Mailman 3 June 2010 - Inpycon

Twitter account for pyconindia
by Noufal Ibrahim June 27, 2010

June 27, 2010

Will the person who has the credentials to the twitter account "pyconindia" please email me the same? I need to set this up so that it auto tweets the proposals. If the person is not here, can someone fish out the code with the credentials from FOSSConf last year? We can use that then. Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Volunteers to spread the word
by Anand Balachandran Pillai June 27, 2010

June 27, 2010

Hi, It is nearly two week since we posted the CFP and we have had only 3-4 responses. So clearly the word of the event is not getting out to the outside world and we need to do more. One of the things we can do is to search google/yahoo groups for programming language communities and post regarding the event there. This needs some time since one has to find out relevant, active community mailing lists in Y! and Google and post a message there. We need around 1-2 SPAM volunteers for this. Let me know if anyone would like to help out. Thanks, -- --Anand

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Issues with website
by Noufal Ibrahim June 26, 2010

June 26, 2010

If anyone sees problems with the website, please report them at http://github.com/anandology/in.pycon.org/issues -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Twitter account
by Noufal Ibrahim June 26, 2010

June 26, 2010

I've revivified the twitter account for PyCon India. We'll get it hooked up to the site soon. The account is @pyconindia. Please follow it, spread the word and retweet its tweets. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Tweets regarding PSF sponsorship
by Anand Balachandran Pillai June 25, 2010

June 25, 2010

Hi, I saw some tweets regarding PSF funding which says sth like "Pycon got 1000 $ donation from PSF - f#!Iing awesome!" Please refrain from using base language when tweeting something which is as important as this. I think we should be more civil when tweeting regarding sponsors especially a parent body like PSF. I saw many retweets also on this. I request the author to delete this tweet and also the retweeters since this is now showing up on the conference website. -- --Anand

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We got PSF boost!
by Anand Balachandran Pillai June 25, 2010

June 25, 2010

Hi folks, I just got an email from Pat Campbell, Secretary, PSF informing of their decision to grand us a sum of 1000 $ for funding of a delegate to travel from U.S/Europe to India. This is a great decision by PSF and it is nice to see the trust they have placed in us as organizers and in Pycon India. I am grateful to Pat Campbell and other board members who took the decision in favor of us. Noufal, now you can finalize the discussion with one invitee from U.S or Europe. Let us confirm this by July end if possible, so that we can advertise it. I will request Pat if we could place the PSF log as one of the sponsors. I don't think there will be much difficulty in that and they should be only fine with it. Best Regards, -- --Anand

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Tracks
by Noufal Ibrahim June 24, 2010

June 24, 2010

Hello everyone, One of the things that's not clear in my head is the track allotment. We have 4 rooms. One super large auditorium, two somewhat large seminar halls and one small-medium seminar hall. This is my idea for the tracks. Let me know if you all agree. Auditorium : Keynotes and expected "popular" talks. Large SH 1 : "Hello world" track - Mostly tutorial level talks. Large SH 2 : General track (for other talks) Small seminar hall : FOSSEE Engineering track We can use the auditorium during the second half of the second day for the lightning talks. Does this look okay with everyone? Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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ArtWorks PyCon
by Guru Prasad M June 23, 2010

June 23, 2010

hi all, I am Guru Prasad from Banglore, studying in Sir MVIT Computer science branch. I have designed Artworks for pycon. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/Badges?action=AttachFile - (2010-06-23 19:15:53, 35.9 KB) [[attachment:Basic Logo]] - (2010-06-23 19:19:09, 49.2 KB) [[attachment:I am Speaking at PyCon]] - (2010-06-23 19:17:04, 47.8 KB) [[attachment:I am attending PyCon]] I'm not used to uploading to the wiki page.. So, uploaded to picasa too... http://picasaweb.google.co.in/guruprasad4790/ArtworksForPyConInida2010# Please go through them. I request you to use these artworks for PyCon10. Suggestions and comments are welcome.

