<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:noufal@nibrahim.net.in" target="_blank">noufal@nibrahim.net.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Tue, Oct 07 2014, vijay kumar wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Arvi Krishnaswamy <<a href="mailto:arvi@alumni.iastate.edu">arvi@alumni.iastate.edu</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
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>> How about a smaller space with capacity for 600-700 people max? A more<br>
>> focused Pycon that isn't trying to be everything for everyone with 1500<br>
>> people :) I vote for staying at Nimhans but improving the quality of the<br>
>> event for its core audience. Let beginner level sessions and training<br>
>> happen via python express throughout the year. Quite honestly, I'm not sure<br>
>> I will attend if we have 1500 next year :)<br>
>><br>
> am -1 for not having beginners level sessions. I personally think<br>
> PyCon India should continue with all three level beginners,<br>
> intermediate and Advance. This is how PyCon India has grown and would<br>
> like to continue to see same. Just Fyi: This year we had more 60 %<br>
> first timer.<br>
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</div></div>I'm not particular about the size of the event. If I could sacrifice<br>
attendance for talk quality, I'd do it.<br>
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The main complaint about PyCon India (since the maiden event) has been<br>
talk quality. We're aiming to be all things for all people and that<br>
doesn't work out. While I think Arvi's work with the program committee<br>
has been superb, the effect was limited because we *wanted* to dilute<br>
the quality of the talks to satisfy newbies.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well over the years the quality of the talks have improved. </div><div>If person worked in Python for 3 years continuously he would have learned more, whereas PyCon quality of talks will not be same as his experience.</div><div>What is advanced for X may not be advanced for Y. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Now that Python express is there, I'm generally in favour of increasing<br>
year round workshops and user group meetings for newbies and making the<br>
conference more high end. No more "Introduction to X" style talks which<br>
you can easily pick up from a website or a tutorial. The workshops can<br>
be introductory but I'm also in favour of lengthening them and reducing<br>
the number so that you'll have a few deep workshops instead of lots of<br>
shallow ones.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Talk selection committee decided not to have "Introduction to X" talks this year. This is not the problem any more.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Even the talks, I'm completely okay with making it a single track event<br>
with only a small number of high quality talks. The kind of talks I'd<br>
like to see are<br>
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- Scaling Django to X users - How we did it at "Awesome startup".<br>
- Handling large scale distributed systems in pure python - an<br>
adventure with gevent.<br>
- Interpreter hacks to sandbox code execution<br>
- Stripping down Python to run on a limited memory embedded device.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
- Why we rewrote a production scale Python app in Go and how we did it.<br>
- Reducing technical debt. in large flask projects.<br>
- Why the GIL might not be a problem.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Conference is for everyone beginner, Intermediate and advanced. As a community we need grow with different skill sets. </div><div>Also there isn't any problem for submission such talks. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Things like that where people have actually had experience in dealing<br>
with the nitty gritty of solving hard problems and talk about their<br>
experiences. These are usually small talks followed by long QA about<br>
people experiencing similar problems.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1. I would say focus on original work and disallow people from reading documentation, which we ensured this year.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
If we try to be everything for everyone, we'll end up being nothing. If<br>
we announce that PyCon India is for experienced, serious Python<br>
developers and live upto the announcement, intermediate and even some<br>
beginner people will actually learn something new and improve<br>
themselves. Advanced people will have a forum to discuss real problems<br>
rather than an audience with 60% first timers.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If there are 40% experienced still there is a huge audience for advance topics.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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My main concern is that there are more newbies than experienced<br>
folk. There are lots of outlets for newbies to learn things. Tutorials<br>
on the web, user group meetups, tutorials, classes, python express<br>
workshops etc. For advanced people though, there are almost no<br>
outlets. I'm in favour of making PyCon India a high quality event. Even<br>
by sacrificing number of talks and audience size. Quality over Quantity.<br>
<span class="im"><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Quality is one thing getting better every year. There are only limited people</div><div>who do advanced stuff in Python. For various reasons they don't submit the talks.</div><div><br></div><div>How many user group meetups in India are active apart from BangPypers ?</div><div>We shouldn't mix user group and conference. User groups has their own agenda and caters for local needs.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="im">
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Cordially,<br>
Noufal<br>
<a href="http://nibrahim.net.in" target="_blank">http://nibrahim.net.in</a><br>
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