100505141926.GB7783@remy> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 07:44:27PM +0530, Ramdas S wrote: > > The only place which I know is central and may come within our budgets > could be > > St Josephs college. I am going there on Friday to take a look. This is > off > > Residency Road, and is most accessible to just about anyone staying at > any part > > of Bangalore. > > I would suggest you take this route only if there is strong opposition > for MSRIT. Points which Anand mentioned were strong enough in its > favor. > > Lets have a comparison table in the wiki for both colleges. Based on the postives and negatives we can vote for it . 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I think, they should be approached at-least. +1 from my side On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > Adding a few obvious points - > A central/known location = more number delegates would find it easy to > reach PyCon. > A good infrastructure = A long lasting impression on everyone, speakers and > delegates alike. > > If possible would it be appropriate to take pictures of infrastructure > offered? , or the details along with what we pay -> what we get kind of > comparison. > > Even if the location is a bit far off I'm in favor of putting in extra > effort to reach. > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I > think, they should be approached at-least. > > +1 from my side > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > >> Adding a few obvious points - >> A central/known location = more number delegates would find it easy to >> reach PyCon. >> A good infrastructure = A long lasting impression on everyone, speakers >> and delegates alike. >> >> If possible would it be appropriate to take pictures of infrastructure >> offered? , or the details along with what we pay -> what we get kind of >> comparison. >> >> Even if the location is a bit far off I'm in favor of putting in extra >> effort to reach. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > > I've been to all the three places. I dont see much of difference in terms of infrastructure offered. The engineering colleges will definitely offer better deal, since it makes sense to them, rather than a college like St Josephs. Point raised on student support is very important But a central location will definitely help a number of fence sitters and lazy souls to make it to the event. That's the idea > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 19:05:54 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:35:54 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: <20100505141926.GB7783@remy> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Ramdas S wrote: [..] > I've been to all the three places. I dont see much of difference in terms of > infrastructure offered. The engineering colleges will definitely offer > better deal, since it makes sense to them, rather than a college like St > Josephs. That is a valid point. > Point raised on student support is very important Although it could be misleading. Kenneth's point of one faculty member being equal to 500 students is important. We can't just straight away say that there's support there and leap in. While the enthusiasm is good, it's sometimes the case that the initial spirit dies out once things get tedious. It certainly doesn't look good like that but if we commit and advertise, it's a point of no return so we should have some guarantees. With RV, the guarantee is a little strong since Renuka Prasad and Baiju already know each other and the rapport exists. This is something to watch out for. > But a central location will definitely help a number of fence sitters and > lazy souls to make it to the event. That's the idea Well, perhaps. I'm not particularly keen on dragging fence sitters into the conference. In fact, I'm quite against actively trying to get uninterested people here. They'd sit on fences at the event and simply add to the junta. I feel that the right thing to do is to get the best facilities possible so that the people who *are* interested in Python have a great conference which they benefit from. Why the heck would you want lazy souls to attend anyway? I'm -0 on this venue myself. One thing which we need if we are going to make this the venue is for a volunteer to be in charge of the venue. This would mean talking to the contact people there and making sure that all the facilities are available and working fine. There would be a few "official" meetings between us and the principal etc. but he would have to completely own this aspect of the conference. With RV, we have Baiju and he's got a reliable person at the college end too. Without such a person, no matter how many positive points, I don't feel that MSRIT will work out. So, anyone upto it? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 5 19:17:32 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:47:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: <20100505141926.GB7783@remy> Message-ID: CCing the list again. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Ramdas S wrote: [..] > I guess someone needs to go to MSRIT. I know couple of? lecturers there, and > I am myself speaking there in a few days on a completely non Pythonic and > non technology topic. Let me speak with my contacts at MSRIT, and see the > response. Will report on this in a day or two.[..] Cool. I must re emphasise the need for a single person from our end to be the contact point for the venue (similar to Baiju for RV). Unless this is there, I don't think the venue won't work even if it's otherwise better. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From abpillai at gmail.com Thu May 6 06:08:55 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 09:38:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: <20100505141926.GB7783@remy> Message-ID: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > > I've been to all the three places. I dont see much of difference in terms > of infrastructure offered. The engineering colleges will definitely offer > better deal, since it makes sense to them, rather than a college like St > Josephs. > > Point raised on student support is very important > > But a central location will definitely help a number of fence sitters and > lazy souls to make it to the event. That's the idea > I don't think the conference is aimed at lazy souls and fence sitters who plan to attend only if it is packaged and brought close to their homes. Anyway this entire thinking doesn't make sense because people who are interested in conferences travel hundreds of miles from their place to attend. What is the problem for a local guy to travel an additional few kms then ? Discussion among such lines are unproductive at best. We have a strong incentive to conduct it in Engg. colleges as opposed to other places because a wide audience for the conference is already ready to be picked right there. > > > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Remember that for R V College, we have > approached them. > > +1 for MSRIT. > as already mentioned, 1 staff member is worth 500 students. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 6 07:39:24 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:09:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005061109.24697.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Wednesday 05 May 2010 19:13:18 Anand Chitipothu wrote: > Also, we should appreciate the enthusiasm of the students who have > come forward with this offer. Remember that for R V College, we have > approached them. > they approached us -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 6 07:41:00 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:00 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: <20100505141215.GA7783@remy> References: <20100505141215.GA7783@remy> Message-ID: <201005061111.00694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Wednesday 05 May 2010 19:42:15 Senthil Kumaran wrote: > > Also, we should appreciate the enthusiasm of the students who have > > come forward with this offer. Remember that for R V College, we have > > approached them. > > > > +1 for MSRIT. > > Valid points. > +1 from my side too. > I noted the 'GNU' in the users group that has volunteered. I hope in the event of this event being hosted by them, mac users, windows users and proprietary application users will not be harassed. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 6 07:43:01 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:13:01 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005061113.01945.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Wednesday 05 May 2010 21:52:50 Ramdas S wrote: > But a central location will definitely help a number of fence sitters and > lazy souls to make it to the event. That's the idea > do we want them? -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:02:51 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:32:51 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: <20100505141926.GB7783@remy> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: [..] > ?I don't think the conference is aimed at lazy souls and fence sitters who > plan > to attend only if it is packaged and brought close to their homes. Anyway > this > entire thinking doesn't make sense because people who are interested in > conferences travel hundreds of miles from their place to attend. What is the > problem for a local guy to travel an additional few kms then ? Fence sitters and lazy people are best avoided. If there's a guarantee that holding a conference in college X would prevent such people from coming, I'd +1 that suggestion. There is however another issue. Once people are inside the city, commuting and getting buses is something we have to consider. I'm sure all of us would be pretty opposed to a conference near the new airport if we got a venue there. So, the location point is not entirely baseless. I'm still a little little undecided and while there have been good points raised, nothing is, as far as I can see, conclusive enough to decide. I spoke to Sri today morning and he's generally favouring MSRIT because of the location. I know from my road trips to Kerala that RV is a little far. However, The Baiju-Renuka Prasad connection is extremely valuable. Renuka Prasad called me today morning and they're equally enthusiastic about holding the event there if not more so. > ?Discussion among such lines are unproductive at best. We have a strong > ?incentive to conduct it in Engg. colleges as opposed to other places > because > ?a wide audience for the conference is already ready to be picked right > there. MSRIT and RV are both technical institutions aren't they? I think there will be plenty of students from either place. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:04:35 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:34:35 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: <201005061111.00694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <20100505141215.GA7783@remy> <201005061111.00694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [..] > I noted the 'GNU' in the users group that has volunteered. I hope in the event > of this event being hosted by them, mac users, windows users and proprietary > application users will not be harassed. [..] I'm sure there will be zealots everywhere. As long as it's an aberration rather than the rule, I think we should be fine. For that matter, even the "Python Rocks! Language X sucks!" annoys me even at a Python conference. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:05:43 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:35:43 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: <201005061103.14698.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005061103.14698.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wednesday 05 May 2010 19:13:18 Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> Also, we should appreciate the enthusiasm of the students who have >> come forward with this offer. Remember that for R V College, we have >> approached them. >> >> +1 for MSRIT. >> > > as already mentioned, 1 staff member is worth 500 students. Ramdas has volunteered to go and speak to them in a day or two. I'm sure this student organisation has a few members of staff involved. If one of them is enthusiastic about it, it'll take care of this. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From sree at mahiti.org Thu May 6 08:09:51 2010 From: sree at mahiti.org (Sreekanth S Rameshaiah) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:39:51 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: <201005061103.14698.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On 6 May 2010 11:35, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves > wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 May 2010 19:13:18 Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> Also, we should appreciate the enthusiasm of the students who have > >> come forward with this offer. Remember that for R V College, we have > >> approached them. > >> > >> +1 for MSRIT. > >> > > > > as already mentioned, 1 staff member is worth 500 students. > > Ramdas has volunteered to go and speak to them in a day or two. I'm > sure this student organisation has a few members of staff involved. If > one of them is enthusiastic about it, it'll take care of this. > I will join Ramdas to MSRIT. Am ready to co-ordinate with MSRIT till the enent closure as required. - sree > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Sreekanth S Rameshaiah Executive Director Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. # 33-34, 2nd Floor, Hennur Cross, Hennur Road, Bangalore, India - 560043 Phone: +91 80 4115 0580/1 Mobile: +91 98455 12611 www.mahiti.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:10:21 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:40:21 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Anil, Adarsh mailed us telling us about the excellent facilities available at MSRIT and the interest it has in hosting the conference which we're planning. I'm not sure if you're a student or a member of the staff. If the former, can you hook us up with a staff member involved with the user group? Someone from our side would like to meet you guys face to face to discuss matters. I must emphasise upfront that this will not be a pure free software/open source event. It's a programming language conference and will have proprietary software discussed and maybe distributed. Is this an issue with your group? Thanks On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adarsh J wrote: > Hi, > ??? I am Adarsh, Co ordinator for GNU/Linux User group (VRGLINUG) at MSRIT, > I have been following the discussions and aditya cs had contacted me for > msrit as one of venue options, It would be our pleasure to host the pycon > event, we have excellent infrastructure in place, the whole of user group is > highly eager to help in organizing and volunteering for the event. We have > total of 6 audis, our biggest audi, which will be inaugurated by the end of > this month is having a approx capacity of 1K, each audi is well equipped > with projectors, enough power points, wifi connectivity etc.. The college is > near the heart of city and reachable within 15 to 20mins from majestic (also > from BIAS, it will hardly take 1hr). We have previously hosted Adobe Flex > boot camp[600+ participants], Honeywells Noble lecture series[by a Nobel > Laureate], and multiple national level conferences. We have spoken with > principal sir and there is no problem in getting the resources approved from > college. [ We can take care of the booking of halls on those days(Most > probably college wont charge any fee for audi, if our user group is also > involved) ]. > > ?? I will be out of town for next couple of weeks and hence the following > person can be contacted for any further information: > > Point of contact: > Anil Kumar M > 9739754227 > mak at vrglinug.org / anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com > > Regards, > Adarsh J > (alternate mail: adarshaj [at] gmail.com) > PS. Sorry for the previous blank mail (problem with net connectivity) > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From adarsh at vrglinug.org Thu May 6 08:10:26 2010 From: adarsh at vrglinug.org (Adarsh J) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:40:26 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: <20100505141926.GB7783@remy> Message-ID: >initial spirit dies out once things get tedious Not in our case! We, the members of lug, have always dedicated ourselves to achieve what ever we have taken up, the previous years open source convention, Mukthi 9.05(mukthi.vrglinug.org/9.05) and Mukthi 9.11 (mukthi.vrglinug.org) prove the point crystal clear, both of these events were completely organized by our student group, right from the initiative, planning, publicity to even handling some of the core technical sessions. >one faculty member being equal to 500 students is important If you are so specific about it, then we have our mentor, Dr. K G Srinivasa, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, who can help us out in any way possible, he can be reached at kgsrinivas [at] msrit.edu. >MSRIT and RV are both technical institutions aren't they? I think there will be plenty of students from either place. Yes, there will be plenty from any tech institute for a conference like this! On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > I noted the 'GNU' in the users group that has volunteered. I hope in the event > of this event being hosted by them, mac users, windows users and proprietary > application users will not be harassed. LOL! We are passionate about the technology and brand name really does not matter for students like us... I can give you cent percent assurance of nothing like that would happen :)! On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > CCing the list again. > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > [..] > > I guess someone needs to go to MSRIT. I know couple of lecturers there, > and > > I am myself speaking there in a few days on a completely non Pythonic and > > non technology topic. Let me speak with my contacts at MSRIT, and see the > > response. Will report on this in a day or two.[..] > > Cool. > > I must re emphasise the need for a single person from our end to be > the contact point for the venue (similar to Baiju for RV). Unless this > is there, I don't think the venue won't work even if it's otherwise > better. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 6 08:14:22 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:44:22 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: <201005061111.00694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005061144.22947.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Thursday 06 May 2010 11:34:35 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > [..] > > > I noted the 'GNU' in the users group that has volunteered. I hope in the > > event of this event being hosted by them, mac users, windows users and > > proprietary application users will not be harassed. > > [..] > > I'm sure there will be zealots everywhere. As long as it's an > aberration rather than the rule, I think we should be fine. > I am not actually talking about zealots - after all I am one ;-) I am just making sure they understand the difference between a language conference and a FOSS/OSS conference. This point has come up several times already and if the 'GNU/Linux users group' is not clear on this, or not comfortable about this, there will be problems. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:25:50 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:55:50 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE Message-ID: FWIW, I've set up another poll at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YH6YXYJ This solicits preferences for the college. Let's see where it goes. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:26:18 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:56:18 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: <20100505141926.GB7783@remy> Message-ID: Hi Adarsh, On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Adarsh J wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Kenneth > Gonsalves??wrote: >> I noted the 'GNU' in the users group that has volunteered. I hope in the >> event of this event being hosted by them, mac users, windows users and >> proprietary application users will not be harassed. > > LOL! We are passionate about the technology and brand name really does not > matter for students like us... I can give you cent percent assurance of > nothing like that would happen :)! IMHO, you should avoid "GNU" banner as this conference will definitely involve proprietary stuff. Any hard-core GNU person who understand the GNU philosophy will resist this: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html You may use "Computer Science Department" or MSRIT itself as the name, but not the "GNU" brand. GNU is not really about being "passionate about the technology" It's really about the "brand name". I hope you got the idea. Regards, Baiju M From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:28:00 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:58:00 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Baiju M wrote: [..] > IMHO, you should avoid "GNU" banner as this conference will definitely involve > proprietary stuff. Any hard-core GNU person who understand the GNU philosophy > will resist this: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html > > You may use "Computer Science Department" or MSRIT itself as the name, but > not the "GNU" brand. ?GNU is not really about being "passionate about > the technology" > It's really about the "brand name". ?I hope you got the idea.[..] Good point. I'm usually a bit of a GNUisance myself when it comes to proprietary vs. free but for a conf. like this, it's best to avoid that side of things. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 6 08:34:45 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:04:45 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Thursday 06 May 2010 11:55:50 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > FWIW, I've set up another poll at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YH6YXYJ > > This solicits preferences for the college. Let's see where it goes. > please do not set up polls like this - they are easily manipulated and of not much use. What is to prevent me from getting a few hundred people to vote in favour of one or the other option? -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:36:46 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:06:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2010 11:55:50 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> FWIW, I've set up another poll at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YH6YXYJ >> >> This solicits preferences for the college. Let's see where it goes. >> > > please do not set up polls like this - they are easily manipulated and of not > much use. What is to prevent me from getting a few hundred people to vote in > favour of one or the other option?[..] Nothing. There's nothing to prevent others from doing it either. At the very least, it shows that someone is super passionate about an option. It's not accurate but unless there are people with vested interests in holding it (as in the case of political elections), no one is going to distribute whiskey to the unwashed masses to change the balance. It doesn't do any harm. Let's see what the results are. We'll fix the venue only after more serious steps (talking to officials, evaluating venues etc.) are done. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 6 08:57:31 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:27:31 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:06:46 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > It doesn't do any harm. > it does harm - selection of Bangalore over Chennai for the venue was done on the basis of 64 - 34 of the first 100 votes. Although we all accepted this, it did not leave a very pleasant taste in the mouth. To be meaningful, a survey should permit only one vote per person, the persons should register to vote, his registration has to be accepted. We did one such poll for chennai lug once where only members of the mailing list could cast precisely one vote per head. And it worked like a charm. (we also had another poll where someone gamed the system for fun and we had well over a thousand votes!). I am very strongly against this type of thing. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From jaganadhg at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:57:47 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:27:47 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > FWIW, I've set up another poll at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YH6YXYJ > > This solicits preferences for the college. Let's see where it goes. > > I think some more pints to be added to the survey page. It is diffcult for a a prson who is not familier with those colleges and Banglore to judge this with the features specified in the page. -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaganadhg at gmail.com Thu May 6 08:58:58 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:28:58 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: . To be meaningful, a survey > should permit only one vote per person, the persons should register to > vote, > his registration has to be accepted. > I agress with this opinion . I think we have to consider this . -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abpillai at gmail.com Thu May 6 09:01:50 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:31:50 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:06:46 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > It doesn't do any harm. > > > > it does harm - selection of Bangalore over Chennai for the venue was done > on > the basis of 64 - 34 of the first 100 votes. Although we all accepted this, > it > did not leave a very pleasant taste in the mouth. To be meaningful, a > survey > should permit only one vote per person, the persons should register to > vote, > his registration has to be accepted. We did one such poll for chennai lug > once > where only members of the mailing list could cast precisely one vote per > head. > And it worked like a charm. (we also had another poll where someone gamed > the > system for fun and we had well over a thousand votes!). I am very strongly > against this type of thing. > I agree. Let us not do snap polls just on whims. Instead of forcing polls upon members of this list, we can just discuss the pros and cons of each and arrive at a decision. It may take time, but as long as we fix a time limit for it, that is fine. Let us say we wrap this in the next 1-2 weeks, if not earlier. > > -- > Regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Associate > NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 09:03:43 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:33:43 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:06:46 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> It doesn't do any harm. >> > > it does harm - selection of Bangalore over Chennai for the venue was done on > the basis of 64 - 34 of the first 100 votes. Although we all accepted this, it > did not leave a very pleasant taste in the mouth. To be meaningful, a survey > should permit only one vote per person, the persons should register to vote, > his registration has to be accepted. We did one such poll for chennai lug once > where only members of the mailing list could cast precisely one vote per head. > And it worked like a charm. (we also had another poll where someone gamed the > system for fun and we had well over a thousand votes!). I am very strongly > against this type of thing.[..] It does have a rudimentary one vote per machine thing although playing with some cookies and stuff should let you bypass that. If the thing is gamed and things look wild, we'll simply disregard it. We're at a stalemate right now regarding the colleges. Let's just look at what comes out of this. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 09:12:20 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:42:20 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: [..] > I agree. Let us not do snap polls just on whims. Instead of forcing polls > upon members of this list, we can just discuss the pros and cons of > each and arrive at a decision. It may take time, but as long as we fix > a time limit for it, that is fine. > > Let us say we wrap this in the next 1-2 weeks, if not earlier. [..] Yes. I think end of next week should be fine. I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements The main minus point for RV is the distance. and the main minus point for MSRIT is the lack of contact with a staff member. Apart from that, they both seem equal. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 6 09:17:36 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:47:36 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005061247.36666.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:33:43 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > It does have a rudimentary one vote per machine thing although playing > with some cookies and stuff should let you bypass that. > I voted 4 times - it did not protest. And what happens anyway if ten genuine people in my lab who are going to attend the conference all use the same IP for voting? I have yet to see any serious group using this type of poll for anything. And anyway the most popular way that frameworks like django, web.py, turbogears et al advertise themselves is in demoing writing a poll application in 5 minutes - so it is no big deal to have a proper poll if one is needed -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From jaganadhg at gmail.com Thu May 6 09:17:05 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:47:05 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: > Yes. I think end of next week should be fine. > > I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements > > The main minus point for RV is the distance. > and the main minus point for MSRIT is the lack of contact with a staff > member. > > Apart from that, they both seem equal. > > Noufal If possible put the web site address of both collges asome wiki pages etc to our wiki. I think Ajay pointed about some staff members name form MSRT? Does anybody have an active contact from BangPypers ?? If so it will be easy I think -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I think end of next week should be fine. > > I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements > > The main minus point for RV is the distance. > and the main minus point for MSRIT is the lack of contact with a staff > member. > > Apart from that, they both seem equal. > do not forget that the staff member in RV is a core/active member of bangpypers and the inpycon group. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 09:23:30 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:53:30 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:47 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: [..] > Noufal > > If possible put the web site address of both collges asome wiki pages etc to > our wiki. > I think Ajay pointed about some staff members name form MSRT? > ?Does anybody have an active contact from BangPypers ?? > If so it will be easy I think It is a wiki. If you feel that there's value in adding them, please add the links. You don't have to ask me to do it. :) Ramdas and Sri have said that they're going to speak with MSRIT. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 09:25:12 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:55:12 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005061247.36666.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061247.36666.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:33:43 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> It does have a rudimentary one vote per machine thing although playing >> with some cookies and stuff should let you bypass that. >> > > I voted 4 times - it did not protest. And what happens anyway if ten genuine > people in my lab who are going to attend the conference all use the same IP > for voting? I have yet to see any serious group using this type of poll for > anything. And anyway the most popular way that frameworks like django, web.py, > turbogears et al advertise themselves is in demoing writing a poll application > in 5 minutes - so it is no big deal to have a proper poll if one is needed[..] Okay. I'm convinced. Forget the poll. The points that are coming up on the thread are more relevant. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Thu May 6 09:29:35 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:59:35 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005061248.48684.