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Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB
by Noufal Ibrahim June 23, 2010

June 23, 2010

Well, what do you guys feel? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu(a)aero.iitb.ac.in> Date: Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:51 AM Subject: Re: Sponsorships from IITB To: Noufal Ibrahim <noufal(a)gmail.com> Cc: pasokan(a)gmail.com Hi Noufal, I apologize for the delay. I discussed this with Asokan. I'll first give you some background so you get where we are coming from. We are funded by MHRD so it is appropriate to publicize their involvement. To restate, I believe that treating us on par with a commercial organization is not appropriate. __For us visibility and publicity definitely matter__. So here is what we feel would be appropriate: 0. Special care should be taken by organizers to ensure quality of talks. 1. "FOSSEE funded by MHRD" must be visibly present in various places. 2. We will fund/sponsor PyCon to the tune of Rs.1 lakh to be used as decided by the organizers. 3. We will conduct a "python for scientific computing" tutorial. Think of it as a parallel track for tutorials. It will be targeted at faculty members of educational institutions offering engineering, science, and computer applications, only. 4. We will conduct a lightning talk on our SEES (Software Engineering for Engineers and Scientists) course. For item 3, we will pay for 2nd sleeper train fare for the faculty (who pass a test at the end of the tutorial) along with some allowance for their stay at PyCon. This will be limited to about 100 faculty. (This funding will be independent of the Rs.1 lakh given to PyCon.) We are sure this will benefit PyCon quite a bit. Here are answers to specific questions. On Friday 28 May 2010 09:23 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Prabhu Ramachandran > <prabhu(a)aero.iitb.ac.in> wrote: > [..] >> >> I've thought about this and discussed with Asokan. I think we could fund >> you for about 1 lakh but we have the following suggestions: > > Who will be the sponsor? IIT-B or FOSSEE? FOSSEE, which is funded by MHRD. Fossee is mainly based at IITB. >> 1. You should produce something worthwhile at the end of the conference, >> like hold sprints, or help coordinate for spoken tutorials >> (http://www.spoken-tutorial.org). Basically the Python community should get >> something out of this. > > We are planning to record all the tutorials/talks/presentations and > put them online for free. This is one thing we're giving back and it is > in some sense is similar to the spoken-tutorial initiative. OK. > Apart from that, live interaction with Python programmers is a general gain > for the community as a whole and we consider this the major > contribution of the conference. > The PSF wouldn't have recognised it as so unless they thought it to be > serving this purpose. PSF is not our funding agency, MHRD is. :) > It's a place for companies using the language to > meet talent and so the commercial side of the community will grow as well. > > We will also announce and promote sprints. However, their > success depends on participants and that's not something we (or anyone > for that matter) can guarantee. Fair enough. >> 2. Exercise better control over the talks and their selections. More >> lightning talks or shorter talks. No long talks except if the speaker is >> known to be a really good speaker. Unlike last time, the no. of parallel >> sessions should also be planned better. > > Talk selection will be more stringent. we will give a longer time > for the CFPs so that we'll have time to select and we will keep > "simple" talks in a separate tutorial track if there are sufficient > good ones. > > This was a big point of feedback last year and we'll take care of it > this year to the best of our ability. Excellent to hear! > >> 3. Allow us to conduct a tutorial track for science and engineering >> streams. > > A separate tutorial track for science/engineering would be fine but > it will have to fit in with the general scheme of things. There can't > be a separate banner there with extra promotion. There won't be any > separate registrations, certificates etc. for this. Basically, we We might issue certificates to the teachers who attend and I think we will take care of that. As regards banners, I think it is fair on our part to ask for a clear mention of fossee and MHRD's involvement somewhere prominently. > don't want to divide the conference into a Fossee event and a PyCon > event. We'll just list in the tracks and people who are looking for > that kind of thing can attend it. There is no fossee event here, we are teaching teachers on how to use Python for scientific computing for a whole day! >> 4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and allow us >> to setup a small stall. > > The main banner will have the sponsor name as will the site. It'll > also be there on the brochures/handouts we provide and on the other > promotional materials. A stall can be provided. The T-shirt will not > have any logos except "PyCon India 2010". We're not giving that to any > sponsor. OK. I understand you want to keep the t-shirt free of any sponsoring agency but to treat us on par with any company is inappropriate. We are out and out trying to increase Python adoption with no hidden agenda. So please let me know of your concerns but do not treat us like some random company out there. cheers, Prabhu -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Re: [Inpycon] [BangPypers] Facebook Event for PyCon India 2010
by Noufal Ibrahim June 23, 2010

June 23, 2010

(Changed the list to InPyCon) On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Pranav Prakash <pranny(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I believe it would be great if the admins could create a Facebook event for > PyCon India 2010. This would cause more people to know about the event. Excellent point! I'm not on Facebook myself. I've created some notifications on Linked In. I'll create a group there. Perhaps one of the people active on FB can create an event there? Are you on the site Pranav? Perhaps you can do it then? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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