[Inpycon] Proposal for PyCon India 2024

[Kumar Anirudha]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 21:59, Kumar Anirudha <anirudhastark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We would like to submit an official proposal to organise PyCon India
> 2024 in Bengaluru. Since  the last PyCon India here was in 2015, it
> has been a while and we are eager to bring it back.
> Details are as follows:
>
> Location: Bengaluru
> Dates: 20th Sep - 23rd Sep 2024
> Venue: Nimhans Convention Centre
> Total Capacity: 1200
>
> Proposed Format:
> 4-day event format.
>
> Date: 20th Sep (Fri)
> Workshop
> 3 Tracks - 6 Workshop
> Venue: Nimhans
>
> Date: 21st Sep (Sat) & 22nd Sep (Sun)
> Conference
> 3 Tracks
> Venue: Nimhans
> Nimhans has 3 halls:
> 1. 800 (main hall) + 300(main hall balcony area)
> 2. 300 (hall 2)
> 3. 200 (hall 3)

Small Correction:
450 (hall 2)
250 (hall 3)

>
> Date: 23rd Sep (Mon)
> Dev Sprint
> Single Track
> Venue: To be decided
>
> Other tracks such as poster presentation, hallway tracks, and so on
> will be decided at a later time.
>
> We've been able to bring in an initial team to make the event
> successful (in no particular order).
> - Dr. Murali
> - Praveen
> - Rayan
> - Priyanshu
> - Bharath
> - Vamsi
> - Farhaan
> - Abhishek Mishra
> - Nabarun
> - Bhushan
> - Farhaan
> - Vandana
> - Koti
> - Aravind
> - Vandana
> - Bhavin
> - Akshay
> - Aravind
> - Ritesh
> - Sayan
> - Anirudha
> - Pratik
> - Laisha
> - Ananyo
>
> The above is not an exhaustive list, and more people will be joining
> in. We welcome anyone and everyone to join us, especially our previous
> year organizers, to help us organize a great conference. We’ll be
> following the same working groups model and hope the shadows from last
> year to take on more involved roles.
>
> Mediums of Communication:
> All Moderators coordination - WhatsApp (temporary)
> Individual team workgroup coordination - based on convenience
> All Volunteers coordination - WhatsApp (temporary)
> Community-wide communication + Periodic updates - InPyCon Mailing List
> Social Media - Twitter/LinkedIn/Insta/Facebook
> Task Management tools - Github
>
> We would appreciate everyone's go-ahead to proceed further. Once
> finalised, we'll officially start with public volunteer calls on each
> workgroup as needed.
> If you have any questions, suggestions, feedback or concern, kindly
> bring to them to our notice here.
>
> Cheers,
> Kumar Anirudha

Cheers,
Kumar Anirudha