[Inpycon] Python Express - Moving Forward

[Sreekanth S Rameshaiah]

On 22 July 2015 at 09:16, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:50 AM, satyaakam goswami <satyaakam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Option 1 - Let Python Express run as a PSSI project
>>>
>>> That means that the important decisions about the project will be
>>> discussed and decided by the PSSI board.
>>>
>>
>> ​Now you are making it sound like this nebulous org which has overgrown
>> itself :-) ,may be it has who knows .  Yes PSSI is serving its purpose of
>> running Pycon India event lets keep it running it in whatever form in
>>  future.​
>>
>
> Well, there are overhead when you are an organisation. You have to be very
> careful about every penny you spend, requires lot of book keeping to please
> the auditors. Also, any mistake happens, the reputation of PSSI will be at
> stake, we need to extra careful.
>
> I think these things will be too much overhead when the project is small.
>
> Option 2 - Let Python Express evolve as independent community project
>>>
>>> This means Python Express can make decisions freely, move fast and have
>>> the luxury of making mistakes once in a while. Also much easier to manage
>>> if we need to spend some money.
>>>
>>> I'm very much in favour of #2 because that gives lot more freedom for
>>> the project to evolve.
>>>
>>
>> ​Yes this too can form an org in itself to support the activity .​ yeah
>> we should go with option 2 afaik this has been doing good so far .
>>
>
> If it grows that much, then we can worry about bringing it under the
> umbrella of PSSI. May be we don't need that many organisations.
>

We have been doing such workshops in runup for PyCon India since 2010. I
feel it should be a PSSI promoted project if we are serious about scaling
it to 50+ workshops
- sree


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