[Inpycon] Venue for PyCon India 2018

[Shanki Singh Gandhi]

Yes, we should finalise the dates and book BIEC convention asap. I heard,
transportation connectivity to reach the convention centre is also quiet
good.

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 10:38 AM, 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)
> >
>
> We had a visit to BIEC yesterday as well the Christ University.
>
> * Christ University
>   - The capacity of the auditorium in the Christ university is good
> but quite spread out which would make it difficult to attend talks in
> two tracks.
>   - The library space was good enough and this place would be good as
> a dev sprints venue and a workshop venue.
>
> * BIEC
>   - This place has 4 really big halls from 10.5k-17.5 sq. mtrs. Rate:
> 230 per day/per sq. mtrs.
>   - The place also has a conference center with 8 halls and a Amphi
> Theatre. The biggest three halls on paper accommodates 1400, 700, 250
> people. But after looking at the space and doing the calculation based
> on the event going on yesterday we can accommodate ~2000, 1200,
> 500-600 peoples.
>  - The cost of the full convention centre is ₹462875.
>  - The place has a good decent size food court to have the lunches and
> also few other shops like Barista, CCD, Dominos incase people want to
> buy and have food.
>  - The place has a lot of open space to drive other activities.
>
>  - The biggest problem of the place is no external food vendors is
> allowed and you have to choose from the given set of food vendors. The
> cost of food varies  from 800-1200 per person.
>
> Now, the main point to note is to drive a discussion to move the
> conference to end of August. The dates being 29th, 30th, 31th of
> August. The reason being since the months of May-August is off season
> they give a discount of 25%.  Also, the place is quite in demand so we
> need to close off on this place by next week (Tentatively 1st
> December).
>
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