From asldevi at gmail.com  Mon Apr  1 12:39:39 2013
From: asldevi at gmail.com (Devi)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:09:39 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Encouraging women developers to join PyCon
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:51 PM, priya iyer <wordsofagirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>How about we decrease ticket price to some amount or maybe waive it totally
>> for them?
>
> Umm... I am kind of taking offence at this. If we girls want to attend, we
> can pay too.

+1

> Another challenge is transportation. If you talk in the college to give
> their transportation to and fro after the evening time with drop off at key
> places in the city, I think it would personally help.

+1

From foss.mailinglists at gmail.com  Fri Apr 12 06:32:52 2013
From: foss.mailinglists at gmail.com (sankarshan)
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:02:52 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2013 Sponsorship Prospectus
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vijay made sponsorship prospectus for PyCon India 2013 and I made some fine
> tunings to it.
>
> Please have a look at it and let us know if anything is missing.
>
> http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf

Is this the final version?


--
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<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

From vnbang2003 at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 12 07:29:07 2013
From: vnbang2003 at yahoo.com (vijay)
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:29:07 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2013 Sponsorship Prospectus
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No We have made few changes.
Anand C will publish final version soon.


________________________________
 From: sankarshan <foss.mailinglists at gmail.com>
To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org> 
Sent: Friday, 12 April 2013 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2013 Sponsorship Prospectus
 

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vijay made sponsorship prospectus for PyCon India 2013 and I made some fine
> tunings to it.
>
> Please have a look at it and let us know if anything is missing.
>
> http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf

Is this the final version?


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From anandology at gmail.com  Fri Apr 12 07:37:42 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:07:42 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2013 Sponsorship Prospectus
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pushed the final version.

http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf

Anand

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:59 AM, vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> No We have made few changes.
> Anand C will publish final version soon.
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* sankarshan <foss.mailinglists at gmail.com>
>
> *To:* Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013 10:02 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2013 Sponsorship Prospectus
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Vijay made sponsorship prospectus for PyCon India 2013 and I made some
> fine
> > tunings to it.
> >
> > Please have a look at it and let us know if anything is missing.
> >
> >
> http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf
>
> Is this the final version?
>
>
> --
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> <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>
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From vnbang2003 at yahoo.com  Sun Apr 14 06:27:42 2013
From: vnbang2003 at yahoo.com (vijay)
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:27:42 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: [Inpycon] Potential sponsors
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Hi Anand and Ramki,
? ?As we are ready with sponsor ?prospectus can you please get in touch with them or share email id with me so i can speak to them.
? ?Below ?link is final version of sponsor prospectus document.
http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf





________________________________
 From: Anand B Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>
To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org> 
Sent: Thursday, 21 March 2013 2:15 PM
Subject: [Inpycon] Potential sponsors
 


Hi all,

?Myself and Ramki met with around 8-10 companies and 
shared contact details while we were at PyCon U.S. Many of 
them are potential sponsors and likely supporters.

Will send more details in next few days. Those who are handling
sponsorship directly please raise your hand and let me now.

-- 
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--Anand



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From anandology at gmail.com  Tue Apr 16 06:52:23 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:22:23 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Anand B Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:37 AM, vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 2 keynote speaker and  (1 or 2) invited speakers should be fine.
>>
>
> +1. Let us not dilute the keynote weight.
>
> 2 keynote plus 1-2 solid invited speakers  seems about right.
>

I spoke to Joe about the speaking at PyCon India about lambda-py and he is
interested. Looks like he can arrange $1000 from Brown university and we
need to support another $1000 for his travel and stay. If there are no
objections, we can confirm that.

You can know more about Joe Gibbs Politz from his website
http://jpolitz.github.io/.

Anand
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From sree at mahiti.org  Tue Apr 16 06:58:13 2013
From: sree at mahiti.org (Sreekanth S Rameshaiah)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:28:13 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers
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On 16 April 2013 10:22, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:

> spoke to Joe about the speaking at PyCon India about lambda-py and he is
> interested. Looks like he can arrange $1000 from Brown university and we
> need to support another $1000 for his travel and stay. If there are no
> objections, we can confirm that.


+1

- sree


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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Tue Apr 16 08:18:14 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:48:14 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers
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Apropos keynote speakers, we contacted Hilary Mason last year and she
couldn't make it because the dates clashed with a personal appointment
she had at the time. I'd very much like to invite her this year. Do we
have the budget for it? 

-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From anandology at gmail.com  Tue Apr 16 13:10:10 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:40:10 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

>
> Apropos keynote speakers, we contacted Hilary Mason last year and she
> couldn't make it because the dates clashed with a personal appointment
> she had at the time. I'd very much like to invite her this year. Do we
> have the budget for it?
>

We haven't decided the other keynote speaker yet.

We kind of have a guest lecture on lambda-py. So if we get someone from
PyPy team, then python implementations will be a nice theme of the
conference. What do you say?

Anand
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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Tue Apr 16 13:14:08 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:44:08 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers
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Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
>
>>
>> Apropos keynote speakers, we contacted Hilary Mason last year and she
>> couldn't make it because the dates clashed with a personal appointment
>> she had at the time. I'd very much like to invite her this year. Do we
>> have the budget for it?
>>
>
> We haven't decided the other keynote speaker yet.
>
> We kind of have a guest lecture on lambda-py. So if we get someone from
> PyPy team, then python implementations will be a nice theme of the
> conference. What do you say?

The 'theme' idea is nice but I'm not sure how much that helps the
conference as a whole. 

There are not many people who are seriously interested in
implementations (most people are into application level stuff -
specfically web).

I'm not insistent about this but I don't really see what 

1. "theming" the event gives us
2. How an "implementations" theme is relevant/useful to the Indian
   community. 


[...]


-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From abdulmuneer at gmail.com  Tue Apr 16 13:24:53 2013
From: abdulmuneer at gmail.com (Abdul Muneer)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:54:53 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers
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Perhaps it will provide us more exposure. If we stick to popular
applications, it will more or less be a djangocon.

Regards,
Abdul Muneer

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Apropos keynote speakers, we contacted Hilary Mason last year and she
> >> couldn't make it because the dates clashed with a personal appointment
> >> she had at the time. I'd very much like to invite her this year. Do we
> >> have the budget for it?
> >>
> >
> > We haven't decided the other keynote speaker yet.
> >
> > We kind of have a guest lecture on lambda-py. So if we get someone from
> > PyPy team, then python implementations will be a nice theme of the
> > conference. What do you say?
>
> The 'theme' idea is nice but I'm not sure how much that helps the
> conference as a whole.
>
> There are not many people who are seriously interested in
> implementations (most people are into application level stuff -
> specfically web).
>
> I'm not insistent about this but I don't really see what
>
> 1. "theming" the event gives us
> 2. How an "implementations" theme is relevant/useful to the Indian
>    community.
>
>
> [...]
>
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
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From abpillai at gmail.com  Tue Apr 16 14:25:51 2013
From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand B Pillai)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:55:51 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Potential sponsors
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Thank you. Will try and contact some of them during this week.


