Mailman 3 June 2010 - Inpycon

Page for Venue
by Baiju M June 5, 2010

June 5, 2010

Hi, FYI, I have created page for venue and linked from main page: http://in.pycon.org/2010/venue Regards, Baiju M

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Venue booked!
by Noufal Ibrahim June 4, 2010

June 4, 2010

Gentlemen! I bring glad tidings. Sree and I spoke to the principal at MSRIT today and we've formally booked the venue. They're going to send us a formal letter in a day or two. So, we have a venue. Time to update the site.! -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB
by Noufal Ibrahim June 3, 2010

June 3, 2010

I've been in touch with Prabhu from IITB about getting some sponsorships. This was the email which I last received. Some of the points would affect the way we structure things so I think we need to have a discussion. What do you guys feel? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prabhu Ramachandran Date: Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:22 AM Subject: Re: Sponsorships from IITB To: Noufal Ibrahim Cc: Hi, On Tuesday 27 April 2010 09:47 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > We've started work on this years PyCon and are currently working on > the sponsorship drive. > > I remember you mentioned a possibility of getting some sponsorship > for the conference from IITB. Being a govt. thing, I imagine it will > take a while but do you think it will be possible to start some > threads to see if something turns up? It'd definitely help the > conference a lot. The estimate of the budget is at > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/BudgetEstimates and the > overall sponsorship plans are at > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShip. They're > subject to change but not dramatically so. 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: 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. 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. 3. Allow us to conduct a tutorial track for science and engineering streams. 4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and allow us to setup a small stall. Judging by your current budget I think you might not need to contact Enthought and I am not sure it will help much since Enthought is a really small company and I am not sure they will be in a position to do much given that they are doing most of the work for SciPy2010 this year. cheers, prabhu -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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