[Inpycon] Points to ponder

[konark modi]

Was an amazing conference, I have had one of the best experiences of being
part as a volunteer and work with a great and super awesome team which I
would cherish for long.

Was looking forward for some insights from the organizing team on :

1. Which are the areas of bottle neck during the initial planning because
of which kind of get delayed in starting , if we could help reduce those
bottle necks, involve more people probably we can start with lot of things
early.

2. Kiran had given a useful suggestion on maintain a hand-book via PyCon
git repo, to push all check-lists. (I'll be doing that for all the
templates used for volunteering purposes.)

3. If we start early we can break the tasks into chunks and let focused
groups work on them, otherwise we end up having same people work on lot of
different things, which makes it tough on them.

Will update as and when have more ideas.

Regards
Konark


On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

>
> First of all, Congratulations to everyone involved in running this. The
> conference was a definite improvement over the past few years.
>
> Here are some points I have that we should consider.
>
> 1. We need more "heads" that decide all details of each activity. Just
>    like Vishal headed the a/v thing. I'm saying this because for things
>    like open spaces, there were issues like opening up the one on top, A/C
>    in audi 3 etc. These are decisions that Anand and Vijay shouldn't
>    have to bother about. There should be one guy in charge of this and
>    that's that. It will make management much more smooth.
>
> 2. We have to keep a note of FAQs people ask. I'm emphasising the "F" in
>    FAQ. One example. Lots of people got confused about the workshop
>    tickets and having to pay separately for them. We should really call
>    them "Python workshops before PyCon India" or something similar and have
>    maybe even have a separate doattend page for them. Anything to make them
>    distinct from the main conference registrations.
>
> 3. We need to make the conference more woman friendly. It was better
>    than last time but female participants especially from outside
>    Bangalore asked about things like accomodation, travel etc. These are
>    important and we need to have something in place for them. I'd very
>    much like organisations like pyladies to take a more active role in
>    matters like this.
>
> 4. We need to have way more time for the CFP and for talk
>    selection. This time was much better and I think we hit a decent
>    method. Now, we just need to scale it up.
>
> 5. Let's open up a small lightning talk registration online before the
>    event starts? Might get more interesting people.
>
> 6. More work on panels.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
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