[Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB

[Anand Chitipothu]

2010/5/26 Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com>:
> I've been in touch with Prabhu from IITB about getting some
> sponsorships. This was the email which I last received.
>
> Some of the points would affect the way we structure things so I think
> we need to have a discussion.
>
> What do you guys feel?

My comments are inline.

[...]
>  1. You should produce something worthwhile at the end of the
> conference, like hold sprints, or help coordinate for spoken tutorials
> (http://www.spoken-tutorial.org).  Basically the Python community
> should get something out of this.

Will it be possible to record those at the time of presentation?

>  2. Exercise better control over the talks and their selections.  More
> lightning talks or shorter talks.  No long talks except if the speaker
> is known to be a really good speaker. Unlike last time, the no. of
> parallel sessions should also be planned better.

I think we can be strict about the selection process. But I don't
think we should select speakers based on their face value. We can ask
them to submit the abstract and slides much in advance so that the
selection team can go over it and scrutinize.

>  3. Allow us to conduct a tutorial track for science and engineering streams.

I don't think there is any harm in having this track in one of the two
days. How will we attract any non computer science guys for this
conference? Will the Fossee team will help in promoting this?

>  4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and
> allow us to setup a small stall.

We can put the logo on the banners, but not on the t-shirts. T-shirts
will have only the conference logo.

> Judging by your current budget I think you might not need to contact
> Enthought and I am not sure it will help much since Enthought is a
> really small company and I am not sure they will be in a position to
> do much given that they are doing most of the work for SciPy2010 this
> year.

More sponsors are always nice!

Anand