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:57 AM, vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Anand and Ramki,
>    As we are ready with sponsor  prospectus can you please get in touch
> with them or share email id with me so i can speak to them.
>    Below  link is final version of sponsor prospectus document.
> http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Anand B Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>
> *To:* Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 21 March 2013 2:15 PM
> *Subject:* [Inpycon] Potential sponsors
>
> Hi all,
>
>  Myself and Ramki met with around 8-10 companies and
> shared contact details while we were at PyCon U.S. Many of
> them are potential sponsors and likely supporters.
>
> Will send more details in next few days. Those who are handling
> sponsorship directly please raise your hand and let me now.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> --Anand
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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From anandology at gmail.com  Tue Apr 16 14:48:20 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:18:20 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Apropos keynote speakers, we contacted Hilary Mason last year and she
> >> couldn't make it because the dates clashed with a personal appointment
> >> she had at the time. I'd very much like to invite her this year. Do we
> >> have the budget for it?
> >>
> >
> > We haven't decided the other keynote speaker yet.
> >
> > We kind of have a guest lecture on lambda-py. So if we get someone from
> > PyPy team, then python implementations will be a nice theme of the
> > conference. What do you say?
>
> The 'theme' idea is nice but I'm not sure how much that helps the
> conference as a whole.
>
> There are not many people who are seriously interested in
> implementations (most people are into application level stuff -
> specfically web).
>
> I'm not insistent about this but I don't really see what
>
> 1. "theming" the event gives us
> 2. How an "implementations" theme is relevant/useful to the Indian
>    community.
>

I'm trying to see if we can raise the level/depth of talks at PyCon India
this year. Hoping that having keynotes like that will have effect on the
overall conference.

I'm open to other options too. Lets decide something and move on.

Anand
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From ramkrsna at gmail.com  Tue Apr 16 23:47:13 2013
From: ramkrsna at gmail.com (Ramakrishna Reddy)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:17:13 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Potential sponsors
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:57 AM, vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Anand and Ramki,
>    As we are ready with sponsor  prospectus can you please get in touch with
> them or share email id with me so i can speak to them.
>    Below  link is final version of sponsor prospectus document.
> http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf

I'll follow up with the people I got in touch with at PyCon. Thanks
for the Sponsorship
Prospectus.

From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Thu Apr 25 07:09:36 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:39:36 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
Message-ID: <87fvyftcvj.fsf@sanitarium.localdomain>


Okay. We need to get this wrapped up. 

We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second
is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this
thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included
a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for. 

   - Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects.
   - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib.
   - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general.
   - Steve Holden - PSF
   - Van Lindberg - PSF
   - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements).

In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker.

   - Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project).


I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to
have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next
week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to
make a decision. 

I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong,
active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in
Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she
was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict. 

Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective.

The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers. 



-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From b.ghose at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 07:17:55 2013
From: b.ghose at gmail.com (Baishampayan Ghose)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:47:55 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
In-Reply-To: <87fvyftcvj.fsf@sanitarium.localdomain>
References: <87fvyftcvj.fsf@sanitarium.localdomain>
Message-ID: <CAJ3UTYLpXG=g0q6qDBrvSAxX7PGYskek0BwH3x6suA8wv7S9Kg@mail.gmail.com>

I feel Kenneth Reitz will catch people's fancy (eg. students) with his
talk, especially about contributing back to Python/FOSS, etc. Hillary
Mason is awesome from a technical standpoint as well. ~BG

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
>
> Okay. We need to get this wrapped up.
>
> We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second
> is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this
> thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included
> a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for.
>
>    - Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects.
>    - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib.
>    - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general.
>    - Steve Holden - PSF
>    - Van Lindberg - PSF
>    - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements).
>
> In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker.
>
>    - Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project).
>
>
> I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to
> have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next
> week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to
> make a decision.
>
> I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong,
> active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in
> Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she
> was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict.
>
> Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective.
>
> The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers.
>
>
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
> Inpycon at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon



-- 
Baishampayan Ghose
b.ghose at gmail.com

From kapoor.vaidik at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 07:26:08 2013
From: kapoor.vaidik at gmail.com (Vaidik Kapoor)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:56:08 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3UTYLpXG=g0q6qDBrvSAxX7PGYskek0BwH3x6suA8wv7S9Kg@mail.gmail.com>
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> I feel Kenneth Reitz will catch people's fancy (eg. students) with his
> talk, especially about contributing back to Python/FOSS, etc. Hillary
> Mason is awesome from a technical standpoint as well. ~BG

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From me at kracekumar.com  Thu Apr 25 07:35:34 2013
From: me at kracekumar.com (me kracekumar)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:05:34 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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Heroku offers travel grants for Kenneth AFAIK. If his availability is
confirmed and travel is sponsored. Armin or Alex can be sponsored. That
will have three key note speakers.
On Apr 25, 2013 10:48 AM, "Baishampayan Ghose" <b.ghose at gmail.com> wrote:

> I feel Kenneth Reitz will catch people's fancy (eg. students) with his
> talk, especially about contributing back to Python/FOSS, etc. Hillary
> Mason is awesome from a technical standpoint as well. ~BG
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
> wrote:
> >
> > Okay. We need to get this wrapped up.
> >
> > We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second
> > is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this
> > thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included
> > a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for.
> >
> >    - Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects.
> >    - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to
> stdlib.
> >    - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general.
> >    - Steve Holden - PSF
> >    - Van Lindberg - PSF
> >    - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other
> engagements).
> >
> > In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker.
> >
> >    - Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project).
> >
> >
> > I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to
> > have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next
> > week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to
> > make a decision.
> >
> > I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong,
> > active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in
> > Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she
> > was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict.
> >
> > Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective.
> >
> > The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cordially,
> > Noufal
> > http://nibrahim.net.in
> > _______________________________________________
> > Inpycon mailing list
> > Inpycon at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
>
>
>
> --
> Baishampayan Ghose
> b.ghose at gmail.com
> _______________________________________________
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From jnanasagarkr at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 07:35:57 2013
From: jnanasagarkr at gmail.com (Jnana Sagar)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:05:57 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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i vote for Armin Ronacher


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Vaidik Kapoor <kapoor.vaidik at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > I feel Kenneth Reitz will catch people's fancy (eg. students) with his
> > talk, especially about contributing back to Python/FOSS, etc. Hillary
> > Mason is awesome from a technical standpoint as well. ~BG
>
> +1
>
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
> Inpycon at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
>
>


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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Thu Apr 25 07:42:50 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:12:50 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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	(me kracekumar's message of "Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:05:34 +0530")
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me kracekumar <me at kracekumar.com> writes:

> Heroku offers travel grants for Kenneth AFAIK. If his availability is
> confirmed and travel is sponsored. Armin or Alex can be
> sponsored. That will have three key note speakers.

That will dilute the value of the "keynote". We should stick to two (one
per day) rather than try to pull in as many people as possible.

[...]


-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From anandology at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 08:21:56 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:51:56 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
Message-ID: <CAC7wXFxiiEqOTjrNQ7DTCzgbvnwar-DfOzExBv4Qdpbtw0nqyA@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone,

We need to roll out CFP soon. Before that we need to finalize how we are
planning to have tutorials.

