[Inpycon] Preparations for Pycon India 2011

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

Hi,
            Happy New Year... Do we have any updates on the discussions in
chennaipy
mailing list ? Hope there will be some updates happening this month.

             Next poster, please start a separate thread for the
discussions.

Regards

--Anand


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kausikram krishnasayee <kausikram at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
> abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>    It is about a month and a week since Pycon India 2010.
>> We have had the rest and the feedback.
>>
>> I guess it is time to kick start the plans of action for
>> Pycon India 2011. I see that there is already some discussions
>> on the venue. Here are my suggestions, not in any particular
>> order of importance.
>>
>> 1. We need a spearhead for Pycon India 2011 in the same role
>> as Noufal, but based in Chennai, who can actually do the
>> co-ordination on the ground. The chennai folks need to do
>> this ASAP. If Noufal himself can take this up initially, great,
>> but I guess when things actually start to take shape on hand,
>> we do need someone locally.
>>
>
>>
> 2. A show of hands of folks, who would be running the show
>> from Chennai. It is useful to know who are the people involved
>> IMHO.
>>
>> I shall be taking over all coordination in the ground along with
> rajeshwari. we have around 20 people in the ground ready and willing to run
> in the ground to get things done and we hope to pull it in style.
>
> 3. Draw up a plan of action with approximate deadlines to each,
>> put this up in a wiki page and the "co-ordinator-in-chief" needs to
>> follow this up. I am not going into details now.
>>
> We have a tentative deadline as of now to get the venue settled. most of
> the colleges around are having their end semester examinations now and dont
> want to be bothered for the next 2 weeks. i shall be taking to them as soon
> as these exams get over and start making arrangements. meanwhile a couple of
> us will also be going about photographing the venue and putting it on this
> list for all the volunteers to have a look.
> i shall ciculate an alpha draft of schedule by the end of tomorrow
> (wednesday nov 3, 2010) following which we can grill it overhere and get it
> ratified by the community.
>
>>
>> 5.  Get the branding right. We need to decide on a single
>> "logo" and theme early on - these discussions need to happen
>> in parallel with the actual conference grounds-stuff discussions.
>>
> we have two options.
> A)we shall indulge in the community generated logo exercise again. and get
> the logo finalized by the end of january.
> B) use existing branding material from the previous years conference.
>
> we need to decide on that.
>
>
>> 6. I suggest a separate mailing list purely for conference organizers
>> apart from this one which anyone interested in the conference can
>> listen in. I will get this done in a week, if there is consensus. This
>> will
>> require permission to join and won't be open.
>>
> can we put this in cold storage for now ? we will have some discussions
> happening here and if people complain of a high noise to signal ratio, then
> we shall take this up again.
>
> kausik
>
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