<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial">On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Anand B Pillai </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial"><<a href="mailto:anandpillai@letterboxes.org" target="_blank">anandpillai@letterboxes.org</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Topic Reset - this started as Development Sprints but seem to<br>
bifurcate to Talks and Quality of talks - Forking another thread for it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">​Related to the comments made by others but slightly at a tangent:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">​Right now, Pycon is a 3 day conference. 1 day of workshops + 2 days of conference.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Have we ever considering making that a 4 day conference: 1 day of workshops + 3 days of conference?  For instance, Pycon US is I think 2 days of workshops + 3 days of conference.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm not saying that we should - just asking if this was considered, and trying to understand the tradeoffs.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This could potentially provide us the flexibility to spread out the themes over 3 days, and better cater to beginner/intermediate/advanced  or tracks like scipy/web/core/tools instead of the mish mash we currently have.  (This will a whole separate discussion to figure out what makes sense)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This may also provide additional time at the venue for running a dev sprint as the other thread had suggested.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We may no longer need to be as bothered about the numbers - we may have 1500+ registrations all in all, but a more manageable number attending on each day, for whom we can provide a better experience.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">So what are the tradeoffs involved here?  Some that I could think of:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- Cost of venue for an additional day</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- Volunteer fatigue over multiple days</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- Possibly more admin if ticketing is split out by day (may be more flexible for participants)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- Additional logistics to manage</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- Schedule has to line up and make sense for this approach, or else it is overkill</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thoughts?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">-A</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div>