[Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Thursday 27 May 2010 11:02:01 Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> >  Not sure what he was trying to say here. I thought the conference
> >  was being organized by the Python community for the Python community.
> >  He should be more clear as to what kind of sprints and tutorials
> >  he expects, not just give a link.
> 
> I think he means something more concrete than a "we held PyCon". There
> should be something tangible which actually helps the community to
> grow. Lots of simple talks and everyone patting themselves on the back
> won't really help.
> 

pycon helps the community to grow - there were a lot of tangible results - and 
hidden results from the last conference. The sheer volume of mail on this list 
is proof of that. And we even got to make an all India society without any 
splits or squabbling (a new Indian record). Things like better talks will come 
as the community grows and matures. Sprints will take place once the local 
community has something to sprint about. In fact, this is the first time I have 
seen a confence where mailing list traffic has *increased* after the conference. 
Usually there is deafening silence from the last day of the confence onwards.

At the same time, the sponsors have to show something concrete to the people 
who give them the funds - so in return for their support we should produce 
some videos, dvds or whatever.

and not lose sight of the fact that the main aim of the conference is to have 
fun with fellow pythonistas ...
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Regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Associate
NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC