[Inpycon] PyCon India 2017 dates & venue suggestion

[Anuvrat Parashar]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Sanyam Khurana <sanyam.khurana01 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> + 1 for the sprints!
>
> IMHO, I've been an attendee as well as volunteer for PyCon India as
> well as PyDelhi Conf from past 2 years.
> I also attended PyCon Pune 2017 this year and volunteered for it. The
> whole management was very well done and I liked the idea of two days
> of conference followed by 2 days of dev-sprints. So I suggest, 2 days
> with conference + workshops and 2 days separately dedicated to
> dev-sprints for PyCon India. That gives enough time for mentors to
> guide and attendees to follow-up on the project. There were a lot of
> patches submitted upstream to various projects. I was fortunate enough
> to be one of the dev-sprint attendee and contribute to CPython
> project.
>
> IMHO, dev-sprints are a way for new contributors to get started with
> any open source project of their choice. They get additional
> one-on-one support from mentors who are available physically for help.
> A lot of student and professionals, still struggle to contribute to
> Open Source because of one or the other reason. In order to change
> that, as a community conference PyCon India should focus on Dev
> Sprints to help bringing up new upstream contributors and help in
> strengthening and promoting the F/OSS culture.
>
> I have personally liked a lot of stuff from PyCon Pune conference, and
> we can surely take inspiration from that for PyCon India 2017 -- I
> will write a separate note on that.
>
> Just my 2 cents :)
>

Good suggestions. We should definitely work towards 2 days of dev sprints.

Friday: workshop
Sat Sun : conference
Mon Tue:  dev sprints


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