Hello Ramakrishna, On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy <ramkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> What are we trying to achieve by running a mini pycon? If we are >> planning to see people traveling from other places, then why not do >> pycon directly?
[..] Bangalore or Pune is not an issue. Either way, approximately one half of the interested crowd will travel. I prefer B'lore since I'm here but if the center of gravity is in Pune, I'm fine with travelling there. > @Noufal > We do not really need CFP or something like that for a python day. > Lets discuss the topics which can interest people. Intermediate to > Expert level, this is just for python day. If newbies / students can > come to the event , that would be great. we can show them the manuals, > impromptu basic talks can be cooked up any time. The no. of people I > hope would be around 20 - 30. But once the talks are over or we > schedule time for the pycon india discussion itself, which might take > some time. We can finalise on the roles of the individual for the > actual conference. Exactly. If we do this as an extension of a regular 'user group' meeting, Something like this "The next Python User Group meeting is on 15/June. The talks planned are so and so. We're planning to do it from 5 to 7. Time from 6:30 to 7 is reserved to discuss the upcoming PyCon India planned for September" is fine by me and like I said, I'm +1 for it. This is like a F2F for the PyCon which is piggybacking on the regular user group meetings. On the other hand, if we want this to be an 'attempt' at a conference, I think it will dissipate our focus. That's what I'm -1 for. I'm not convinced by the "Atleast we *can* do this so we should" line of argument because I think a small-medium sized PyCon in September is realisable if we start planning and doing things right away. -- ~noufal _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