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005061248.48684.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:42:20 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > I agree. Let us not do snap polls just on whims. Instead of forcing > polls > > > upon members of this list, we can just discuss the pros and cons of > > > each and arrive at a decision. It may take time, but as long as we fix > > > a time limit for it, that is fine. > > > > > > Let us say we wrap this in the next 1-2 weeks, if not earlier. > > > > [..] > > > > Yes. I think end of next week should be fine. > > > > I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements > > > > The main minus point for RV is the distance. > > and the main minus point for MSRIT is the lack of contact with a staff > > member. > > > > Apart from that, they both seem equal. > > > > do not forget that the staff member in RV is a core/active member of > bangpypers > and the inpycon group. > hi all , sorry for replying very late well i will give up if it is too much inconvenient to host in rvce anyways i am there any time for FOSS activities well if you need contact in MSRIT , i can give it , why to try very hard ,as during RMS visit to bangalore last time we had meeting with the whole team of MSRIT , HOD of all the departments were addressed by RMS to include FOSS in curriculum under VTU i personaly know few HODs and also i know few faculties , let me know whether i should talk to them or not -- > Regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Associate > NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I think end of next week should be fine. > > I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when we were approached for that many , we confirmed that much we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big hall ) with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind of events we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number a big class rooom with 150 capacity may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet connection to the venues , few access points have to be rented > > The main minus point for RV is the distance. > and the main minus point for MSRIT is the lack of contact with a staff > member. > > Apart from that, they both seem equal. > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Roshan Mathews From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 09:59:46 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:29:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:04 PM, renuka prasad [..] > there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when we were > approached for that many , we confirmed that much > > we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big hall ) > with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind of events > > we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) > > 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number > > a big class rooom with 150 capacity > > may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday > > we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet connection to > the venues , few access points have to be rented Facilities wise, I think both colleges are roughly the same. The only extra things which would be nice (although not necessary) are wifi in the rooms where the delegates will be and projectors in the rooms. What's the situation with wifi/projectors at MSRIT? A related point is that this is the thread where we're discussing the venue and one person from RV is here talking about it. There's no one from MSRIT? A sign of things to come? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 6 11:35:40 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:05:40 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005061505.40797.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Thursday 06 May 2010 13:08:58 Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:27, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > And it worked like a charm. (we also had another poll where someone gamed > > the system for fun and we had well over a thousand votes!). > > Although just for completeness, the whole point of adding a thousand > votes soon after the poll was announced was to show that it could be > gamed. > so *you* were the guy who did it! -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From vid at svaksha.com Thu May 6 11:38:10 2010 From: vid at svaksha.com (=?UTF-8?B?IOCkuOCljeCkteCkleCljeCktyA=?=) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:23:10 +0545 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT as Venue In-Reply-To: <201005061144.22947.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005061111.00694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061144.22947.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:59, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2010 11:34:35 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> I'm sure there will be zealots everywhere. As long as it's an >> aberration rather than the rule, I think we should be fine. >> > > I am not actually talking about zealots - after all I am one ;-) I am just > making sure they understand the difference between a language conference and a > FOSS/OSS conference. This point has come up several times already and if the > 'GNU/Linux users group' is not clear on this, or not comfortable about this, > there will be problems. I agree. I have strong beliefs too but the difference lies in how the idealism is used-- either in a positive[1] or in a negative[2] manner. [2] My laptop has Broadcomm bcm43x proprietary drivers that didnt allow me to dualboot Ubuntu when I purchased it. When I was discussing and showing this to a person attending fossin2007, a person standing nearby asked if they could take a photograph of me using windows and I asked why. The reply was to blog about it, which I felt was negative, hence refused. [1] A start contrast was pycon, where I still had the same old wifi problems and still dual booted with windows. Here, the attitude I experienced was: EVERY person went out of their way to help me....In my eyes, someone missing 15 minutes out of a star speakers talk to help out with wifi issues is just a *huge* favor. -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com From kunalkantsen at gmail.com Thu May 6 11:39:16 2010 From: kunalkantsen at gmail.com (kunalkant sen) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:09:16 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] About Venue Message-ID: Hi All, I am seeing lost of discussion on venue and some are leading towards nothing. Take any college, i think we shouldn't worry about knowing any person their or not. Go ahead and take appointment and believe me no one will deny fruitful discussion. That's my experience.The office bearer should take this responsibility or let me know if i can fix appointment with given engg college on any fix date. In RV engg college I personally know few decision makers who will take decision. So i can help. I want to add one point here, you guys look to "The Institute of Engineers" seriously. They have 2 huge hall and one small hall. Price is dirt cheap, i can talk for free too. They have huge database of engineers too. I can arrange discussion with managing director. Direction is here. Address : Dr Ambedkar Rd, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 100 Meter from The Indian Express Bus Stop. Kunal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Such things need to be discussed and properly presented so that the pycon organizers, attendees, sponsors, etc .... dont feel cheated at a later date if certain deliverables dont match up to expectations. -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 11:55:58 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:25:58 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] About Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, kunalkant sen wrote: [..] > I want to add one point here, you guys look to "The Institute of Engineers" > seriously. They have 2 huge hall and one small hall. Price is dirt cheap, i > can talk for free too. They have huge database of engineers too.? I can > arrange discussion with managing director. Direction is here. Address : Dr > Ambedkar Rd, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 100 Meter from The Indian > Express Bus Stop. No more! :) We'll never converge. One of RV or MSRIT. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Thu May 6 12:01:19 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:31:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] About Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, kunalkant sen wrote: > Hi All, > I am seeing lost of discussion on venue and some are leading towards > nothing. > Take any college, i think we shouldn't worry about knowing any person their > or not. Go ahead and take appointment and believe me no one will deny > fruitful discussion. That's my experience.The office bearer should take this > responsibility or let me know if i can fix appointment with given engg > college on any fix date. > > In RV engg college I personally know few decision makers who will take > decision. So i can help. > I want to add one point here, you guys look to "The Institute of Engineers" it is better to look into some education institution as pycon2010 is not just about conducting an event but also to spread python, etc etc .. doing in educational institution is always a good feeling for both the organization and as well as organizers the Institute of engineers is very noisy place -- i mean too much of traffic also in educational institutions you will get some space to walk around and also sit at some places and talk peacefully with a sip of coffee /tea > seriously. They have 2 huge hall and one small hall. Price is dirt cheap, i > can talk for free too. They have huge database of engineers too. I can > arrange discussion with managing director. Direction is here. > Address : Dr Ambedkar Rd, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 100 Meter > from The Indian Express Bus Stop. > > > Kunal > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ramdaz at gmail.com Thu May 6 12:01:27 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:31:27 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] About Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, kunalkant sen wrote: > Hi All, > I am seeing lost of discussion on venue and some are leading towards > nothing. > Take any college, i think we shouldn't worry about knowing any person their > or not. Go ahead and take appointment and believe me no one will deny > fruitful discussion. That's my experience.The office bearer should take this > responsibility or let me know if i can fix appointment with given engg > college on any fix date. > > In RV engg college I personally know few decision makers who will take > decision. So i can help. > I want to add one point here, you guys look to "The Institute of Engineers" > seriously. They have 2 huge hall and one small hall. Price is dirt cheap, i > can talk for free too. They have huge database of engineers too. I can > arrange discussion with managing director. Direction is here. > Address : Dr Ambedkar Rd, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 100 Meter > from The Indian Express Bus Stop. > > Institute of Engineers is a good place geographically. Cons: Limited Parking All other infrastructure need to be arranged. > > Kunal > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- Ramdas S +91 9342 583 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Thu May 6 12:06:46 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:36:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] About Venue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, kunalkant sen > wrote: > [..] > > I want to add one point here, you guys look to "The Institute of > Engineers" > > seriously. They have 2 huge hall and one small hall. Price is dirt cheap, > i > > can talk for free too. They have huge database of engineers too. I can > > arrange discussion with managing director. Direction is here. Address : > Dr > > Ambedkar Rd, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 100 Meter from The > Indian > > Express Bus Stop. > bigger than this closer to bus station and railway station ( just one km)similar facilities are available it is a college called , SJRC college of arts and science a big hall with ( 600 to 700 capacity) other class rooms and small halls also available , computer labs are also available there will not be any local commuting chages at all for outsiders .. as there are atleast 50 hotels within 1 km range costing Rs 500 to 5000Rs per day if we go on searching there are many such similar colleges which will offer for free also > > No more! :) > We'll never converge. One of RV or MSRIT. > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anyway, good that Roshen owned up :) > -- > Regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Associate > NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 6 13:25:11 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 16:55:11 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061625.04462.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005061655.12013.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Thursday 06 May 2010 16:31:30 Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > you gave the code - but people are still suspecting me > > Yes, I really thought Kenneth was behind it considering how opposed > he is to polls. Anyway, good that Roshen owned up :) > I think we are talking at cross purposes, Roshan and I were talking about how the ilugc poll was gamed - I am not aware of whether he gamed this one also -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 13:31:21 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 17:01:21 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005061655.12013.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005061625.04462.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061655.12013.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2010 16:31:30 Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: >> > you gave the code - but people are still suspecting me >> >> Yes, I really thought Kenneth was behind it considering how opposed >> he is to polls. Anyway, good that Roshen owned up :) >> > > I think we are talking at cross purposes, Roshan and I were talking about how > the ilugc poll was gamed - I am not aware of whether he gamed this one also This one so far has just 80 or so votes so if he did game it, I wouldn't vouch for his gaming sk1llZ. :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 6 19:16:21 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 22:46:21 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061625.04462.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061655.12013.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> On Thursday 06 May 2010 16:31:30 Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: >>> > you gave the code - but people are still suspecting me >>> >>> Yes, I really thought Kenneth was behind it considering how opposed >>> he is to polls. Anyway, good that Roshen owned up :) >>> >> >> I think we are talking at cross purposes, Roshan and I were talking about how >> the ilugc poll was gamed - I am not aware of whether he gamed this one also > > This one so far has just 80 or so votes so if he did game it, I > wouldn't vouch for his gaming sk1llZ. :) Just in case anyone is interested, the poll has around 100 respondents with 90% supporting RV, 4% MSRIT and 5% who are fine with either. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From rmathews at gmail.com Fri May 7 03:39:29 2010 From: rmathews at gmail.com (Roshan Mathews) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 07:09:29 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061625.04462.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061655.12013.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 22:46, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> This one so far has just 80 or so votes so if he did game it, I >> wouldn't vouch for his gaming sk1llZ. :) > > Just in case anyone is interested, the poll has around 100 respondents > with 90% supporting RV, 4% MSRIT and 5% who are fine with either. > And I didn't have anything to do with it! :) Roshan Mathews From abpillai at gmail.com Fri May 7 09:34:42 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 13:04:42 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061625.04462.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061655.12013.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 22:46, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> This one so far has just 80 or so votes so if he did game it, I > >> wouldn't vouch for his gaming sk1llZ. :) > > > > Just in case anyone is interested, the poll has around 100 respondents > > with 90% supporting RV, 4% MSRIT and 5% who are fine with either. > Just a warning. This is going to change because I am going to vote 1000 for MSRIT. Thought I would say so in the beginning rather than owning up later :-) > > > > And I didn't have anything to do with it! :) > > Roshan Mathews > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anandology at gmail.com Fri May 7 11:24:05 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 14:54:05 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: >> I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements > > there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when we were > approached for that many , we confirmed that much > > we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big hall ) > with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind of events > > we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) > > 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number > > a big class rooom with 150 capacity > > may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday > > we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet connection to > the venues , few access points have to be rented I think we need one big room with 250+ capacity, another room with 100-150 capacity and some open space for people to interact. Are these rooms equipped with projectors? Anand From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Fri May 7 12:11:26 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 15:41:26 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: >>> I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. >>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements >> >> there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when we were >> approached for that many , we confirmed that much >> >> we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big hall ) >> with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind of events >> >> we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) >> >> 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number >> >> a big class rooom with 150 capacity >> >> may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday >> >> we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet connection to >> the venues , few access points have to be rented > > I think we need one big room with 250+ capacity, another room with > 100-150 capacity and some open space for people to interact. > Are these rooms equipped with projectors? There was some projectors when I visited two years back: http://pics.livejournal.com/baijum81/pic/0000703b/ http://pics.livejournal.com/baijum81/pic/000085xr/ Regards, Baiju M From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Fri May 7 16:23:30 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 19:53:30 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. > >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements > > > > there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when we > were > > approached for that many , we confirmed that much > > > > we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big hall > ) > > with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind of > events > > > > we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) > > > > 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number > > > > a big class rooom with 150 capacity > > > > may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday > > > > we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet connection to > > the venues , few access points have to be rented > > I think we need one big room with 250+ capacity, another room with > 100-150 capacity and some open space for people to interact. > Are these rooms equipped with projectors? > the two seminar halls are fully equipped , audio + projector is available > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can contact him or myself for any > further queries. > Staff member: > Mr. Vinayaka Rao > Email id: vintesh.1976 at gmail.com > Anil (student) > Department of Computer Science > Email id: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com > > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >> Hello Anil, >> ? Adarsh mailed us telling us about the excellent facilities >> available at MSRIT and the interest it has in hosting the conference >> which we're planning. >> >> ? I'm not sure if you're a student or a member of the staff. If the >> former, can you hook us up with a staff member involved with the user >> group? Someone from our side would like to meet you guys face to face >> to discuss matters. >> >> ? I must emphasise upfront that this will not be a pure free >> software/open source event. It's a programming language conference and >> will have proprietary software discussed and maybe distributed. Is >> this an issue with your group? >> >> Thanks >> >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adarsh J wrote: >> > Hi, >> > ??? I am Adarsh, Co ordinator for GNU/Linux User group (VRGLINUG) at >> > MSRIT, >> > I have been following the discussions and aditya cs had contacted me for >> > msrit as one of venue options, It would be our pleasure to host the >> > pycon >> > event, we have excellent infrastructure in place, the whole of user >> > group is >> > highly eager to help in organizing and volunteering for the event. We >> > have >> > total of 6 audis, our biggest audi, which will be inaugurated by the end >> > of >> > this month is having a approx capacity of 1K, each audi is well equipped >> > with projectors, enough power points, wifi connectivity etc.. The >> > college is >> > near the heart of city and reachable within 15 to 20mins from majestic >> > (also >> > from BIAS, it will hardly take 1hr). We have previously hosted Adobe >> > Flex >> > boot camp[600+ participants], Honeywells Noble lecture series[by a Nobel >> > Laureate], and multiple national level conferences. We have spoken with >> > principal sir and there is no problem in getting the resources approved >> > from >> > college. [ We can take care of the booking of halls on those days(Most >> > probably college wont charge any fee for audi, if our user group is also >> > involved) ]. >> > >> > ?? I will be out of town for next couple of weeks and hence the >> > following >> > person can be contacted for any further information: >> > >> > Point of contact: >> > Anil Kumar M >> > 9739754227 >> > mak at vrglinug.org / anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com >> > >> > Regards, >> > Adarsh J >> > (alternate mail: adarshaj [at] gmail.com) >> > PS. Sorry for the previous blank mail (problem with net connectivity) >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Inpycon mailing list >> > Inpycon at python.org >> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ~noufal >> http://nibrahim.net.in > > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From jaganadhg at gmail.com Fri May 7 16:51:22 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 20:21:22 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 website suggestion Message-ID: Dear All I think we need to link the 'Pycon India 2009' website with in the 'PyconIndia 2010' website. Possibly as a ne menu item called "Past Conferences" With regards Jaggu -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 7 17:06:05 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 20:36:05 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 website suggestion In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:21 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: > Dear All > > I think we need to link the 'Pycon India 2009' website with in the > 'PyconIndia 2010' website. > Possibly as a ne menu item called "Past Conferences" It's possible but the URL is quite clear. in.pycon.org/2010 and thereforce in.pycon.org/2009. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 7 19:39:01 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 23:09:01 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: I'll most probably be away for the weekend and won't be online. I presume that Ramdas and/or Sree will go to/talk to MSRIT. Once that's done, we'll have some concrete facts to bit and can decide on which college to hold the conference in. We should be able to wrap it up by the end of next week and move onto sponsorships. Have a great weekend everyone! -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Sat May 8 02:07:32 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 05:37:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] cheque Message-ID: <201005080537.32265.lawgon@au-kbc.org> hi, have received the cheque - it is made out to 'The Python software society of India', which would generate a 'undefined global variable' error on attempting to import to bank. I am returning the cheque to be rectified. The name is: INDIAN PYTHON SOFTWARE SOCIETY -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Sat May 8 08:03:43 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 11:33:43 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. > >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements > > > > there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when we > were > > approached for that many , we confirmed that much > > > > we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big hall > ) > > with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind of > events > > > > we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) > > > > 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number > > > > a big class rooom with 150 capacity > > > > may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday > > > > we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet connection to > > the venues , few access points have to be rented > > I think we need one big room with 250+ capacity, another room with > 100-150 capacity and some open space for people to interact. > Are these rooms equipped with projectors? > these are some snaps of the resources that are there in rvce , main auditorium and other labs pics are not available right now http://picasaweb.google.com/102307030072437073948/RVCEMCAINFRASTRUCTURE# > Anand > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The name is: > > INDIAN PYTHON SOFTWARE SOCIETY > -- > Regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Associate > NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 8 10:06:34 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 13:36:34 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: I drove from my house (near Kr puram) which is on the eastern end of the city to rv on my drive home. The distance is 27 km and it took me 35 minutes in a car at 645 am. On 5/8/10, renuka prasad wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu > wrote: > >> >> I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. >> >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements >> > >> > there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when we >> were >> > approached for that many , we confirmed that much >> > >> > we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big hall >> ) >> > with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind of >> events >> > >> > we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) >> > >> > 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number >> > >> > a big class rooom with 150 capacity >> > >> > may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday >> > >> > we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet connection >> > to >> > the venues , few access points have to be rented >> >> I think we need one big room with 250+ capacity, another room with >> 100-150 capacity and some open space for people to interact. >> Are these rooms equipped with projectors? >> > these are some snaps of the resources that are there in rvce , > main auditorium and other labs pics are not available right now > http://picasaweb.google.com/102307030072437073948/RVCEMCAINFRASTRUCTURE# > > >> Anand >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Sat May 8 15:59:54 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:29:54 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061204.45694.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > I drove from my house (near Kr puram) which is on the eastern end of > the city to rv on my drive home. The distance is 27 km and it took me > 35 minutes in a car at 645 am. > traffic will be ok till 8.15 to 8.30 am on mysore road , after that till 10.30 am it is tough a bit on weekdays if any one has to reach RV before 9 it is better to start at 7.30 am on any week days if they are staying some where in and around indiranagar , our college bus leaves indiranagar at 7.30 am and reach by 8.30 am every day but if they leave half an hour late then it may take 30 to 40 more minutes depending on traffic as traffic build up in city > > On 5/8/10, renuka prasad wrote: > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu > > wrote: > > > >> >> I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. > >> >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements > >> > > >> > there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when > we > >> were > >> > approached for that many , we confirmed that much > >> > > >> > we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big > hall > >> ) > >> > with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind of > >> events > >> > > >> > we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) > >> > > >> > 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number > >> > > >> > a big class rooom with 150 capacity > >> > > >> > may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday > >> > > >> > we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet connection > >> > to > >> > the venues , few access points have to be rented > >> > >> I think we need one big room with 250+ capacity, another room with > >> 100-150 capacity and some open space for people to interact. > >> Are these rooms equipped with projectors? > >> > > these are some snaps of the resources that are there in rvce , > > main auditorium and other labs pics are not available right now > > http://picasaweb.google.com/102307030072437073948/RVCEMCAINFRASTRUCTURE# > > > > > >> Anand > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Inpycon mailing list > >> Inpycon at python.org > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > >> > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com Sat May 8 16:53:53 2010 From: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com (anil kumar) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 20:23:53 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: Hello, I am a student at MSRIT and a member of GNU/Linux group VRGLINUG at MSRIT. We have contacted the staff member for you to interact and have confirmed with the college administration about the facilities and have received a positive response. You can contact him or myself for any further queries. Staff member: Mr. Vinayaka Rao Ph: 9739290784 Email id: vintesh.1976 at gmail.com Anil (student) Department of Computer Science Ph:9739754227 Email id: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com regards, Anil. