<div dir="auto">+1<div dir="auto">The conference should be on weekends for higher participation.</div><div dir="auto">25 and 26 for conference might be a better choice.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 04-Dec-2017 1:10 PM, "Sreekanth S Rameshaiah" <<a href="mailto:sree@mahiti.org">sree@mahiti.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Please consider including weekend days for the conference. There will be sizeable dropout in the participation if weekends are not part of the main conference.<div>-sree</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 at 13:03 Vanitha Shanmugam <<a href="mailto:vani.pree@gmail.com" target="_blank">vani.pree@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1 for August 22 - 26</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 December 2017 at 12:26, vijay kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vnbang2003@gmail.com" target="_blank">vnbang2003@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Sayan Chowdhury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sayan.chowdhury2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">sayan.chowdhury2012@gmail.com</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br></span><div><div class="m_7544067614006655293m_4013316106400080877h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:23 PM, vijay kumar <<a href="mailto:vnbang2003@gmail.com" target="_blank">vnbang2003@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><span>> Hi All,<br>
> During our last F2F meeting , we spoke on different venue available to host<br>
> PyCon India 2018.<br>
><br>
> Below is list<br>
> 1) NIHMANS(One of the volunteer infomred it's not available sept month)<br>
> 2) BIEC:<br>
> 3) Palace ground<br>
> 4) MLR white field<br>
> 5) College(Chirst college)<br>
><br>
><br>
> BIEC:<br>
><br>
> Biec is the place where lot of big conferences are happening in bangalore.<br>
> (<a href="http://www.biec.in/capacity_chart_confrence" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.biec.in/capacity_<wbr>chart_confrence</a>)<br>
> BIEC's convention centre provide multipe halls of capacity<br>
> (1400,700,250,100)<br>
> It also has few other smaller halls that can used as per need.<br>
><br>
> Cost of BIEC convention centre is 4.5 L per day. (Apart from setup<br>
> cost(chairs, internet, and other things))<br>
><br>
> They even have multiple expo halls with 2500 + people capacity. Each expo<br>
> hall will cost us around 8 Lakh per day.<br>
><br>
> If we plan to go with BIEC, we surely need to raise our registation fee to<br>
> minimum 3,000 - 3,500 rupee per head and find more sponsors.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Do share thoughts?<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>We are going forward with BIEC as the venue. Based on the number of<br>
talks, keynotes, 3 days is the optimum so the days for the conference.<br>
The conference dates for PyCon India 2018 would be 29th, 30th, 31st of<br>
August 2018.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Some bad news</div><div><br></div><div>BIEC is not availabel for date August 29-31 as that got boking done last week itms.</div><div><br></div><div>Availbale dates as of today</div><div><br></div><div><div>August 20-29 : Onam on August 24</div><div>September : 9-18(Ganesh Chaturthi - Sept 13)</div><div>Octorber : 14 -19th(Dussehra: Oct 19 )</div><div>Novmeber : 1st week(Diwali : Nov 6-7)</div></div><div><br></div><div>I think it safe to go with August 22-24 (conference). August 25-26(workshop/dev sprint)</div><div><br></div><div>We need to let them know asap.</div><span class="m_7544067614006655293m_4013316106400080877HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div> </div></font></span></div><span class="m_7544067614006655293m_4013316106400080877HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div class="m_7544067614006655293m_4013316106400080877m_6068405650032542613gmail-m_-7274549545570460071gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Thanks,<br>Vijay<br></div></div>
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