[Inpycon] Venue Finalization {was} PyCon 2010 - Let's get started

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:49 PM, kausikram krishnasayee <kausikram at gmail.com
> wrote:

> >> Well, We are in the second year (so have some traction). Rubyconf
>> >> managed to do their first time at a decent hotel. I don't think it's
>> >> completely out of the question although it will increase costs.
>> >>
>> >
>> > what was the attendance at rubyconf?
>>
>> I don't remember exactly but I think it was around 400 people.
>
>
> remember someone saying they raised around 15 lakhs in sponsorship, and TW
> USA alone sponsored equivalent to 7 lakhs. can we look at similar figures?
>

Thoughtworks pitched in big time if I recall correctly. I think the
conference
itself was organized mainly by thoughtworkers. Thoughtworkers formed
a big chunk of the speakers also.

There is a lot of enterprise hype around Ruby a kind of geeky halo which
Python doesn't have. Some of it is justified, while a lot isn't. I doubt
if we can ever match to those figures in this years conference.


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