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM, renuka prasad wrote: > > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> I drove from my house (near Kr puram) which is on the eastern end of >> the city to rv on my drive home. The distance is 27 km and it took me >> 35 minutes in a car at 645 am. >> > traffic will be ok till 8.15 to 8.30 am on mysore road , after that till > 10.30 am it is tough a bit on weekdays > > if any one has to reach RV before 9 it is better to start at 7.30 am on any > week days if they are staying some where in and around indiranagar , our > college bus leaves indiranagar at 7.30 am and reach by 8.30 am every day > > but if they leave half an hour late then it may take 30 to 40 more minutes > depending on traffic as traffic build up in city > >> >> On 5/8/10, renuka prasad wrote: >> > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu >> > wrote: >> > >> >> >> I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. >> >> >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements >> >> > >> >> > there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when >> we >> >> were >> >> > approached for that many , we confirmed that much >> >> > >> >> > we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big >> hall >> >> ) >> >> > with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind of >> >> events >> >> > >> >> > we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) >> >> > >> >> > 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number >> >> > >> >> > a big class rooom with 150 capacity >> >> > >> >> > may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday >> >> > >> >> > we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet >> connection >> >> > to >> >> > the venues , few access points have to be rented >> >> >> >> I think we need one big room with 250+ capacity, another room with >> >> 100-150 capacity and some open space for people to interact. >> >> Are these rooms equipped with projectors? >> >> >> > these are some snaps of the resources that are there in rvce , >> > main auditorium and other labs pics are not available right now >> > >> http://picasaweb.google.com/102307030072437073948/RVCEMCAINFRASTRUCTURE# >> > >> > >> >> Anand >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Inpycon mailing list >> >> Inpycon at python.org >> >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> >> >> > >> >> >> -- >> ~noufal >> http://nibrahim.net.in >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Sat May 8 17:58:30 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 21:28:30 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005061227.31984.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:23 PM, anil kumar wrote: > Hello, > I am a student at MSRIT and a member of GNU/Linux group VRGLINUG > at MSRIT. We have contacted the staff member for you to interact and have > confirmed with the college administration about the facilities and have > received a positive response. You can contact him or myself for any further > queries. > > what happened to Mr Krishnaraj of Computer Science Department who is the co-ordinator of VRGLINUG group , is he not available ? Staff member: > Mr. Vinayaka Rao > Ph: 9739290784 > Email id: vintesh.1976 at gmail.com > > Anil (student) > Department of Computer Science > Ph:9739754227 > Email id: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com > > regards, > Anil. > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM, renuka prasad wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >>> I drove from my house (near Kr puram) which is on the eastern end of >>> the city to rv on my drive home. The distance is 27 km and it took me >>> 35 minutes in a car at 645 am. >>> >> traffic will be ok till 8.15 to 8.30 am on mysore road , after that till >> 10.30 am it is tough a bit on weekdays >> >> if any one has to reach RV before 9 it is better to start at 7.30 am on >> any week days if they are staying some where in and around indiranagar , our >> college bus leaves indiranagar at 7.30 am and reach by 8.30 am every day >> >> but if they leave half an hour late then it may take 30 to 40 more minutes >> depending on traffic as traffic build up in city >> >>> >>> On 5/8/10, renuka prasad wrote: >>> > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu >>> > wrote: >>> > >>> >> >> I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. >>> >> >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements >>> >> > >>> >> > there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as when >>> we >>> >> were >>> >> > approached for that many , we confirmed that much >>> >> > >>> >> > we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big >>> hall >>> >> ) >>> >> > with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind >>> of >>> >> events >>> >> > >>> >> > we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) >>> >> > >>> >> > 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number >>> >> > >>> >> > a big class rooom with 150 capacity >>> >> > >>> >> > may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday >>> >> > >>> >> > we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet >>> connection >>> >> > to >>> >> > the venues , few access points have to be rented >>> >> >>> >> I think we need one big room with 250+ capacity, another room with >>> >> 100-150 capacity and some open space for people to interact. >>> >> Are these rooms equipped with projectors? >>> >> >>> > these are some snaps of the resources that are there in rvce , >>> > main auditorium and other labs pics are not available right now >>> > >>> http://picasaweb.google.com/102307030072437073948/RVCEMCAINFRASTRUCTURE# >>> > >>> > >>> >> Anand >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Inpycon mailing list >>> >> Inpycon at python.org >>> >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>> >> >>> > >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ~noufal >>> http://nibrahim.net.in >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Inpycon mailing list >>> Inpycon at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com Sat May 8 18:15:09 2010 From: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com (anil kumar) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 21:45:09 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello , we approached Mr Krishnaraj regarding this but he said he would be busy during that time. So we approached Mr Vinayaka rao who is inclined to Open source as well. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:28 PM, renuka prasad wrote: > > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:23 PM, anil kumar wrote: > >> Hello, >> I am a student at MSRIT and a member of GNU/Linux group VRGLINUG >> at MSRIT. We have contacted the staff member for you to interact and have >> confirmed with the college administration about the facilities and have >> received a positive response. You can contact him or myself for any further >> queries. >> >> > what happened to Mr Krishnaraj of Computer Science Department who is the > co-ordinator of VRGLINUG group , is he not available ? > > > Staff member: >> Mr. Vinayaka Rao >> Ph: 9739290784 >> Email id: vintesh.1976 at gmail.com >> >> Anil (student) >> Department of Computer Science >> Ph:9739754227 >> Email id: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com >> >> regards, >> Anil. >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM, renuka prasad wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >>> >>>> I drove from my house (near Kr puram) which is on the eastern end of >>>> the city to rv on my drive home. The distance is 27 km and it took me >>>> 35 minutes in a car at 645 am. >>>> >>> traffic will be ok till 8.15 to 8.30 am on mysore road , after that till >>> 10.30 am it is tough a bit on weekdays >>> >>> if any one has to reach RV before 9 it is better to start at 7.30 am on >>> any week days if they are staying some where in and around indiranagar , our >>> college bus leaves indiranagar at 7.30 am and reach by 8.30 am every day >>> >>> but if they leave half an hour late then it may take 30 to 40 more >>> minutes depending on traffic as traffic build up in city >>> >>>> >>>> On 5/8/10, renuka prasad wrote: >>>> > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu >>>> > wrote: >>>> > >>>> >> >> I've put up the points that have come up so far on a wiki page. >>>> >> >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/VenueRequirements >>>> >> > >>>> >> > there are many more facilities than what is mentioned there, as >>>> when we >>>> >> were >>>> >> > approached for that many , we confirmed that much >>>> >> > >>>> >> > we also have two floors with 70 machines + AC in each floor ( a big >>>> hall >>>> >> ) >>>> >> > with interne facility , which could be used for the workshops kind >>>> of >>>> >> events >>>> >> > >>>> >> > we have hall with 500 capacity ( non AC ) >>>> >> > >>>> >> > 110 capacity halls with AC , 3 in number >>>> >> > >>>> >> > a big class rooom with 150 capacity >>>> >> > >>>> >> > may more labs can also be booked as it is a saturday and sunday >>>> >> > >>>> >> > we do not have wifi - on campus but we can provide internet >>>> connection >>>> >> > to >>>> >> > the venues , few access points have to be rented >>>> >> >>>> >> I think we need one big room with 250+ capacity, another room with >>>> >> 100-150 capacity and some open space for people to interact. >>>> >> Are these rooms equipped with projectors? >>>> >> >>>> > these are some snaps of the resources that are there in rvce , >>>> > main auditorium and other labs pics are not available right now >>>> > >>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/102307030072437073948/RVCEMCAINFRASTRUCTURE# >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >> Anand >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >>>> >> Inpycon mailing list >>>> >> Inpycon at python.org >>>> >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ~noufal >>>> http://nibrahim.net.in >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Inpycon mailing list >>>> Inpycon at python.org >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Inpycon mailing list >>> Inpycon at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can contact him or myself for any >>> further queries. >>> >>> >> what happened to Mr Krishnaraj of Computer Science Department who is the >> co-ordinator of VRGLINUG group , is he not available ? >> >> >> Staff member: >>> Mr. Vinayaka Rao >>> Ph: 9739290784 >>> Email id: vintesh.1976 at gmail.com >>> >>> Anil (student) >>> Department of Computer Science >>> Ph:9739754227 >>> Email id: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com >>> >>> regards, >>> Anil >>> >> Anil, I will be speaking with Sree offline and then contact you and Mr Vinayak. We'll look at meeting you guys sometime next week depending on all our schedules. And then we'll report back to the group. I think based on this we can collectively come to a conclusion. Ramdas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com Sat May 8 18:54:29 2010 From: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com (anil kumar) Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 22:24:29 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: that would be splendid, looking forward to meet you. Anil On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:45 PM, anil kumar wrote: > >> Hello , >> we approached Mr Krishnaraj regarding this but he said he would >> be busy during that time. So we approached Mr Vinayaka rao who is inclined >> to Open source as well. >> >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:28 PM, renuka prasad wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:23 PM, anil kumar wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I am a student at MSRIT and a member of GNU/Linux group >>>> VRGLINUG at MSRIT. We have contacted the staff member for you to interact >>>> and have confirmed with the college administration about the facilities and >>>> have received a positive response. You can contact him or myself for any >>>> further queries. >>>> >>>> >>> what happened to Mr Krishnaraj of Computer Science Department who is the >>> co-ordinator of VRGLINUG group , is he not available ? >>> >>> >>> Staff member: >>>> Mr. Vinayaka Rao >>>> Ph: 9739290784 >>>> Email id: vintesh.1976 at gmail.com >>>> >>>> Anil (student) >>>> Department of Computer Science >>>> Ph:9739754227 >>>> Email id: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com >>>> >>>> regards, >>>> Anil >>>> >>> > Anil, > > I will be speaking with Sree offline and then contact you and Mr Vinayak. > We'll look at meeting you guys sometime next week depending on all our > schedules. And then we'll report back to the group. > > I think based on this we can collectively come to a conclusion. > > Ramdas > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The name is: > > INDIAN PYTHON SOFTWARE SOCIETY > -- > Regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Associate > NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 10 02:12:44 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 05:42:44 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] cheque In-Reply-To: References: <201005080537.32265.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005100542.44946.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Sunday 09 May 2010 12:47:39 Santhosh Divakar wrote: > Damn!, my bad that I did not cross check the cheque > Please get it to me on my home address ( which I shall mail to you > seperately ) and I shall get you a new cheque on the defined recipient !. > It should have been sent on saturday, but due to traffic jams it was not. It will be sent today. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From abpillai at gmail.com Mon May 10 07:56:28 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 11:26:28 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] cheque In-Reply-To: <201005100542.44946.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005080537.32265.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005100542.44946.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Sunday 09 May 2010 12:47:39 Santhosh Divakar wrote: > > Damn!, my bad that I did not cross check the cheque > > Please get it to me on my home address ( which I shall mail to you > > seperately ) and I shall get you a new cheque on the defined recipient !. > > > > It should have been sent on saturday, but due to traffic jams it was not. > It > will be sent today. > Wow, is ooty so tough during the season ? I recall we had no problems with traffic during our March visit. > -- > Regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Associate > NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lawgon at au-kbc.org Mon May 10 08:05:17 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 11:35:17 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] cheque In-Reply-To: References: <201005080537.32265.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005100542.44946.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005101135.18022.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Monday 10 May 2010 11:26:28 Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > It should have been sent on saturday, but due to traffic jams it was not. > > It > > will be sent today. > > Wow, is ooty so tough during the season ? I recall we had no problems > with traffic during our March visit. > on weekends it takes upto an hour to travel the one kilometer from house to office -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 12 05:34:32 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:04:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: So, did anyone meet? It would be good if we can fix the venue by the end of the week. On 5/8/10, anil kumar wrote: > that would be splendid, looking forward to meet you. > > Anil > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:45 PM, anil kumar >> wrote: >> >>> Hello , >>> we approached Mr Krishnaraj regarding this but he said he >>> would >>> be busy during that time. So we approached Mr Vinayaka rao who is >>> inclined >>> to Open source as well. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:28 PM, renuka prasad >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:23 PM, anil kumar >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> I am a student at MSRIT and a member of GNU/Linux group >>>>> VRGLINUG at MSRIT. We have contacted the staff member for you to >>>>> interact >>>>> and have confirmed with the college administration about the facilities >>>>> and >>>>> have received a positive response. You can contact him or myself for >>>>> any >>>>> further queries. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> what happened to Mr Krishnaraj of Computer Science Department who is the >>>> co-ordinator of VRGLINUG group , is he not available ? >>>> >>>> >>>> Staff member: >>>>> Mr. Vinayaka Rao >>>>> Ph: 9739290784 >>>>> Email id: vintesh.1976 at gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> Anil (student) >>>>> Department of Computer Science >>>>> Ph:9739754227 >>>>> Email id: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> regards, >>>>> Anil >>>>> >>>> >> Anil, >> >> I will be speaking with Sree offline and then contact you and Mr Vinayak. >> We'll look at meeting you guys sometime next week depending on all our >> schedules. And then we'll report back to the group. >> >> I think based on this we can collectively come to a conclusion. >> >> Ramdas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> >> > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From hvram1 at gmail.com Wed May 12 07:17:39 2010 From: hvram1 at gmail.com (Harihara Vinayakaram) Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:47:39 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Sorry to be asking a dumb question . I joined this list 2 days back. I did go thru the archives but I did not see any mention of the dates . I did see a discussion about venues though. If you guys are ok I can try PESIT (within the city, auditorium, parking etc ) . Would be good if I can have a pointer to the details Regards Hari On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > So, did anyone meet? It would be good if we can fix the venue by the > end of the week. > > On 5/8/10, anil kumar wrote: > > that would be splendid, looking forward to meet you. > > > > Anil > > > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:45 PM, anil kumar > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Hello , > >>> we approached Mr Krishnaraj regarding this but he said he > >>> would > >>> be busy during that time. So we approached Mr Vinayaka rao who is > >>> inclined > >>> to Open source as well. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:28 PM, renuka prasad > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:23 PM, anil kumar > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hello, > >>>>> I am a student at MSRIT and a member of GNU/Linux group > >>>>> VRGLINUG at MSRIT. We have contacted the staff member for you to > >>>>> interact > >>>>> and have confirmed with the college administration about the > facilities > >>>>> and > >>>>> have received a positive response. You can contact him or myself for > >>>>> any > >>>>> further queries. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> what happened to Mr Krishnaraj of Computer Science Department who is > the > >>>> co-ordinator of VRGLINUG group , is he not available ? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Staff member: > >>>>> Mr. Vinayaka Rao > >>>>> Ph: 9739290784 > >>>>> Email id: vintesh.1976 at gmail.com > >>>>> > >>>>> Anil (student) > >>>>> Department of Computer Science > >>>>> Ph:9739754227 > >>>>> Email id: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com > >>>>> > >>>>> regards, > >>>>> Anil > >>>>> > >>>> > >> Anil, > >> > >> I will be speaking with Sree offline and then contact you and Mr > Vinayak. > >> We'll look at meeting you guys sometime next week depending on all our > >> schedules. And then we'll report back to the group. > >> > >> I think based on this we can collectively come to a conclusion. > >> > >> Ramdas > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Inpycon mailing list > >> Inpycon at python.org > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > >> > >> > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 12 08:01:28 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:31:28 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Harihara Vinayakaram wrote: > Hi > ?? Sorry to be asking a dumb question . I joined this list 2 days back. I > did go thru the archives but I did not see any mention of the dates . I did > see a discussion about venues though. > > ?? If you guys are ok I can try PESIT (within the city, auditorium, parking > etc ) . Would be good if I can have a pointer to the details[..] I'm not sure. It's a little late to consider yet another venue. If there's some news from MSRIT (via. Ramdas/Sree and Anil) by tomorrow or so, we can decide between that and RV. If not we'll stick with RV. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ramdaz at gmail.com Wed May 12 08:44:59 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 12:14:59 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Harihara Vinayakaram > wrote: > > Hi > > Sorry to be asking a dumb question . I joined this list 2 days back. I > > did go thru the archives but I did not see any mention of the dates . I > did > > see a discussion about venues though. > > > > If you guys are ok I can try PESIT (within the city, auditorium, > parking > > etc ) . Would be good if I can have a pointer to the details[..] > > I'm not sure. It's a little late to consider yet another venue. If > there's some news from MSRIT (via. Ramdas/Sree and Anil) by tomorrow > or so, we can decide between that and RV. If not we'll stick with RV. > > Sree is going to MSRIT at 5.30 tomorrow, and we should have some answer by Friday morning. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Ramdas S +91 9342 583 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 12 09:11:23 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 12:41:23 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Ramdas S wrote:[..] > Sree is going to MSRIT at 5.30 tomorrow, and we should have some answer by > Friday morning. Cool. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 13 08:09:28 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:39:28 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: You had some css layouts for the site. Did you get the time to integrate any of them into the site? Hope your exams went (are going) well. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > I guess we need some more serious looks to the website... the current > one looks midway between ugly and pro :) > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Shashwat Anand > wrote: >> @Abhishek : I think look can be improved a bit more, rubyconf website was >> impressive, so was http://events.carsonified.com/?you can take inspiration >> from there. Best of luck for exams :) >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Thu May 13 14:51:57 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 18:21:57 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/13 Noufal Ibrahim : > You had some css layouts for the site. Did you get the time to > integrate any of them into the site? > > Hope your exams went (are going) well. He provided the CSS layouts. Now, it is my turn to add them to the site. I'm planning to add support for multiple themes, so that we all can play with all the themes and pick the best one. I was a bit busy with work recently, will add them in next couple of days. Anand From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 14 06:24:32 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:54:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What's the word? On 5/12/10, Ramdas S wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Harihara Vinayakaram >> wrote: >> > Hi >> > Sorry to be asking a dumb question . I joined this list 2 days back. >> > I >> > did go thru the archives but I did not see any mention of the dates . I >> did >> > see a discussion about venues though. >> > >> > If you guys are ok I can try PESIT (within the city, auditorium, >> parking >> > etc ) . Would be good if I can have a pointer to the details[..] >> >> I'm not sure. It's a little late to consider yet another venue. If >> there's some news from MSRIT (via. Ramdas/Sree and Anil) by tomorrow >> or so, we can decide between that and RV. If not we'll stick with RV. >> >> > Sree is going to MSRIT at 5.30 tomorrow, and we should have some answer by > Friday morning. > > >> >> -- >> ~noufal >> http://nibrahim.net.in >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > > > > -- > Ramdas S > +91 9342 583 065 > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 14 08:27:46 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 11:57:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Any updates guys? We have to get this closed by today so that we can make the sponsorship brochure and start knocking doors. Thanks On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > What's the word? > > On 5/12/10, Ramdas S wrote: >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Harihara Vinayakaram >>> wrote: >>> > Hi >>> > ? ?Sorry to be asking a dumb question . I joined this list 2 days back. >>> > I >>> > did go thru the archives but I did not see any mention of the dates . I >>> did >>> > see a discussion about venues though. >>> > >>> > ? ?If you guys are ok I can try PESIT (within the city, auditorium, >>> parking >>> > etc ) . Would be good if I can have a pointer to the details[..] >>> >>> I'm not sure. It's a little late to consider yet another venue. If >>> there's some news from MSRIT (via. Ramdas/Sree and Anil) by tomorrow >>> or so, we can decide between that and RV. If not we'll stick with RV. >>> >>> >> Sree is going to MSRIT at 5.30 tomorrow, and we should have some answer by >> Friday morning. >> >> >>> >>> -- >>> ~noufal >>> http://nibrahim.net.in >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Inpycon mailing list >>> Inpycon at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ramdas S >> +91 9342 583 065 >> > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From sree at mahiti.org Fri May 14 11:18:11 2010 From: sree at mahiti.org (Sreekanth S Rameshaiah) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:48:11 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, Had been to MSRIT yesterday. Met the CSE department staff Monica Mundada and student Anil. They have good facilities (5 a/c seminar halls with projectors and a large one of 800+seating capacity which may get completed by end of this month). College has 16Mb/s line and has many hot-spots for internet access. Anil said he will work with college's networking team to get internet to seminar halls. College requires a detailed written note from us on the the workshop, facilities required and role of college in the workshop. Once this is provided, college will give written consent and block those dates for us. How about creating the PyCon conference concept note on the wiki? Regards, - sree On 14 May 2010 09:54, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > What's the word? > > On 5/12/10, Ramdas S wrote: > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Noufal Ibrahim > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Harihara Vinayakaram < > hvram1 at gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi > >> > Sorry to be asking a dumb question . I joined this list 2 days > back. > >> > I > >> > did go thru the archives but I did not see any mention of the dates . > I > >> did > >> > see a discussion about venues though. > >> > > >> > If you guys are ok I can try PESIT (within the city, auditorium, > >> parking > >> > etc ) . Would be good if I can have a pointer to the details[..] > >> > >> I'm not sure. It's a little late to consider yet another venue. If > >> there's some news from MSRIT (via. Ramdas/Sree and Anil) by tomorrow > >> or so, we can decide between that and RV. If not we'll stick with RV. > >> > >> > > Sree is going to MSRIT at 5.30 tomorrow, and we should have some answer > by > > Friday morning. > > > > > >> > >> -- > >> ~noufal > >> http://nibrahim.net.in > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Inpycon mailing list > >> Inpycon at python.org > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Ramdas S > > +91 9342 583 065 > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Sreekanth S Rameshaiah Executive Director Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. # 33-34, 2nd Floor, Hennur Cross, Hennur Road, Bangalore, India - 560043 Phone: +91 80 4115 0580/1 Mobile: +91 98455 12611 www.mahiti.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 14 11:26:30 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:56:30 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: > Hi all, > Had been to MSRIT yesterday. Met the CSE department staff Monica Mundada and > student Anil. They have good facilities (5 a/c seminar halls with projectors > and a large one of 800+seating capacity which may get completed by end of > this month). College has 16Mb/s line and has many hot-spots for internet > access. Anil said he will work with college's networking team to get > internet to seminar halls. > College requires a detailed written note from us on the the workshop, > facilities required and role of college in the workshop. > Once this is provided, college will give written?consent?and block those > dates for us. > How about creating the PyCon conference concept note on the wiki? [..] This sounds good. Would Monica be the staff contact for the event? Renuka Prasad's involvement has been quite high and that in my opinion, is the main plus point for RV. It would be nice if we have such a person at MSRIT. Also, will you have the bandwidth to be the contact point from our side? I'm sure that Anil and those of the FS group at the college would be there for ground work. Can you give some details on the capacities of the seminar halls? If we can use the hot-spots and projectors, then the wireless and projector problems evaporate which is a great thing. Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From sree at mahiti.org Fri May 14 11:47:38 2010 From: sree at mahiti.org (Sreekanth S Rameshaiah) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:17:38 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 14 May 2010 14:56, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Had been to MSRIT yesterday. Met the CSE department staff Monica Mundada > and > > student Anil. They have good facilities (5 a/c seminar halls with > projectors > > and a large one of 800+seating capacity which may get completed by end of > > this month). College has 16Mb/s line and has many hot-spots for internet > > access. Anil said he will work with college's networking team to get > > internet to seminar halls. > > College requires a detailed written note from us on the the workshop, > > facilities required and role of college in the workshop. > > Once this is provided, college will give written consent and block those > > dates for us. > > How about creating the PyCon conference concept note on the wiki? > > [..] > > This sounds good. Would Monica be the staff contact for the event? > Yes. She will be. > > Renuka Prasad's involvement has been quite high and that in my > opinion, is the main plus point for RV. It would be nice if we have > such a person at MSRIT. > > I agree. > Also, will you have the bandwidth to be the contact point from our > side? Ya. Will take this on. > I'm sure that Anil and those of the FS group at the college > would be there for ground work. > > Can you give some details on the capacities of the seminar halls? > > From 130 to 400 seats. All equipped with AC with pre-installed projection systems. Also there are many classrooms which can accommodate 100+ people. So this is not an issue. - sree > If we can use the hot-spots and projectors, then the wireless and > projector problems evaporate which is a great thing. > > Thanks. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > -- Sreekanth S Rameshaiah Executive Director Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. # 33-34, 2nd Floor, Hennur Cross, Hennur Road, Bangalore, India - 560043 Phone: +91 80 4115 0580/1 Mobile: +91 98455 12611 www.mahiti.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 14 11:54:55 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:24:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is sounding really good. What's the general opinion? From baiju.m.mail at gmail.com Fri May 14 12:04:43 2010 From: baiju.m.mail at gmail.com (Baiju M) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:34:43 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > This is sounding really good. What's the general opinion? +0 for MSRIT -- Baiju M From kausikram at gmail.com Fri May 14 12:06:32 2010 From: kausikram at gmail.com (kausikram krishnasayee) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:36:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > This is sounding really good. What's the general opinion? Lovely! +1. and also. if the hotspots are away from the audies we can set a local hotspot on all the audies ourselves. all we need is a nice box of cat5 cable and some routers with a 9dbi antenna :) -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 14 12:35:24 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 16:05:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:36 PM, kausikram krishnasayee wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >> This is sounding really good. What's the general opinion? > > Lovely! +1. > and also. if the hotspots are away from the audies we can set a local > hotspot on all the audies ourselves. all we need is a nice box of cat5 cable > and some routers with a 9dbi antenna :) +0 from me - More accessible venue - Wifi + projectors - Sree will handle all communication with the venue. - Monica is available as a staff contact - Enthusiastic student crowd. Why not +1? Because with RV, there's a *staff* member who is enthusiastic and this will make things convenient. Any other opinions? