[Inpycon] First cut of grand schedule

[Noufal Ibrahim]

This is getting quite OT for a thread discussing the schedule. Might I
suggest that you move it to BangPypers?

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:09 PM, स्वक्ष <vid at svaksha.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:12, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
>>
>> sure - but where are the core devs in India? Afaik there are only about 3-4
>> internationally known projects by local people, but with all respect to Anand
>> b, Anand c and Prabhu, there are not all that many people who have come
>> forward to perform these tasks for those projects. The point I am making is
>> that there is not enough traction for any project in India for a sprint.
>
> Yes, for that we do need to have built up a base. The beginnings are
> always small but its a start nevertheless. I would not discount the
> efforts put in though.
>
>
>> fully agree now with Noufal that the conference should not spend time teaching
>> python to raw newbies. This is an on-going thing that all of us can do in our
>> spare time. I have conducted 5 workshops recently in various colleges, govt
>> and industry. And in all of them have made sure to have at least one session
>> on introducing python regardless of whether the organisers want it or not. The
>> fossee folk are criss crossing the country doing the same thing. And if anyone
>> here is interested, I can easily arrange audiences of half day/one day
>> sessions for newbies in most places in India. (contact me offlist). This being
>> the context, I see no reason why bangpypers meets should cater to newbies.
>> They find it difficult enough to meet, let alone using up precious time on
>> something not of interest to them. One thing that I have been repeatedly
>> emphasising is that this conference, and bangpypers for that matter, is *not*
>> foss or oss - it is language oriented. So bringing in foss/oss yardsticks to
>> measure this is not appropriate. Things like mutual help, contribution back,
>> which are taken for granted in the foss/oss world are not necessarily
>
> Gee, you are mixing things up. I agree with the statement "Python as a
> language is not floss per se"--Its used to create a variety of closed,
> open, free, and non-free applications and those apps are probably
> licensed as per the whims and fancies of their creators. Keeping the
> INpycon conference "open to each of the above (free/non-free,
> whatever)" and "translating django into Tamil" are not exclusively
> disjunct especially IF the latter is the superset.
>
>
>>> Yup, and its also heartening to see the patience and humility that
>>> these folks have with beginners. In my eyes, they have achieved a
>>> **lot** and yet they are firmly rooted to the ground.
>>
>> are you talking about the patience and humility of the django core devs???
>
> Well, python != just django, albeit its the most famous and
> well-documented framework around...a general observation about
> different dev's at the sprints.
>
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