[Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB

[Noufal Ibrahim]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
[..]
> 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.

This isn't really something great. Mails are easy to send.

> And we even got to make an all India society without any
> splits or squabbling (a new Indian record).

This is true.

> 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.

I think his intention is that there should be sprints where there's
one or two senior more experienced people and a group of less
experienced but talented people who contribute some code or docs back
to the community. Fix bugs. You know the drill.

> 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.

Yeah. The videos should be taken more seriously this time.

> and not lose sight of the fact that the main aim of the conference is to have
> fun with fellow pythonistas ...

True but if all we have is "fun with the fellow pythonistas", a group
like FOSSEE wouldn't be really interested. Like you mentioned in your
last point, they'll need something more tangible.

I think he's putting it down to either code or archvied instructional
material. If we can do either of those, it should be fine. I'm sure
about the latter. Not so much about the former.

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~noufal
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