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<div class="moz-forward-container"> All, <br>
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We had meeting in khosy's at 7:30 on 4th Oct, 2012 and had
discussion about PyCon India 2013, during the discussion we forgot
to order the soup :-(. Following people were present<br>
<ul>
<li>Anand <br>
</li>
<li>Noufal</li>
<li>Vijay</li>
<li>Jnana Sagar<br>
</li>
<li>Sreekanth</li>
<li>Devi</li>
<li>Kracekumar</li>
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Discussion was mainly focussed on selection process for talks,
tutorials, how to engage student community, volunteers, venue,
sponsorship amount etc ...<br>
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<p> * Minutes of the meeting *<br>
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<ul>
<li>Provide certificate to students/ volunteers. This may
encourage students to attend tutorials & talks which can
be latter produced in college for adjusting attendance of labs
if required etc ...</li>
<li>Send Posters to college in 2 months advance.</li>
<li>Conduct Python workshop during college tech fest as part of
spreading awareness of Python through IPSS.</li>
<li>Clearly mention in posters, PyCon India is pure volunteer
effort and need volunteers.</li>
<li>Shortlist all possible venues in bangalore and compare the
price. Venues can be private convention hall, 5 star hotel,
College auditorium.</li>
<li>Deadline for venue finalisation is January.</li>
<li>Decide on the sponsor kit.</li>
<li>All volunteers who are coordinating speakers should have all
speakers phone no, photo, twitter handle to contact them.</li>
<li>First timers are not allowed to present tutorials.</li>
<li>Process for selecting speakers has to be strict. First short
list all speakers and provide two weeks of time for speakers
to upload the presentation and finalise the talk.</li>
<li>Keep a separate volunteer to take care of lighting talks. <br>
</li>
<li>During tutorial day it should be assumed INTERNET is not
reliable. Volunteers are supposed to handover few pen drives
to speakers for distributing materials.</li>
<li>Expectation from volunteer is high, volunteer cannot attend
any talks.</li>
<li>Special ticket price for students at early bird ticket.</li>
<li>If possible try to find Indian Keynote speaker, speaker
needn't be Python contributor for example PyCon US 2012
keynote speaker was Paul Graham who is known for Y Combinator.</li>
<li>If sponsors company strength is less than 20, 50% discount
will be given on sponsorship amount.</li>
<li>There is no hard slab in number of gold and silver sponsors.</li>
<li>Lanyards will have * only Python * logo.</li>
<li>Hat or t-shirt will be given to volunteer to distinguish
from participants.<br>
</li>
</ul>
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Since we ran out of time, we dint get time to decide on website
launch.<br>
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Thanks & Regards
Kracekumar.R
"Talk is cheap, show me the code." -- Linus Torvalds
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