Tutorials didn't work out very well last year. We had newbies submitting
tutorials. One tutorial speaker didn't turn up and many were not up to the
mark.

One of the ideas to improve it is to have only experienced trainers give
these trainings and we pay these trainers for their efforts.

Instead of keeping one flat fee for attending tutorials, we can have fee
for each tutorial and people will have to pay for each tutorial that they
want to attend. This helps in keep the number of attendees in each training
in control and we can plan the logistics better.

I suggest keep Rs. 1500 for each training, limit each training to 30 people
and pay about half of that amount to trainer.

What do you think?

Anand
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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Thu Apr 25 08:33:48 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:03:48 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
In-Reply-To: <CAC7wXFxiiEqOTjrNQ7DTCzgbvnwar-DfOzExBv4Qdpbtw0nqyA@mail.gmail.com>
	(Anand Chitipothu's message of "Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:51:56 +0530")
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Message-ID: <87haivruer.fsf@sanitarium.localdomain>

Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> We need to roll out CFP soon. Before that we need to finalize how we are
> planning to have tutorials.
>
> Tutorials didn't work out very well last year. We had newbies submitting
> tutorials. One tutorial speaker didn't turn up and many were not up to the
> mark.
>
> One of the ideas to improve it is to have only experienced trainers give
> these trainings and we pay these trainers for their efforts.

Yes. Tutorials have to be specially screened. No first time tutorials
and only people who do training. Not a first timer. They'll also need to
submit all their material and slides upfront. This will be possible only
if it's already ready.

We can use our discretion for specific cases if we deem it fit but the
general rule stands.

A small number of good tutorials (or talks for that matter) is better
than a large number of average/bad ones. 

Meta Refresh this time had a single track I think and from the vibes, it
will well received. 

> Instead of keeping one flat fee for attending tutorials, we can have
> fee for each tutorial and people will have to pay for each tutorial
> that they want to attend. This helps in keep the number of attendees
> in each training in control and we can plan the logistics better.
>
> I suggest keep Rs. 1500 for each training, limit each training to 30
> people and pay about half of that amount to trainer.

30 is kind of high for a tutorial. I suggest dropping it to 20. 

[...]


-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From dhruvbaldawa at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 08:47:48 2013
From: dhruvbaldawa at gmail.com (Dhruv Baldawa)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:17:48 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
In-Reply-To: <87zjwnrwrp.fsf@sanitarium.localdomain>
References: <87fvyftcvj.fsf@sanitarium.localdomain>
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+1 for either Armin Ronacher or Alex

--
Dhruv Baldawa
(http://www.dhruvb.com)


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> me kracekumar <me at kracekumar.com> writes:
>
> > Heroku offers travel grants for Kenneth AFAIK. If his availability is
> > confirmed and travel is sponsored. Armin or Alex can be
> > sponsored. That will have three key note speakers.
>
> That will dilute the value of the "keynote". We should stick to two (one
> per day) rather than try to pull in as many people as possible.
>
> [...]
>
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
> Inpycon at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
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From anandology at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 08:55:50 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:25:50 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > We need to roll out CFP soon. Before that we need to finalize how we are
> > planning to have tutorials.
> >
> > Tutorials didn't work out very well last year. We had newbies submitting
> > tutorials. One tutorial speaker didn't turn up and many were not up to
> the
> > mark.
> >
> > One of the ideas to improve it is to have only experienced trainers give
> > these trainings and we pay these trainers for their efforts.
>
> Yes. Tutorials have to be specially screened. No first time tutorials
> and only people who do training. Not a first timer. They'll also need to
> submit all their material and slides upfront. This will be possible only
> if it's already ready.
>
> We can use our discretion for specific cases if we deem it fit but the
> general rule stands.
>
> A small number of good tutorials (or talks for that matter) is better
> than a large number of average/bad ones.
>
> Meta Refresh this time had a single track I think and from the vibes, it
> will well received.
>
> > Instead of keeping one flat fee for attending tutorials, we can have
> > fee for each tutorial and people will have to pay for each tutorial
> > that they want to attend. This helps in keep the number of attendees
> > in each training in control and we can plan the logistics better.
> >
> > I suggest keep Rs. 1500 for each training, limit each training to 30
> > people and pay about half of that amount to trainer.
>
> 30 is kind of high for a tutorial. I suggest dropping it to 20.
>

I'm fine with 20, but I was trying to see if we can meet the costs.

We've booked Nimhans even for the tutorials day. All it has is auditorium
with 800, 500, 300 capacity and couple of small rooms and open space.
Unfortunately we'll have use the same auditoriums for the training as well.
We can use these smaller rooms and convert the open spaces into a tutorial
space.

Having 20 people sitting in a auditorium of 800 capacity looks a bit weird.
But since we've already booked it, we'll have to live with it.

Assuming that we have 10 tutorials sessions (5 in the morning and 5 in the
after noon) and 20 people for session we'll get 10*20*1500 = 3L. Out of
which we are planning to pay half of it to the trainers. So it doesn't even
meet the cost of the venue. That was one of the reasons why I though 30
might be a compromise. I agree to your view that we should focus improving
the quality than reducing the costs. We can always raise more sponsorships
to meet the costs.

So, shall we finalize on 20 seats per training session? Is Rs. 1500/- good
amount for tutorial fee?

Anand
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From versesane at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 09:01:02 2013
From: versesane at gmail.com (Ankur Gupta)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:31:02 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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Gave a Tutorial at Pycon Singapore 2012 and here are few observations
and thoughts

a) Ask for the tutorial slides to be submitted when abstract is being
submitted. Helps get fewer and serious speakers submitting proposals,
b) Assign 2 Volunteers or those responsible for screening to have a
talk over email/phone and check/verify the credentials of those
speakers,
c) Ask code and development environment, hardware/OS prerequisite
details to be submitted atleast 2-3 weeks in advance,
d) Advanced Talks saw some companies getting whole team to come and
attend when keynote speakers are giving tutorials talks thus encourage
them to speak,

Just curious How much would people pay for the tutorial talks ?. If we
don't have a flat fee how is  the fee determined.

On 4/25/13, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
> Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> We need to roll out CFP soon. Before that we need to finalize how we are
>> planning to have tutorials.
>>
>> Tutorials didn't work out very well last year. We had newbies submitting
>> tutorials. One tutorial speaker didn't turn up and many were not up to
>> the
>> mark.
>>
>> One of the ideas to improve it is to have only experienced trainers give
>> these trainings and we pay these trainers for their efforts.
>
> Yes. Tutorials have to be specially screened. No first time tutorials
> and only people who do training. Not a first timer. They'll also need to
> submit all their material and slides upfront. This will be possible only
> if it's already ready.
>
> We can use our discretion for specific cases if we deem it fit but the
> general rule stands.
>
> A small number of good tutorials (or talks for that matter) is better
> than a large number of average/bad ones.
>
> Meta Refresh this time had a single track I think and from the vibes, it
> will well received.
>
>> Instead of keeping one flat fee for attending tutorials, we can have
>> fee for each tutorial and people will have to pay for each tutorial
>> that they want to attend. This helps in keep the number of attendees
>> in each training in control and we can plan the logistics better.
>>
>> I suggest keep Rs. 1500 for each training, limit each training to 30
>> people and pay about half of that amount to trainer.
>
> 30 is kind of high for a tutorial. I suggest dropping it to 20.
>
> [...]
>
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Thu Apr 25 09:17:03 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:47:03 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:


[...]

