Mailman 3 November 2017 - Inpycon

Sponsorship for PyCon India 2018
by Sayan Chowdhury March 11, 2018

March 11, 2018

Hi All, As the discussion for the venue is in progress. Let's kick off the discussion of the sponsorship. During the F2F discussion in last meeting, this is the sponsorship slab: - We would continue to have Platinum, Gold, Silver and Associate. - We plan to introduce two new slabs this year, Diamond and Kids sponsor. Here is the slab that was discussed during the meeting 1. Diamond - 10L 2. Platinum - 7L 3. Gold - 5L 4. Silver 3L 5. Kids - 2.5L 6. Associate - 1L - The Diamond sponsor would have a bunch of more facilitates, a sponsored talk which would get more attention, maybe in the main hall(but we need to discuss on this on more). - Kids Workshop sponsorship would be good to have in-kind but I don't think we should be restricted to that. But this sponsorship would drive the Kids Workshop and the hardware and other stuffs needed for driving the event. Comment with your thoughts on this sponsorship slabs or add points into the sponsorship slab/brochure. -- Sayan Chowdhury <https://sayanchowdhury.dgplug.org/> Senior Software Engineer, Fedora Engineering - Emerging Platform GPG Fingerprint : 0F16 E841 E517 225C 7D13 AB3C B023 9931 9CD0 5C8B Proud to work at The Open Organization!

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Venue for PyCon India 2018
by vijay kumar Dec. 5, 2017

Dec. 5, 2017

Hi All, During our last F2F meeting , we spoke on different venue available to host PyCon India 2018. Below is list 1) NIHMANS(One of the volunteer infomred it's not available sept month) 2) BIEC: 3) Palace ground 4) MLR white field 5) College(Chirst college) BIEC: Biec is the place where lot of big conferences are happening in bangalore. ( http://www.biec.in/capacity_chart_confrence) BIEC's convention centre provide multipe halls of capacity (1400,700,250,100) It also has few other smaller halls that can used as per need. Cost of BIEC convention centre is 4.5 L per day. (Apart from setup cost(chairs, internet, and other things)) They even have multiple expo halls with 2500 + people capacity. Each expo hall will cost us around 8 Lakh per day. If we plan to go with BIEC, we surely need to raise our registation fee to minimum 3,000 - 3,500 rupee per head and find more sponsors. Do share thoughts? Note: Few volunteers have plan to visit BIEC this week. (Tentative thursday evening 4PM as manager is avaiable only on that day)

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Copyright violation of PyCon India website by blockchain 2017 conference organizer
by vijay kumar Nov. 30, 2017

Nov. 30, 2017

Hi All, I just noticed that blockchain 2017 conference team have copied PyCon India 2016 code, logo and design without consulting and confirming with PyCon India community or PSSI. Just the color, content and logo is changed. Referecne: http://blockchaincon.io PyCon India 2016 website :https://in.pycon.org/2016/ The copyrights of this website design lies with PyCon India and PSSI which is clearly mentioned in our website. Also we have paid for a vendor to get this designed. Is it right for them to do so? How should we handle this now and also stop this from happening going forward? -- Thanks, Vijay

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PyCon India 2018 volunteer meeting on 30th Nov 2017
by chandan kumar Nov. 30, 2017

Nov. 30, 2017

Hello, >From the PyCon India mailing list threads, the planning for PyCon India 2018 has already started. We are tentatively planning to do PyCOn India durng August last week hence we need to speed to speed up the things. We are planning to have a video call on 30th Nov 2017 i.e. on Thursday at 8.00 P.M. IST to 9.00 P.M. IST. Here is the video call link: https://redhat.bluejeans.com/1571313919/ Agenda: * Finalizing venue and dates. * Progress on ongoing tasks 1) Website 2) Sponsorship 3) Kids track Feel free to add any other agenda I missed. Anyone can join the meeting. -- Thanks, Chandan Kumar

