Mailman 3 May 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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Poster in college/companies
by vijay June 21, 2013

June 21, 2013

Hi, Am thinking this year we should reach out to colleges and companies to create awareness about Pycon conference. We need to create a poster and need people/ address to send out this poster to college/ companies so we reach maximum people as possible. What do you guess think? With Thanks Vijay

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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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Re: [Inpycon] Volunteer for Managing pycon India Website content
by Kiran Gangadharan June 5, 2013

June 5, 2013

Hi Anand, Vijay has asked me to seek your guidance about working with "Blog/Section" Could you please elaborate on what work needs to be done ? Thanks -- Kiran Gangadharan

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Re: [Inpycon] Social media plugins (for the website)
by Noufal Ibrahim June 1, 2013

June 1, 2013

I've CC'ed the list. Gora Mohanty <gora(a)mimirtech.com> writes: [...] > > Hi, > > Have added demos for four types of social plugins from > Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus at the top of the > staging site at http://46.137.249.216/pyconindia2013/ > > Some comments: > A: Twitter > -------------- > 1. The widget shows all tweets from @pyconindia (I could > not find a hashtag for #pyconindia) > 2. It includes a feature for tweeting to @pycondia. Have > not tested it, and maybe one of you could do that with > a real Tweet. > > B: Facebook > ------------------- > Multiple FB social plugins are listed under > https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ > Of these, I see the following as suitable for > Pycon India 2013: > 1. The Like Box (top row, right): > https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/ > This combines many FB features, including posts > on the FB brand page, facepile of users, and a Like > button. > 2. One could consider a FB Comments plugin that > allows users to interact: > https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/ > This might be placed somewhere other than on the > homepage. Please be careful while testing: A comment > will appear on the FB Pycon India page. > 3. One could also use the stand-alone FB Like button > https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ > E.g., this, a Tweet button, and the Google+ share button > could be combined in a short row for social sharing. > > C: Google+ > ----------------- > 1. Just a simple share button. > > D. Misc. > ------------ > 1. All of these are made with my personal accounts for > Twitter, and Facebook. I do not think that there is > an issue with that, and this fact should not be visible > to the end user. However, it probably makes more sense > to use official Pycon India accounts. In this case, you > would either need to set up a Twitter widget and a FB > app (I can help with these), or allow me access to the > accounts. > 2. Styling, and placement will probably need to change, > and we need to finalise which plugins to use. > > Regards, > Gora > -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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conference fee for year 2013
by vijay May 31, 2013

May 31, 2013

Hi, Lets work on the conference fee structure. Most of conference expense is food. I think it is a good idea to make people pay for their food at least. I suggest the following tiers. * Early Bird Registration - Rs. 800 * Regular Registration - Rs. 1000 * Late Registration - Rs. 1500 * At Venue - Rs. 1500 For tutorial registration we need to start once we get tutorial's finalized as we can accommodate 20 member per tutorial. We can have Rs. 1500 for tutorial. As last year i think we can cap early bird for 300 tickets and regular for 400/300 tickets. What do you think? Vijay

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Re: [Inpycon] Inpycon Digest, Vol 47, Issue 21
by shreelola hegde May 31, 2013

May 31, 2013

Hi,I want to be volunteer for the pycon india conference.Please do inform me about student works. -- Best Regards * Shreelola hegde* * CSE student* *6th sem* *BMS Institute of technology* *ph:8762330023*

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CFP proposed Dates
by vijay May 28, 2013

May 28, 2013

Hi, Lets discuss this CFP dates as soon as possible, so that Anand Chitipothu or ramki can send out the CFP by June 3 2013. Also, any changes to the CFP are also welcome. - Call for proposals opens: June 3, 2013 - Proposal submission deadline: July 15, 2013 - Proposal acceptance: July 25, 2013 - First presentation upload: August 15, 2013 - Final presentation upload (with changes if any): August 20, 2013 With Thanks Vijay

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Re: [Inpycon] Volunteer for Managing pycon India Website content
by Navin Pai May 26, 2013

May 26, 2013

Crossposting from bangpypers... Another volunteer here. Have experience working on frontend as well as backend (but I guess backend wouldn't play much of a role here considering we'll be using Hasgeek for the CFP). Would love to help in any way possible :)

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Re: [Inpycon] [OFF-TOPIC] New PSF member
by Navin Pai May 26, 2013

May 26, 2013

Congratulations Kushal :)

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