> I'm fine with 20, but I was trying to see if we can meet the costs.
>
> We've booked Nimhans even for the tutorials day. All it has is
> auditorium with 800, 500, 300 capacity and couple of small rooms and
> open space.  Unfortunately we'll have use the same auditoriums for the
> training as well.  We can use these smaller rooms and convert the open
> spaces into a tutorial space.

Why can't we use the small rooms for the tutorials? Can't they
accomodate 20 people?

> Having 20 people sitting in a auditorium of 800 capacity looks a bit weird.
> But since we've already booked it, we'll have to live with it.
>
> Assuming that we have 10 tutorials sessions (5 in the morning and 5 in
> the after noon) and 20 people for session we'll get 10*20*1500 = 3L.

So, 5 tutorial tracks then? One morning session and one afternoon
session. Is that the plan? 

> Out of which we are planning to pay half of it to the trainers. So it
> doesn't even meet the cost of the venue. That was one of the reasons
> why I though 30 might be a compromise. I agree to your view that we
> should focus improving the quality than reducing the costs. We can
> always raise more sponsorships to meet the costs.

I think that's better. Let's not compromise on quality due to budget
problems. But since we've already booked the venue, is the money factor
*that* important? 

> So, shall we finalize on 20 seats per training session? Is Rs. 1500/-
> good amount for tutorial fee?

Sounds good to me but if we have a cash crunch, I think raising it to
2k will work too. 


-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From benignbala at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 10:11:39 2013
From: benignbala at gmail.com (Balachandran Sivakumar)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:41:39 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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Hi,

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
>
> Sounds good to me but if we have a cash crunch, I think raising it to
> 2k will work too.
>

       If we are anticipating student participation in these sessions,
then higher fee might be a deterrent. I think we should keep it around
Rs 1000-1500. Thanks

-- 
Thank you
Balachandran Sivakumar

Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached.
                                                             - Swami Vivekananda

Mail: benignbala at gmail.com
Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/

From anandology at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 10:41:56 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:11:56 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > I'm fine with 20, but I was trying to see if we can meet the costs.
> >
> > We've booked Nimhans even for the tutorials day. All it has is
> > auditorium with 800, 500, 300 capacity and couple of small rooms and
> > open space.  Unfortunately we'll have use the same auditoriums for the
> > training as well.  We can use these smaller rooms and convert the open
> > spaces into a tutorial space.
>
> Why can't we use the small rooms for the tutorials? Can't they
> accomodate 20 people?
>

The are only 3 small rooms available at NIMHANS. The one in the ground
floor might be too small for training session.

> Having 20 people sitting in a auditorium of 800 capacity looks a bit
> weird.
> > But since we've already booked it, we'll have to live with it.
> >
> > Assuming that we have 10 tutorials sessions (5 in the morning and 5 in
> > the after noon) and 20 people for session we'll get 10*20*1500 = 3L.
>
> So, 5 tutorial tracks then? One morning session and one afternoon
> session. Is that the plan?
>

Yes, thats the plan. We'll have to visit the venue and plan before
finalizing the final numbers.


> > Out of which we are planning to pay half of it to the trainers. So it
> > doesn't even meet the cost of the venue. That was one of the reasons
> > why I though 30 might be a compromise. I agree to your view that we
> > should focus improving the quality than reducing the costs. We can
> > always raise more sponsorships to meet the costs.
>
> I think that's better. Let's not compromise on quality due to budget
> problems. But since we've already booked the venue, is the money factor
> *that* important?
>

I think we are doing well on finances. We don't have to worry much about it.


> > So, shall we finalize on 20 seats per training session? Is Rs. 1500/-
> > good amount for tutorial fee?
>
> Sounds good to me but if we have a cash crunch, I think raising it to
> 2k will work too.
>

I think 1500 should be good enough.

Anand
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From me at bibhas.in  Thu Apr 25 10:35:51 2013
From: me at bibhas.in (Bibhas Ch Debnath)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:05:51 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think* 1.5k/2k for
a session would be too much, and will overall discourage them to attend any.

Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and checking
tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough volunteers
free for that.


----
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http://bibhas.in


On 25 April 2013 13:41, Balachandran Sivakumar <benignbala at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
> wrote:
> >
> > Sounds good to me but if we have a cash crunch, I think raising it to
> > 2k will work too.
> >
>
>        If we are anticipating student participation in these sessions,
> then higher fee might be a deterrent. I think we should keep it around
> Rs 1000-1500. Thanks
>
> --
> Thank you
> Balachandran Sivakumar
>
> Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached.
>                                                              - Swami
> Vivekananda
>
> Mail: benignbala at gmail.com
> Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/
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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Thu Apr 25 10:52:16 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:22:16 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> writes:

> If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think*
> 1.5k/2k for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage
> them to attend any.
>
> Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and
> checking tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough
> volunteers free for that.

[...]

We need to clarify this. 

The price is indicative of the quality of the tutorial. Experienced
speaker, time spent on materials and a deep tutorial. It's not
necessarily meant for students. If someone good had a tutorial on
writing interpreters using the PyPy toolchain for example, I'd pay to
attend. It's also a good idea for it to be a bit high so that people
don't simply saunter in but make an active decision, possibly involving
a little bit of sacrifice to attend the tutorial. This will keep the
audience size limited in size and high in quality. If the instructor is
similarly good, it'll be a success. 

I don't want to give the idea that when we say "tutorial", it means a
talk intended for absolute beginners (usually students) about a topic. I
want to convey that it'll be an in depth presentation possibly along
with practical sessions to "teach" a topic to an audience.

Finally, if someone genuinely has a cash crunch problem, we can do
something about it as a special case rather than lower the fee so that
"everyone" can attend. 


-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From anandology at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 10:53:03 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:23:03 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> wrote:

> If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think* 1.5k/2k
> for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage them to attend
> any.
>
Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and checking
> tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough volunteers
> free for that.
>

I think we need to have tickets per session. Last year, people signed up
for tutorials without worrying about which sessions to attend and joined
random sessions. The plan is to force people to decide which session they
want to attend, if they want to attend at all. Keeping a fee per session
will make sure only the serious people will attend.

Yes, we need one assistant per session. We need to work on it.

I agree that it might be a bit expensive for students. I'm not sure what to
do about it. Shall we consider student discounts?

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From abdulmuneer at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 10:57:40 2013
From: abdulmuneer at gmail.com (Abdul Muneer)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:27:40 +0530
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I am all for paying to attend a training session that is of value to me.
Unrelated to that, is it okay to pay the trainers? Shouldn't pycon be a
pure volunteer effort as per the psf guidelines? I have a vague memory of
reading it somewhere. The organizers know best, just clarifying..