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From venkataramareddy.js at gmail.com Fri May 14 12:46:26 2010 From: venkataramareddy.js at gmail.com (venkat) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 16:16:26 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: -1 for RV: This is an article from newspaper Deccan Herald appeared on May 13, 2010 in page 2. Click the following link to read : http://deccanheraldepaper.com//svww_showarticle.php?art=20100513aB002100002 --jsvenkat On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:36 PM, kausikram krishnasayee > wrote: > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Noufal Ibrahim > wrote: > >> > >> This is sounding really good. What's the general opinion? > > > > Lovely! +1. > > and also. if the hotspots are away from the audies we can set a local > > hotspot on all the audies ourselves. all we need is a nice box of cat5 > cable > > and some routers with a 9dbi antenna :) > > +0 from me > - More accessible venue > - Wifi + projectors > - Sree will handle all communication with the venue. > - Monica is available as a staff contact > - Enthusiastic student crowd. > > Why not +1? Because with RV, there's a *staff* member who is > enthusiastic and this will make things convenient. > > Any other opinions? > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --jsvenkat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ideamonk at gmail.com Fri May 14 14:31:34 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:01:34 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yes exams got over yesterday, have got placement classes till 18th though. Much of work in new template was almost done, I think I'll provide you new css and templates by tomorrow. This is how the new one looks right now - http://twitpic.com/1no1rj Abhishek On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/13 Noufal Ibrahim : > > You had some css layouts for the site. Did you get the time to > > integrate any of them into the site? > > > > Hope your exams went (are going) well. > > He provided the CSS layouts. Now, it is my turn to add them to the site. > > I'm planning to add support for multiple themes, so that we all can > play with all the themes and pick the best one. I was a bit busy with > work recently, will add them in next couple of days. > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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She might not > respond directly to the list but i will be following it closely, discuss > matters with her and hence respond to the list on be-half of her atlleast > untill the end of the exam schedule. sorry for the inconvenience. > is she python aware? -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From ramdaz at gmail.com Fri May 14 20:50:42 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 00:20:42 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2010 22:26:07 anil kumar wrote: > > we have Final Lab exams going on in our college and > our > > staff will be engaged with that for atleast the next week. She might not > > respond directly to the list but i will be following it closely, discuss > > matters with her and hence respond to the list on be-half of her atlleast > > untill the end of the exam schedule. sorry for the inconvenience. > > > > is she python aware? > > Now is that a criterion? :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ideamonk at gmail.com Sat May 15 04:31:40 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 08:01:40 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Could be done, I'll try moving and see how it fits. I think a little above "India 2010" and little rightwards from there would look okay. Then what would remain to be answered is, how to make september look okay with 26-27 and also be consistently sized, maybe a SEP instead of september with font size as big as 26-27 text should do. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit wrote: > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > >> This is how the new one looks right now - http://twitpic.com/1no1rj >> >> Abhishek >> > > Small suggestion. Let "Bangalore" be under "PyCon India 2010" instead of > under "September". What do you think? > > -- > Arvind > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vid at svaksha.com Sat May 15 04:48:22 2010 From: vid at svaksha.com (=?UTF-8?B?IOCkuOCljeCkteCkleCljeCktyA=?=) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 08:33:22 +0545 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 16:31, venkat wrote: > -1 for RV: > > This is an article from newspaper Deccan Herald appeared on May 13, 2010 in > page 2. Click the following link to read : > http://deccanheraldepaper.com//svww_showarticle.php?art=20100513aB002100002 That article makes me go -1 for RVCE and +1 for MSRIT. -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 15 07:18:56 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 10:48:56 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: Any other +1s, -1s? I don't want to start another poll on this. :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ardsrk at gmail.com Sat May 15 09:32:36 2010 From: ardsrk at gmail.com (Arvind Jamuna Dixit) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 13:02:36 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yeah, "Bangalore" would look better on top of "India 2010" as you said. Similarly we could put "September" on top or below "26-27". On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > Could be done, I'll try moving and see how it fits. I think a little above > "India 2010" and little rightwards from there would look okay. > Then what would remain to be answered is, how to make september look okay > with 26-27 and also be consistently sized, maybe a SEP instead of september > with font size as big as 26-27 text should do. > > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit wrote: > >> >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: >> >>> This is how the new one looks right now - http://twitpic.com/1no1rj >>> >>> Abhishek >>> >> >> Small suggestion. Let "Bangalore" be under "PyCon India 2010" instead of >> under "September". What do you think? >> >> -- >> Arvind >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- Arvind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ardsrk at gmail.com Sat May 15 09:44:39 2010 From: ardsrk at gmail.com (Arvind Jamuna Dixit) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 13:14:39 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Any other +1s, -1s? I don't want to start another poll on this. :) > +1 for MSRIT. Crazy traffic on mysore road is a sure turn off. -- Arvind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Crazy traffic on mysore road is a sure turn off. > all I can say is that traffic is not a valid criterion for most of us in India (except for the denizens of east Bangalore) -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From kausikram at gmail.com Sat May 15 17:47:28 2010 From: kausikram at gmail.com (kausikram krishnasayee) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 21:17:28 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005152100.07397.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005152100.07397.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: > > [...]all I can say is that traffic is not a valid criterion for most of us > in India[...] > +1 this is a pan India event, lots of us are coming in from various cities. traffic should be the last of our concerns. on the other hand what we really need to see is can we have a champion of our cause inside MSRIT. we sure do have one in RVCE. if our touch point at MSRIT has not bought in to our cause, then i am seriously worried. as the days progress we would require to do a lot of pre-event stuff at the venue and our contact point has to be passionate enough to accommodate us and help us in every way possible. if that passion is missing then a few calls down our contact point is going to loose interest to the point of even turning hostile. i am talking about the worst case scenario, and most of the times Murphy's law favours such scenarios. there is a simple test. calling attn: people who went and touched base with MSRIT. with your informed knowledge do you think our point of contact would be happy to take in a call at an odd hour, requesting some (if not major) change of arrangements at the venues? for say an extra projector or a mic? if yes, can the person take the same call, lets say 5 times? for 5 different(yet small) things? if yes. then we have a champion and we are safe with MSRIT. -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 15 19:03:23 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 22:33:23 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: I don't consider it a criterion. My interest in the staff coordinator is limited to getting things moving at the venue. There's no real need for every aspect of the conference to be anointed with something related to Python. On 5/15/10, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Saturday 15 May 2010 00:20:42 Ramdas S wrote: >> > is she python aware? >> >> Now is that a criterion? :) >> > yes - our proposed host in Chennai has a staff member who is python aware > and > that other college also has one > -- > Regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Senior Associate > NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 15 19:11:40 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 22:41:40 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005152100.07397.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: The traffic and road is not a major point but it is an issue and an accessible venue is better than an inaccessible one regardless of where you're coming from. There will be some amount me running to the college that needs to be done before the event and it will help if the roads are good. Availability of small restaurants etc. Near the venue is a good thing as well. Your points Kausik are very valid. I'm not *as* convinced about the enthusiasm of msrit as Rv but anil and the others seem upto it. On 5/15/10, kausikram krishnasayee wrote: >> >> [...]all I can say is that traffic is not a valid criterion for most of us >> in India[...] >> > +1 this is a pan India event, lots of us are coming in from various cities. > traffic should be the last of our concerns. > > on the other hand what we really need to see is can we have a champion of > our cause inside MSRIT. we sure do have one in RVCE. if our touch point at > MSRIT has not bought in to our cause, then i am seriously worried. as the > days progress we would require to do a lot of pre-event stuff at the venue > and our contact point has to be passionate enough to accommodate us and help > us in every way possible. if that passion is missing then a few calls down > our contact point is going to loose interest to the point of even turning > hostile. > i am talking about the worst case scenario, and most of the times Murphy's > law favours such scenarios. > > there is a simple test. calling attn: people who went and touched base with > MSRIT. with your informed knowledge do you think our point of contact would > be happy to take in a call at an odd hour, requesting some (if not major) > change of arrangements at the venues? for say an extra projector or a mic? > if yes, can the person take the same call, lets say 5 times? for 5 > different(yet small) things? > > if yes. then we have a champion and we are safe with MSRIT. > > > -- > Kausikram Krishnasayee > Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: > blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: > kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 15 19:12:32 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 22:42:32 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005152100.07397.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On 5/15/10, kausikram krishnasayee wrote: >> >> [...]all I can say is that traffic is not a valid criterion for most of us >> in India[...] >> > +1 this is a pan India event, lots of us are coming in from various cities. > traffic should be the last of our concerns. > > on the other hand what we really need to see is can we have a champion of > our cause inside MSRIT. we sure do have one in RVCE. if our touch point at > MSRIT has not bought in to our cause, then i am seriously worried. as the > days progress we would require to do a lot of pre-event stuff at the venue > and our contact point has to be passionate enough to accommodate us and help > us in every way possible. if that passion is missing then a few calls down > our contact point is going to loose interest to the point of even turning > hostile. > i am talking about the worst case scenario, and most of the times Murphy's > law favours such scenarios. > > there is a simple test. calling attn: people who went and touched base with > MSRIT. with your informed knowledge do you think our point of contact would > be happy to take in a call at an odd hour, requesting some (if not major) > change of arrangements at the venues? for say an extra projector or a mic? > if yes, can the person take the same call, lets say 5 times? for 5 > different(yet small) things? > > if yes. then we have a champion and we are safe with MSRIT. > > > -- > Kausikram Krishnasayee > Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: > blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: > kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 15 19:11:40 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 22:41:40 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005152100.07397.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: The traffic and road is not a major point but it is an issue and an accessible venue is better than an inaccessible one regardless of where you're coming from. There will be some amount me running to the college that needs to be done before the event and it will help if the roads are good. Availability of small restaurants etc. Near the venue is a good thing as well. Your points Kausik are very valid. I'm not *as* convinced about the enthusiasm of msrit as Rv but anil and the others seem upto it. On 5/15/10, kausikram krishnasayee wrote: >> >> [...]all I can say is that traffic is not a valid criterion for most of us >> in India[...] >> > +1 this is a pan India event, lots of us are coming in from various cities. > traffic should be the last of our concerns. > > on the other hand what we really need to see is can we have a champion of > our cause inside MSRIT. we sure do have one in RVCE. if our touch point at > MSRIT has not bought in to our cause, then i am seriously worried. as the > days progress we would require to do a lot of pre-event stuff at the venue > and our contact point has to be passionate enough to accommodate us and help > us in every way possible. if that passion is missing then a few calls down > our contact point is going to loose interest to the point of even turning > hostile. > i am talking about the worst case scenario, and most of the times Murphy's > law favours such scenarios. > > there is a simple test. calling attn: people who went and touched base with > MSRIT. with your informed knowledge do you think our point of contact would > be happy to take in a call at an odd hour, requesting some (if not major) > change of arrangements at the venues? for say an extra projector or a mic? > if yes, can the person take the same call, lets say 5 times? for 5 > different(yet small) things? > > if yes. then we have a champion and we are safe with MSRIT. > > > -- > Kausikram Krishnasayee > Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: > blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: > kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ramdaz at gmail.com Sat May 15 19:27:38 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 22:57:38 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > I don't consider it a criterion. My interest in the staff coordinator > is limited to getting things moving at the venue. There's no real need > for every aspect of the conference to be anointed with something > related to Python. > I agree completely. Moreover once the deal is inked, and if you can sell to the college management that this is an Indian chapter of a world famous tech event, whether they understand Python or not things will fall in place. I am still inclined to go with MSRIT. Traffic woes are very real in Bangalore this year. And many of us are from East Bangalore, Central Bangalore and North Bangalore, and Mysore Road is fairly inaccessible thanks to the metro work all through the route. I guess it makes no difference when you are not from Bangalore, and I know it would have made no difference to me if this was in Chennai, and I were travelling from Bangalore. 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There's no real need >> for every aspect of the conference to be anointed with something >> related to Python. >> > > I agree completely. Moreover once the deal is inked, and if you can sell to > the college management that this is an Indian chapter of a world famous tech > event, whether they understand Python or not things will fall in place. > > then there is no meaning and value to conduct such event.. please do not consider RVCE if you people wont value the philosophy and consider only about conducting a tech event, i cant support such things it looks to me that there are too many night birds and does not want to get up early on one Saturday for FOSS ( python in this case ) and anyways Sunday is cool.. i dont want to comment on traffic and other things --thats not in our hands , atleast by next year METRO will be ready , then there would be complaints about cost rather than traffic since baiju approached us long back i assumed that there would be some consensus and was very happy that we could host , but then there were good signs that other colleges also were willing to host the event since we are planning to run python course this semester in our college for one of the BE branches, there is a 6 day X 6 hour workshop ,that would also make python more popular and bring some satisfaction to us to host the workshop, taking up pycon2010 would have been a great impact , but even otherwise those who value would attend the conference wherever it is held. please go ahead with MSRIT , no doubts there is very good infrastructure, take care about all the other requirements like catering , generator , UPS etc etc .. let me know if any more help required from faculty side , i have some contacts whom i am also in touch since this discussion is going on and they are also waiting for some calls to help I am still inclined to go with MSRIT. Traffic woes are very real in > Bangalore this year. And many of us are from East Bangalore, Central > Bangalore and North Bangalore, > and Mysore Road is fairly inaccessible thanks to the metro work all through > the route. I guess it makes no difference when you are not from Bangalore, > and I know it would have made no difference to me if this was in Chennai, > and I were travelling from Bangalore. > > I know there would be arguments from people living near Mysore Road, that > MSRIT is equally in accessible, if that's the case we need to relook at > opting for a more central location.... > > Anyways this is my personal thoughts..... > > this is what i suggested baiju and ofcourse on the list that day when some body talking about the institute of engineers if those who are really bothered about the traffic why none of you gave a thought about the venue i suggested which is not even one kilo meter from bus station and railway station. what required at the beginning was a hall with a 300 -400 capacity and 2 or 3 seminar halls and AC was not a criteria at all. if that was the case there is such facility with much more advantages like zero expenses on local travel , central to the city we should have some solid minds, well thanks for thinking about RVCE, any time we are there for FOSS, plese go ahead with MSRIT as venue for pycon2010 i will motivate all those who will undergo training on python will register for the conference, in that case atleast 100 registrations will be there. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 15 19:50:51 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:20:51 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >> I don't consider it a criterion. My interest in the staff coordinator >> is limited to getting things moving at the venue. There's no real need >> for every aspect of the conference to be anointed with something >> related to Python. > > I agree completely. Moreover once the deal is inked, and if you can sell to > the college management that this is an Indian chapter of a world famous tech > event, whether they understand Python or not things will fall in place. If *we* have to sell it to the college, it's going to become hard whether we are "world famous" or not. Taking care of the administrative hassles related to the college is what I'd like the staff contact to take care of. I'm quite sure this would happen at RV but not absolutely sure at MSRIT which is why I voted +0 instead of +1. > I am still inclined to go with MSRIT. Traffic woes are very real in > Bangalore this year. And many of us are from East Bangalore, Central > Bangalore and North Bangalore, and Mysore Road is fairly inaccessible thanks > to the metro work all through the route. I guess it makes no difference when > you are not from Bangalore, and I know it would have made no difference to > me if this was in Chennai, and I were travelling from Bangalore. I think the traffic/road issues are genuine. Kenneths jibe about the denizens of east Bangalore is somewhat warranted since it's short sighted to decide on a venue just based on local convenience. There was a possible venue about a kilometre from my place but I didn't pitch it. There'd be lot of people (students especially) travelling from outside who stay with relatives and friends. All of these become effective local residents during the 2 days of the conf. and have to put up with the commute hell if we choose a bad venue. Transportation of stuff (banners etc.) to the venue becomes nasty. Going there to meet people before the conference to set things up becomes nasty. All these things become nasty and if we have a more accessible venue, it is a good thing. Of course, this doesn't mean that we should blindly go to MSRIT. I'm just saying that we cannot simply ignore the accessibility and road condition just because it's an all India conference. It is a genuine problem and a minus point for RV. > I know there would be arguments from people living near Mysore Road, that > MSRIT is equally in accessible, if that's the case we need to relook at > opting for a more central location.... This would be as irrelevant as comments from you or me or any other 'denizen of east Bangalore' saying that it's too far or that it's inaccessible. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com Sat May 15 20:19:44 2010 From: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com (anil kumar) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:49:44 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005152100.07397.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:17 PM, kausikram krishnasayee wrote: > [...]all I can say is that traffic is not a valid criterion for most of us >> in India[...] >> > +1 this is a pan India event, lots of us are coming in from various cities. > traffic should be the last of our concerns. > > on the other hand what we really need to see is can we have a champion of > our cause inside MSRIT. we sure do have one in RVCE. if our touch point at > MSRIT has not bought in to our cause, then i am seriously worried. > Sir we take this conference as our privilege and are seriously inclined to making it a success. > as the days progress we would require to do a lot of pre-event stuff at the > venue and our contact point has to be passionate enough to accommodate us > and help us in every way possible. if that passion is missing then a few > calls down our contact point is going to loose interest to the point of even > turning hostile. > i am talking about the worst case scenario, and most of the times Murphy's > law favours such scenarios. > > there is a simple test. calling attn: people who went and touched base with > MSRIT. with your informed knowledge do you think our point of contact would > be happy to take in a call at an odd hour, requesting some (if not major) > change of arrangements at the venues? for say an extra projector or a mic? > if yes, can the person take the same call, lets say 5 times? for 5 > different(yet small) things? > > if yes. then we have a champion and we are safe with MSRIT. > we assure you that any requirements will be taken care of , and it is our conference now we will make all efforts to make things possible. > > > -- > Kausikram Krishnasayee > Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: > blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: > kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 15 20:25:17 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:55:17 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: Hello Renuka Prasad, I might be (and I hope I am) reading you wrongly but you sound a little offended in your email. I apologise about the lack of a firm decision but since this whole effort is a community driven thing, there cannot be any quick decisions by a single person. Things will take time and it's my experience that it will take quite some discussion before we settle on a venue. It's an important aspect and we can't just make a brash decision. The problems being raised are genuine. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM, renuka prasad wrote: [..] > then there is no meaning and value to conduct such event.. please do not > consider RVCE if you people wont value the philosophy and consider only > about conducting a tech event, i cant support such things We are not planning to conduct a free software or open source conference. This is something that is quite clear. It's a language conference. Since the popular interpreters for Python are free software, it's likely that most of the crowd will be hacker types inclining towards open source/free software but we are not holding this to emphasise the free software philosophy. As much as I care about it myself, this is purely a technical conference (albeit attended mostly by free software interested people). > it looks to me that there are too many night birds and does not want to get > up early on one Saturday for FOSS ( python in this case ) and anyways Sunday > is cool.. This is not a FOSS conference. We'd gladly welcome proprietary software if it played a role in the Python eco space. As for the night birds thing, it's often the case that the attendance will peak around 10:30 am for a conference that starts at 9:00 or so. I don't really expect anyone (except the organisers perhaps) to show up at 8:00 am for a conference that starts later. > i dont want to comment on traffic and other things --thats not in our hands True but it's a fact and something we have to consider. I'm sure you understand the problem. > atleast by next year METRO will be ready , > then there would be complaints about cost rather than traffic I'm not sure I understand this point. > since baiju approached us long back i assumed that there would be some > consensus and was very happy that we could host , but then there were good > signs that other colleges also were willing to host the event I think there was some misunderstanding. We were looking for venues and were speaking to multiple people. I spoke to IIMB and Arvind spoke to NIMHANS. Other threads were being followed and Baiju spoke with you to get the details from RV. The plan was to discuss after we had all the potential venues and then fix on one. We didn't have a consensus when we spoke with you. After Baiju's initial mail, we didn't have any alternatives and almost fixed on RV but then Anil form MSRIT mailed and the discussions started again. > since we are planning to run python course this semester in our college for > one of the BE branches, there is a 6 day X 6 hour workshop ,that would also > make python more popular and bring some satisfaction to us to host the > workshop, taking up pycon2010 would have been a great impact , but even > otherwise those who value would attend the conference wherever it is held. I'm glad and thankful for your interest and support. My concern is that if the road issue is a big problem, it would affect attendance and that's something I want to avoid. > please go ahead with MSRIT , no doubts there is very good infrastructure, > take care about all the other requirements like catering , generator , UPS > etc etc .. let me know if any more help required from faculty side , i have > some contacts whom i am also in touch since this discussion is going on and > they are also waiting for some calls to help That would be great. >> I know there would be arguments from people living near Mysore Road, that >> MSRIT is equally in accessible, if that's the case we need to relook at >> opting for a more central location.... >> >> Anyways this is my personal thoughts..... >> > this is what i suggested baiju and ofcourse on the list that day when some > body talking about the institute of engineers > > if those who are really bothered about the traffic why none of you gave a > thought about the venue i suggested which is not even one kilo meter from > bus station and railway station. Well, there are tons of venues. St Johns, the institute of engineers etc. However, for a volunteer driven thing to work, we need contacts at these places and proactive people to follow up. The only places where we got this were from RV and MSRIT. Adding more potential venues into the whole thing would just waste time and increase emails without getting any work done. > what required at the beginning was a hall with a 300 -400 capacity and 2 or > 3 seminar halls and AC was not a criteria at all. if that was the case there > is such facility with much more advantages like zero expenses on local > travel , central to the city AC is still not a criterion. The room sizes is still the main thing. However, if things like wifi/projectors are already there, it would help. If AC is there, it's nice to have. None of those are compulsory. > we should have some solid minds, We're doing the best we can. I can speak for myself and am quite sure about most of the people on the list but it *does* take time. After all, none of us are paid to do this. Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ramdaz at gmail.com Sat May 15 20:30:06 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:06 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM, renuka prasad wrote: > > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >>> I don't consider it a criterion. My interest in the staff coordinator >>> is limited to getting things moving at the venue. There's no real need >>> for every aspect of the conference to be anointed with something >>> related to Python. >>> >> >> I agree completely. Moreover once the deal is inked, and if you can sell >> to the college management that this is an Indian chapter of a world famous >> tech event, whether they understand Python or not things will fall in place. >> >> >> then there is no meaning and value to conduct such event.. please do not > consider RVCE if you people wont value the philosophy and consider only > about conducting a tech event, i cant support such things > > it looks to me that there are too many night birds and does not want to > get up early on one Saturday for FOSS ( python in this case ) and anyways > Sunday is cool.. > > i dont want to comment on traffic and other things --thats not in our hands > , > > atleast by next year METRO will be ready , > then there would be complaints about cost rather than traffic > > since baiju approached us long back i assumed that there would be some > consensus and was very happy that we could host , but then there were good > signs that other colleges also were willing to host the event > > since we are planning to run python course this semester in our college for > one of the BE branches, there is a 6 day X 6 hour workshop ,that would also > make python more popular and bring some satisfaction to us to host the > workshop, taking up pycon2010 would have been a great impact , but even > otherwise those who value would attend the conference wherever it is held. > > please go ahead with MSRIT , no doubts there is very good infrastructure, > take care about all the other requirements like catering , generator , UPS > etc etc .. let me know if any more help required from faculty side , i have > some contacts whom i am also in touch since this discussion is going on and > they are also waiting for some calls to help > > I am still inclined to go with MSRIT. Traffic woes are very real in >> Bangalore this year. And many of us are from East Bangalore, Central >> Bangalore and North Bangalore, >> > and Mysore Road is fairly inaccessible thanks to the metro work all through >> the route. I guess it makes no difference when you are not from Bangalore, >> and I know it would have made no difference to me if this was in Chennai, >> and I were travelling from Bangalore. >> >> I know there would be arguments from people living near Mysore Road, that >> MSRIT is equally in accessible, if that's the case we need to relook at >> opting for a more central location.... >> >> Anyways this is my personal thoughts..... >> >> this is what i suggested baiju and ofcourse on the list that day when some > body talking about the institute of engineers > > if those who are really bothered about the traffic why none of you gave a > thought about the venue i suggested which is not even one kilo meter from > bus station and railway station. > > what required at the beginning was a hall with a 300 -400 capacity and 2 or > 3 seminar halls and AC was not a criteria at all. if that was the case there > is such facility with much more advantages like zero expenses on local > travel , central to the city > > we should have some solid minds, > > well thanks for thinking about RVCE, any time we are there for FOSS, plese > go ahead with MSRIT as venue for pycon2010 > > i will motivate all those who will undergo training on python will register > for the conference, in that case atleast 100 registrations will be there > Renuka, Sorry if my mail was sounding personal to you. My comments are in no way directed at any specific institution or person. This is an open forum, and we are all entitled to have and express our opinion. And perhaps my opinion could be short-sighted, stupid or irrelevant to many of you, but I am entitled to raise my opinion on this forum as much as you are or for that matter any body else has the right to. I would request you to take it easy, and please do not jump to any conclusion. I don't think individual opinions and comments go beyond merely attempting to point out real issues. And no one here has said that we are not going with RVCE or we are going ahead with another institution. Noufal, My suggestion (and please note it's just a suggestion only) is that somebody from core committee of the society must visit RVCE campus and also meet up discuss with Sree who has already been to MSRIT, and then take a call on this after very carefully evaluating all the criteria, and then annouce a decision. May be someone should then call Kenneth on the phone, and have a chat with him too. We have elected representatives of society, and why we have people elected is to own up responsibility and take decisions that you are empowered too. I guess whatever decision the society executive committee takes, rest of us should abide by this. I'd also request you to close this thread, and take the call through a call limited within the office bearers. Of course, this's just my suggestion, and we are in a free market as always... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It's not something that Sree and Baiju should privately discuss and decide. > I'd also request you to close this thread, and take the call through a call > limited within the office bearers. Looks like that's what we'll have to finally do. I just want people to raise their concerns upfront (like you have) rather than whine *after* we decide on the venue and go ahead. Atleast we're much better than we were a week ago. We have just 2 venues shortlisted (RV and MSRIT) and are definitely going to pick one of them. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Sat May 15 20:36:46 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 00:06:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Hello Renuka Prasad, > > I might be (and I hope I am) reading you wrongly but you sound a > yes you are > little offended in your email. I apologise about the lack of a firm no need to do that > decision but since this whole effort is a community driven thing, > i am aware of that > there cannot be any quick decisions by a single person. Things will > take time and it's my experience that it will take quite some > discussion before we settle on a venue. It's an important aspect and > we can't just make a brash decision. The problems being raised are > genuine. > > i accept that > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM, renuka prasad > wrote: > [..] > > then there is no meaning and value to conduct such event.. please do not > > consider RVCE if you people wont value the philosophy and consider only > > about conducting a tech event, i cant support such things > > We are not planning to conduct a free software or open source > conference. This is something that is quite clear. It's a language > conference. Since the popular interpreters for Python are free > software, it's likely that most of the crowd will be hacker types > inclining towards open source/free software but we are not holding > this to emphasise the free software philosophy. As much as I care > about it myself, this is purely a technical conference (albeit > attended mostly by free software interested people). > > > > it looks to me that there are too many night birds and does not want to > get > > up early on one Saturday for FOSS ( python in this case ) and anyways > Sunday > > is cool.. > > This is not a FOSS conference. We'd gladly welcome proprietary > software if it played a role in the Python eco space. > As for the night birds thing, it's often the case that the attendance > will peak around 10:30 am for a conference that starts at 9:00 or so. > I don't really expect anyone (except the organisers perhaps) to show > up at 8:00 am for a conference that starts later. > > i was telling that people can get up early and reach the venues -- not RVCE only > > i dont want to comment on traffic and other things --thats not in our > hands > > True but it's a fact and something we have to consider. I'm sure you > understand the problem. > > > > atleast by next year METRO will be ready , > > then there would be complaints about cost rather than traffic > > I'm not sure I understand this point. > > > since baiju approached us long back i assumed that there would be some > > consensus and was very happy that we could host , but then there were > good > > signs that other colleges also were willing to host the event > > I think there was some misunderstanding. We were looking for venues > no never, i knew about all these , just before 5mmins i was about to fix a meeting with college authorities i got message that i should wait for few more days .... > and were speaking to multiple people. I spoke to IIMB and Arvind spoke > to NIMHANS. Other threads were being followed and Baiju spoke with you > to get the details from RV. The plan was to discuss after we had all > the potential venues and then fix on one. We didn't have a consensus > there was is what i understood , from the conversation i had , so i was about to fix the meeting > when we spoke with you. > > After Baiju's initial mail, we didn't have any alternatives and almost > fixed on RV but then Anil form MSRIT mailed and the discussions > started again. > > > since we are planning to run python course this semester in our college > for > > one of the BE branches, there is a 6 day X 6 hour workshop ,that would > also > > make python more popular and bring some satisfaction to us to host the > > workshop, taking up pycon2010 would have been a great impact , but even > > otherwise those who value would attend the conference wherever it is > held. > > I'm glad and thankful for your interest and support. > > My concern is that if the road issue is a big problem, it would affect > attendance and that's something I want to avoid. > > > please go ahead with MSRIT , no doubts there is very good infrastructure, > > take care about all the other requirements like catering , generator , > UPS > > etc etc .. let me know if any more help required from faculty side , i > have > > some contacts whom i am also in touch since this discussion is going on > and > > they are also waiting for some calls to help > > That would be great. > > >> I know there would be arguments from people living near Mysore Road, > that > >> MSRIT is equally in accessible, if that's the case we need to relook at > >> opting for a more central location.... > >> > >> Anyways this is my personal thoughts..... > >> > > this is what i suggested baiju and ofcourse on the list that day when > some > > body talking about the institute of engineers > > > > if those who are really bothered about the traffic why none of you gave a > > thought about the venue i suggested which is not even one kilo meter from > > bus station and railway station. > > Well, there are tons of venues. St Johns, the institute of engineers > etc. However, for a volunteer driven thing to work, we need contacts > at these places and proactive people to follow up. The only places > where we got this were from RV and MSRIT. Adding more potential venues > into the whole thing would just waste time and increase emails without > getting any work done. > > > what required at the beginning was a hall with a 300 -400 capacity and 2 > or > > 3 seminar halls and AC was not a criteria at all. if that was the case > there > > is such facility with much more advantages like zero expenses on local > > travel , central to the city > > AC is still not a criterion. The room sizes is still the main thing. > However, if things like wifi/projectors are already there, it would > help. If AC is there, it's nice to have. None of those are compulsory. > > > we should have some solid minds, > > We're doing the best we can. I can speak for myself and am quite sure > about most of the people on the list but it *does* take time. After > all, none of us are paid to do this. > > Thanks. > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Sat May 15 20:37:55 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 00:07:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > We're doing the best we can. I can speak for myself and am quite sure > about most of the people on the list but it *does* take time. 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Sree has visited MSRIT and mentioned his points here. We > discuss the points here and then decide. It's not something that Sree > and Baiju should privately discuss and decide. > > > I'd also request you to close this thread, and take the call through a > call > > limited within the office bearers. > > Looks like that's what we'll have to finally do. I just want people to > raise their concerns upfront (like you have) rather than whine *after* > we decide on the venue and go ahead. > > Atleast we're much better than we were a week ago. We have just 2 > venues shortlisted (RV and MSRIT) and are definitely going to pick one > go ahead with MSRIT , close this thread > of them. > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We didn't have a consensus > > there was is what i understood , from the conversation i had , so i was > about to fix the meeting [..] I'm sorry if this whole affair put you in an awkward situation with your management at RV. We'll wrap this up shortly and then can move forward with a concrete proposal rather than vague ideas. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 15 20:42:25 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 00:12:25 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:07 AM, renuka prasad wrote: > > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >> We're doing the best we can. I can speak for myself and am quite sure >> about most of the people on the list but it *does* take time. After >> all, none of us are paid to do this. >> > did any body raised that issue Nope. No one did. It does, however, alteast somwhat explain the lack of quick decisions. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Sat May 15 20:43:52 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 00:13:52 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2010 venue : MSRIT vs. RVCE In-Reply-To: References: <201005142231.49520.lawgon@au-kbc.org> <201005152058.38143.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:06 AM, renuka prasad > wrote: > [..] > >> I might be (and I hope I am) reading you wrongly but you sound a > > > > yes you are > > I'm glad. [..] > > > no never, i knew about all these , just before 5mmins i was about to fix > a > > meeting with college authorities i got message that i should wait for few > > more days .... > >> > >> and were speaking to multiple people. I spoke to IIMB and Arvind spoke > >> to NIMHANS. Other threads were being followed and Baiju spoke with you > >> to get the details from RV. The plan was to discuss after we had all > >> the potential venues and then fix on one. We didn't have a consensus > > > > there was is what i understood , from the conversation i had , so i was > > about to fix the meeting > [..] > > I'm sorry if this whole affair put you in an awkward situation with > no luckily not as i did not approach to the top level , and also which is not at all required , as everything will be in our hands to host or not and we just need a formal MOU with the team like you who want to host any event > your management at RV. 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URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 17 08:16:18 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:46:18 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT Message-ID: Okay. This has been dragging on for long enough. Here's my summary. I've listed the pros and cons from most serious to least serious. Factors that offset the main point are in square brackets next to them. I'm going to be a little blunt with things so I'm apologising in advance if it brushes people the wrong way. RV College: Pros: - Great rapport between Baiju and Renuka Prasad. - They've been enthusiastic for a long time and we almost committed before MSRIT info. came up. - Renuka Prasad has managed to get 50 volunteers for the event during the days of the conf. which would be an *enormous* help. - In the poll, 94% or so voted for RV [most of the reasons were like "it's my college" etc.] Cons: - Horrible road condition and not very accessible [2 day conf, people are travelling from across the country, can take a hotel nearby] - Renuka Prasad is enthusiastic about FOSS events and this conf. is not necessarily a FOSS one. - Some cooling off of the initial enthusiasm since we took a while to decide. MSRIT: Pros: - Much more accessible than RV - Enthusiastic student body [The 50 volunteers which Renuka Prasad has managed to get are there at RV] - Better facilities (on campus Wifi saves us trouble from hunting for more) - The student FOSS group (who claim to be okay with not-completely FOSS events) can help us on campus. - It's near the last years venue and so we can reuse the same caterers for food. Cons: - There's no one on our side to take the role of Baiju [Sree has volunteered if no one else is there but he might be very busy] Based on this, here's what I think we should do. If we can in one day (ie. before this tomorrow) get a positive commitment from someone on this list to be our liaison with the folks at MSRIT, we'll go for MSRIT. I can't overemphasise the importance of this. A lot of small things will come up and this person has to be proactive about it. Last years venue worked out *only* because Anand C. and Vikas were on top of things till the final day. If we don't get such a commitment from anyone, we'll go with RV. Either way, by noon tomorrow, we'll have fixed the venue. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 17 08:29:12 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:59:12 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Is everyone okay with this? On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Okay. This has been dragging on for long enough. Here's my summary. > I've listed the pros and cons from most serious to least serious. > Factors that offset the main point are in square brackets next to > them. > > I'm going to be a little blunt with things so I'm apologising in > advance if it brushes people the wrong way. > > RV College: > ?Pros: > ? - Great rapport between Baiju and Renuka Prasad. > ? - They've been enthusiastic for a long time and we almost committed > before MSRIT info. came up. > ? - Renuka Prasad has managed to get 50 volunteers for the event > during the days of the conf. which would be an *enormous* help. > ? - In the poll, 94% or so voted for RV [most of the reasons were > like "it's my college" etc.] > > ?Cons: > ? - Horrible road condition and not very accessible [2 day conf, > people are travelling from across the country, can take a hotel > nearby] > ? - Renuka Prasad is enthusiastic about FOSS events and this conf. is > not necessarily a FOSS one. > ? - Some cooling off of the initial enthusiasm since we took a while > to decide. > > MSRIT: > ?Pros: > ? ?- Much more accessible than RV > ? ?- Enthusiastic student body [The 50 volunteers which Renuka Prasad > has managed to get are there at RV] > ? ?- Better facilities (on campus Wifi saves us trouble from hunting for more) > ? ?- The student FOSS group (who claim to be okay with not-completely > FOSS events) can help us on campus. > ? ?- It's near the last years venue and so we can reuse the same > caterers for food. > > ?Cons: > ? ?- There's no one on our side to take the role of Baiju [Sree has > volunteered if no one else is there but he might be very busy] > > > Based on this, here's what I think we should do. > > If we can in one day (ie. before this tomorrow) get a positive > commitment from someone on this list to be our liaison with the folks > at MSRIT, we'll go for MSRIT. I can't overemphasise the importance of > this. A lot of small things will come up and this person has to be > proactive about it. Last years venue worked out *only* because Anand > C. and Vikas were on top of things till the final day. > > If we don't get such a commitment from anyone, we'll go with RV. > Either way, by noon tomorrow, we'll have fixed the venue. > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ramdaz at gmail.com Mon May 17 08:38:01 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 12:08:01 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Is everyone okay with this? > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Okay. This has been dragging on for long enough. Here's my summary. > > I've listed the pros and cons from most serious to least serious. > > Factors that offset the main point are in square brackets next to > > them. > > > > I'm going to be a little blunt with things so I'm apologising in > > advance if it brushes people the wrong way. > > > > RV College: > > Pros: > > - Great rapport between Baiju and Renuka Prasad. > > - They've been enthusiastic for a long time and we almost committed > > before MSRIT info. came up. > > - Renuka Prasad has managed to get 50 volunteers for the event > > during the days of the conf. which would be an *enormous* help. > > - In the poll, 94% or so voted for RV [most of the reasons were > > like "it's my college" etc.] > > > > Cons: > > - Horrible road condition and not very accessible [2 day conf, > > people are travelling from across the country, can take a hotel > > nearby] > > - Renuka Prasad is enthusiastic about FOSS events and this conf. is > > not necessarily a FOSS one. > > - Some cooling off of the initial enthusiasm since we took a while > > to decide. > > > > MSRIT: > > Pros: > > - Much more accessible than RV > > - Enthusiastic student body [The 50 volunteers which Renuka Prasad > > has managed to get are there at RV] > > - Better facilities (on campus Wifi saves us trouble from hunting for > more) > > - The student FOSS group (who claim to be okay with not-completely > > FOSS events) can help us on campus. > > - It's near the last years venue and so we can reuse the same > > caterers for food. > > > > Cons: > > - There's no one on our side to take the role of Baiju [Sree has > > volunteered if no one else is there but he might be very busy] > > > > > > Based on this, here's what I think we should do. > > > > If we can in one day (ie. before this tomorrow) get a positive > > commitment from someone on this list to be our liaison with the folks > > at MSRIT, we'll go for MSRIT. I can't overemphasise the importance of > > this. A lot of small things will come up and this person has to be > > proactive about it. Last years venue worked out *only* because Anand > > C. and Vikas were on top of things till the final day. > > > > If we don't get such a commitment from anyone, we'll go with RV. > > Either way, by noon tomorrow, we'll have fixed the venue. > > > > > > -- > > ~noufal > > http://nibrahim.net.in > > > > Give 2 to 3 days time for guys to respond. Anyways Anil who is a student volunteer and his band of 50 men have agreed to run around for us, and he's part of the list. > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Ramdas S +91 9342 583 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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When we near the deadlines, however, > and push comes to shove, if the chaps from our end don't have time, > things can get *real* ugly. They almost did last time and got fixed > just because of Anand and Vikas. It was Vikrant, not Vikas. Anand From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 17 09:02:02 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 12:32:02 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> 2 or 3 days is fine at this time. When we near the deadlines, however, >> and push comes to shove, if the chaps from our end don't have time, >> things can get *real* ugly. They almost did last time and got fixed >> just because of Anand and Vikas. > > It was Vikrant, not Vikas. My bad. Vikrant. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From sree at mahiti.org Mon May 17 09:52:15 2010 From: sree at mahiti.org (Sreekanth S Rameshaiah) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:22:15 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We need a document to present to College. Is it not better to work through that than setting deadlines. Mahiti will co-ordinate with MSRIT as required, even if we are extremely busy ;) - sree On 17 May 2010 11:59, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Is everyone okay with this? > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Okay. This has been dragging on for long enough. Here's my summary. > > I've listed the pros and cons from most serious to least serious. > > Factors that offset the main point are in square brackets next to > > them. > > > > I'm going to be a little blunt with things so I'm apologising in > > advance if it brushes people the wrong way. > > > > RV College: > > Pros: > > - Great rapport between Baiju and Renuka Prasad. > > - They've been enthusiastic for a long time and we almost committed > > before MSRIT info. came up. > > - Renuka Prasad has managed to get 50 volunteers for the event > > during the days of the conf. which would be an *enormous* help. > > - In the poll, 94% or so voted for RV [most of the reasons were > > like "it's my college" etc.] > > > > Cons: > > - Horrible road condition and not very accessible [2 day conf, > > people are travelling from across the country, can take a hotel > > nearby] > > - Renuka Prasad is enthusiastic about FOSS events and this conf. is > > not necessarily a FOSS one. > > - Some cooling off of the initial enthusiasm since we took a while > > to decide. > > > > MSRIT: > > Pros: > > - Much more accessible than RV > > - Enthusiastic student body [The 50 volunteers which Renuka Prasad > > has managed to get are there at RV] > > - Better facilities (on campus Wifi saves us trouble from hunting for > more) > > - The student FOSS group (who claim to be okay with not-completely > > FOSS events) can help us on campus. > > - It's near the last years venue and so we can reuse the same > > caterers for food. > > > > Cons: > > - There's no one on our side to take the role of Baiju [Sree has > > volunteered if no one else is there but he might be very busy] > > > > > > Based on this, here's what I think we should do. > > > > If we can in one day (ie. before this tomorrow) get a positive > > commitment from someone on this list to be our liaison with the folks > > at MSRIT, we'll go for MSRIT. I can't overemphasise the importance of > > this. A lot of small things will come up and this person has to be > > proactive about it. Last years venue worked out *only* because Anand > > C. and Vikas were on top of things till the final day. > > > > If we don't get such a commitment from anyone, we'll go with RV. > > Either way, by noon tomorrow, we'll have fixed the venue. > > > > > > -- > > ~noufal > > http://nibrahim.net.in > > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Sreekanth S Rameshaiah Executive Director Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. # 33-34, 2nd Floor, Hennur Cross, Hennur Road, Bangalore, India - 560043 Phone: +91 80 4115 0580/1 Mobile: +91 98455 12611 www.mahiti.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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" (from the site). - The college will be the venue : We will use the rooms and the other mentioned facilities. - What does the college get? : MSRIT in associateion with Our society presents PyCon India 2010 (on the banner) and site. Here's my old proposal document which covers what we're trying to do. Perhaps that can be extended to include the colleges role to be formatl document. - http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaProposalDraft Can you take the lead on this and get the document done? If so, we can wrap this up and officially announce our venue. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From sree at mahiti.org Mon May 17 10:04:29 2010 From: sree at mahiti.org (Sreekanth S Rameshaiah) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:34:29 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > > > Here's my old proposal document which covers what we're trying to do. > Perhaps that can be extended to include the colleges role to be > formatl document. - > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaProposalDraft > > > Can you take the lead on this and get the document done? If so, we can > wrap this up and officially announce our venue. > > We are shifting office today. Will work on this tomorrow. Regards, - sree -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com Mon May 17 16:28:48 2010 From: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com (anil kumar) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 19:58:48 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, My group and I are extremely enthusiastic about the conference and ready to start work anytime soon. Please do let us know if u have any specific requirements from our end. regards, Anil On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah > wrote: > >> > >> Here's my old proposal document which covers what we're trying to do. > >> Perhaps that can be extended to include the colleges role to be > >> formatl document. - > >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaProposalDraft > >> > >> > >> Can you take the lead on this and get the document done? If so, we can > >> wrap this up and officially announce our venue. > >> > > We are shifting office today. Will work on this tomorrow. > > Okay. Thanks > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 17 18:45:58 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 22:15:58 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:58 PM, anil kumar wrote: > Hello all, > ????????????? My group and I are extremely enthusiastic about the conference > and ready to start work anytime soon. Please do let us know if u have any > specific requirements from our end. Cool. Thanks Anil. Sree should have the doc ready by tomorrow which he can mail to MSRIT and formalise the decision. Then we're good to go. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 18 13:03:25 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:33:25 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Any updates Sree? If you can send a draft, the people on the list can hammer it to get it into proper shape. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: >> >> Here's my old proposal document which covers what we're trying to do. >> Perhaps that can be extended to include the colleges role to be >> formatl document. - >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaProposalDraft >> >> >> Can you take the lead on this and get the document done? If so, we can >> wrap this up and officially announce our venue. >> > We are shifting office today. Will work on this tomorrow. > Regards, > - sree > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ramdaz at gmail.com Tue May 18 13:13:34 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:43:34 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Any updates Sree? If you can send a draft, the people on the list can > hammer it to get it into proper shape. > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah > wrote: > >> > >> Here's my old proposal document which covers what we're trying to do. > >> Perhaps that can be extended to include the colleges role to be > >> formatl document. - > >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaProposalDraft > >> > >> > >> Can you take the lead on this and get the document done? If so, we can > >> wrap this up and officially announce our venue. > >> > > We are shifting office today. Will work on this tomorrow. > > Regards, > > - sree > > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Now that the venue and dates are finalized. We need to start looking at other issues, such as replanned budget, sponsorship content and so on.... -- Ramdas S +91 9342 583 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Tue May 18 13:19:52 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:49:52 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Ramdas S wrote: [..] > Now that the venue and dates are finalized. We need to start looking at > other issues, such as replanned budget, sponsorship content and so on.... Good point. I'd feel more comfortable going ahead and *announcing* the venue only after Sree's letter reaches them and we have official communication from the college staff assuring us that the venue is booked. It would be a good idea if you can leverage your media contacts to give us some more publicity this time. The press release was sort of delayed the last time. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 19 08:17:30 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:47:30 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Any updates Sree? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Any updates Sree? If you can send a draft, the people on the list can > hammer it to get it into proper shape. > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: >>> >>> Here's my old proposal document which covers what we're trying to do. >>> Perhaps that can be extended to include the colleges role to be >>> formatl document. - >>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaProposalDraft >>> >>> >>> Can you take the lead on this and get the document done? If so, we can >>> wrap this up and officially announce our venue. >>> >> We are shifting office today. Will work on this tomorrow. >> Regards, >> - sree >> > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From sree at mahiti.org Wed May 19 08:21:25 2010 From: sree at mahiti.org (Sreekanth S Rameshaiah) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:51:25 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Working on it. - sree On 19 May 2010 11:47, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Any updates Sree? > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Any updates Sree? If you can send a draft, the people on the list can > > hammer it to get it into proper shape. > > > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah > wrote: > >>> > >>> Here's my old proposal document which covers what we're trying to do. > >>> Perhaps that can be extended to include the colleges role to be > >>> formatl document. - > >>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaProposalDraft > >>> > >>> > >>> Can you take the lead on this and get the document done? If so, we can > >>> wrap this up and officially announce our venue. > >>> > >> We are shifting office today. Will work on this tomorrow. > >> Regards, > >> - sree > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > ~noufal > > http://nibrahim.net.in > > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > -- Sreekanth S Rameshaiah Executive Director Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. # 33-34, 2nd Floor, Hennur Cross, Hennur Road, Bangalore, India - 560043 Phone: +91 80 4115 0580/1 Mobile: +91 98455 12611 www.mahiti.