[Inpycon] Kicking off PyCon India 2011 Preparations

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:02 PM, kausikram krishnasayee <
> kausikram at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>> previously i had written to this mailing list saying that all the
>> Engineering Colleges around had been in the middle of their exams and that
>> we had little scope of progress in the last month and a half. The exams as
>> of now are all over and all the colleges are back into a relaxed mood.
>>
>> Also,
>> this is a good time to start off on work regarding the actual conference
>> and hence this email, which is a a general call for volunteers to start work
>> on PyCon India 2011.
>>
>> Our activities can be broadly classified into work at ground (setting up
>> the venue getting wifi connectivity, arranging for food etc etc) and a set
>> of related activities that can be performed on the internet/phone
>> (sponsorship, website admins, speakers coordination etc)
>>
>> Following this email, two emails will be sent to this group calling for
>> volunteers in each of these segments. we would encourage active
>> participation from as many people as possible lets all join together and
>> contribute to pycon india 2011.
>>
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> Thanks for taking the lead on this Kaushik. It is about time we started off
> our
> preparations, so I am happy that the thinking has started.
>
> The Bangalore coordinators including myself can help out with the work
> "off the ground" such as Sponsorships, Talks co-ordination etc.
>
> I think we should get the website for Pycon 2011 in order as one of the
> initial tasks and send out call for talk proposals by March 2011. This
> gives us ample time to select and review the talks rather than doing
> a rush-hour job like I had to do last year cuz we were late with the CFP.
>
>
 In case it was not clear, I can take the lead/help out with the CFP
 this time also :)


> Thanks,
>
> --Anand
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--Anand
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