[Inpycon] Reckoning time

[Anand Chitipothu]

> The Python community from all around India has voiced on this mailing
> list, that they would still like to see PyCon India happen this year.
>
> Satyakaam, Rajat Saini, Sanyam Khurana, Jaidev Deshpande, Shahank Kumar,
> Piyush Aggarwal, Akash Misra(to name just a few) from last years organizing
> team have all personally voiced to me that they would like to help out as
> much as possible remotely in this regard. Not to mention the numerous of
> volunteers who already voiced here on the mailing list that they would like
> to help out. I along with the rest of them would like to raise our hands
> and offer our assistance.
>
> One of the basic understandings that we worked with last time was that
> even though there is one person who is named as chair,
> it's mostly the organizing committee that makes the decision by consensus
> among them based on inputs from the community and feasibility.
>

Glad that your yours are interesting to take a big role.

While it is mostly team work, there will case where someone has to make a
hard decisions, IMHO.


>
> From the suggestions I got from personally talking to people it was
> suggested we start from scratch re discussing the following questions with
> input from community.
>
> 1) Guidelines that make sure a enforceable code and conduct for::
>       - Communication e-mail or otherwise
>       - On code/issues on github
>       - Every-one to be treated equally, noobs or veterans
>
>  2) Make sure we have a strong local community that is ready and willing
> to do the ground work.
>

I think there is still lot of interest from local community to volunteer.
IMO it'll pick up when things start moving.


>  3) Revise the Conference scale, venue and sponsorship details based on
> time and budget allocation.
>

Agree. Why don't you start a thread on it to kick start discussion on that
front?


>
>  3) Discuss on roles and a start up with a reverse timeline for the
> conference along with responsibilities.
>
>  4) Conference structure: Some one suggested to look at euro python as a
> structure, maybe we could look at other conferences and incorporate some
> good feasible parts into this years PyCon.
>

One of the issues with PyCon India has been that we end of reassembling
every year. What I liked about EuroPython is that they have workgroups for
talk selections, sponsorships etc. and each of them work fairly
independently (as understood) and the same team continues for the next year
even if the conference moves to a new country.

I think it is important for us to have such teams and also make sure that
it has participation from all the major cities in India.



>  5) Communication medium, irc or Telegram or mailing list or Matrix....
>

Anything works, but it is important to keep this mailing list in the loop
for all important decisions and announcements.



>
>  I think we should start individual threads to discuss all this, get these
> threads sorted asap and start with the organising efforts for PyCon India.
>
>  P.S. PyCon India is a community driven event, it is for and by the
> community. The community spans all across "India". This would involve
> collaboration from Python Communities all around India. Even from python
> communities across the world.
>

I think we are already pretty late. Please start email threads for all
important discussions ASAP.

Anand
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