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 19 08:25:26 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:55:26 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: > Working on it. Cool. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 20 09:42:46 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:12:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Sree, Is the doc done? I'm a little worried since after your initial mail saying that you'll be able to handle stuff related to the college, there's been no response. If you can send the draft of what you have, we can wrap it up. It'd be awkward to go ahead with the site/sponsors and announcements without an "official" confirmation from the college. Thanks. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah > wrote: > > Working on it. > > Cool. > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 20 11:20:56 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 14:50:56 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I have wikified it and put it on http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/CollegeProposalLetter I've fixed the formatting. I've given it a round of editing to fix some small typos and stuff . It would be great if people on the list could give this a quick eyeballing. I understand that this is more of a formality than a real big thing but it's necessary to formally get support from the college. If anyone finds problems with the draft, it would be best if they directly went ahead and edited it on the wiki rather than mailed back to the list (would reduce bottlenecks) If we're all okay with this, we can ask Anil to take it to the staff coordinator and get their approval. After that, we (i.e., office bearers of the society) can go to the college as Kenneth suggested and seal the deal. We can get on with sponsorships then. So, comments on the draft? Any suggestions? On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: > Dear Noufal/ Ramdas, > Greetings ! > Could not manage to get the proposal to get into the wiki without loosing > the format. > Have attached it. > Please help me by putting it up. > Regards, > - sree > > On 20 May 2010 13:12, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >> Hello Sree, >> ? Is the doc done? I'm a little worried since after your initial mail >> saying that you'll be able to handle stuff related to the college, >> there's been no response. If you can send the draft of what you have, >> we can wrap it up. >> >> ? It'd be awkward to go ahead with the site/sponsors and >> announcements without an "official" confirmation from the college. >> >> Thanks. >> >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah >> > wrote: >> > > Working on it. >> > >> > Cool. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > ~noufal >> > http://nibrahim.net.in >> >> >> >> -- >> ~noufal >> http://nibrahim.net.in > > > > -- > Sreekanth S Rameshaiah > Executive Director > Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. > # 33-34, 2nd Floor, > Hennur Cross, Hennur Road, > Bangalore, India - 560043 > Phone: ?+91 80 4115 0580/1 > Mobile: ?+91 98455 12611 > www.mahiti.org > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From Nitin.Kumar at efi.com Thu May 20 11:20:59 2010 From: Nitin.Kumar at efi.com (Nitin Kumar) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 02:20:59 -0700 Subject: [Inpycon] Query Message-ID: Hi all, I have associated in working on python from last four years. So I eant to be a part of pycon india 2010. Please help me for the same. Thanks Nitin Kumar [cid:image001.jpg at 01CAF82B.DC410010] ________________________________ Confidentiality notice: This message may contain confidential information. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not that person, you should not use this message. We request that you notify us by replying to this message, and then delete all copies including any contained in your reply. 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After that, the sponsorship drive will start and that's something we need a LOT of help with. Thanks. http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 20 12:37:46 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:07:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Anyone? On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > I have wikified it and put it on > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/CollegeProposalLetter > I've fixed the formatting. > > I've given it a round of editing to fix some small typos and stuff . > It would be great if people on the list could give this a quick > eyeballing. I understand that this is more of a formality than a real > big thing but it's necessary to formally get support from the college. > > If anyone finds problems with the draft, it would be best if they > directly went ahead and edited it on the wiki rather than mailed back > to the list (would reduce bottlenecks) > > If we're all okay with this, we can ask Anil to take it to the staff > coordinator and get their approval. After that, we (i.e., office > bearers of the society) can go to the college as Kenneth suggested and > seal the deal. We can get on with sponsorships then. > > So, comments on the draft? Any suggestions? > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: >> Dear Noufal/ Ramdas, >> Greetings ! >> Could not manage to get the proposal to get into the wiki without loosing >> the format. >> Have attached it. >> Please help me by putting it up. >> Regards, >> - sree >> >> On 20 May 2010 13:12, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >>> >>> Hello Sree, >>> ? Is the doc done? I'm a little worried since after your initial mail >>> saying that you'll be able to handle stuff related to the college, >>> there's been no response. If you can send the draft of what you have, >>> we can wrap it up. >>> >>> ? It'd be awkward to go ahead with the site/sponsors and >>> announcements without an "official" confirmation from the college. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >>> > >>> > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah >>> > wrote: >>> > > Working on it. >>> > >>> > Cool. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > ~noufal >>> > http://nibrahim.net.in >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ~noufal >>> http://nibrahim.net.in >> >> >> >> -- >> Sreekanth S Rameshaiah >> Executive Director >> Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. >> # 33-34, 2nd Floor, >> Hennur Cross, Hennur Road, >> Bangalore, India - 560043 >> Phone: ?+91 80 4115 0580/1 >> Mobile: ?+91 98455 12611 >> www.mahiti.org >> > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Thu May 20 13:17:48 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:47:48 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/20 Noufal Ibrahim : > I have wikified it and put it on > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/CollegeProposalLetter > I've fixed the formatting. > > I've given it a round of editing to fix some small typos and stuff . > It would be great if people on the list could give this a quick > eyeballing. I understand that this is more of a formality than a real > big thing but it's necessary to formally get support from the college. > > If anyone finds problems with the draft, it would be best if they > directly went ahead and edited it on the wiki rather than mailed back > to the list (would reduce bottlenecks) > > If we're all okay with this, we can ask Anil to take it to the staff > coordinator and get their approval. After that, we (i.e., office > bearers of the society) can go to the college as Kenneth suggested and > seal the deal. We can get on with sponsorships then. > > So, comments on the draft? Any suggestions? Looks good to me. Anand From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 20 13:19:38 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:49:38 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Media publicity for the event Message-ID: I just saw this on Michael Foord's twitter stream "PyCon Australia is getting some nice publicity - appearing in both the Australian computerworld and lifehacker websites. Nice. " When we're ready with the college and stuff, it would be nice if we had this kind of publicity. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From santhosh.divakar at gmail.com Thu May 20 13:57:19 2010 From: santhosh.divakar at gmail.com (Santhosh Divakar) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:27:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > > > So, comments on the draft? Any suggestions? > > > In the draft I see this line in 'Required Elements' --> Conference will be branded in all PR activities including official web site as ?Indian Python Software Society in association with MSRIT ? . We can probably remove the MSRIT since we are in drafting stage and put . I know that we are 99% finalized over there, but should not it be better if we had the association done once after the deal is done? -Thanks Santhosh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 20 14:33:19 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 18:03:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Santhosh Divakar wrote: > >> >> > So, comments on the draft? Any suggestions? >> >> > In the draft I see this line in 'Required Elements' --> Conference will be > branded in all PR activities including official web site as ?Indian Python > Software Society in association with MSRIT ? . > > We can probably remove the MSRIT since we are in drafting stage and put host>.? I know that we are 99% finalized over there, but should not it be > better if we had the association done once after the deal is done? Sree had put "The hosT". I changed it to MSRIT since they are the people we're talking to. I've changed it back. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From bhaskar.jain2002 at gmail.com Thu May 20 14:35:58 2010 From: bhaskar.jain2002 at gmail.com (bhaskar jain) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 18:05:58 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: small typo - "sutdent" Other wise looks good. --Bhaskar. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 20 14:39:54 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 18:09:54 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:05 PM, bhaskar jain wrote: > small typo - "sutdent" > Other wise looks good. Like I said, if you find typos/grammar mistakes etc. it would be nice if you fix them on the wiki. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com Thu May 20 16:12:13 2010 From: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com (anil kumar) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:42:13 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Final verdict : RV vs. MSRIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all , i went through the wiki , it looks good. will the proposal be mailed to us or should we follow the wiki? regards, Anil On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:05 PM, bhaskar jain > wrote: > > small typo - "sutdent" > > Other wise looks good. > > Like I said, if you find typos/grammar mistakes etc. it would be nice > if you fix them on the wiki. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ideamonk at gmail.com Thu May 20 18:58:55 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 22:28:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: @anand Hi could you tryout the template at - http://github.com/ideamonk/inpycon-design/raw/master/newtry/site.html and let me know if it works out. I've put static content and stylesheet at http://ideamonk.in/inpycon/static/ which makes it easier to have static resources separated out and modified with ease. Putting stylesheet in Infogami would translate to putting hardcoded url's for images, etc in the css. Still not able to edit site.tmpl on wiki though. --------------------------------------------
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Our final examinations begin on 26th and goes on till 12th of june , during this period i will be little busy, but before that i hope to get confirmation from my college. regards, Anil On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:42 PM, anil kumar > wrote: > > > > Hello all , > > i went through the wiki , it looks good. will the > proposal be mailed to us or should we follow the wiki? > > When Sree spoke to the staff at MSRIT, the requirement for the letter > was brought up. > > Anil, > Can you take a printout of the page and have some of the members of > the staff look through it to see if it captures what's needed? We can > then visit the college official to finalise this. > > Thanks. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:39 PM, anil kumar > wrote: > > Consider it done!! . Our final examinations begin on 26th and goes on > till > > 12th of june , during this period i will be little busy, but before that > i > > hope to get confirmation from my college. > > regards, > > Thanks Anil. All the best with your exams. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 21 09:09:11 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:39:11 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorships for PyCon India 2010 Message-ID: Hello everyone, The letter for MSRIT is ready and Anil has agreed to follow up. We'll deal with that as things come. The next important thing is the sponsorships. I've reduced the venue amount to 20k (incidentals) on http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/BudgetEstimates I've also deducted the amount for foreign delegates from the total (although I've left it in for the item). I've done this because Anand is pursuing PSF sponsorship for a foreign delegate. Now, we need to worry about sponsors. The tiers page is up at http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers (thanks Anand) and while a little spare, workable. It would be nice if people can offer suggestions for benefits which the sponsors will have. This page will finally have to fleshed out into a "sponsorship brochure" which we can send to various companies so blurb (e.g., "PyCon India is blah blah.. .etc.) is necessary. The other page relevant to sponsors is http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShip which contains lists of potential sponsors. So the action plan is this. - Open the account (Santhosh will mail the cheque to Kenneth soon and the account can be opened) - Get the brochure ready with the tiers and blurb [Can folks on the list take a look at the page to see if there's anything missing and if it's reasonable?] - Enumerate the companies we can talk to and get one person per sponsor who will be the contact point. [If you have any contacts with the companies listed, please put your name on the site. If you know more, please add] - Follow up and close the accounts. I've CCed Vijay and Jaganadh who are our sponsorship coordinators. Vishal, I've CCed you since you mentioned you might have some time to help with this. Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From nitin.gangahar at gmail.com Sat May 22 05:49:55 2010 From: nitin.gangahar at gmail.com (Nitin Gangahar) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 09:19:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue Option : BITS,Pilani Message-ID: Hello to all!! I am a student presently studying in Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus. Our college has a big enough auditorium and also two big lecture theatre halls big enough for the requirements mentioned on the site. Ample facilities will also be provided in the auditorium for conducting the conference. We are a group of around 30 students who would voluntarily be interested in organising PyCon India at our college. Pilani is located in Rajasthan and is reachable via buses and taxis(which run almost all the day) from Delhi and Jaipur. It is also connected through a train which runs from Delhi to Loharu (situated 20 kms from Pilani). Moreover, me and 5 more students working with me have got experience in designing as well as developing websites for our college fests with around 5000 registered users. So, we thought that we might as well help in the development of the PyCon website. Thanking you all Nitin Gangahar B.I.T.S. Pilani, Pilani Campus From vid at svaksha.com Sat May 22 07:06:22 2010 From: vid at svaksha.com (=?UTF-8?B?IOCkuOCljeCkteCkleCljeCktyA=?=) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 10:36:22 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue Option : BITS,Pilani In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 09:19, Nitin Gangahar wrote: > Hello to all!! > ? ? I am a student presently studying in Birla Institute of > Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus. Our college has a big > enough auditorium and also two big lecture theatre halls big enough > for the requirements mentioned on the site. Ample facilities will also > be provided in the auditorium for conducting the conference. We are a > group of around 30 students who would voluntarily be interested in > organising PyCon India at our college. Hi Nitin, Its great that you and other interested students are enthusiastic about hosting Pycon-india in Bits Pilani. Thanks. However for 2010, the city/venue has been fixed and for 2011 its being hosted by Chennai (as per the discussions on the list thusfar). So I'd suggest that you/Bits look at 2012 and if possible create a wiki page listing the available facilities (including contacts, faculty/students, emailID's and phone numbers) as it would be useful during venue discussions in future as few would want to crawl through 2 year old list archives. -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 22 07:35:51 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 11:05:51 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue Option : BITS,Pilani In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi. 2010 and 2011 have already been fixed. If there's a sizeable python community in rajasthan, 2012 is an option. The college is just a small part. Since however you mentioned your interest in the website, we could use help right now. Will you guys have time? On 5/22/10, Nitin Gangahar wrote: > Hello to all!! > I am a student presently studying in Birla Institute of > Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus. Our college has a big > enough auditorium and also two big lecture theatre halls big enough > for the requirements mentioned on the site. Ample facilities will also > be provided in the auditorium for conducting the conference. We are a > group of around 30 students who would voluntarily be interested in > organising PyCon India at our college. > Pilani is located in Rajasthan and is reachable via buses and > taxis(which run almost all the day) from Delhi and Jaipur. It is also > connected through a train which runs from Delhi to Loharu (situated 20 > kms from Pilani). > Moreover, me and 5 more students working with me have got > experience in designing as well as developing websites for our college > fests with around 5000 registered users. So, we thought that we might > as well help in the development of the PyCon website. > > Thanking you all > Nitin Gangahar > B.I.T.S. Pilani, Pilani Campus > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Sat May 22 09:18:19 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:48:19 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorships for PyCon India 2010 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Anyone? On 5/21/10, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The letter for MSRIT is ready and Anil has agreed to follow up. We'll > deal with that as things come. > > The next important thing is the sponsorships. I've reduced the venue > amount to 20k (incidentals) on > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/BudgetEstimates > > I've also deducted the amount for foreign delegates from the total > (although I've left it in for the item). I've done this because Anand > is pursuing PSF sponsorship for a foreign delegate. > > Now, we need to worry about sponsors. The tiers page is up at > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers (thanks > Anand) and while a little spare, workable. It would be nice if people > can offer suggestions for benefits which the sponsors will have. This > page will finally have to fleshed out into a "sponsorship brochure" > which we can send to various companies so blurb (e.g., "PyCon India is > blah blah.. .etc.) is necessary. > > The other page relevant to sponsors is > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShip which contains > lists of potential sponsors. So the action plan is this. > > - Open the account (Santhosh will mail the cheque to Kenneth soon > and the account can be opened) > - Get the brochure ready with the tiers and blurb [Can folks on the > list take a look at the page to see if there's anything missing and if > it's reasonable?] > - Enumerate the companies we can talk to and get one person per > sponsor who will be the contact point. [If you have any contacts with > the companies listed, please put your name on the site. If you know > more, please add] > - Follow up and close the accounts. > > I've CCed Vijay and Jaganadh who are our sponsorship coordinators. > > Vishal, > I've CCed you since you mentioned you might have some time to help with > this. > Thanks. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anand.shashwat at gmail.com Sat May 22 12:23:52 2010 From: anand.shashwat at gmail.com (Shashwat Anand) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:53:52 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Abhishek, is the website up ? On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > @anand > > Hi could you tryout the template at - > http://github.com/ideamonk/inpycon-design/raw/master/newtry/site.html > > and let me know if it works out. I've put static content and stylesheet > at http://ideamonk.in/inpycon/static/ which > makes it easier to have static resources separated out and modified with > ease. > > Putting stylesheet in Infogami would translate to putting hardcoded url's > for images, etc in the css. > > Still not able to edit site.tmpl on wiki though. > -------------------------------------------- > >
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> > ^^ I wish to see how this part of template behaves. > > regards, > > Abhishek > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nishanth.amuluru at gmail.com Mon May 24 06:56:25 2010 From: nishanth.amuluru at gmail.com (Nishanth Amuluru) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:26:25 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue Option : BITS,Pilani In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 5/22/10, Nitin Gangahar wrote: > Hello to all!! > I am a student presently studying in Birla Institute of > Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus. Our college has a big > enough auditorium and also two big lecture theatre halls big enough > for the requirements mentioned on the site. Ample facilities will also > be provided in the auditorium for conducting the conference. We are a > group of around 30 students who would voluntarily be interested in > organising PyCon India at our college. > Pilani is located in Rajasthan and is reachable via buses and > taxis(which run almost all the day) from Delhi and Jaipur. It is also > connected through a train which runs from Delhi to Loharu (situated 20 > kms from Pilani). > Moreover, me and 5 more students working with me have got > experience in designing as well as developing websites for our college > fests with around 5000 registered users. So, we thought that we might > as well help in the development of the PyCon website. > > Thanking you all > Nitin Gangahar > B.I.T.S. Pilani, Pilani Campus > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Sent from my mobile device Thanks and Regards A Nishanth From nishanth.amuluru at gmail.com Mon May 24 07:50:47 2010 From: nishanth.amuluru at gmail.com (Nishanth Amuluru) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:20:47 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue Option : BITS,Pilani In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 5/22/10, Nitin Gangahar wrote: > Hello to all!! > I am a student presently studying in Birla Institute of > Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus. Our college has a big > enough auditorium and also two big lecture theatre halls big enough > for the requirements mentioned on the site. Ample facilities will also > be provided in the auditorium for conducting the conference. We are a > group of around 30 students who would voluntarily be interested in > organising PyCon India at our college. > Pilani is located in Rajasthan and is reachable via buses and > taxis(which run almost all the day) from Delhi and Jaipur. It is also > connected through a train which runs from Delhi to Loharu (situated 20 > kms from Pilani). > Moreover, me and 5 more students working with me have got > experience in designing as well as developing websites for our college > fests with around 5000 registered users. So, we thought that we might > as well help in the development of the PyCon website. > > Thanking you all > Nitin Gangahar > B.I.T.S. Pilani, Pilani Campus > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Sent from my mobile device Thanks and Regards A Nishanth From nishanth.amuluru at gmail.com Mon May 24 07:52:57 2010 From: nishanth.amuluru at gmail.com (Nishanth Amuluru) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:22:57 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue Option : BITS,Pilani In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 5/22/10, Nitin Gangahar wrote: > Hello to all!! > I am a student presently studying in Birla Institute of > Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus. Our college has a big > enough auditorium and also two big lecture theatre halls big enough > for the requirements mentioned on the site. Ample facilities will also > be provided in the auditorium for conducting the conference. We are a > group of around 30 students who would voluntarily be interested in > organising PyCon India at our college. > Pilani is located in Rajasthan and is reachable via buses and > taxis(which run almost all the day) from Delhi and Jaipur. It is also > connected through a train which runs from Delhi to Loharu (situated 20 > kms from Pilani). > Moreover, me and 5 more students working with me have got > experience in designing as well as developing websites for our college > fests with around 5000 registered users. So, we thought that we might > as well help in the development of the PyCon website. > > Thanking you all > Nitin Gangahar > B.I.T.S. Pilani, Pilani Campus > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Sent from my mobile device Thanks and Regards A Nishanth From nishanth.amuluru at gmail.com Mon May 24 08:37:04 2010 From: nishanth.amuluru at gmail.com (Nishanth Amuluru) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:07:04 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Venue Option : BITS,Pilani In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 5/22/10, Nitin Gangahar wrote: > Hello to all!! > I am a student presently studying in Birla Institute of > Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus. Our college has a big > enough auditorium and also two big lecture theatre halls big enough > for the requirements mentioned on the site. Ample facilities will also > be provided in the auditorium for conducting the conference. We are a > group of around 30 students who would voluntarily be interested in > organising PyCon India at our college. > Pilani is located in Rajasthan and is reachable via buses and > taxis(which run almost all the day) from Delhi and Jaipur. It is also > connected through a train which runs from Delhi to Loharu (situated 20 > kms from Pilani). > Moreover, me and 5 more students working with me have got > experience in designing as well as developing websites for our college > fests with around 5000 registered users. So, we thought that we might > as well help in the development of the PyCon website. > > Thanking you all > Nitin Gangahar > B.I.T.S. Pilani, Pilani Campus > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Sent from my mobile device Thanks and Regards A Nishanth From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 24 08:46:44 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:16:44 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Conferece "Proceedings" Message-ID: Hello everyone, I received a mail last year from Pearson in which they expressed their interest to print "Conference proceedings" for PyCon. My understanding was that this is more of an academic conference thing. They contacted me rather late so I couldn't do anything. I'm sure there are people who have experience with larger more formal conferences. Is this something we can pursue in any fashion? Would it help? At the very least, we can get them to set up a stall to sell their books etc. Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Mon May 24 09:24:25 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:54:25 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/20 Abhishek Mishra : > @anand > Hi could you tryout the template at - > http://github.com/ideamonk/inpycon-design/raw/master/newtry/site.html > and let me know if it works out. I've put static content and ?stylesheet > at?http://ideamonk.in/inpycon/static/?which makes it easier to have static > resources separated out and modified with ease. > Putting stylesheet in Infogami would translate to putting hardcoded url's > for images, etc in the css. > Still not able to edit site.tmpl on wiki though. > -------------------------------------------- > >
