On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Ramdas S <[email protected]> wrote: > > Last time when we tried which was 2 years back, we actually had three to > > four sponsors willing to cough up something like 10-20 K each which was > > pretty good to organize a single day event. > > > > If I remember to do an event in Bangalore at St Joseph College > Auditorium, > > our budget was around 40-50 K which included a CD and T Shirt each for > > approx 200 participants. > > > > We even planned to charge a delegate fee of Rs 99/ which would have > covered > > lunch and refreshments, plus housekeeping charges. > > > > Things fizzled out since few were willing to volunteer beyond a point. > What > > we require is some legs (young and old) to run around. > > > > Btw the Barcamp guys had offered to actually host a Python conference > within > > their unconference. So that could also be a start. Someone need to hook > up > > > > Frankly, I dislike going this way. For one, it spreads energies > and barcamp is definitely an unconference. I think the first PyCon > India, if it ever happens should be a regular conference. > > Let us not confuse ourselves right from the start. Barcamp > is barcamp, not pycamp, period. > Obviously, it'd be pointless to call a track in Barcamp -- PyCon or PyCamp. Why not use the Barcamp track just for kicking up some dust about PyCamp and PyCon ? Unless one is strongly allergic to Barcamp in general, the show of hands in such a track, could be a good measure of what participation one may expect (from Bangalore) in PyCon-India, when it happens. > > > Ramdas > > > > I > > > > > -- > -Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- regards, Banibrata http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta
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