[Inpycon] Help with Venue for PyCon India

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:56 PM, qua non <akshayaurora at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> In case not all of you are aware the current slowdown in interaction with
> the mailing list for PyCon related tasks is cause we had a setback.
>
> Our existing booking for the SriFort was cancelled by Sri fort Authorities
> cause they have their own function that conflicts with our dates.
>
> They have further increased the booking price to be exactly double of what
> it was earlier. We have been looking for and have been in talks with other
> venues since then.
>

Thats insane. Are they not even ready to consider some other dates with the
same price since we have already booked in advance?

In our efforts have have looked at almost every other place possible in
> delhi most are either not available or not big enough for our needs, we
> need main audi with 1000+ seating and two secondary halls with 300, 200
> seating.
>
> We are currently in talks with IIT Delhi to book Dogra hall and
> accompanying seminar halls for this purpose. We are also in talks with
> people from J.P University in Noida for this purpose
>
> Currently our efforts are not really getting us anywhere so this is a call
> to the people out in the community.* **If some of you folks have some
> contacts in a place that you can get us a booking then please contact us
> and help out.***
>
> Backup we are booking JNU, Convention Center if nothing else goes through.
> It has a seating capacity of hall 1 350 + hall 2 350. Lecture hall 1 150,
> Lecture Hall 2 150, Meeting room 60+.
>

350 + 350 is quite decent IMHO.

Please tweet about it and RT from pyconindia account. Lets spread it and
see if we get any leads.


> We are already past the deadline for Venue bookings so we will be
> finalizing the booking wishing the next seven days.
> If some one has contacts inside IIT Delhi  or can help us some other
> similar capacity halls please contact us.
>

All the best!

Anand
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