Mailman 3 March 2013 - Inpycon

Encouraging women developers to join PyCon
by Bibhas Ch Debnath Aug. 27, 2013

Aug. 27, 2013

Hi everyone, We have been talking about encouraging women to join PyCon and start working on python. Why not take a step towards it? How about we decrease ticket price to some amount or maybe waive it totally for them? This could bring some questions like how'd we know that the ones joining are bringing some value to the conference. Well, if more women are attending, that's already a plus. To ensure even more, we could start a program, like, ask them to create a github account, create 2-5 repo, show us and they get a free ticker. Sounds odd and silly, but this will also encourage them to start using git or any VCS. And this also shows us that those participants actually made some effort to join the conference. They are not just drove by the offer of freebies. I haven't seen many girls take up the initiative to become a developer, only couple of my college friends did. They have no one to encourage them in becoming developers. So to do that, we might have to put some extra manual effort. But it should be overall good for the community. PS: Should have put the gender field in last year's feedback form. Could get a statistic. This year will definitely do it. ---- Bibhas http://bibhas.in

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Keynote speakers
by Anand Chitipothu June 8, 2013

June 8, 2013

Hi, I think it is time to think about keynote speakers. Anand Pillai is attending US PyCon, I hope he'll be abe to speak to potential keynote speakers there if we decide whom to invite. Anybody else from bangpypers attending US PyCon? Whom should we invite? How many keynote speakers should we have? 2 or 4? Anyone from India? Please share your inputs? Anand -- Anand http://anandology.com/

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Potential sponsors
by Anand B Pillai April 16, 2013

April 16, 2013

Hi all, Myself and Ramki met with around 8-10 companies and shared contact details while we were at PyCon U.S. Many of them are potential sponsors and likely supporters. Will send more details in next few days. Those who are handling sponsorship directly please raise your hand and let me now. -- Regards, --Anand

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PyCon India 2013 Sponsorship Prospectus
by Anand Chitipothu April 12, 2013

April 12, 2013

Hi, Vijay made sponsorship prospectus for PyCon India 2013 and I made some fine tunings to it. Please have a look at it and let us know if anything is missing. http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf Changes from last year are: * sponsorship slabs are raised * 50% discount to startups * Free passes Anand -- Anand http://anandology.com/

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First Keynote Speaker
by Anand Chitipothu March 29, 2013

March 29, 2013

Hello everyone, I'm very happy announce that Kiran Jonnalagadda will be one of the keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013. Kiran needs no introduction. Most people in the group know him in person. Kiran is a long time Pythonista. He has been a very active member of Python community in India since very long time. Kiran is the founder of HasGeek, a company that runs tech conferences and creates discussion spaces for geeks. Apart from running events, HasGeek builds great open source software. PyCon India 2012 website is running on software written by them. I'm excited that Kiran agreed to be our keynote speaker. This year's conference promises to be very exciting! Anand -- Anand http://anandology.com/

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CoC and PSF support
by Noufal Ibrahim March 24, 2013

March 24, 2013

Hello everyone, This is probably a touchy subject but I think it need to be aired. The PSF earlier announced that it requires a code of conduct at all sponsored events[1]. We've been recepients of PSF money and support which has helped PyCon India substantially. At the recent PyCon, there was an incident that was a little disturbing and not something that I like. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone but the whole thing shouldn't have happened[2]. The gist of it is that someone who heard overheard some jokes being cracked by two participants of the event interpreted them to be sexual and inappropriate. She tweeted the pictures of the two men who were making the jokes and the matter was looked at the PSF and resolved. So far so good. However, it seems, and please remember that this *is* the internet, the act of putting pictures of the people on twitter (which is not how the PSFs policy works - they're against the public shaming thing) resulted in one of the two men, a father incidentally, losing his job. This was unfortunate. I'd definitely like to see these kinds of events become more women friendly. The last barcamp in Bangalore had a string of tweets that were quite distasteful. As someone who was taking my daughter to the event, you can guess how I felt. The CoC is a general right step in that direction but the kinds of events I've mentioned above are disturbing. The reason for this email is to start a discussion on whether we should adopt such a CoC, whether we should reword it to handle such situations and related discussions. I'm personally undecided but am brooding over the matter. What do you all feel? Thanks. Footnotes: [1] http://adainitiative.org/2012/12/python-software-foundation-publicly-announ… [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1am37v/technology_evangelist_ad… -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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PyCon India 2013 IRC meeting
by Noufal Ibrahim March 24, 2013

March 24, 2013

Can we get together for a short meeting on IRC on Freenode at 1900 on Monday (25/March)? The channel is #pythonindia (Anand, If there are any changes, please post back to this thread). Let's get the PyCon ball rolling. We've just discussed stuff. The agenda is draw out a list of things to be done, assign people and timelines and get the whole thing moving. Thanks. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Students Day at Pycon
by Abdul Muneer March 22, 2013

March 22, 2013

Hi, Seeing the success of the young coders workshop in the US Pycon 2013, I am tempted to suggest that we should have a similar event at our Pycon too. I think of something like this: If we are having 3 parallel tracks, keep one as the dedicated track. This track will have events targeted at specific groups. For example, let saturday be young coders day, Sunday be pyladies day etc. Having a dedicated day or events will attract more people and enthusiasm than similar events spread across the three days. I also feel that these dedicated events should be on the conf days as we may not be able to attract large audience on friday. If we are having young coders session, we can notify all possible schools to send their preferred students and we can give them certificates of participation. We need to plan in advance.. Regards, Abdul Muneer -- Follow me on Twitter: @abdulmuneer <http://twitter.com/#%21/abdulmuneer>

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