Regards,
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> writes:
>
> > If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think*
> > 1.5k/2k for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage
> > them to attend any.
> >
> > Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and
> > checking tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough
> > volunteers free for that.
>
> [...]
>
> We need to clarify this.
>
> The price is indicative of the quality of the tutorial. Experienced
> speaker, time spent on materials and a deep tutorial. It's not
> necessarily meant for students. If someone good had a tutorial on
> writing interpreters using the PyPy toolchain for example, I'd pay to
> attend. It's also a good idea for it to be a bit high so that people
> don't simply saunter in but make an active decision, possibly involving
> a little bit of sacrifice to attend the tutorial. This will keep the
> audience size limited in size and high in quality. If the instructor is
> similarly good, it'll be a success.
>
> I don't want to give the idea that when we say "tutorial", it means a
> talk intended for absolute beginners (usually students) about a topic. I
> want to convey that it'll be an in depth presentation possibly along
> with practical sessions to "teach" a topic to an audience.
>
> Finally, if someone genuinely has a cash crunch problem, we can do
> something about it as a special case rather than lower the fee so that
> "everyone" can attend.
>
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
> _______________________________________________
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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Thu Apr 25 11:01:30 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:31:30 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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Abdul Muneer <abdulmuneer at gmail.com> writes:

> I am all for paying to attend a training session that is of value to me.
> Unrelated to that, is it okay to pay the trainers? Shouldn't pycon be a
> pure volunteer effort as per the psf guidelines? I have a vague memory of
> reading it somewhere. The organizers know best, just clarifying..

It's a honorarium of sorts and it's what the PyCon in the US does. 

[...]


-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From anandology at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 11:01:24 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:31:24 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Abdul Muneer <abdulmuneer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am all for paying to attend a training session that is of value to me.
> Unrelated to that, is it okay to pay the trainers? Shouldn't pycon be a
> pure volunteer effort as per the psf guidelines? I have a vague memory of
> reading it somewhere. The organizers know best, just clarifying..
>

 PyCon India is still pure volunteer effort. The organizers/volunteers
don't make any money.

Even US PyCon pays honorarium of 1500 USD to each tutorial speaker.

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From anandology at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 10:54:18 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:24:18 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> writes:
>
> > If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think*
> > 1.5k/2k for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage
> > them to attend any.
> >
> > Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and
> > checking tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough
> > volunteers free for that.
>
> [...]
>
> We need to clarify this.
>
> The price is indicative of the quality of the tutorial. Experienced
> speaker, time spent on materials and a deep tutorial. It's not
> necessarily meant for students. If someone good had a tutorial on
> writing interpreters using the PyPy toolchain for example, I'd pay to
> attend. It's also a good idea for it to be a bit high so that people
> don't simply saunter in but make an active decision, possibly involving
> a little bit of sacrifice to attend the tutorial. This will keep the
> audience size limited in size and high in quality. If the instructor is
> similarly good, it'll be a success.
>
> I don't want to give the idea that when we say "tutorial", it means a
> talk intended for absolute beginners (usually students) about a topic. I
> want to convey that it'll be an in depth presentation possibly along
> with practical sessions to "teach" a topic to an audience.
>
> Finally, if someone genuinely has a cash crunch problem, we can do
> something about it as a special case rather than lower the fee so that
> "everyone" can attend.
>

+1

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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Thu Apr 25 11:04:15 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:34:15 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Workshops/Tutorials (was:  Tutorials)
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It occurs to me that we're trying to imitate the format of the US
PyCon - a separate tutorial day with tutorials being very different from
talks. 

Some of us who have attended that conference know how it works but I
think the intentions are not clear here. 

I think "workshop" conveys more clearly what we're trying to do. We need
to mention this clearly to all the participants in the email we send out
as well as in the CFP. 

Thoughts?

Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> wrote:
>
>> If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think* 1.5k/2k
>> for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage them to attend
>> any.
>>
> Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and checking
>> tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough volunteers
>> free for that.
>>
>
> I think we need to have tickets per session. Last year, people signed up
> for tutorials without worrying about which sessions to attend and joined
> random sessions. The plan is to force people to decide which session they
> want to attend, if they want to attend at all. Keeping a fee per session
> will make sure only the serious people will attend.
>
> Yes, we need one assistant per session. We need to work on it.
>
> I agree that it might be a bit expensive for students. I'm not sure what to
> do about it. Shall we consider student discounts?
>
> Anand
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
> Inpycon at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon

-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From anandology at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 11:06:12 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:36:12 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Workshops/Tutorials (was:  Tutorials)
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

>
> It occurs to me that we're trying to imitate the format of the US
> PyCon - a separate tutorial day with tutorials being very different from
> talks.
>
> Some of us who have attended that conference know how it works but I
> think the intentions are not clear here.
>
> I think "workshop" conveys more clearly what we're trying to do. We need
> to mention this clearly to all the participants in the email we send out
> as well as in the CFP.
>
> Thoughts?
>

+1

I was about to reply to your previous email and suggest the same.

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From modi.konark at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 11:24:01 2013
From: modi.konark at gmail.com (konark modi)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:54:01 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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Even before submitting an idea, we need to have a set of people where
willing speakers if they wish, can come and discuss about certain ideas
they wish to present or even just desire to deliver a talk / tutorial but
unable to frame an idea around it .

 The group can guide them with what all can be done w.r.t that topic, how
can you have a 'wow' factor or some key take away from your talk / tutorial
for the attendees. Also, letting them know what has already been done at
previous PyCon and how they can be different.

Post selection, what we can do if possible is to help review / improve
content for talks / tutorials is by having a G+ Hangout for practicing the
session.

Selected volunteers can do this, with the selected speakers, it is not
needed to  deliver all of the content, but some portion of it and how they
are planning it would certainly help them receive feedback  to help them
manage the content better and the PyCon committee screening it better.

Interesting group : http://speakup.io/

Regards
Konark Modi




On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
>
>> Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> writes:
>>
>> > If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think*
>> > 1.5k/2k for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage
>> > them to attend any.
>> >
>> > Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and
>> > checking tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough
>> > volunteers free for that.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> We need to clarify this.
>>
>> The price is indicative of the quality of the tutorial. Experienced
>> speaker, time spent on materials and a deep tutorial. It's not
>> necessarily meant for students. If someone good had a tutorial on
>> writing interpreters using the PyPy toolchain for example, I'd pay to
>> attend. It's also a good idea for it to be a bit high so that people
>> don't simply saunter in but make an active decision, possibly involving
>> a little bit of sacrifice to attend the tutorial. This will keep the
>> audience size limited in size and high in quality. If the instructor is
>> similarly good, it'll be a success.
>>
>> I don't want to give the idea that when we say "tutorial", it means a
>> talk intended for absolute beginners (usually students) about a topic. I
>> want to convey that it'll be an in depth presentation possibly along
>> with practical sessions to "teach" a topic to an audience.
>>
>> Finally, if someone genuinely has a cash crunch problem, we can do
>> something about it as a special case rather than lower the fee so that
>> "everyone" can attend.
>>
>
> +1
>
> Anand
>
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
> Inpycon at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
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From me at bibhas.in  Thu Apr 25 11:24:50 2013
From: me at bibhas.in (Bibhas Ch Debnath)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:54:50 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Workshops/Tutorials (was: Tutorials)
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Yes, "Workshop" is better.

