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[Noufal Ibrahim]

Just to make sure that it reaches the list.

On Sat, Feb 19 2011, inpycon-owner at python.org wrote:


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> From: Navin Kabra <navin.kabra@
> Subject: Early thoughts of the Pune team on Pycon 2011
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:19:42 +0530
>
> Hi All,
>
> We had a meeting of the local Pune InPyCon 2011 team on Thursday night,
> where we discussed a number of things, including short-term tasks and task
> allotment.
>
> Here is an overview of what was discussed:
>
> We felt that we should have a 3 day conference - Friday, Saturday and
> Sunday. Friday will be mainly for tutorials introducing people to Python.
> Saturday and Sunday will be the main conference. There we're hoping to run 4
> tracks in parallel as follows:
>
> I: Introductory and Web (this is the newbies/evangelism/101 track)
> II: Experienced (this is for pythonistas, with prereqs)
> III: Themed tracks
> IV: Tutorials, Labs, BOFs etc
>
> For this conference, we don't want to really focus on the size of the
> audience - rather we would like to really try hard to get good quality,
> advanced talks. We'll insist on there being enough advanced talks; and
> aggressively reject "introductory" talks that can't be accommodated in the
> introductory track. It's OK to have advanced talks that expect the audience
> to know certain things beforehand, as long as the prerequisites are
> explicitly listed in the talk description. We believe this it will be a
> challenge to get enough speakers who can talk about advanced topics - so
> let's try to think of various creative ways in which to meet this
> challenge.
>
> We'd like longer talks - all talks to be 1 hour. We also want 5 to 10 minute
> breaks between talks. One keynote on Saturday, and another keynote on
> Sunday.
>
> As far as dates, it appears that 16-18 Sept, or 23-25 Sept are the main
> possibilities. (Before that, Pune will be immobilized by Ganesh Chaturthi,
> and afterwards there's Navratri and Gandhi Jayanti.) We'll finalize the
> dates after talking with our potential venues. We're going to make first
> contact with potential venues next week and we are hoping to have the date
> and venue finalized in 2 or 3 weeks.
>
> Other isuses discussed during the meeting:
>
> 1. How much to charge? Reference: Pycon 2010 charged 250 for early bird, 350
> for not-so-early bird, and 500 on the spot. Current thinking is to keep it
> the same. Maybe charge Rs. 150 for Day 0 Tutorials if there are people who
> want to attend just that.
>
> 2. How many people to expect? This needs to be estimated right now so that
> we only consider appropriate venues. Reference: Pycon 2010 had about 650
> people on day 1. and 350 on day 2. We're not sure how to estimate the number
> of people coming for Pycon Pune, but for now, we're saying that as far as
> venue sizing is concerned, we will consider venues where the largest hall
> capacity is at least 300+, and there are at least 2 other halls/classrooms.
> Having labs would be a bonus.
>
> 3. Is a foreign speaker really necessary? We spend a lot of money, and maybe
> they don't have the star power that we think they have. Opinion was divided
> on this topic.

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