[Inpycon] Updates: PyCon India 2023 : 10th July

[Sanchit Balchandani]

Hi Everyone,

Hope you all are doing well. I wanted to share a few updates from the past
couple of weeks and seek your suggestions on some key points.

   - Conference & Workshop Tickets
      - So far, we have sold over 530 tickets. This includes all early bird
      tickets and 50% of regular & combo tickets.
      - We are planning to launch a contributor ticket by the end of this
      month, with a minimum amount of 5000 INR.
      - We'll plan to use this additional amount collected to offer travel
      grants within India.
      - DevSprint Tickets:
      - I would appreciate your suggestions/feedback on our current plan
      around the DevSprint tickets.
      - Ideally, DevSprint should be free for every conference attendee.
      However, due to logistical constraints, we've planned to charge a small
      amount of 100 INR to reserve a ticket for DevSprints.
      - Please advise if there are any objections or if there could be a
      better way to handle this.
   - Venue
      - Phenompeople is in the final stages of confirming the venue for
      DevSprints.
      - ISB has declined to host our workshops due to the unavailability of
      classrooms.
      - As a backup plan, we are considering IIIT-H for the workshops.
   - Keynotes
      - At the moment, we still have 4 confirmed keynote speakers.
      - Ee Durbin, who could potentially be our 5th keynote speaker as he
      had expressed his interest, is yet to confirm his participation.
      - If we do not have any luck finding additional keynote speakers in
      the next week or so, we will cease our search and stick with the 4/5
      keynotes we already have.
   - Code of Conduct (CoC)
      - Some keynote speakers who we reached out to, have expressed
      concerns about the enforcement of CoC at PyCon India.
      - As a takeaway and to address these concerns, we're planning to put
      extra measures in place to ensure strong CoC implementation this year.
      - If anyone is willing to assist in this area, please feel free to
      reach out.

For additional updates and notes regarding other workgroups, please refer
to this link [0].

Best Regards
Sanchit

[0] -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ya4r54g3Ellm2_ALvvCZZReVKxSBw4Di8LKX8ilLdFU/edit#heading=h.28ctsjz0dcy
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