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> > ^^ I wish to see how this part of template behaves. Done. http://in.pycon.org/2010/?template_root=/themes/alankar template is at http://in.pycon.org/2010/themes/alankar/templates/site.tmpl Shall we make this the default theme? Anand From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 24 09:32:22 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:02:22 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/20 Abhishek Mishra : [..] > Done. > > http://in.pycon.org/2010/?template_root=/themes/alankar > > template is at http://in.pycon.org/2010/themes/alankar/templates/site.tmpl > > Shall we make this the default theme? I think it looks fine. One major problem - The dates in the banner are wrong. It's September 25 and 26. Abhishek would need to correct this on the graphic. Wouldn't he? Some minor nitpicks. - " behind the scene " doesn't sound appropriate for sponsors. - Does the white bg of the "login" link look a little out of place? Maybe we should delegate the login link to the sidebar or even inside the main header at the top right corner rather than making it a stuck out thing. As it is, it spoils the banner. Apart from these (and you can ignore the minor ones if there are time constraints), I'm +1. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From jaganadhg at gmail.com Mon May 24 10:28:27 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:58:27 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Conferece "Proceedings" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Hello everyone, > I received a mail last year from Pearson in which they expressed > their interest to print "Conference proceedings" for PyCon. > > My understanding was that this is more of an academic conference > thing. They contacted me rather late so I couldn't do anything. > > I'm sure there are people who have experience with larger more > formal conferences. Is this something we can pursue in any fashion? > Would it help? > > At the very least, we can get them to set up a stall to sell their books > etc. > > If we have plans to publish the proceedings there should be a good review mechanisom for the talk. First we have to ask the people to submitt extended abstract. A review group has to review it and select the papers. Then the authors has to submit Camara ready full paper and review has to be done. Parally we have to give the templates for preparing the papers. Above all an Editorial groupe and an editor has to be selected. Such a short but long procdure is there. Does we have time for all these things. If so we can go for the publications . What Iobserved is that the proceedings of US Pycon is available as open / free . -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 24 10:33:41 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 14:03:41 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Conferece "Proceedings" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:58 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: [..] > If we have plans to publish the proceedings there should be a good review > mechanisom for the talk. > First we have to ask the people to submitt extended abstract. A review group > has to review it and select the papers. Then the authors has to submit > Camara ready full paper and review has to be done. Parally we have to give > the templates for preparing the papers. Above all an Editorial groupe and an > editor has to be selected. > > Such a short but long procdure is there. Does we have time for all these > things. If so we can go for the publications . > What Iobserved is that the proceedings of US Pycon is available as open / > free . We will put up the papers, presentations, talks etc. online. That's a given. I'm not sure if we'll have time or even the inclination to go through the tedium of doing a formal review/selection process. Perhaps we should just ask Pearson if they're interested in sponsoring... -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From jaganadhg at gmail.com Mon May 24 10:37:37 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 14:07:37 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Conferece "Proceedings" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:58 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: > [..] > > If we have plans to publish the proceedings there should be a good review > > mechanisom for the talk. > > First we have to ask the people to submitt extended abstract. A review > group > > has to review it and select the papers. Then the authors has to submit > > Camara ready full paper and review has to be done. Parally we have to > give > > the templates for preparing the papers. Above all an Editorial groupe and > an > > editor has to be selected. > > > > Such a short but long procdure is there. Does we have time for all these > > things. If so we can go for the publications . > > What Iobserved is that the proceedings of US Pycon is available as open / > > free . > > We will put up the papers, presentations, talks etc. online. That's a > given. I'm not sure if we'll have time or even the inclination to go > through the tedium of doing a formal review/selection process. > > Perhaps we should just ask Pearson if they're interested in sponsoring... > > Ya . If he can provide sponsorship that will great. The most difficult part in publishing is getting the papers from authors. Some body has to really sit to communicate with the authors to get the papers. Most of us will be preparing even slided in the lat minute :-) -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From renukaprasadb at gmail.com Mon May 24 10:48:04 2010 From: renukaprasadb at gmail.com (renuka prasad) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 14:18:04 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Conferece "Proceedings" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:58 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: > > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> I received a mail last year from Pearson in which they expressed >> their interest to print "Conference proceedings" for PyCon. >> >> My understanding was that this is more of an academic conference >> thing. They contacted me rather late so I couldn't do anything. >> >> I'm sure there are people who have experience with larger more >> formal conferences. Is this something we can pursue in any fashion? >> Would it help? >> >> At the very least, we can get them to set up a stall to sell their books >> etc. >> >> > If we have plans to publish the proceedings there should be a good review > mechanisom for the talk. > First we have to ask the people to submitt extended abstract. A review > group has to review it and select the papers. Then the authors has to submit > Camara ready full paper and review has to be done. Parally we have to give > the templates for preparing the papers. Above all an Editorial groupe and an > editor has to be selected. > > Such a short but long procdure is there. Does we have time for all these > things. If so we can go for the publications . > What Iobserved is that the proceedings of US Pycon is available as open / > free . > > true , it is not a good idea to just publish as it is presented by the authors and more over it takes lot of time to keeping track of such kind of things. even authors may not be able to immediately do or like to do.. so many tedious jobs will be involved. if the sponsor is ready to take care of all those things then it is worth to have a proceedings otherwise making presentations online would be sufficient. if sponsor is keen on printing , then it has to be decided what has to be printed and would be useful for all so that they can distribute them during conference > -- > ********************************** > JAGANADH G > http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 24 11:59:24 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 15:29:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] regarding the proposal In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for your work Anil! I will personally be away for most of this week. I expect that Dr. Srinivasa won't be available on the weekend. Would Monday be okay? If Anand and Sree are free, we could go there together sometime in the morning. Thanks. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:23 PM, anil kumar wrote: > Hello all, > ?? ? ? ? ? ? ?I have met with the principal regarding the proposal. He seems > to be perfectly fine with the requirements. > ?Since he is busy with some work he has appointed a senior professor ?Dr. K > G Srinivasa to take over regarding the official signing of the proposal with > the conference organisers. please let me know when you can officially meet > with him. > regards, > Anil > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >> One more little thing. Some of the sponsors might have stalls at the >> conference to sell things. This might be an issue with the college so >> it's best to ask them about it upfront. >> >> >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> > Please let me know when you get to speak with the management at your >> > college Anil. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Noufal Ibrahim >> > wrote: >> >> Please coordinate with Sree directly if any further changes need to be >> >> done. ?I have CCed him on the email. >> >> >> >> I will be busy with the sponsorships stuff. >> >> >> >> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:19 AM, anil kumar >> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello , >> >>> ?? ? ? ? ?i will take the proposal on Monday and get back to you on >> >>> the >> >>> feedback. >> >>> >> >>> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Noufal Ibrahim >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Please do the needful Anil. >> >>>> >> >>>> Thanks.. >> >>>> >> >>>> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah >> >>>> >> >>>> wrote: >> >>>> > Had completed then only. Anil, Please check. >> >>>> > Regards, >> >>>> > - sree >> >>>> > >> >>>> > On 22 May 2010 12:45, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> Thanks Sree. Please mail Anil and me when you're done so that he >> >>>> >> can >> >>>> >> do the needful at the college. >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> On 5/22/10, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: >> >>>> >> > Noufal, >> >>>> >> > I suggested that we conduct introductory Python class over two >> >>>> >> > weekends >> >>>> >> > before the conference to bring the students of the college up to >> >>>> >> > speed ( >> >>>> >> > in >> >>>> >> > an attempt to help them benefit from attending the PyCon) as >> >>>> >> > community >> >>>> >> > members were not in favor of having basic python sessions as >> >>>> >> > part of >> >>>> >> > the >> >>>> >> > conference. >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > I am ammending the letter now. >> >>>> >> > - sree >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > On 21 May 2010 21:04, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> >> Hello Sree, >> >>>> >> >> ? Can you take care of this? I'm not sure what the bridge >> >>>> >> >> courses >> >>>> >> >> are. >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> >> Thanks. >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> >>>> >> >> From: anil kumar >> >>>> >> >> Date: Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM >> >>>> >> >> Subject: regarding the proposal >> >>>> >> >> To: Noufal Ibrahim >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> >> Hello sir, >> >>>> >> >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? when Sree had visited our college it was >> >>>> >> >> mentioned >> >>>> >> >> that there would be python bridge courses for the students here >> >>>> >> >> and >> >>>> >> >> that would be beneficial , but it has not been mentioned on the >> >>>> >> >> proposal. If the administration would point out this then it >> >>>> >> >> could >> >>>> >> >> lead to problems. i haven't yet shown the proposal to my staff >> >>>> >> >> coordinator. If the proposed bridge courses or anything that >> >>>> >> >> would >> >>>> >> >> specifically help the students in my college learn, be >> >>>> >> >> mentioned >> >>>> >> >> then >> >>>> >> >> it would be easy for us to continue with proceedings. >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> >> regards, >> >>>> >> >> Anil >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> >> -- >> >>>> >> >> ~noufal >> >>>> >> >> http://nibrahim.net.in >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > -- >> >>>> >> > Sreekanth S Rameshaiah >> >>>> >> > Executive Director >> >>>> >> > Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. >> >>>> >> > # 33-34, 2nd Floor, >> >>>> >> > Hennur Cross, Hennur Road, >> >>>> >> > Bangalore, India - 560043 >> >>>> >> > Phone: ?+91 80 4115 0580/1 >> >>>> >> > Mobile: ?+91 98455 12611 >> >>>> >> > www.mahiti.org >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> -- >> >>>> >> ~noufal >> >>>> >> http://nibrahim.net.in >> >>>> > >> >>>> > >> >>>> > >> >>>> > -- >> >>>> > Sreekanth S Rameshaiah >> >>>> > Executive Director >> >>>> > Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. >> >>>> > # 33-34, 2nd Floor, >> >>>> > Hennur Cross, Hennur Road, >> >>>> > Bangalore, India - 560043 >> >>>> > Phone: ?+91 80 4115 0580/1 >> >>>> > Mobile: ?+91 98455 12611 >> >>>> > www.mahiti.org >> >>>> > >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> -- >> >>>> ~noufal >> >>>> http://nibrahim.net.in >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ~noufal >> >> http://nibrahim.net.in >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > ~noufal >> > http://nibrahim.net.in >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ~noufal >> http://nibrahim.net.in > > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ideamonk at gmail.com Mon May 24 13:53:30 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:23:30 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, Woops, looks like I picked the wrong dates, I'll fix it asap. Yes the login link isn't getting the right kind of attention, and might become uneasy for some people to locate. I'll try to bring it into sidebar or somewhere else appropriate. While the profile link and logout may stay on top after logging in. What do you think? Anand, I wonder if this theme functions nicely on the other pages like profile etc, since I could not get postgres set up properly, I totally based this work on the default template. If all other pages too look appropriate with this template, I think we can go for it as default. Guys any suggestion for a subtitle for Sponsors? "behind the scenes" is more appropriate for organizing team though. Get back with changes soon. Abhishek On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Anand Chitipothu > wrote: > > 2010/5/20 Abhishek Mishra : > [..] > > Done. > > > > http://in.pycon.org/2010/?template_root=/themes/alankar > > > > template is at > http://in.pycon.org/2010/themes/alankar/templates/site.tmpl > > > > Shall we make this the default theme? > > I think it looks fine. > > One major problem > - The dates in the banner are wrong. It's September 25 and 26. > Abhishek would need to correct this on the graphic. Wouldn't he? > > Some minor nitpicks. > - " behind the scene " doesn't sound appropriate for sponsors. > - Does the white bg of the "login" link look a little out of place? > Maybe we should delegate the login link to the sidebar or even inside > the main header at the top right corner rather than making it a stuck > out thing. As it is, it spoils the banner. > > Apart from these (and you can ignore the minor ones if there are time > constraints), I'm +1. > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 24 13:56:24 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:26:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: [..] > Guys any suggestion for a subtitle for Sponsors? "behind the scenes" is more > appropriate for organizing team though. I'm not sure that subtitles are necessary. The main items are descriptive enough. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From ideamonk at gmail.com Mon May 24 14:01:53 2010 From: ideamonk at gmail.com (Abhishek Mishra) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:31:53 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That makes it simpler then :) On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Abhishek Mishra > wrote: > [..] > > Guys any suggestion for a subtitle for Sponsors? "behind the scenes" is > more > > appropriate for organizing team though. > > I'm not sure that subtitles are necessary. The main items are > descriptive enough. > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com Mon May 24 19:06:55 2010 From: anil.kumar.848 at gmail.com (anil kumar) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 22:36:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: i think ... "production team" could go as a subtitle for the sponsors :) On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > That makes it simpler then :) > > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Abhishek Mishra >> wrote: >> [..] >> > Guys any suggestion for a subtitle for Sponsors? "behind the scenes" is >> more >> > appropriate for organizing team though. >> >> I'm not sure that subtitles are necessary. The main items are >> descriptive enough. >> >> >> >> -- >> ~noufal >> http://nibrahim.net.in >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 24 19:11:16 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 22:41:16 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:36 PM, anil kumar wrote: > i think ... "production team" could go as a subtitle for the sponsors :) Too cheeky. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From vid at svaksha.com Tue May 25 06:26:25 2010 From: vid at svaksha.com (=?UTF-8?B?IOCkuOCljeCkteCkleCljeCktyA=?=) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:11:25 +0545 Subject: [Inpycon] Setting up the web site for Pycon 2010 {was Website Setup} In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: hi, On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 17:38, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > Yes the login link isn't getting the right kind of attention, and might > become uneasy for some people to locate. > I'll try to bring it into sidebar or somewhere else appropriate. While the > profile link and logout may stay on top after logging in. What do you think? right, its hardly visible. If its placed below (or above) the time counter it would grab the user's attention on where they need to login. > Anand, I wonder if this theme functions nicely on the other pages like > profile etc, since I could not get postgres set up properly, I totally based > this work on the default template. I liked the grey outline of a landmark monument building...its very unobtrusive. Maybe this can be changed as per the landmark in each city when pycon moves around India each year! -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com From noufal at gmail.com Wed May 26 19:36:36 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 23:06:36 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: I've been in touch with Prabhu from IITB about getting some sponsorships. This was the email which I last received. Some of the points would affect the way we structure things so I think we need to have a discussion. What do you guys feel? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prabhu Ramachandran Date: Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:22 AM Subject: Re: Sponsorships from IITB To: Noufal Ibrahim Cc: Hi, On Tuesday 27 April 2010 09:47 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > ? ?We've started work on this years PyCon and are currently working on > the sponsorship drive. > > ? ?I remember you mentioned a possibility of getting some sponsorship > for the conference from IITB. Being a govt. thing, I imagine it will > take a while but do you think it will be possible to start some > threads to see if something turns up? It'd definitely help the > conference a lot. The estimate of the budget is at > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/BudgetEstimates and the > overall sponsorship plans are at > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShip. They're > subject to change but not dramatically so. I've thought about this and discussed with Asokan. ?I think we could fund you for about 1 lakh but we have the following suggestions: ?1. You should produce something worthwhile at the end of the conference, like hold sprints, or help coordinate for spoken tutorials (http://www.spoken-tutorial.org). ?Basically the Python community should get something out of this. ?2. Exercise better control over the talks and their selections. ?More lightning talks or shorter talks. ?No long talks except if the speaker is known to be a really good speaker. Unlike last time, the no. of parallel sessions should also be planned better. ?3. Allow us to conduct a tutorial track for science and engineering streams. ?4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and allow us to setup a small stall. Judging by your current budget I think you might not need to contact Enthought and I am not sure it will help much since Enthought is a really small company and I am not sure they will be in a position to do much given that they are doing most of the work for SciPy2010 this year. cheers, prabhu -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Thu May 27 03:51:38 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 07:21:38 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: 2010/5/26 Noufal Ibrahim : > I've been in touch with Prabhu from IITB about getting some > sponsorships. This was the email which I last received. > > Some of the points would affect the way we structure things so I think > we need to have a discussion. > > What do you guys feel? My comments are inline. [...] > ?1. You should produce something worthwhile at the end of the > conference, like hold sprints, or help coordinate for spoken tutorials > (http://www.spoken-tutorial.org). ?Basically the Python community > should get something out of this. Will it be possible to record those at the time of presentation? > ?2. Exercise better control over the talks and their selections. ?More > lightning talks or shorter talks. ?No long talks except if the speaker > is known to be a really good speaker. Unlike last time, the no. of > parallel sessions should also be planned better. I think we can be strict about the selection process. But I don't think we should select speakers based on their face value. We can ask them to submit the abstract and slides much in advance so that the selection team can go over it and scrutinize. > ?3. Allow us to conduct a tutorial track for science and engineering streams. I don't think there is any harm in having this track in one of the two days. How will we attract any non computer science guys for this conference? Will the Fossee team will help in promoting this? > ?4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and > allow us to setup a small stall. We can put the logo on the banners, but not on the t-shirts. T-shirts will have only the conference logo. > Judging by your current budget I think you might not need to contact > Enthought and I am not sure it will help much since Enthought is a > really small company and I am not sure they will be in a position to > do much given that they are doing most of the work for SciPy2010 this > year. More sponsors are always nice! Anand From anandology at gmail.com Thu May 27 03:56:11 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 07:26:11 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: 2010/5/26 Noufal Ibrahim : > I've been in touch with Prabhu from IITB about getting some > sponsorships. This was the email which I last received. > > Some of the points would affect the way we structure things so I think > we need to have a discussion. > > What do you guys feel? Who is the sponsor? FOSSEE/IITB/Govt. of India? Anand From vid at svaksha.com Thu May 27 04:22:42 2010 From: vid at svaksha.com (=?UTF-8?B?IOCkuOCljeCkteCkleCljeCktyA=?=) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:07:42 +0545 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 23:21, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > I've thought about this and discussed with Asokan. ?I think we could > fund you for about 1 lakh but we have the following suggestions: > > ?1. You should produce something worthwhile at the end of the > conference, like hold sprints, or help coordinate for spoken tutorials > (http://www.spoken-tutorial.org). ?Basically the Python community > should get something out of this. +100 *grin* > ?2. Exercise better control over the talks and their selections. ?More > lightning talks or shorter talks. ?No long talks except if the speaker > is known to be a really good speaker. Unlike last time, the no. of > parallel sessions should also be planned better. > > ?3. Allow us to conduct a tutorial track for science and engineering streams. So long as its open and accessible to all folks, sounds ok. > ?4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and > allow us to setup a small stall. Maybe we could add another tier "diamond", increase the sponsorship amount by 25% (i'd say "double the platinum tier" but feel free to discuss this) and add the above options suggested by Prabhu/Fosee? Re logo on tee. Which part of the tee does fosee want its logo on--Front, back or sleeve? Each should be priced differently with a fixed size dimension. Since I dont have last years tee, cant comment much, but i'd think the logo should not overshadow the INpycon logo. Example. a small logo on *one* sleeve of the Tee for doubling the society budget by a diamond sponsor seems ok'ish. That said, its better if the front and back of the tee were not sold at all. -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com From abpillai at gmail.com Thu May 27 04:47:42 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:17:42 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: Here are my thoughts. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:52 AM, ?????? wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 23:21, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > > I've thought about this and discussed with Asokan. I think we could > > fund you for about 1 lakh but we have the following suggestions: > > > > 1. You should produce something worthwhile at the end of the > > conference, like hold sprints, or help coordinate for spoken tutorials > > (http://www.spoken-tutorial.org). Basically the Python community > > should get something out of this. > > Not sure what he was trying to say here. I thought the conference was being organized by the Python community for the Python community. He should be more clear as to what kind of sprints and tutorials he expects, not just give a link. > > > 2. Exercise better control over the talks and their selections. More > > lightning talks or shorter talks. No long talks except if the speaker > > is known to be a really good speaker. Unlike last time, the no. of > > parallel sessions should also be planned better. > > > > 3. Allow us to conduct a tutorial track for science and engineering > streams. > > So long as its open and accessible to all folks, sounds ok. > > Yes. This cannot be a closed session which needs some additional formalities or payment. It has to be part of the general talks. > > 4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and > > allow us to setup a small stall. > > > My suggestion - We will do this but increase the sponsorship level for them and ask for 2 lakhs or more. This cannot be done "cheaply". We need to get negotiations going. We can print the logo on the back of the T-shirt below "inpycon" for all such sponsors. In short, I totally support vid's suggestion here. > > > -- > thanks and regards, > vid || http://svaksha.com > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anandology at gmail.com Thu May 27 05:03:33 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:33:33 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: >> > ?4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and >> > allow us to setup a small stall. >> >> > ?My suggestion - We will do this but increase the sponsorship level > ?for them and ask for 2 lakhs or more. This cannot be done "cheaply". We > ?need to get negotiations going. We can print the logo > ?on the back of the T-shirt below "inpycon" for all such sponsors. > ?In short, I totally support vid's suggestion here. I don't agree. we shouldn't sell people's back as advertising spaces. People are paying for their t-shirts and food. Let the t-shirt be free from sponsor logos. Anand From vid at svaksha.com Thu May 27 05:16:28 2010 From: vid at svaksha.com (=?UTF-8?B?IOCkuOCljeCkteCkleCljeCktyA=?=) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:01:28 +0545 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:32, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > ?Not sure what he was trying to say here. I thought the conference > ?was being organized by the Python community for the Python community. > ?He should be more clear as to what kind of sprints and tutorials > ?he expects, not just give a link. i'd guess something like this[0][1] perhaps? Or he meant the conference should be recorded and videos put online at spoken-tutorial.org? ...but only Prabhu/Asokan can clarify what's exactly on their mind. [0] http://us.pycon.org/2010/sprints/ [1] http://us.pycon.org/2010/sprints/projects/ > ?need to get negotiations going. We can print the logo > ?on the back of the T-shirt below "inpycon" for all such sponsors. hmm....i'd keep this available "only" for those diamond sponsors that _ask_ for it and not add this in the standard package. You'd need some sugar to negotiate:) Also if a sponsor logo is on the front or back its quite confusing as the tee would look cluttered and ugly. With the front/back you'd have to risk the chances of their logo overshadowing inpycon logo, negotiating the size--whether they want "logo" or "logo+text", etc..... The sleeve (with fixed small dimensions for either "logo" or "logo+text" would give a clean interface and visibility for the diamond sponsor. -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 27 07:06:42 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:36:42 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: [..] > Who is the sponsor? FOSSEE/IITB/Govt. of India? My initial mail to him was asking for an IITB sponsorship so I guess it's either than or the FOSSEE group. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 27 07:32:01 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:02:01 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: [..] >> > ?1. You should produce something worthwhile at the end of the >> > conference, like hold sprints, or help coordinate for spoken tutorials >> > (http://www.spoken-tutorial.org). ?Basically the Python community >> > should get something out of this. >> > ?Not sure what he was trying to say here. I thought the conference > ?was being organized by the Python community for the Python community. > ?He should be more clear as to what kind of sprints and tutorials > ?he expects, not just give a link. I think he means something more concrete than a "we held PyCon". There should be something tangible which actually helps the community to grow. Lots of simple talks and everyone patting themselves on the back won't really help. I imagine it stems from the fossee attempts to popularise the language. Every sponsor has an agenda and theirs is probably one of the more benevolent ones. I'll confirm with him but I think they're expecting that there should either be some popular Python project worked on (ie. a sprint) or something or high quality presentations permanently archived (which I guess would happen in we get a good videographer and are more adroit about uploading what we get). Last years conference ended on the second day and there was nothing to show for it except for the name. That I think, it what they don't want. >> > ?2. Exercise better control over the talks and their selections. ?More >> > lightning talks or shorter talks. ?No long talks except if the speaker >> > is known to be a really good speaker. Unlike last time, the no. of >> > parallel sessions should also be planned better. >> > >> > ?3. Allow us to conduct a tutorial track for science and engineering >> > streams. >> >> So long as its open and accessible to all folks, sounds ok. >> > > ?Yes. This cannot be a closed session which needs some additional > ?formalities or payment. It has to be part of the general talks. I don't think they meant extra payment. They'd want an exclusive track and I don't see a problem with that. It would draw the scientific crowd as well and their machinery would help in the pubilcity. There might be some more formalities like maybe some kind of certificate. I'll double check with him on that. If something like that is there, it would be bad since we'd divide the event int to the elite part which gives certificates and the regular part for the scruffy programmers. >> > ?4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and >> > allow us to setup a small stall. >> >> > ?My suggestion - We will do this but increase the sponsorship level > ?for them and ask for 2 lakhs or more. This cannot be done "cheaply". We > ?need to get negotiations going. We can print the logo > ?on the back of the T-shirt below "inpycon" for all such sponsors. > ?In short, I totally support vid's suggestion here. Last year, I was rabidly against ads on the T-shirt but this year not so much. If the more important parts of the conf. become better, I think it's okay to have stuff other than "InPyCon" on the T-shirt. However, we can't make it a general purpose billboard so it should come at a price. Either we make the price higher and restrict the number of people in this part or make this a special for FOSSEE since they're a govt. thing. I'm not in favour of making yet another tier. We have only a few things to offer. Let's just increase the price ranges Above 1.5L Platinum 50k - 1.5L Gold 20k - 50k Silver or something like that and include the T-shirt in the top bracket. What do you feel? