[Inpycon] Announcing PyCon Pune 2017 & Call for Volunteers

[Jaidev Deshpande]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 at 22:44 Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote:

> The way this thing was pushed left a bad taste in atleast my mouth and I
> don't think I really want to be a part of the event.
>
> When the event was announced, I brought up the issue of the name (which
> I think is important). I'm perfectly willing to be argued out of my
> position but the lack of an attempt to do that suggests, to me,  that
> the people behind the conference just want to conduct the event
> regardless of what people outside the organising committee, who are
> arguably part of a larger python community, think.
>

This is precisely the point that Aditya, Chinmay, Vikas and I have been
trying to make. (
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2016-November/010832.html)

Just going through the archives of pythonpune at googlegroups.com will make
you realize:
1. Announcements about events are made way too often
2. Discussions about events are almost non-existent.

And these concerns have been communicated time and again to both the
inpycon and the pythonpune mailing lists. The unwillingness of people to
even respond to them is telling.

We understand that nobody is entitled to an explanation here. Nobody is
responsible for providing one. If you do it, you would probably be doing it
out of common courtesy. This lack of courtesy is what is saddening.


>
> This is not to say that the whole affair is wrong, bad or in any way
> negative. I think of it as something conducted by a closed private set
> of people which is open to the general public only for participation
> during the actual event.
>
> All the best!
>


> On , Thin Rhino wrote:
> > Would like to register a protest with the python community in general
> > that, this "PyconPune" is being organised by a few select individuals
> > without ever discussing it on the local community ML.
> >
> > I see this as a clear effort of these select individuals to fragment
> > the community. Request the community to boycott this conference.
> >
> > Regards
> > Aditya Laghate
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