[Inpycon] Initiative for mini conferences across India

[konark modi]

Hi All,

Yes, mini-conferences are a good idea, but conference of any stature large
or small requires equal amount of efforts.

While most of have focussed our energies on how to make PYCON India 2014
the best pycon ever, the following can be done to evolve local user groups:

1. Making monthly meet-ups a religious practice. This is very very
important, most of the user groups struggle to have a regular attendance of
20+ people.

2. People from local meet-ups should be advised/mentored to submit talks
for  PYCON India.

3. An ongoing effort of python workshops: last year Python month was a big
big success, and in lot of discussions with various people leading this
effort in numerous cities we found a need of having this platform
throughout the year.


Regards
Konark modi
On May 18, 2014 9:08 PM, "Milap Bhojak" <milapbhojak.exe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Vijay,
>
> It's awesome. Python User Group - Gujarat is ready for it. It would be
> mini PyCon India right ?
> Just tell us when we should go for it and it will create huge awareness.
> :)
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:23 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>  I was thinking from long time on the concerns we are facing in PyCon
>> India. I think we should concentrate to solve these issues as it might be
>> hindrance to our growth in upcoming years.
>>
>> We don’t have enough Volunteer base for PyCon India in cities other than
>> Bangalore and we are restricted to conduct conference in Bangalore. Though
>> there are potential people who can take this forward they don’t have enough
>> experience in organizing an event like PyCon India and it requires
>> contribution from lot more people and we need good volunteer base.
>>
>> To maintain the quality of talks in PyCon India we have previous
>> experience as one of our selection criteria. But there may be speakers who
>> are technically solid but he would not have experience presenting it to a
>> good number of audience becuase of which his talk might not get selected.
>>
>> I think it would be a better idea to conduct one day mini conference in
>> different cities across India to provide solution to the concerns.
>>
>> Please find my inputs below on the same.
>>
>>    - We can look for a chair person in each city who are willing to take
>>    responsibility to organize a conference which in turn will help them
>>    understand what it takes to organize an event like PyCon India.
>>    - These conferences will provide platform to new speakers and also
>>    others to showcase their talent so they can prepare themselves well for
>>    PyCon India.
>>    - To start with, we can have a day event in a college so that we
>>    don’t need to bare the venue expense and we would get an opportunity to
>>    create awareness about Python and create volunteer base.
>>    - The registration fee and the sponsorship amount may be considerably
>>    less just to manage the food expense.
>>    - If in a city they are not able to get considerable number of
>>    sponsors ,PSSI can share considerable amount to help organize the event.
>>    - If we don’t have enough speakers in a local user group, PSSI can
>>    help them get a speaker from other cities and provide their travel
>>    expense if required.
>>
>>
>> Overall it helps PyCon India to create awareness and build strong
>> volunteer base across India.
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts on the same.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vijay
>>
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