[Inpycon] PyCon India 2017 dates & venue suggestion

[Kracekumar Ramaraj]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 at 8:08 AM Anand B Pillai <anandpillai at letterboxes.org>
wrote:

> On Thursday 30 March 2017 07:18 PM, Anuvrat Parashar wrote:
> > Namaste
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:14 PM, qua non <akshayaurora at gmail.com
> > <mailto:akshayaurora at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Kracekumar Ramaraj
> >     <me at kracekumar.com <mailto:me at kracekumar.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:30 PM, qua non <akshayaurora at gmail.com
> >         <mailto:akshayaurora at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >             Hey folks,
> >
> >             So just going through the list pos public holidays in
> >             India http://www.officeholidays.com/countries/india/
> >             <http://www.officeholidays.com/countries/india/>
> >
> >             The only viable time to hold the conf seems to be september
> >             22, 23, 24, otherwise we will get stuck in the
> >             Id/Dushera/Diwali season.
> >
> >
> >         I would like to rephrase. How many many months will it require
> >         for the current team to put the show?
> >
> >
> >     Very good point, if possible we would like to delay till the Delhi
> >     heat can be avoided. This would give the team one more month to help
> >     manage the conference.
> >
> >     I would propose first week of November.
> >
> >     We are going to keep the format same as before or, do we need to
> >     think about holding dev sprints for 2 days after the event?
> >
> >     Lot of the students are more interested in the dev sprints, they
> >     would skip all talks just to be at the developer sprints.
> >
> >
> >
> > Taking Akshay's and Krace's point forward should we choose November for
> > the conference?
> >
> > Why november?
> >  - Delhi's Heat would have somewhat subsided by then.
> >  - Team would get some more time to prepare and plan.
> >
> > In the first weekend of November, taking Sanyam's suggestions into
> > account we would have
> >
> > 3 November: Workshop
> > 4, 5 Nov: conference
> > 6, 7 Nov: dev sprints.
> >
> > Do we agree on these dates?
>
> Since we haven't heard back anything negative about these dates, I think
> we should finalize on them.
>
> The only concern from my side is devsprints falling on a Monday and
> Tuesday - start of the week. But I think there is no
> way around it considering the rest of conference days.


Other idea is pushing the conference one day early.

Thursday - workshop
Friday and Saturday- Talks
Sunday and Monday - Dev sprints


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> > Anuvrat Parashar<http://anuvrat.in>
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