[Inpycon] Venue decision

[Diptanu Choudhury]

<Oops, hit the send button by mistake, sorry for the unfinished last line>

I have nothing against Chennai, but I think even though Pune's name came up
very recently, they have enough people to host the event.

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Diptanu Choudhury
<admin.nitjece at gmail.com>wrote:

> +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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Diptanu Choudhury
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