Mailman 3 October 2013 - Inpycon

Policy Document for Partner
by vijay Nov. 19, 2013

Nov. 19, 2013

Hi All, We need to plan to create policy document for partner of PSSI and PyCon India. Am not good at this if any expert in mailing list who can create draft version to start will be great help. With Thanks Vijay

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Re: [Inpycon] Feedback for 2014 website design
by Pratyush Mittal Nov. 7, 2013

Nov. 7, 2013

On 25 October 2013 12:14, <inpycon-request(a)python.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Pratyush Mittal >> <pratyushmittal(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> I retained the parallax effect in this one as >>> y-axis mouse movement seemed to enhance the >>> anti-gravity affect. >>> >>> Another design reason of parallax was that if >>> someone stays a little longer on the website, it >>> will increase their probability of buying the >>> tickets too. >> >> I don't see much wrong with the parallax effect. But, you could try >> reducing the amount of animation, it might feel a bit better. Look at >> how subtle it is on github. > > +1 > > See this: https://github.com/not-exist-location > > Regards, > Baiju M Have made minor optimizations in animation. http://fully-faltoo.com/pycon-india-2014/ (ctrl + f5)

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video equipment for bangpypers
by me kracekumar Oct. 29, 2013

Oct. 29, 2013

Hello I am managing bangpypers meetup for quite some time, with the help of HasGeek camera we have uploaded 19 videos ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6GW05BfqWIfjFsoxJTnE4g7ddFkO5ZtG) from 24-11-2012. Unfortunately I wasn't available for last 2 months and also camera, so no video coverage. If we have funds I would request PSSI to sponsor a camera and tripod for basic video coverage during bangpypers meetup. Right now we have elvis and me as coordinators who can take charge to video coverage. If any one interested to take care of video coverage, I will be glad to help. -- Regards Kracekumar http://kracekumar.com

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Re: [Inpycon] Feedback for 2014 website design
by Pratyush Mittal Oct. 25, 2013

Oct. 25, 2013

Thanks everyone for the feedback. > From: Jaidev Deshpande <deshpande.jaidev at gmail.com> > > I really like the color scheme, but I sincerely > hope that the picture of the levitating Fakir is > just a placeholder. I think it's very > stereotypical and inapproproate. That is an important point Jaidev, and I missed looking it that way. I designed it as a monk and a geek who finds his "zen" in Python. But I agree that it can be easily mis-interpreted and can even hurt someone. > From: Devi <asldevi at gmail.com> > > Going with "import antigravity" is a good idea > but not with the fakir, I guess. > > One more thing - if your learning about parallax > effect is done, that could be removed. > I retained the parallax effect in this one as y-axis mouse movement seemed to enhance the anti-gravity affect. Another design reason of parallax was that if someone stays a little longer on the website, it will increase their probability of buying the tickets too. > From: Mitesh Ashar <email at miteshashar.com> > > The creative doesn’t show up well on 1080p, as > it’s width is inadequate. Hence, it will not > show up properly on Retina displays too which > are even higher resolution than 1080p. So, > >1080p get excluded in this design . Hi Mitesh, since these are vector graphics, these can be easily enlarged to *any* size. Retina displays is very easily doable with multiple stylesheets and export of graphics at different resolutions. This was just a quick prototype and I was able to test it only on my desktop (1366x768). Thanks again for the feedbacks. Pratyush

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Re: [Inpycon] Feedback for 2014 website design
by Pratyush Mittal Oct. 25, 2013

Oct. 25, 2013

Hi guys, I have made another attempt on the artwork. Demo: http://fully-faltoo.com/pycon-india-2014/ Source: https://github.com/pratyushmittal/pycon-india-2014 [You might need to do Ctrl + F5 to clear cache and reload artwork]. Have tested only on chrome and desktop.

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Re: [Inpycon] Feedback for 2014 website design
by Pratyush Mittal Oct. 24, 2013

Oct. 24, 2013

> From: Ramdas S <ramdaz(a)gmail.com> > > Interesting to see that Steve Ballmer is > speaking at next Pycon :) . Hahaha, at 3AM, with some placeholder image required for the keynote speakers, this was the only thing that I could come up with :). > With some improvements on the theme and > idea of the artwork, we can > potentially have a winner. Yeah, I agree that a lot is to be improved upon. I have added the artwork in the project: https://github.com/pratyushmittal/pycon-india-2014 > From: Thava Alagu thavamuni at gmail.com > > Agree. Good work for an initial version, > good potential but still > potentially requires lot more work too. > Good example of very professional one for a > conference that I recently > came across: > http://productconclave.nasscom.in/ > > Impressive, professional, and fairly > responsive design too. something > of that class can be great > if we can pull it off. Thanks Thava for the appreciation and for providing the nasscom link. It indeed looks much more professional. PyCon and DjangoCon pages that I came across (example us.pycon.org and djangocon.eu), tend to be more casual. I thought that it was intentinal and meant that way. I too designed on similar lines (though I agree that the animation might be over-kill).

