Hi Everyone,
We successfully concluded PyCon India 2023 on 2nd October. I want to
provide some final updates here on the mailing list. I'm thrilled to report
that PyCon India 2023 not only met but exceeded our expectations in most of
the areas. We saw more than 1,200 attendees at the conference, 400 for the
workshops, and over 180 at the devsprints. Apart from a few minor hiccups,
everything went smoothly.
The special events, including the Tinkering space, Young Learners workshop,
PyCafe, and Pyladies Luncheon, were greatly appreciated. We're proud to
mention that 50+ kids attended the Young Learners workshop (completely free
of cost) and 10+ participants explored the Tinkering space along with their
parents. We had around 60+ speakers, including talks, workshops,
panellists, mentors, and our keynote speakers. The feedback on the quality
of the talks has been great so far; we expect more detailed feedback from
the form we rolled out today.
Additionally, we provided travel, accommodation and free tickets to approx
20 students who reached out to us seeking financial assistance, all of them
had a great time attending 4 days of the conference.
Check out the Twitter Wall of Love, a digital mosaic by our Tech Team:
https://in.pycon.org/2023/ (curated from the #PyConIndia hashtag on
Twitter).
Also, I'm sharing insightful blogs by Cheuk Ting Ho, Bhanu, and Soumendra
about their experiences at PyCon India 2023, YLW+Tinkering Space, and the
CFP process:
Cheuk Ting Ho's blog: https://cheuk.dev/2023/10/02/pyconindia23/
Bhanu's blog:
https://bkamapantula.github.io/2023/10/07/pycon-india-2023-ylw-ts.html
Soumendra's blog:
https://blog.soumendrak.com/pycon-india-2023-insights-from-the-cfp-workgroup
I hope we(Team PyCon India 2023) lived up to the expectations, and everyone
had a good time in Hyderabad. There were some limitations on the
facility/infrastructure side (especially at JNTUH), but due to a
conservative budget, we had to make some compromises, as mentioned in
earlier emails.
What's next?
- Nivesh, the CoC WG lead from PyCon India 2023, will be publishing a
transparency report later today on CoC violations and actions taken.
- Snehith, the Sponsorship WG lead will send a report to all sponsors based
on promised deliverables.
- Once all videos are processed by the vendor, we'll do a quality check and
make them available on YouTube, depending on the consent given.
- After reimbursements for Speaker Travel and expenses made by some core
team members, we'll publish detailed balance sheets from both of our
finance partners (Konfhub and AFROST).
- Once we wrap up everything for the 2023 event, hopefully by early
November, I'll initiate an email for the PyCon India 2024 proposals.
A special shout-out to all core group members and volunteers who
helped selflessly
make PyCon India 2023 possible. I won't name names, as it wouldn't be fair
to only mention a few, but my heartfelt thanks go to everyone who
contributed in any capacity. It was a great learning experience for all of
us. Kudos to the Python India community. 🙏
Thanks
Sanchit
