[Inpycon] Kickstarting the conference again

[dipika d]

Hi all,

Looking forward to the conference this year and happy to volunteer!

Best,


On Sun, 19 Feb, 2023, 11:13 am Haris Ibrahim K. V., <blucalvin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 07:04, Haris Ibrahim K. V. <blucalvin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 at 16:34, Chandan Kumar <raukadah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 at 14:37, Noufal Ibrahim KV <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >    The conference didn't happen last year and I'd hate for that to
> > > > repeat this year too.
> > > >
> > > >    I understand that the strain and effort needed to pull it off is
> not
> > > > sustainable and can have a negative (especially mental) impact on the
> > > > people most vital to the event taking place. At the same time, the
> value
> > > > of a large event has been very clear to me especially for the new
> folks
> > > > that come for it. Short term benefits like being able to chill for a
> few
> > > > days with like minded folks and long term benefits like making
> > > > connections that push people's careers forward and provide
> opportunities
> > > > that might be life changing.
> > > >
> > > >    If there are no takers for the organisation, I'd like to be
> actively
> > > > involved in doing it this year. Perhaps take the lead on it. There
> are
> > > > several details which I've not thought about but I'd like to hear
> > > > thoughts about this before I commit.
> > >
> > > Thank you Noufal for starting the thread.
> > > We do not want to miss this year's train.
> > >
> > > Different chapters of PyCon India Local Python user groups have already
> > > started the chatter.
> > >
> > > They will be sending the proposal on the mailing list in sometime.
> > > Thank you everyone for showing interest. Once the proposal is out, do
> > > reach out to the team. They would be needing a lot of help to make that
> > > happen.
> >
> > Let's have an informal deadline for the proposals to be sent in?
> >
> > Just so that it doesn't end up being an endless wait and the people
> > who're available to take things up can start laying the groundwork.
> >
> > Since the chatter has already started, I say let's keep the deadline
> > as Feb 18th? If potential proposals come in by 18th, we can start
> > discussions around it on 19th. If nothing comes in by 18th, then we
> > can move ahead with the planning here itself on 19th.
>
> Just so that I bring a closure to my own comment, it is the 19th
> today. We haven't had any detailed proposals come in yet. Having said
> that, we've had:
>
> 1. Sanchit on behalf of the HyPUG (Hyderabad Python Users Group)
> mention that they'd be interested in taking it up since they seem to
> have a volunteer base who organized PyConf Hyderabad recently.
> Corroborating Anand Pillai's point, I was at the event as well and had
> a good time. Sanchit also mentioned he'd be happy to put together a
> detailed proposal by the end of this month IF the community decides to
> hold PyCon India at Hyderabad this year.
>
> 2. Akshay from PyDelhi mentioning that they seem to have had a get
> together already and saw a lot of interest from people who are ready
> to volunteer. They seem to have decided to move on regardless of
> whether the community decides PyCon India to be held there or not and
> anyway use their volunteer base to organize Pyconf Delhi.
>
> Obviously, the sooner we decide and finalize on a place the sooner the
> preparations can begin.
>
> Personally, from a practical point of view, I believe having an on
> ground post-Covid experience of organizing an in-person gathering /
> conference would be of tremendous help to the organizers themselves
> who does decide to take on PyCon India this year.
>
> I'll leave it to the community now to come to a decision. In any case,
> seeing the enthusiasm on the thread, all of us really do want to see
> it happen one way or another and get together this year sometime.
> Here's looking forward to it!
>
> > > With Regards,
> > >
> > > Chandan Kumar
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