[Inpycon] Benefits of Membership

[Shashwat Anand]

For this year we should concentrate on PyCon, that was the initial plan
anyway.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Ramdas S <ramdaz at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:13 PM, kausikram krishnasayee
>> <kausikram at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Where is this leading? Are we trying to create a bureaucratic
>> >> structure over the society?
>> >> Why don't we just stick to the initial plan that the society is only
>> >> for managing funds for conference and concentrate the focus on next
>> >> conference?
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>> > i think all these discussions are leading to one basic thing. trying to
>> > decouple the fund raising mechanism from the conference. today we are
>> > completely dependent on sponsors for all our needs. if the decoupling is
>> > done successfully, as kenneth put it, it would be easier to run the
>> > conference from the corpus. again , i do not suggest that we hoard
>> money.
>> > if we could brainstorm a way by which we can decouple raising funds from
>> > running the event then it will make life easier for all of us. [..]
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>> Divorcing the fund raising from conducting the conference is a good
>> thing but I think it's important to invite/involve coporates at every
>> conference. Commercial entities are part of the community and
>> shouldn't be excluded. I don't think much of a conf. that's got
>> absolutely no corporate involvement. I want the conf. to be a place
>> where Pythonistas can meet potential employers.--
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> I second this. We should have around the year drive, to get in members,
> corporate, individuals and students!
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> However the conference must be funded by sponsors. Idea is to do it bigger
> and better every year, and you need to target more funds and utilize them
> judiciously.
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> Other option is to do mini conferences in other cities, surplus funds and
> corpus funds created can be utilized to meet any shortfalls of such
> conferences.
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>>  ~noufal
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