Yes, we need to explicitly make people understand that they are paying for
the quality of the content and experience of the speaker. So that there is
no confusion. Maybe restrict workshop topic to more things that are hard to
learn just by Googling. So that people are more compelled to look forward
to an expert opinion.

And introducing student discount might help us avoid any negative feedback
from student community, just because of the price.


On 25 April 2013 14:34, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote:

>
> It occurs to me that we're trying to imitate the format of the US
> PyCon - a separate tutorial day with tutorials being very different from
> talks.
>
> Some of us who have attended that conference know how it works but I
> think the intentions are not clear here.
>
> I think "workshop" conveys more clearly what we're trying to do. We need
> to mention this clearly to all the participants in the email we send out
> as well as in the CFP.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> wrote:
> >
> >> If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think* 1.5k/2k
> >> for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage them to
> attend
> >> any.
> >>
> > Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and checking
> >> tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough volunteers
> >> free for that.
> >>
> >
> > I think we need to have tickets per session. Last year, people signed up
> > for tutorials without worrying about which sessions to attend and joined
> > random sessions. The plan is to force people to decide which session they
> > want to attend, if they want to attend at all. Keeping a fee per session
> > will make sure only the serious people will attend.
> >
> > Yes, we need one assistant per session. We need to work on it.
> >
> > I agree that it might be a bit expensive for students. I'm not sure what
> to
> > do about it. Shall we consider student discounts?
> >
> > Anand
> > _______________________________________________
> > Inpycon mailing list
> > Inpycon at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
> Inpycon at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
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From kushaldas at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 11:31:44 2013
From: kushaldas at gmail.com (Kushal Das)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:01:44 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:54 PM, konark modi <modi.konark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Post selection, what we can do if possible is to help review / improve
> content for talks / tutorials is by having a G+ Hangout for practicing the
> session.
That will be time consuming for most of the speakers. I don't think
people will have that much free time.

Kushal

From kushaldas at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 12:09:08 2013
From: kushaldas at gmail.com (Kushal Das)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:39:08 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Workshops/Tutorials (was: Tutorials)
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
>
> It occurs to me that we're trying to imitate the format of the US
> PyCon - a separate tutorial day with tutorials being very different from
> talks.
>
> Some of us who have attended that conference know how it works but I
> think the intentions are not clear here.
>
> I think "workshop" conveys more clearly what we're trying to do. We need
> to mention this clearly to all the participants in the email we send out
> as well as in the CFP.
Yes, mention it clearly that these are workshops.

Kushal

From anandology at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 12:09:26 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:39:26 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Updated Sponsorship Prospectus
Message-ID: <CAC7wXFwAgi1UDoWB05w3zFoPCSX7W2AaCdscKFCSVSQ6Nc4apQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I made a small update to sponsorship prospectus. It had "logo on swag kit"
as benefit to platinum sponsor, I've replaced it with "Logo on the
notebooks given to participants".

Last year, we had to negotiate with our platinum sponsor to change this
benefit as we didn't go with a swag bag.

The updated sponsorship prospectus is available at:
http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf

Please use this when showing it to all our potential platinum sponsors. :)

Anand
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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Thu Apr 25 13:09:16 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:39:16 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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While a good idea, I don't think *helping* people with presentations falls
into the conference agenda. 

It's probably something that fits in very well with local user groups
though. They can hold this kind of thing to polish talks and get them
out. 

konark modi <modi.konark at gmail.com> writes:

> Even before submitting an idea, we need to have a set of people where
> willing speakers if they wish, can come and discuss about certain ideas
> they wish to present or even just desire to deliver a talk / tutorial but
> unable to frame an idea around it .
>
>  The group can guide them with what all can be done w.r.t that topic, how
> can you have a 'wow' factor or some key take away from your talk / tutorial
> for the attendees. Also, letting them know what has already been done at
> previous PyCon and how they can be different.
>
> Post selection, what we can do if possible is to help review / improve
> content for talks / tutorials is by having a G+ Hangout for practicing the
> session.
>
> Selected volunteers can do this, with the selected speakers, it is not
> needed to  deliver all of the content, but some portion of it and how they
> are planning it would certainly help them receive feedback  to help them
> manage the content better and the PyCon committee screening it better.
>
> Interesting group : http://speakup.io/
>
> Regards
> Konark Modi
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
>>
>>> Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> writes:
>>>
>>> > If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think*
>>> > 1.5k/2k for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage
>>> > them to attend any.
>>> >
>>> > Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and
>>> > checking tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough
>>> > volunteers free for that.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> We need to clarify this.
>>>
>>> The price is indicative of the quality of the tutorial. Experienced
>>> speaker, time spent on materials and a deep tutorial. It's not
>>> necessarily meant for students. If someone good had a tutorial on
>>> writing interpreters using the PyPy toolchain for example, I'd pay to
>>> attend. It's also a good idea for it to be a bit high so that people
>>> don't simply saunter in but make an active decision, possibly involving
>>> a little bit of sacrifice to attend the tutorial. This will keep the
>>> audience size limited in size and high in quality. If the instructor is
>>> similarly good, it'll be a success.
>>>
>>> I don't want to give the idea that when we say "tutorial", it means a
>>> talk intended for absolute beginners (usually students) about a topic. I
>>> want to convey that it'll be an in depth presentation possibly along
>>> with practical sessions to "teach" a topic to an audience.
>>>
>>> Finally, if someone genuinely has a cash crunch problem, we can do
>>> something about it as a special case rather than lower the fee so that
>>> "everyone" can attend.
>>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Anand
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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

-- 
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Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From jace at pobox.com  Thu Apr 25 15:13:49 2013
From: jace at pobox.com (Kiran Jonnalagadda)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:43:49 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> That will dilute the value of the "keynote". We should stick to two (one
> per day) rather than try to pull in as many people as possible.
>

You could have end-of-day keynotes like FOSS.IN has. That'll ensure people
stay through the day.

Kiran


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From versesane at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 15:21:04 2013
From: versesane at gmail.com (Ankur Gupta)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:51:04 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
> wrote:
>>
>> That will dilute the value of the "keynote". We should stick to two (one
>> per day) rather than try to pull in as many people as possible.
>
>
> You could have end-of-day keynotes like FOSS.IN has. That'll ensure people
> stay through the day.

+1

>
> Kiran
>
>
> --
> Kiran Jonnalagadda
> http://jace.zaiki.in
> http://hasgeek.com
>
> _______________________________________________
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From modi.konark at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 15:40:51 2013
From: modi.konark at gmail.com (konark modi)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:10:51 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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I agree with both of you.

While the idea here is to improve the quality of talks / workshops we need
to bridge the gap between submitting proposal and delivering the talk, and
certainly not making it a mandate but instead for people who are looking
for some sort of guidance / mentoring .

If local groups (which apparently are not that active apart from few
cities) can help out, would be great. But was just proposing an idea if we
could think of a way out of getting this thing under the Umbrella of PyCon
India.

