[Inpycon] Venue decision

[Diptanu Choudhury]

+1 for Pune. I have been in one of the DevCamps there, and saw a lot of
energy!

And I have nothing against Chennai, but I think Pune is

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:11 AM, kausikram krishnasayee <
kausikram at gmail.com> wrote:

> To answer the question differently - we've had lots of large (i.e. 500+
>> people) tech conferences in Pune in various venues (including non-college
>> venues like Persistent Systems, and non-tech-college venues like SDLC (i.e.
>> colleges that have no interest in the conference), and we've never faced a
>> lack of volunteers. There are so many students in so many colleges in Pune
>> who are willing to come to the venue and help out, that even if we have a
>> venue with just management support and a couple of liaison people, it hasn't
>> been a problem in the past. I'm talking about conferences like Proto.in (in
>> Persistent), PHPCamp.net (500 to 1000 people, last 3 years, in non-tech
>> colleges like SDLC)...
>>
>
> Though i have been bidding furiously for Chennai (and will continue to bid
> so ;) ), i must admit that Pune's people are in general great  hosts.
> personally i think that version of Proto.in was the best i had seen. But
> then PyCon and Proto.in are complete different. Still, putting aside the
> fact that i have been bidding for Chennai,
> +1 Pune.
> and as far as Coimbatore is concerned, i do not know the ground realities
> there apart from the fact that Kenneth is there, and hence personally a +0
> there.
>
>
> cheers,
> kausik
>
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