Mailman 3 June 2010 - Inpycon

PyCon India badges
by Noufal Ibrahim June 14, 2010

June 14, 2010

Okay. We had a lot of cool logos submitted last time. It would be great if some of the more artistically inclined folks here could make some badges that people can post on their blogs/sites. Something like "I'm speaking at PyCon India 2010" this year with a link back to the main site. It would help publicity and stuff. I've put up a page at http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/Badgeswhere you can upload your work. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Timer and other things
by Anand Balachandran Pillai June 14, 2010

June 14, 2010

Can we please remove the "rocket launch" timer from the site ? It looks ugly and distracting. We don't need a timer at all. Instead we just need a calendar. First let us get some talks and sponsors and then move into the countdown mode. Also, I am having some thoughts about the dull blue background of the site and the tiny fonts. Nothing about the site is eye-catching at all. It fails to inspire. Can we have more larger fonts and a better background ? Thanks, -- --Anand

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CFP is Open!
by Anand Balachandran Pillai June 14, 2010

June 14, 2010

Hi folks, I have completed my work on the CFP. Please take a look at the page. http://in.pycon.org/2010/cfp I have added a mini FAQ to go along with it. http://in.pycon.org/2010/cfp/faq (Anand C - Markdown numbered lists had a problem again with paragraphs, so I had to be creative with numbering here. Otherwise, everything was showing up as 1. Please don't change it) I have put today's date because we can open this up by today evening and announce to the world via blogs and tweets and status messages. Please take a look at it and come back with urgent corrections etc if any by 5.00 pm. Otherwise, if this looks fine, I am going to open it up by announcing it on the pycon blog and on twitter by 5 pm. Thanks for everyone who helped, especially Anand C, Noufal and Kenneth. Regards, -- --Anand

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Programming contest
by Noufal Ibrahim June 13, 2010

June 13, 2010

Hello everyone, PyCon apac just got over and it was fun. One of the things that happened here was an online programming contest during the last one hour before the event closed. People basically had to log in to a site on appengine and take a series of questions online. It was two rounds and the first guy to finish won an ipad. I found it quite fun and all the participants enjoyed it as well. It added some colour to the event and needless to say, the ipad prize made people code quite fast. I was wondering if we could organise something similar to this in India for the conference? The prize is not a problem. A netbook these days costs around 20k and we can have a sponsor for that if necessary. Do you think it would work? Would it be a good idea? Just in case the question comes up, the contest application was in Python (Django specifically) and hosted on Google app engine so that wasn't an issue. The guys who ran it here were in Bangalore for a while so they might be willing to conduct it here as well. Comments/ideas/thoughts? Thanks -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Opendevice - Is this a valid topic for PyCon?
by Srirangan June 13, 2010

June 13, 2010

Hi, I'm involved with Opendevice<http://bitbucket.org/srirangan/opendevice/wiki/Home> - an open source project to port HTML5 apps to various mobile handsets and devices. Python 3.1 has been used for its development. Is it a valid topic for a talk at PyCon? My proposed talk will focus on: - How Python was used to create a command line tool - Interoperability across Windows, Linux and OS X - Working with third party tools including device specific SDKs, ANT etc. Your views, feedback, ideas and suggestions are welcome. Since I'm new to the community and this is my first email to the list, here's a little about me: - Blog - http://srirangan.net - Google Profile - http://www.google.com/profiles/srirangan#about - LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/srirangan Thanks, Sri

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CFP draft for review
by Noufal Ibrahim June 12, 2010

June 12, 2010

Hello everyone, Anand has sent me a draft of the CFP which I've put up on the wiki at http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/CallForProposals The formatting is a little rusty since my own laptop has all but bitten the dust and I'm doing this on a friends machine with a foreign environment. We're late with this. If we don't get this out in a few days, our entire conference is going to suffer. Bad talks is the death blow to an event like ours and we have to take all steps to keep the quality high. The main way to do it is to give people time to submit stuff and to review the submissions seriously before the conference. Anand's proposals have timelines in them which are quite tight but the best we can manage right now. I can't over emphasise the need to review and get this out the door quickly and to publicise the CFP. It would be wonderful if you folks on the list can take a look see at the draft on the link above and suggest corrections. If there are typos, formatting fixes etc., it's a wiki, please go ahead and make them. For larger changes, do mail back to the list. Please take a look and mail back. We have to get this out by the week and flood the interwebs with notifications about this. This is the main part of the conf! Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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google-sponsorship update.
by स्वक्ष June 10, 2010

June 10, 2010

Hi, Quick updates: 0. Unfortunately, we were are late with our request this year as Google (in US) has already allocated their conference sponsorship budget through 2010. I've been asked to contact them regarding 2011* sponsorship later, which I will unless someone else wishes to handle this (IIRC, earlier someone on the list had volunteered to talk to their google contacts, but I cant find that thread now and http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShip, does not list anyone). IIUC, each country's Google office has a certain budget allocated per year. So if anyone has contacts in google (india) they _might_ still have budgets for 2010. 1. http://wiki.europython.eu/GoogleDiversity was something I had asked for Pycon India. Does anyone have thoughts on this? Will keep the list posted if I hear budgets for 2010 are still available. 3. I've added Pycon India to the events calendar : http://code.google.com/events/calendar/ * I assume the 2011 venue will be Chennai and wont be changed. -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com

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in.pycon.org got a new design
by Anand Chitipothu June 6, 2010

June 6, 2010

Abhishek has provided a wonderful new design for the in.pycon.org website. The design is live now. Please have a look at it and let us know your feedback. http://in.pycon.org/2010/ @abhishek thanks for your creative efforts. Anand

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Twitter updates
by Baiju M June 5, 2010

June 5, 2010

Hi All, I have added twitter updates (widget) to main page: http://in.pycon.org/2010/ BTW, our official twitter tag is #inpycon2010 Regards, Baiju M

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CFPs
by Noufal Ibrahim June 5, 2010

June 5, 2010

Hello everyone, Now that we have a venue, would it be wise to open up the CFPs? We need time and sufficient proposals if we're to improve the quality this time and so, the earlier the better. I feel that we should open up and publicise the CFP right away. Registration can come a little later (Say late July or so). What do you feel? Thanks. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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