[Inpycon] Venue for PyCon India 2018

[Sreekanth S Rameshaiah]

Please consider including weekend days for the conference. There will be
sizeable dropout in the participation if weekends are not part of the main
conference.
-sree

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 at 13:03 Vanitha Shanmugam <vani.pree at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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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