Regards
Konark






On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

>
> While a good idea, I don't think *helping* people with presentations falls
> into the conference agenda.
>
> It's probably something that fits in very well with local user groups
> though. They can hold this kind of thing to polish talks and get them
> out.
>
> konark modi <modi.konark at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Even before submitting an idea, we need to have a set of people where
> > willing speakers if they wish, can come and discuss about certain ideas
> > they wish to present or even just desire to deliver a talk / tutorial but
> > unable to frame an idea around it .
> >
> >  The group can guide them with what all can be done w.r.t that topic, how
> > can you have a 'wow' factor or some key take away from your talk /
> tutorial
> > for the attendees. Also, letting them know what has already been done at
> > previous PyCon and how they can be different.
> >
> > Post selection, what we can do if possible is to help review / improve
> > content for talks / tutorials is by having a G+ Hangout for practicing
> the
> > session.
> >
> > Selected volunteers can do this, with the selected speakers, it is not
> > needed to  deliver all of the content, but some portion of it and how
> they
> > are planning it would certainly help them receive feedback  to help them
> > manage the content better and the PyCon committee screening it better.
> >
> > Interesting group : http://speakup.io/
> >
> > Regards
> > Konark Modi
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> writes:
> >>>
> >>> > If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think*
> >>> > 1.5k/2k for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage
> >>> > them to attend any.
> >>> >
> >>> > Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and
> >>> > checking tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough
> >>> > volunteers free for that.
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> We need to clarify this.
> >>>
> >>> The price is indicative of the quality of the tutorial. Experienced
> >>> speaker, time spent on materials and a deep tutorial. It's not
> >>> necessarily meant for students. If someone good had a tutorial on
> >>> writing interpreters using the PyPy toolchain for example, I'd pay to
> >>> attend. It's also a good idea for it to be a bit high so that people
> >>> don't simply saunter in but make an active decision, possibly involving
> >>> a little bit of sacrifice to attend the tutorial. This will keep the
> >>> audience size limited in size and high in quality. If the instructor is
> >>> similarly good, it'll be a success.
> >>>
> >>> I don't want to give the idea that when we say "tutorial", it means a
> >>> talk intended for absolute beginners (usually students) about a topic.
> I
> >>> want to convey that it'll be an in depth presentation possibly along
> >>> with practical sessions to "teach" a topic to an audience.
> >>>
> >>> Finally, if someone genuinely has a cash crunch problem, we can do
> >>> something about it as a special case rather than lower the fee so that
> >>> "everyone" can attend.
> >>>
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >> Anand
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> 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
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
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From vnbang2003 at yahoo.com  Thu Apr 25 18:02:01 2013
From: vnbang2003 at yahoo.com (vijay)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:02:01 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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+1 for Armin Ronacher



________________________________
 From: Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org> 
Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2013 10:39 AM
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
 


Okay. We need to get this wrapped up. 

We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second
is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this
thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included
a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for. 

?  - Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects.
?  - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib.
?  - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general.
?  - Steve Holden - PSF
?  - Van Lindberg - PSF
?  - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements).

In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker.

?  - Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project).


I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to
have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next
week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to
make a decision. 

I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong,
active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in
Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she
was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict. 

Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective.

The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers. 



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From chandankumar.093047 at gmail.com  Thu Apr 25 18:11:55 2013
From: chandankumar.093047 at gmail.com (chandan kumar)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:41:55 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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Hello All,

*From:* Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
> *To:* Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 25 April 2013 10:39 AM
> *Subject:* [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
>
>
> Okay. We need to get this wrapped up.
>
> We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second
> is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this
> thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included
> a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for.
>
>   - Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects.
>   - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib.
>   - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general.
>   - Steve Holden - PSF
>   - Van Lindberg - PSF
>   - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other
> engagements).
>
> In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker.
>
>   - Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project).
>
>
> I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to
> have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next
> week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to
> make a decision.
>
> I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong,
> active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in
> Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she
> was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict.
>
> Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective.
>
> The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers.
>
>
I like to vote for Kenneth Reitz and Hilary Mason.
I would be great if Hilary Mason come in pycon india 2013.

Thanks,
With Best Wishes,
Chandan Kumar
Final Year, Computer Science and Engineering
Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering College, Durgapur
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From vnbang2003 at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 26 17:33:33 2013
From: vnbang2003 at yahoo.com (vijay)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:33:33 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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My Take on tutorial
1) Let say it as workshop then tutorial.( we need to even provide list of thing they need to bring ?to avoid complaint as last year)
2) I would say keep price to 1000 as this itself will be more for student( we need more student to attend). For corporate let make there fee to be 1500 rupees.
3) As we have big enough hall why restrict number ?. If we?strictly?want to?restrict?then let have 50 as it will help trainer and pycon both.
4) About selection of trainer we need to looks for?their?presentation?skill/?previous?experience rather then putting?criteria?no first time.

With Thanks
Vijay



________________________________
 From: konark modi <modi.konark at gmail.com>
To: Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> 
Cc: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org> 
Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2013 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Inpycon] Tutorials
 


I agree with both of you.

While the idea here is to improve the quality of talks / workshops we need to bridge the gap between submitting proposal and delivering the talk, and certainly not making it a mandate but instead for people who are looking for some sort of guidance / mentoring .

If local groups (which apparently are not that active apart from few cities) can help out, would be great. But was just?proposing?an idea if we could think of a way out of getting this thing under the Umbrella of PyCon India.

Regards
Konark








On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote:


>While a good idea, I don't think *helping* people with presentations falls
>into the conference agenda.
>
>It's probably something that fits in very well with local user groups
>though. They can hold this kind of thing to polish talks and get them
>out.
>
>
>konark modi <modi.konark at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Even before submitting an idea, we need to have a set of people where
>> willing speakers if they wish, can come and discuss about certain ideas
>> they wish to present or even just desire to deliver a talk / tutorial but
>> unable to frame an idea around it .
>>
>> ?The group can guide them with what all can be done w.r.t that topic, how
>> can you have a 'wow' factor or some key take away from your talk / tutorial
>> for the attendees. Also, letting them know what has already been done at
>> previous PyCon and how they can be different.
>>
>> Post selection, what we can do if possible is to help review / improve
>> content for talks / tutorials is by having a G+ Hangout for practicing the
>> session.
>>
>> Selected volunteers can do this, with the selected speakers, it is not
>> needed to ?deliver all of the content, but some portion of it and how they
>> are planning it would certainly help them receive feedback ?to help them
>> manage the content better and the PyCon committee screening it better.
>>
>> Interesting group : http://speakup.io/
>>
>> Regards
>> Konark Modi
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> writes:
>>>>
>>>> > If the target audience of the tutorials are students, *I think*
>>>> > 1.5k/2k for a session would be too much, and will overall discourage
>>>> > them to attend any.
>>>> >
>>>> > Also, per session charging would mean tickets for sessions, and
>>>> > checking tickets while entering any session. I hope we'll have enough
>>>> > volunteers free for that.
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> We need to clarify this.
>>>>
>>>> The price is indicative of the quality of the tutorial. Experienced
>>>> speaker, time spent on materials and a deep tutorial. It's not
>>>> necessarily meant for students. If someone good had a tutorial on
>>>> writing interpreters using the PyPy toolchain for example, I'd pay to
>>>> attend. It's also a good idea for it to be a bit high so that people
>>>> don't simply saunter in but make an active decision, possibly involving
>>>> a little bit of sacrifice to attend the tutorial. This will keep the
>>>> audience size limited in size and high in quality. If the instructor is
>>>> similarly good, it'll be a success.
>>>>
>>>> I don't want to give the idea that when we say "tutorial", it means a
>>>> talk intended for absolute beginners (usually students) about a topic. I
>>>> want to convey that it'll be an in depth presentation possibly along
>>>> with practical sessions to "teach" a topic to an audience.
>>>>
>>>> Finally, if someone genuinely has a cash crunch problem, we can do
>>>> something about it as a special case rather than lower the fee so that
>>>> "everyone" can attend.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Anand
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> 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
>
>
>--
>Cordially,
>Noufal
>http://nibrahim.net.in
>

