Mailman 3 August 2010 - Inpycon

Content distribution
by Noufal Ibrahim Sept. 20, 2010

Sept. 20, 2010

I was contacted by a person here running a startup whose business is to make CDs of video content synchronised with slides. Their plan is to make these CDs and sell them at the venue. IPSS would get a fraction of the cost. We'd be uploading the content onto blip.tv anyway so that anyone can watch it. However, people did ask last time for CDs/DVDs of the talks so that they could watch them (low b/w connections etc.) This company, if given slides and video, makes an application which presents both in a synchronised fashion that people can watch. The downside is that the app. is Windows only so the CD will be useful only to people who run Windows. I'd like opinions on this. Any comments? --

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Wingware door prizes
by Noufal Ibrahim Sept. 1, 2010

Sept. 1, 2010

Okay. Wingware has generously given us 5 free licenses which we can give as door prizes at the event. The delegates will have to drop off their tickets, we'll take a raffle draw or something at the end and give them out. Also, they've given us a generous discount on 3 OS licenses so people can purchase them at the conference. Comments? --

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[Wingware] Offer of door prizes for PyCon India 2010
by Noufal Ibrahim Aug. 30, 2010

Aug. 30, 2010

Here's a rather generous offer by WingWare. I don't use their IDE myself but what do you all think? 50% off on the licenses will still be expensive in INR I think. However, the door prizes sound swell. We could simply have a raffle draw and give out a bunch of them. --

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Google Moderator URLs for approved talks [1 of 6]
by Pranav Prakash Aug. 29, 2010

Aug. 29, 2010

Here is a list of URLs for the Google Moderator Meeting series on the talks that are accepted on InPyCon Site. The start time for asking questions is set to 25th Sept 2010 8:30AM and the deadline is 27th Sept 8:30PM 1. Into 3D with vPython - http://bit.ly/3D-vPython 2. Beyond Django 101 - http://bit.ly/BeyondDjango101 3. Freshen Your Test Cases - http://bit.ly/FreshTestCases 4. Python and newt - http://bit.ly/Python-newt 5. Dont be Afraid of Meta Classes - http://bit.ly/MetaClass 6. GeoSpatial Search framework for Python - http://bit.ly/GeoPython 7. Django Pluggables - http://bit.ly/DjangoPluggables 8. Polyform Puzzler - http://bit.ly/PolyformPuzzler 9. Semantic web programming in Python - http://bit.ly/SemanticWebPython 10. Machine learning with Python - http://bit.ly/MachineLearningPython I will be doing that for all of the rest and mailing it here. There are 60 of them :-) -- *Pranav Prakash* "This life is more than ordinary" Twitter <http://twitter.com/pranavprakash> | Blog<http://codecontrol.blogspot.com> | Google <http://www.google.com/profiles/pranny>

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T-shirt design for printing
by Noufal Ibrahim Aug. 29, 2010

Aug. 29, 2010

Hi Sree, I've uploaded the T-shirt design for the T-shirt to http://nibrahim.net.in/Pycon-t-shirt.svg Can you (and the others on the list) please take a look? It's a collarless black T-shirt. The front contains 3 cheat sheet snippets viz. Datetime strftime/strptime formatting keys, logging Formatter keys and the new string formatting mini language. I took these from the manual and from the SauceLabs "cheat mug". The back is the Escher tesselation style logo which Anand C. cooked up about a month ago which I mailed to the list. The right sleeve has the FOSSEE logo which they've provided (I've CCed Madhu here for confirmation). If there are no red flags, can you (Sree) negotiate the price and get a trial piece printed? We'll need to decide on sizes etc. so that we can get the right ones printed. Thanks --

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3 rules
by Kenneth Gonsalves Aug. 29, 2010

Aug. 29, 2010

In the context of the upcoming conference, this may be of use to the organisers: http://jendodd.com/2010/08/16/3-rules-for-running-events/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

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Re: [Inpycon] Do we need to get anything done for PyCon from NCR?
by Pranav Prakash Aug. 27, 2010

Aug. 27, 2010

Hey Dipantu, If you happen to be in Gurgaon on or after Aug 30 (Monday), let me know. We can meetup and discuss more on PyCon and other things. -- *Pranav Prakash* +91-9717246183 "This life is more than ordinary" Twitter <http://twitter.com/pranavprakash> | Blog<http://codecontrol.blogspot.com> | Google <http://www.google.com/profiles/pranny>

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Do we need to get anything done for PyCon from NCR?
by Diptanu Choudhury Aug. 27, 2010

Aug. 27, 2010

Hi, I am going to be in the NCR region for the next couple of months. Do we need anything done for PyCon from NCR? Especially with regards to publicity? I was thinking to go to a few local colleges around this place and put up the PyCon posters! Do you guys think it would help to spread the word? All suggestions are welcome. -- Thanks, Diptanu Choudhury Consultant, ThoughtWorks India Mobile - +91 9686602153 Web - www.linkedin.com/in/diptanu

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Volunteers needed!
by Noufal Ibrahim Aug. 25, 2010

Aug. 25, 2010

Hello everyone, This years conference has shaped up well so far. We've got a foreign keynote speaker, our financials are sound, we have our own bank account, we have a terrific line up of talks and there's really nothing to complain about. Anand P. should be sending out the talk confirmation mails and announcing it on the list/site in a day. We've reached the last mile and there are few things that still need to be done for which we need volunteers to coordinate the efforts. These are. - T-shirts The designs are finalised (although an SVG/PNG of the material needs to be made). I have some references for T-shirt printers and I'm sure there will be more suggestions on the list. Someone should take charge and get this done. We'll need a sample t-shirt to review before we print the whole lot otherwise, we might have reappy embarassing situations. - A/V (recording of talks). I've got references to a person from some of the organisers of RubyConf India 2010. Someone needs to contact them, discuss rates and requirements and finalise it. - Food. This can be done a little later but someone needs to take charge. The above points are the only things left as far as I can tell before the conference. Once they're done, we can sit back and enjoy the conference. Please mail me if you can pick up any of the items above. There's some nasty fever making the rounds in Bangalore and it's visited me. I can't stare at a monitor for too long so I can't pick up any of these by myself. Thanks --

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List of talks
by Pranav Prakash Aug. 24, 2010

Aug. 24, 2010

Hey, I was looking if we could get the list of finalised talks on the website or somewhere. I need them, so that i can create the google moderator Q-n-A series on the talks, create a short URL for them and tell the authors to include them in their talks, as well as educate/clear the doubts of the authors in that manner. -- *Pranav Prakash* "This life is more than ordinary" Twitter <http://twitter.com/pranavprakash> | Blog<http://codecontrol.blogspot.com> | Google <http://www.google.com/profiles/pranny>

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