Mailman 3 January 2012 - Inpycon

PyCon 2012: Venue?
by Navin Kabra March 18, 2012

March 18, 2012

Hi All, Any strong feelings about the venue for PyCon 2012. Basically, should we repeat the same venue or try for another one? The Pros and Cons for last year's venue (Symbiosis Vishwabhavan + Symbiosis Law College) are: Cons: - Infrastructure is a little old and inadequate - especially the power points - 2nd and 3rd hall are smaller than what we would ideally like (especially for tutorial days) Pros: - Free - Centrally Located - With Prof. Harshad Gune part of the PyCon organizing team, it becomes very easy to get things done in this venue. (This advantage is shared by a few other Symbiosis venues in Pune, but not all) - We know this venue - what works, what doesn't. Minimal energy will be spent on most venue related matters, and we can focus on things like speaker/talk quality, getting good wi-fi, sponsorships etc. For any other venue, there will be a new learning curve involved. Please respond to this thread with your thoughts. My personal feeling is that we should use the same venue - its the devil we know... navin.

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PyCon 2012: Sponsorships Guidelines
by Navin Kabra March 6, 2012

March 6, 2012

Hi All, Do we want to make any changes to the way we do sponsorships for PyCon? I believe Dhananjay and Noufal have already indicated that they have a bunch of suggested changes in mind - can you please (re-)post your thoughts and that can serve as the starting point for the discussion. Others please jump in your thoughts. navin.

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Pycon US 2012 sponsorship Closure
by Anand Balachandran Pillai Jan. 12, 2012

Jan. 12, 2012

This is pretty amazing - 94 sponsors! http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/01/pycon-2012-close-of-sponsorship.html -- --Anand

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Pycon 2012 Milestones and Due Dates
by Navin Kabra Jan. 9, 2012

Jan. 9, 2012

Hi All, As the first step towards planning PyCon 2012, here is a rough list of milestones and dates I have drawn up. This is just a starting point. Please suggest additions and modifications. The following is with mid-September as the tentative date for PyCon - Discuss and take decisions on any major changes to any aspect of PyCon: End Jan - Tentative decisions on date + venue - Mid Feb - Finalize Venue and Date - End Feb - Get website ready - Mid March - CFP - End March - Open Online Registrations - End March (why not!) - Create Budget v1 - End March - Decisions and collateral needed for sponsorships - End March - Decide foreign delegate - End March - Start talking to potential wi-fi & internet bandwidth sponsors and/or vendors - End April - Start talking to potential video shooting and/or vendors - End April - Proposal Submission Deadline: End June - Proposal Acceptance Date: Mid July - Early bird registration ends: one week after Proposal Acceptance Date - Online "regular price" registration ends: one week before date of event. Let me know if this seems OK.

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Site Down: throws a 502
by kausikram krishnasayee Jan. 4, 2012

Jan. 4, 2012

just visited the PyCon India site and ended up in a 502 Bad Gateway. can the admins have a look at it please :) cheers, /kausik -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.in | Blog: blog.kausikram.in | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausikram(a)gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490

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