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Re: [Inpycon] Feedback for 2014 website design
by Pratyush Mittal Oct. 24, 2013

Oct. 24, 2013

Thanks a lot everyone for the feedback. > From: Baiju M <baiju.m.mail(a)gmail.com> > > This is a great design ! > > The movement of the picture is really required ? Thanks Baiju for the appreciation. Since I was drawing the artwork from scratch, I thought that parallax effect might be an interesting concept to experiment with and learn about. This library got me extremely excited: http://wagerfield.github.io/parallax/ In this the parallax effect will also work on mobile devices based on motion. I agree, that for the a simple conference page, it can be overkill. > From: atul jha <koolhead17(a)gmail.com> > > Good work Pratyush. Thank Atul. > From: Noufal Ibrahim <noufal(a)nibrahim.net.in> > I'm not a design expert so my comments are > to be taken with a few bags > of salt. > > It looks very nice but it's very generic. > Like a stock theme. There's no > Python/conference specific stuff in there. Thanks Nouful for the honest feedback. I agree that it looks mostly generic as it was a quick prototype. For navigation and sections, I mostly copied the code from the previous years and other pycon conference pages. Vijay suggested to primarily focus on the basic theme (the artwork) to see if the thing can be worked out. > From: Vaikuntham Jagannath <vjagannath09(a)gmail.com> > > The design looks nice.But the navigation > can be improved.For Eg: Once i > click on Sponsors, there is no intuitive way > to go back up. That is a good idea Vaikuntham. Recently saw a good design where double clicking on background takes to the top. I will try to implement that effect in next few commits. Thank Vaikuntham for the appreciation. > From: Tarashish Mishra <sunu0000(a)gmail.com> > > Visited the site on a nexus 7. The site > does not have a perfectly > responsive design. Hi Tarashish, yeah, the design is not responsive yet. There are no grids, bootstrap or multiple css. I was working on a quick prototype and this is hardly 100 lines of css. I am sure with the support of volunteers, we can even get it kicking on IE6 :). [Provided we like the design itself] > From: Bibhas Ch Debnath <me(a)bibhas.in> > > Agree with Noufal. When there is an artwork > on the website, it needs to be > greatly related to the subject. Hi Bibhas, thanks for the support and feedback. I have added the artwork file (inkscape svg) to the package: https://github.com/pratyushmittal/pycon-india-2014 I will confess that I am really bad at illustrations, but can make "inspired" stuff from given designs. So if you can provide a link to few good artworks and designs, I will to squees some ideas out of them :). > Using css3 effects are dazzling, but > unrelated here. And I'd make few changes in > the structure of the site. The boilerplate > used is too generic, there > could be better use of the empty spaces. > Plus not responsive. Yeah, I agree. Have answered few of them in above replies. [Basically was a quick prototype, and parallax experiment motivated me into this. It can be done away with to make the website simpler and faster]. > This can work after few iterations. If > possible I'd like to stay in the loop. Sure Bibhas, that would be awesome. It is a brilliant project and has already tought me a lot of things including parallax working, github gh-pages, a lot of inkscape, some vector magic etc. Thanks again everyone.

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Feedback for 2014 website design
by vijay kumar Oct. 24, 2013

Oct. 24, 2013

Hi All, Request alll to provide feedback on the website http://fully-faltoo.com/pycon-india-2014/ design for 2014. This work is done by volunteer(Pratyush mittal). -- Thanks, Vijay

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Re: [Inpycon] PyCon India Website for 2014
by Pratyush Mittal Oct. 23, 2013

Oct. 23, 2013

I have tried to prepare a quick draft design: https://github.com/pratyushmittal/pycon-india-2014/archive/master.zip Please let me know if it meets the standards. Have currently tested only on Chrome and desktop. Can work and improve upon it further with the support of volunteers. Pratyush

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Re: [Inpycon] PyCon India Website for 2014
by Kiran Gangadharan Oct. 22, 2013

Oct. 22, 2013

Hi, I'm not a design guy, so can help out with backend work of the website. Just my 2 cents :) Cheers, Kiran Gangadharan

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