[Inpycon] Venue for PyCon India 2018

[Vanitha Shanmugam]

+1 for August 22 - 26

On 4 December 2017 at 12:26, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Sayan Chowdhury <
> sayan.chowdhury2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:23 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> > During our last F2F meeting , we spoke on different venue available to
>> host
>> > PyCon India 2018.
>> >
>> > Below is list
>> > 1) NIHMANS(One of the volunteer infomred it's not available sept month)
>> > 2) BIEC:
>> > 3) Palace ground
>> > 4) MLR white field
>> > 5) College(Chirst college)
>> >
>> >
>> > BIEC:
>> >
>> > Biec is the place where lot of big conferences are happening in
>> bangalore.
>> > (http://www.biec.in/capacity_chart_confrence)
>> > BIEC's convention centre provide multipe halls of capacity
>> > (1400,700,250,100)
>> > It also has few other smaller halls that can used as per need.
>> >
>> > Cost of BIEC convention centre is 4.5 L per day. (Apart from setup
>> > cost(chairs, internet, and other things))
>> >
>> > They even have multiple expo halls with 2500 + people capacity. Each
>> expo
>> > hall will cost us around 8 Lakh per day.
>> >
>> > If we plan to go with BIEC, we surely need to raise our registation fee
>> to
>> > minimum 3,000 - 3,500 rupee per head and find more sponsors.
>> >
>> >
>> > Do share thoughts?
>>
>>
>> We are going forward with BIEC as the venue. Based on the number of
>> talks, keynotes, 3 days is the optimum so the days for the conference.
>> The conference dates for PyCon India 2018 would be 29th, 30th, 31st of
>> August 2018.
>>
>
> Some bad news
>
> BIEC is not availabel for date August 29-31 as that got boking done last
> week itms.
>
> Availbale dates as of today
>
> August 20-29 : Onam on August 24
> September : 9-18(Ganesh Chaturthi - Sept 13)
> Octorber : 14 -19th(Dussehra: Oct 19 )
> Novmeber : 1st week(Diwali : Nov 6-7)
>
> I think it safe to go with August 22-24 (conference). August
> 25-26(workshop/dev sprint)
>
> We need to let them know asap.
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Vijay
>
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