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From anandology at gmail.com  Fri Apr 26 18:12:11 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:42:11 +0530
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:03 PM, vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> My Take on tutorial
> 1) Let say it as workshop then tutorial.( we need to even provide list of
> thing they need to bring  to avoid complaint as last year)
> 2) I would say keep price to 1000 as this itself will be more for student(
> we need more student to attend). For corporate let make there fee to be
> 1500 rupees.
>

I think we can keep the price at Rs. 1500 and have 5 seats with student
discount rate of Rs. 1000/-

3) As we have big enough hall why restrict number ?. If we strictly want
> to restrict then let have 50 as it will help trainer and pycon both.
>

It is very difficult to give personal attention when there are more than
15-20 people. So to have a quality workshop, we need to keep the numbers
low.


> 4) About selection of trainer we need to looks
> for their presentation skill/ previous experience rather then
> putting criteria no first time.
>

Absolutely! We need only experienced people with proven speaking history.

Anand
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From vnbang2003 at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 26 18:32:19 2013
From: vnbang2003 at yahoo.com (vijay)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:32:19 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: [Inpycon] Tutorials
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Agreed .

if no more suggestion, let freeze it.

With Thanks
Vijay


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 From: Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
To: vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com>; Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon at python.org> 
Sent: Friday, 26 April 2013 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Inpycon] Tutorials
 




On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:03 PM, vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:

My Take on tutorial
>1) Let say it as workshop then tutorial.( we need to even provide list of thing they need to bring ?to avoid complaint as last year)
>2) I would say keep price to 1000 as this itself will be more for student( we need more student to attend). For corporate let make there fee to be 1500 rupees.

I think we can keep the price at Rs. 1500 and have 5 seats with student discount rate of Rs. 1000/-

3) As we have big enough hall why restrict number ?. If we?strictly?want to?restrict?then let have 50 as it will help trainer and pycon both.

It is very difficult to give personal attention when there are more than 15-20 people. So to have a quality workshop, we need to keep the numbers low.
?
4) About selection of trainer we need to looks for?their?presentation?skill/?previous?experience rather then putting?criteria?no first time.

Absolutely! We need only experienced people with proven speaking history.

Anand
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From vnbang2003 at yahoo.com  Sat Apr 27 08:30:16 2013
From: vnbang2003 at yahoo.com (vijay)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:30:16 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: [Inpycon] First Gold and Silver sponsor's for pycon 2013
Message-ID: <1367044216.9797.YahooMailNeo@web192205.mail.sg3.yahoo.com>

Hello everyone,

Good news!

Enthought?is our first?Gold sponsor.?
Projectplace?is our first?Silver sponsor.

http://in.pycon.org/2013/

Thanks?Enthought?and?Projectplace?for supporting PyCon India.

Vijay
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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Sat Apr 27 08:38:17 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:08:17 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] First Gold and Silver sponsor's for pycon 2013
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Capital!

vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Good news!
>
> Enthought?is our first?Gold sponsor.?
> Projectplace?is our first?Silver sponsor.
>
> http://in.pycon.org/2013/
>
> Thanks?Enthought?and?Projectplace?for supporting PyCon India.
>
> Vijay
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
> Inpycon at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon

-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From abpillai at gmail.com  Tue Apr 30 14:24:52 2013
From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand B Pillai)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:54:52 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] First Gold and Silver sponsor's for pycon 2013
In-Reply-To: <87wqrofpgm.fsf@sanitarium.localdomain>
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Very good!

:)

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

>
> Capital!
>
> vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Good news!
> >
> > Enthought is our first Gold sponsor.
> > Projectplace is our first Silver sponsor.
> >
> > http://in.pycon.org/2013/
> >
> > Thanks Enthought and Projectplace for supporting PyCon India.
> >
> > Vijay
> > _______________________________________________
> > Inpycon mailing list
> > Inpycon at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
> Inpycon at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
>



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Regards,

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From noufal at nibrahim.net.in  Tue Apr 30 14:42:16 2013
From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:12:16 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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	of "Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:39:36 +0530")
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This is my take away from the discussion. I'm going to ask the people in
this list and based on availability invite the first two. 

1. Hilary Mason  
2. Armin Ronacher
3. Kenneth Reitz 
4. Alex Gaynor   

Any objections? Would it be a good idea to invite someone from the PSF?
Steve Holden or Van Lindberg as well?

I'm planning to send the emails at the end of the week. 

-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in

From anandology at gmail.com  Tue Apr 30 17:41:23 2013
From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:11:23 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

>
> This is my take away from the discussion. I'm going to ask the people in
> this list and based on availability invite the first two.
>

We already have one keynote speaker confirmed. So we need to invite just
one.


> 1. Hilary Mason
> 2. Armin Ronacher
> 3. Kenneth Reitz
> 4. Alex Gaynor
>
> Any objections?


The list looks good to me.


> Would it be a good idea to invite someone from the PSF?
> Steve Holden or Van Lindberg as well?
>

I'm not sure.

Anand
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From chris4python at gmail.com  Tue Apr 30 17:44:23 2013
From: chris4python at gmail.com (chris4python at gmail.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:44:23 +0000
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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+1 for the selection.
Sent on my BlackBerry? from Vodafone

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From abpillai at gmail.com  Tue Apr 30 21:40:15 2013
From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand B Pillai)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 01:10:15 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] [OFF-TOPIC] New PSF member
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Hi all,

Slightly off-topic but wanted to inform the list that Kushal Das
has been elected to PSF board member roster this year.

Congrats Kushal!

Ref: http://www.python.org/psf/members/

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From abpillai at gmail.com  Tue Apr 30 21:43:09 2013
From: abpillai at gmail.com (Anand B Pillai)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 01:13:09 +0530
Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

>
> This is my take away from the discussion. I'm going to ask the people in
> this list and based on availability invite the first two.
>
> 1. Hilary Mason
> 2. Armin Ronacher
> 3. Kenneth Reitz
> 4. Alex Gaynor
>
> Any objections? Would it be a good idea to invite someone from the PSF?
> Steve Holden or Van Lindberg as well?
>
> I'm planning to send the emails at the end of the week.
>

Kindly go ahead. I think we have had enough discussions on this topic.
The list looks good.


>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
> _______________________________________________
> Inpycon mailing list
> Inpycon at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
>



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