<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Olemis Lang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olemis@gmail.com" target="_blank">olemis@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"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Betsy Waliszewski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:betsy@python.org" target="_blank">betsy@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Please take a few moments to put together a short paragraph and send it to me no later than Wednesday, September 28th.</blockquote></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm sorry for not meeting the deadline. Maybe you will understand the reasons once you read the report .</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Olemis,</div><div><br></div><div>It's not a problem - I can add your report to the minutes since they haven't been approved yet. We will try respond to your "need help with" points in a separate email.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Betsy</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br>I have been in the US since October 4th (4th - 7th Dallas TX, 8th - present Charlotte NC) . One of the goals of my trip was to connect to people / companies / organizations interested in collaborating with SciPyLA 2017 conference . I'll try to summarize everything that's happened this side .</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Costa Rica ambassador, Jeudy Blanco, visited Havana</div><div class="gmail_extra"> * Discussion with Abel Meneses and Medardo Rodríguez</div><div class="gmail_extra"> (please guys , tell us the conclusions ;)</div><div class="gmail_extra">- I have been able to contact 250 entrepreneurs from every</div><div class="gmail_extra"> Latin American countries so as to explore opportunities to collaborate</div><div class="gmail_extra"> with the business they have in their home countries</div><div class="gmail_extra">- Contacted some businesses interested in collaborating with the conference</div><div class="gmail_extra"> * details in a separate message</div><div class="gmail_extra">- Contacted some universities interested in collaborating with the conference<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> * details in a separate message</div><div class="gmail_extra">- Contacted some incubators/accelerators/co-<wbr>working businesses<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> * details in a separate message</div><div class="gmail_extra">- Attended the Chalotte Python Users Group meetup</div><div class="gmail_extra"> * Shared info about SciPyLA 2017</div><div class="gmail_extra">- Visit to HackerSpace Charlotte</div><div class="gmail_extra">- Attended Hack NC (Chapel Hill NC) as a mentor (Oct 28th - 30th)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> * Possibility to use Capital One's Nessi API to run hackathons during</div><div class="gmail_extra"> the conference</div><div class="gmail_extra"> * I had to travel to Raleigh , then Chapel Hill , then back to Charlotte<br> and back again to Chapel Hill on Sunday ... </div><div class="gmail_extra">- SciPyLA 2017 event brochure released [1]_ [4]_<br>- SciPyLA 2017 call for ambassadors released [2]_<br>- John Roa assumed the role of SciPyLA Ambassador for Colombia [3]_</div><div class="gmail_extra">- ... many other activities , but I think I'll keep the list short up to this point .</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We need help with this </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>- Meet with somebody in Microsoft who might be in a position of actually</div><div> making a decision about sponsoring the conference</div><div> * We'd need the arguments for them to be interested in doing so</div><div> (more about this in a separate email)</div><div> * Tomorrow I will attend an event about PPM & Power BI</div><div> in Charlotte Microsoft Campus (2nd in USA after Redmond) .</div><div> It might be a good opportunity for me to reach somebody there .</div><div> Makes sense ? If so any help in that direction will be appreciated.</div><div>- We will be launching on the next few days a crowdfunding campaign<br></div><div> for the SciPyLA 2017 conference and will need all the help we can get</div><div> from the PSF and everyone else so as to advertise it and capture the</div><div> attention and contributions of supporters sympathetic with this idea.</div><div>- Suggestions of other companies / communities I should be contacting</div><div> in the next few days</div><div>- Please tell us when would be the right time to submit a grant proposal</div><div> for the conference next year.</div><div>- Reach key members of the Python community so that the </div><div> Ambassadors can interview them to advertise the work they are</div><div> doing in different fields of Python development, including science,</div><div> technology, open data, ...</div><div> * Developers living in Latin America , or in North America and Europe</div><div>- Contacts of speakers interested in attending the event .</div><div> * ... and a way to work together so as to publish video interviews</div><div> in order to advertise the conference and announce their participation</div><div>- Contacts of people interested in reviewing paper submissions .</div><div> * Call for reviewers to be released soon .</div><div> </div><div>Feel free to contact me (if you prefer to do so in private message it's ok for me) to provide me with further details . I'll be in Charlotte NC until Nov 8th .<br></div><div><br></div><div>.. [1] <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheCubanTech/photos/a.658424797645428.1073741834.602391173248791/674630086024899/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>TheCubanTech/photos/a.<wbr>658424797645428.1073741834.<wbr>602391173248791/<wbr>674630086024899/?type=3&<wbr>theater</a></div><div><br></div><div>.. [2] <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheCubanTech/posts/680733165414591" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>TheCubanTech/posts/<wbr>680733165414591</a></div><div><br></div><div>.. [3] <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheCubanTech/photos/a.658424797645428.1073741834.602391173248791/680334758787765/?type=3" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>TheCubanTech/photos/a.<wbr>658424797645428.1073741834.<wbr>602391173248791/<wbr>680334758787765/?type=3</a></div><div><br></div><div>[4] <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheCubanTech/photos/a.658424797645428.1073741834.602391173248791/674630132691561/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>TheCubanTech/photos/a.<wbr>658424797645428.1073741834.<wbr>602391173248791/<wbr>674630132691561/?type=3&<wbr>theater</a></div><span class=""><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-8900072000482029388gmail-m_3521418936255626065gmail_signature">Regards,<br><br>Olemis - @olemislc<br><br>Apache™ Bloodhound contributor<br><a href="http://issues.apache.org/bloodhound" target="_blank">http://issues.apache.org/blood<wbr>hound</a><br><a href="http://blood-hound.net" target="_blank">http://blood-hound.net</a><br><br>Brython committer<br><a href="http://brython.info" target="_blank">http://brython.info</a><br><a href="http://github.com/brython-dev/brython" target="_blank">http://github.com/brython-dev/<wbr>brython</a><br><br>SciPy Latin America - Cuban Ambassador<br>Chairman of SciPy LA 2017 - <a href="http://scipyla.org/conf/2017" target="_blank">http://scipyla.org/conf/2017</a><br><br>Blog ES: <a href="http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/</a><br>Blog EN: <a href="http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>Featured article:<br><br><br><br></div>
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