<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>+1 to Noufal.</div><div><br></div><div>I wanted to make 2 additional points.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> >> am -1 for not having beginners level sessions.<br>
I personally think PyCon India should continue with all three level<br>
beginners, intermediate and Advance.<br>
This is how PyCon India has grown and would like to continue to see<br>
same.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We are conflating good with advanced and bad with beginners. My question is: was there a beginners talk that was highly appreciated and was very useful? A bad talk at whatever level is bad for its audience. </div><div><br></div><div>A conference can have two aims: 1) A meeting place for practitioners. 2) Evangelism . Pycon has a big component of Python evangelism but I think it might be time to spin that off to initiatives like Python Express and make the core event more focused. This provides depth to the ecosystem.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Just Fyi: This year we had more 60 % first timer.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What is the growth rate? If the growth rate of Pycon is below 50%, this means that significant number of people are not coming back. A high churn rate indicates a problem. Perhaps people are not getting enough value out of it. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Abhaya</div><div> </div></div></div></div>