[Inpycon] PyCon India Website for 2014

[Baiju M]

+1 for professional designer

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:42 AM, konark modi <modi.konark at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for designer, if not paid then probably barter deal with some design
> firm, who have been doing website designing for conferences like PyCon or
> others.
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> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dhruv Baldawa <dhruvbaldawa at gmail.com> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > Even I can help with the website. But, I am not a great designer ;)
>> >>
>> >> [...]
>> >>
>> >> This is why I'm generally in favour of outsourcing the design (and
>> >> design implementation) of the site to professionals. I'm not pointing
>> >> fingers at your Dhruv and I'm thankful for your spirit of volunteering
>> >> but the website is the primary presence of the conference and it
>> >> shouldn't become a project we do as part of a learning exercise. We
>> >> need
>> >> people who are professionals to take care of it and saving money is not
>> >> an excuse.
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>> > +1
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>> > Even I've suggested the same, but Vijay seems to be strongly in favor of
>> > getting it done with volunteers.
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>> +1 for getting professionals involved.
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>> Also, as I've learnt during my work, there are a few different styles of
>> designers and those are some of those conflict with what people would
>> expect. E.g. I got a person whose design style is minimalist, it didn't go
>> too well with my team who expected more colourful and visual style.
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>> It's also important to go with ones who go ahead and understand the idea
>> behind the website and PyCon as a whole. I guess which is why Vijay would be
>> favouring volunteers.
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>> If we do consider getting professionals involved and Kiran doesn't want to
>> take up this part, I can volunteer with this task. Kiran can lead the team
>> that works on backend, I'll work with them for co-ordination between the 2
>> teams.
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>> > Anand
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>> --
>> With Regards,
>> Mehul Ved
>>
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