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 27 07:33:27 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:03:27 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <4BFC8CD1.9020302@aero.iitb.ac.in> Message-ID: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: [..] > I don't agree. we shouldn't sell people's back as advertising spaces. > > People are paying for their t-shirts and food. Let the t-shirt be free > from sponsor logos. I think if we can get a better conference by selling real estate on the T-shirts, we can do it. I especially think it's okay for FOSSEE since they are promoting Python themselves (albeit mostly in the Scientific/Engineering communities). -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 27 07:46:18 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:16:18 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Thursday 27 May 2010 11:02:01 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Not sure what he was trying to say here. I thought the conference > > was being organized by the Python community for the Python community. > > He should be more clear as to what kind of sprints and tutorials > > he expects, not just give a link. > > I think he means something more concrete than a "we held PyCon". There > should be something tangible which actually helps the community to > grow. Lots of simple talks and everyone patting themselves on the back > won't really help. > pycon helps the community to grow - there were a lot of tangible results - and hidden results from the last conference. The sheer volume of mail on this list is proof of that. And we even got to make an all India society without any splits or squabbling (a new Indian record). Things like better talks will come as the community grows and matures. Sprints will take place once the local community has something to sprint about. In fact, this is the first time I have seen a confence where mailing list traffic has *increased* after the conference. Usually there is deafening silence from the last day of the confence onwards. At the same time, the sponsors have to show something concrete to the people who give them the funds - so in return for their support we should produce some videos, dvds or whatever. and not lose sight of the fact that the main aim of the conference is to have fun with fellow pythonistas ... -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 27 08:02:53 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:32:53 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [..] > pycon helps the community to grow - there were a lot of tangible results - and > hidden results from the last conference. The sheer volume of mail on this list > is proof of that. This isn't really something great. Mails are easy to send. > And we even got to make an all India society without any > splits or squabbling (a new Indian record). This is true. > Things like better talks will come > as the community grows and matures. Sprints will take place once the local > community has something to sprint about. I think his intention is that there should be sprints where there's one or two senior more experienced people and a group of less experienced but talented people who contribute some code or docs back to the community. Fix bugs. You know the drill. > At the same time, the sponsors have to show something concrete to the people > who give them the funds - so in return for their support we should produce > some videos, dvds or whatever. Yeah. The videos should be taken more seriously this time. > and not lose sight of the fact that the main aim of the conference is to have > fun with fellow pythonistas ... True but if all we have is "fun with the fellow pythonistas", a group like FOSSEE wouldn't be really interested. Like you mentioned in your last point, they'll need something more tangible. I think he's putting it down to either code or archvied instructional material. If we can do either of those, it should be fine. I'm sure about the latter. Not so much about the former. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From lawgon at au-kbc.org Thu May 27 08:27:25 2010 From: lawgon at au-kbc.org (Kenneth Gonsalves) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:57:25 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: <201005271157.25192.lawgon@au-kbc.org> On Thursday 27 May 2010 11:32:53 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Things like better talks will come > > as the community grows and matures. Sprints will take place once the > > local community has something to sprint about. > > I think his intention is that there should be sprints where there's > one or two senior more experienced people and a group of less > experienced but talented people who contribute some code or docs back > to the community. Fix bugs. You know the drill. > it has been conclusively proved that code cannot be written to order - has never happened and never will happen. (last year's fiasco at Nimhans is one more proof of that). It just goes against a hacker's nature to be told to turn up at a particular time and place and write code. Sprints grow out of need - and as far as I can see, there is no compelling need for a sprint on any project where a significant number of local people are involved. (I am having a sprint next week with a couple of my collaborators, for the simple reason that too much crud has appeared which can only be cleared by a f2f - mail and IRC just cannot cut it) -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC From abpillai at gmail.com Thu May 27 09:40:36 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:10:36 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves > wrote: > [..] > > pycon helps the community to grow - there were a lot of tangible results > - and > > hidden results from the last conference. The sheer volume of mail on this > list > > is proof of that. > > This isn't really something great. Mails are easy to send. > > > And we even got to make an all India society without any > > splits or squabbling (a new Indian record). > > This is true. > > > Things like better talks will come > > as the community grows and matures. Sprints will take place once the > local > > community has something to sprint about. > > I think his intention is that there should be sprints where there's > one or two senior more experienced people and a group of less > experienced but talented people who contribute some code or docs back > to the community. Fix bugs. You know the drill. > Oh well, he is approaching this from an academic, or I rather say pedantic perspective. I would say a professorial one, quite within expectations considering what he does. And I would say this will be limited to the code that is of interest to him (MayaVi or any other scientific Python stuff), where such "sprints" can be arranged because he has control over it. That is ok in a SciPy conference but personally and from a community perspective, I think this doesn't fit in with our conference theme. We cannot force hacking and programming in this conference - it has to come out of the urge to solve problems, which is what makes a community - that is voluntary, not enforced. That is what Kenneth is saying and I agree with it. Regarding us not having sprints last time I have just one thing to say - "You learn to walk before you run" - and that is what exactly this conference is doing. We could not have had any sprints last time because we were just making baby steps and not "sprinting". > > At the same time, the sponsors have to show something concrete to the > people > > who give them the funds - so in return for their support we should > produce > > some videos, dvds or whatever. > > Yeah. The videos should be taken more seriously this time. > > > and not lose sight of the fact that the main aim of the conference is to > have > > fun with fellow pythonistas ... > > True but if all we have is "fun with the fellow pythonistas", a group > like FOSSEE wouldn't be really interested. Like you mentioned in your > last point, they'll need something more tangible. > Maybe we should keep IITB as an option which we would consider if we don't get good response from the other potential sponsors. I feel the tone is rather aggressive right from the start w.r.t their demands and it is not something which we should give into without a thought. > > I think he's putting it down to either code or archvied instructional > material. If we can do either of those, it should be fine. I'm sure > about the latter. Not so much about the former. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Thu May 27 10:04:56 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:34:56 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: [..] > ?Oh well, he is approaching this from an academic, or I rather say pedantic > ?perspective. I would say a professorial one, quite within expectations > ?considering what he does. And I would say this will be limited to the > ?code that is of interest to him (MayaVi or any other scientific Python > stuff), > ?where such "sprints" can be arranged because he has control over it. > ?That is ok in a SciPy conference but personally and from a community > ?perspective, I think this doesn't fit in with our conference theme. > ?We cannot force hacking and programming in this conference - it has > ?to come out of the urge to solve problems, which is what makes > ?a community - that is voluntary, not enforced. That is what Kenneth > ?is saying and I agree with it. > > Regarding us not having sprints last time I have just one thing to say - > "You learn to walk before you run" - and that is what exactly this > ?conference is doing. We could not have had any sprints last time > ?because we were just making baby steps and not "sprinting". Fair enough. No point in getting whipping a bunch of people to produce code. The only other thing that occurs to me is an announcement. Make it convenient for people who want to have a sprint to announce and look for volunteers. Last year, apart from a casual mention that there will be time for sprints, nothing was made. Given the fact that there are around 300 (rough guess) people on the BangPypers list, I'm sure you can atleast find a handful who might be interested in a sprint. A while ago, there was a mail from someone asking something of this kind on the blogging tool - zine. Perhaps we can do something on FOSSConf as well if there's sufficient interest. I do agree with your basic point that it's not something that can be enforced. I'm approaching it from the point of view of a facilitator. We make it *convenient* for people to sit and code and talk about projects they're interested in rather than just attend talks. We didn't even have spare space/wifi for this last year. We can extend the conference a little to include more than just talks/presentations. That, I think, is a reasonable request and something that will help the conference. [..] > ?Maybe we should keep IITB as an option which we would consider > ?if we don't get good response from the other potential sponsors. I > ?feel the tone is rather aggressive right from the start w.r.t their > ?demands and it is not something which we should give into > ?without a thought. True. They're a little aggressive but I (personally) don't feel that their demands are too unreasonable. Let's take the points one by one. 0. Produce something at the end : We'll record the tutorials/talks and put them online. We'll keep a specific tutorial track to teach people Python. We'll make the presentations and related materials available online. 1. Be more stringent about talk selection : We'd do this anyway so that's good. 2. Tutorial/track for science people : As long as it's in the overall flow, we can allocate a Scientific Python track. 3. Banner/Stall/Name on the T-shirt : The Banner and stall are doable and part of the sponsorship kit. The T-shrit... not so (except for maybe a larger amount etc.). So, apart from the T-shirt, they're not too unreasonable. That's why I glean from the comments here. Is this accurate? Let's give it a little more time as you suggested and see where this leads. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From jaganadhg at gmail.com Thu May 27 10:30:48 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:00:48 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: > 0. Produce something at the end : We'll record the tutorials/talks and > put them online. We'll keep a specific tutorial track to teach people > Python. We'll make the presentations and related materials available > online. > I think what IITB means in terms of 'Spoken Tutorials' is there some good tutorial in inPyCon recorderd Like Introduction to Python Tutorial on PyQt like If there is such things and recorded they can host it in theire sopken tutoial site. -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I'm travelling right now and will be in bangalore only tomorrow. On 5/27/10, Madhusudhan sunkara wrote: > Hi Guys, > > i got in touch with a small company in hyderabad , they are interested in > sponsoring (either gold or silver) for pycon 2010. > i assume what ever we have in wiki is final (regarding tiers) > i am referring to this : > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers > > and let me know the process > > -- > Madhu Sudhan Sunkara > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 28 09:07:28 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:37:28 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorships In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Madhu, The tiers are final. I don't think there are any changes to be made there. We've been through them a few times on the list and there are no real objections as such. If you can put Vijay/Jaganadh (CCed here) in touch with the appropriate person at the company, they can speak to them. I can pitch in if necessary. Can you share the name of the company and their profile? Thanks On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Madhusudhan sunkara wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > i got in touch with a small company in hyderabad , they are interested in > sponsoring (either gold or silver) for pycon 2010. > i assume what ever we have in wiki is final (regarding tiers) > i am referring to this : > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers > > and let me know the process > > -- > Madhu Sudhan Sunkara > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From jaganadhg at gmail.com Fri May 28 09:15:39 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:45:39 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Sponsorships In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Hi Madhu, > The tiers are final. I don't think there are any changes to be made > there. We've been through them a few times on the list and there are > no real objections as such. > > If you can put Vijay/Jaganadh (CCed here) in touch with the > appropriate person at the company, they can speak to them. I can pitch > in if necessary. > > Can you share the name of the company and their profile? > > Thanks > Dear Madhu Can you please shre the information related to the Company and contact points for the sponserhip. We are here to help you. -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I can pitch > in if necessary. > > Can you share the name of the company and their profile? > > Thanks > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Madhusudhan sunkara > wrote: > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > i got in touch with a small company in hyderabad , they are interested in > > sponsoring (either gold or silver) for pycon 2010. > > i assume what ever we have in wiki is final (regarding tiers) > > i am referring to this : > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers > > > > and let me know the process > > > > -- > > Madhu Sudhan Sunkara > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Inpycon mailing list > > Inpycon at python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > > > > > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- Madhu Sudhan Sunkara -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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""" We agree with the conditions in general but there are a few provisos from our end. The points below address the specific points you mentioned in your email. 1. We are planning to record all the tutorials/talks/presentations and put them online for free. This is one thing we're giving back and it in some sense is similar to the spoken-tutorial initiative. Apart from that, live interaction with Python programmers is a general gain for the community as a whole and we expect this to be the major gain from the conf. Its a common place for companies using the language to meet talent. We will also announce and promote sprints. However, their success depends on participants and that's not something we (or anyone for that matter) can guarantee. 2. Talk selection will be more stringent. we will give a longer time for the CFPs so that we'll have time to select and we will keep "simple" talks in a separate tutorial track if there are sufficient good ones. 3. A separate tutorial track for science/engineering would be fine but it will have to fit in with the general scheme of things. There can't be a separate banner there with extra promotion. There won't be any separate registrations, certificates etc. for this. Basically, we don't want to divide the conference into a Fossee event and a PyCon event. We'll just list in the tracks and people who are looking for that kind of thing can attend it. 4. The main banner will have the sponsor name as will the site. It'll also be there on the brochures/handouts we provide and on the other promotional materials. A stall can be provided. The T-shirt will not have any logos except "PyCon India 2010". We're not giving that to any sponsor. Will the sponsor be "IIT-B" or "FOSSEE"? Do let me know. Thanks """ Do you guys think it's fine? On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:00 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: > >> 0. Produce something at the end : We'll record the tutorials/talks and >> put them online. We'll keep a specific tutorial track to teach people >> Python. We'll make the presentations and related materials available >> online. > > I think what IITB means in terms of 'Spoken Tutorials' is there some good > tutorial in inPyCon recorderd > Like > Introduction to Python > Tutorial on PyQt like > If there is such things and recorded they can host it in theire sopken > tutoial site. > > -- > ********************************** > JAGANADH G > http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From jaganadhg at gmail.com Fri May 28 12:27:15 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 15:57:15 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > So, this is the pith of the mail I'm planning to send. I presume it > captures everything. > > > """ > We agree with the conditions in general but there are a few provisos > from our end. The points below address the specific points you > mentioned in your email. > > 1. We are planning to record all the tutorials/talks/presentations and > put them online for free. This is one thing we're giving back and it > in some sense is similar to the spoken-tutorial initiative. Apart > from that, live interaction with Python programmers is a general gain > for the community as a whole and we expect this to be the major gain > from the conf. Its a common place for companies using the language to > meet talent. We will also announce and promote sprints. However, their > success depends on participants and that's not something we (or anyone > for that matter) can guarantee. > > 2. Talk selection will be more stringent. we will give a longer time > for the CFPs so that we'll have time to select and we will keep > "simple" talks in a separate tutorial track if there are sufficient > good ones. > > 3. A separate tutorial track for science/engineering would be fine but > it will have to fit in with the general scheme of things. There can't > be a separate banner there with extra promotion. There won't be any > separate registrations, certificates etc. for this. Basically, we > don't want to divide the conference into a Fossee event and a PyCon > event. We'll just list in the tracks and people who are looking for > that kind of thing can attend it. > > 4. The main banner will have the sponsor name as will the site. It'll > also be there on the brochures/handouts we provide and on the other > promotional materials. A stall can be provided. The T-shirt will not > have any logos except "PyCon India 2010". We're not giving that to any > sponsor. > > > Will the sponsor be "IIT-B" or "FOSSEE"? > > Do let me know. > > Thanks > """ > I think that the gist of our discussion happened in the mailing list is there in the letter -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 28 12:45:50 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:15:50 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:57 PM, JAGANADH G wrote:[..] > > I think that the gist of our discussion happened in the mailing list is > there in the letter Thanks Jaganadh. Anyone else? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From kausikram at gmail.com Fri May 28 13:07:47 2010 From: kausikram at gmail.com (kausikram krishnasayee) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:37:47 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > So, this is the pith of the mail I'm planning to send. I presume it > captures everything. it does +1 go for it. -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Will send it then. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Fri May 28 18:00:45 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 21:30:45 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, kausikram krishnasayee > wrote: >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >>> >>> So, this is the pith of the mail I'm planning to send. I presume it >>> captures everything. >> >> it does +1 go for it. > > > ?Right. Will send it then. Done. I'll keep the list posted on developments. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From anandology at gmail.com Sat May 29 04:25:53 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 07:55:53 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: 2010/5/28 Noufal Ibrahim : > So, this is the pith of the mail I'm planning to send. I presume it > captures everything. > > > """ > We agree with the conditions in general but there are a few provisos > from our end. The points below address the specific points you > mentioned in your email. > > 1. We are planning to record all the tutorials/talks/presentations and > put them online for free. This is one thing we're giving back and it > in some sense is similar to the spoken-tutorial initiative. ?Apart > from that, live interaction with Python programmers is a general gain > for the community as a whole and we expect this to be the major gain > from the conf. Its a common place for companies using the language to > meet talent. We will also announce and promote sprints. However, their > success depends on participants and that's not something we (or anyone > for that matter) can guarantee. > > 2. Talk selection will be more stringent. we will give a longer time > for the CFPs so that we'll have time to select and we will keep > "simple" talks in a separate tutorial track if there are sufficient > good ones. > > 3. A separate tutorial track for science/engineering would be fine but > it will have to fit in with the general scheme of things. There can't > be a separate banner there with extra promotion. There won't be any > separate registrations, certificates etc. for this. Basically, we > don't want to divide the conference into a Fossee event and a PyCon > event. We'll just list in the tracks and people who are looking for > that kind of thing can attend it. > > 4. The main banner will have the sponsor name as will the site. It'll > also be there on the brochures/handouts we provide and on the other > promotional materials. A stall can be provided. The T-shirt will not > have any logos except "PyCon India 2010". We're not giving that to any > sponsor. > > > Will the sponsor be "IIT-B" or "FOSSEE"? > > Do let me know. > > Thanks > """ > > Do you guys think it's fine? Yes. Anand From abpillai at gmail.com Sat May 29 08:07:10 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 11:37:10 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB In-Reply-To: References: <201005271116.18387.lawgon@au-kbc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > Do you guys think it's fine? > > > +1, I couldn't have drafted this better. -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaganadhg at gmail.com Sun May 30 06:53:59 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:23:59 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft Message-ID: Dear All I just pasted the draft prospectus for sponsorship here. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers Fell free to edit it and improve . Next we have to prepare a sponser application and contract. I just started drafting it. I will try to finish it today and upload With regards Jaggu -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anandology at gmail.com Sun May 30 07:02:45 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:32:45 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/30 JAGANADH G : > Dear All > I just pasted the draft prospectus for sponsorship here. > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers > Fell free to edit it and improve ? . Can we call the conference "PyCon India" instead of "InPycon"? Anand From jaganadhg at gmail.com Sun May 30 07:06:21 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:36:21 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2010/5/30 JAGANADH G : > > Dear All > > I just pasted the draft prospectus for sponsorship here. > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers > > Fell free to edit it and improve . > > Can we call the conference "PyCon India" instead of "InPycon"? > Last year also we called it as InPycon . I think lets dont change the name -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anandology at gmail.com Sun May 30 07:07:41 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:37:41 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2010/5/30 JAGANADH G : > Dear All > I just pasted the draft prospectus for sponsorship here. > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers > Fell free to edit it and improve ? . Can we fix the amount for each tier instead of giving a range? I think saying "Gold (50K-1L)" doesn't make any sense because nobody will to pay more than 50K to get into that tier. Or at least I don't see any reason for some one to pay more. Does anyone else see that as a problem? Anand From anandology at gmail.com Sun May 30 07:11:57 2010 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:41:57 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: >> Can we call the conference "PyCon India" instead of "InPycon"? > > Last year also we called it as InPycon . I think lets dont change the name No, it was not. http://in.pycon.org/2009/base/Sponsors/ When we call it "PyCon India" in the conference website[1], I don't see a reason for calling it InPyCon when approaching the sponsors. I think it will just add confusion. [1]: http://in.pycon.org/2010/ Anand From ramdaz at gmail.com Sun May 30 07:14:06 2010 From: ramdaz at gmail.com (Ramdas S) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:44:06 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: S On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> Can we call the conference "PyCon India" instead of "InPycon"? > > > > Last year also we called it as InPycon . I think lets dont change the > name > > No, it was not. > > http://in.pycon.org/2009/base/Sponsors/ > > When we call it "PyCon India" in the conference website[1], I don't > see a reason for calling it InPyCon when approaching the sponsors. I > think it will just add confusion. > > [1]: http://in.pycon.org/2010/ > > Anand > Stick to Pycon india, that's how it's everywhere, like Pycon Australia and Italia etc. The only exception as far as I know (haven't check) is Europython -- Ramdas S +91 9342 583 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaganadhg at gmail.com Sun May 30 07:46:24 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 11:16:24 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ramdas S wrote: > > S > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> >> Can we call the conference "PyCon India" instead of "InPycon"? >> > >> > Last year also we called it as InPycon . I think lets dont change the >> name >> >> No, it was not. >> >> http://in.pycon.org/2009/base/Sponsors/ >> >> When we call it "PyCon India" in the conference website[1], I don't >> see a reason for calling it InPyCon when approaching the sponsors. I >> think it will just add confusion. >> >> [1]: http://in.pycon.org/2010/ >> >> Anand >> > > > Stick to Pycon india, that's how it's everywhere, like Pycon Australia and > Italia etc. The only exception as far as I know (haven't check) is > Europython > > Sorry for my misunderstanding . Feel free to make necessary editing in the wiki -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abpillai at gmail.com Sun May 30 08:33:40 2010 From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand Balachandran Pillai) Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 12:03:40 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:36 AM, JAGANADH G wrote: > > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > >> 2010/5/30 JAGANADH G : >> > Dear All >> > I just pasted the draft prospectus for sponsorship here. >> > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShipTiers >> > Fell free to edit it and improve . >> >> Can we call the conference "PyCon India" instead of "InPycon"? >> > > Last year also we called it as InPycon . I think lets dont change the name > Not sure how you got that idea. Only the mailing list is "inpycon". The conference was and is "PyCon India". > > -- > ********************************** > JAGANADH G > http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog > > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > -- --Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The >> conference was and is "PyCon India". >> > > I used to remember the conference name in reference with the mailing list > name :-) > > Done necessary changes in the wiki. -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 31 08:39:40 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:09:40 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:42 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: [..] > > Done necessary changes in the wiki. I have fixed some grammar and formatting errors in the document and changed "PyConIndia" to "PyCon India". I have added the dates and venue and put my details there as the contact point. I think it looks fine enough to be sent out to the sponsors. Any other comments? The brackets instead of single amounts is just ornamental. I don't expect anyone to pay a rupee more than the lower bar to get into the bracket. However, if they want to become, for example, Gold and have some extra benefits, we can ask for more. Anything else? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From kausikram at gmail.com Mon May 31 08:50:35 2010 From: kausikram at gmail.com (kausikram krishnasayee) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:20:35 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Fromo the wiki: [..]PyCon India 2010 will bring together > an estimated 1000 or more Python developers[...] i think we are being over ambitious here. lets stick to the ground please. 400 is a good number 600 a stretch. 1000 is unthinkable. also makes it appear too big for the sponsoring party to show interest. sponsors usually like nice three digit numbers with the MSB between 2 and 5. also we need to do some more vigorous language check. and as Anand C suggested. lets remove the range and put a hard number against each tier. -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram at gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Regards, Baiju M From jaganadhg at gmail.com Mon May 31 09:03:09 2010 From: jaganadhg at gmail.com (JAGANADH G) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:33:09 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Baiju M wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, kausikram krishnasayee > wrote: > > also we need to do some more vigorous language check. and as Anand C > suggested. lets remove the range and put a hard number against each tier. > Also we have to draft sponser agreement. It is bit leagal . I failed to draft it yesterday. May be by today night or tomorrow I will try to finish it -- ********************************** JAGANADH G http://jaganadhg.freeflux.net/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 31 09:14:05 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:44:05 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] InPyCon 2010 sponsorship prospectus draft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Baiju M wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, kausikram krishnasayee > wrote: >> also we need to do some more vigorous language check. and as Anand C suggested. lets remove the range and put a hard number against each tier. > > +1 for removing range. > Fixed the ranges and the 1000 people. Can someone else quickly copy edit it? I'm about to leave for MSRIT to formally book the venue. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in From noufal at gmail.com Mon May 31 13:38:25 2010 From: noufal at gmail.com (Noufal Ibrahim) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 17:08:25 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] MSRIT Message-ID: Just a quick note to keep the list posted. Sree and I went to the college today and spoke to the staff coordinator. I'll be drafting the concrete letter based on his recommendations later today. We'll officially book the venue by the end of the week. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in