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Website Update
by Akshay Aradhya Nov. 27, 2017

Nov. 27, 2017

Here is the first basic version of the website hosted on github using gh-pages. https://pythonindia.github.io/inpycon2018/ As you can see we someone to design a few assets/images for the page. Examples : https://in.pycon.org/2015/images/pycon2015.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pythonindia/inpycon14/ master/static/images/header_illustration.png raw.githubusercontent.com/pythonindia/inpycon14/master/ static/images/footer_coder_illustration.png The website is not fully responsive yet. But that is not a problem,we will just have to write a few more media queries. Also we will need someone to write some content for the landing page in the 3 paragraphs. Preferably someone who has been to a PyCon India. If you are interested in improving the website reply to this thread, ill probably add you to the github repo. You will need to know bootstrap 4 and CSS 3 Flexbox. -- $Akshay Aradhya$

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Logo Design and Design Assets
by Akshay Aradhya Nov. 26, 2017

Nov. 26, 2017

Hi Eveyone, If you are a designer or know any good designer who is willing to contribute to PyCon India 2018, please ask him or her to join this mailing list. *Requirments :* - Any Vector based Image editing Program (Illustrator, Inkscape) We shall be sticking with the Blue/Green theme for this year's PyCon. Some of them have suggested that this year's Logo should contain/portray the following elements - 10 years - Unity - Bangalore - Python Also please note that anyone designing the official logo cannot alter the Python Logo or make any changes to it, unless it is completely different derived version of it. *Example of Derived Logo *: - http://cn.pycon.org/2014/ Also we will need help in designing other design assets for the website and Conference, like ID tags, cards, posters, banners, etc. *Examples :* - https://in.pycon.org/2015/images/footerbg.png - https://in.pycon.org/2015/images/pycon2015.png <https://in.pycon.org/2015/images/pycon2015.png> - https://cdn.explara.com/image1020170725165651.png I shall start with the website design in parallel and post the link to the Github repo soon. Regards Akshay Aradhya

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Summary of the PyCon India 2018 Planning Meeting - November 18, 2017
by Sayan Chowdhury Nov. 23, 2017

Nov. 23, 2017

Hi, Last Saturday, we had a planning meeting for PyCon India 2018. Here are the things that were discussed: * Conference Days - We discussed about having the Python for Kids running in parallel to the conference. And increasing the number of conference days to 3. This depends on the team that is evaluating the Python for Kids program. The benefit of having the Python for Kids in parallel to the event is that the Kids can understand the community around it, how people use the stuff they are learning, and also the community can interact with the kids. * Venue - We would be visiting the BIEC today. Vijay has started a thread on the same. If you plan to visit, reply to the thread. - We will also look into the Christ College auditorium, if it fits our needs. * Website - Akshay has shared a few designs of logo on the website and is right now working on the website design. - We might deploy a initial version of the website on Dec 1 and then reiterate over it. * Sponsorship - We discussed on the sponsorship slabs. I will drop a separate thread to discuss the sponsorship slab. * Internet - Reach out to Google, ACT, Tikona for in-kind network sponsors. * Startup Row - Vijay to start a thread on having Startup Row at PyCon India * Reviving having poster presentation again. * Sayan to start a thread on IRC meeting time. * Community space - Promote open source core/regular upstream developers to showcase their project in the space. -- Sayan Chowdhury <https://sayanchowdhury.dgplug.org/> Senior Software Engineer, Fedora Engineering - Emerging Platform GPG Fingerprint : 0F16 E841 E517 225C 7D13 AB3C B023 9931 9CD0 5C8B Proud to work at The Open Organization!

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[X-post] Python for kids track in PyCon India 2018
by vijay kumar Nov. 21, 2017

Nov. 21, 2017

Hi All, Thanks for extending your support for python for kids initiative. In the last F2F meeting with PyCon India volunteers, we discussed on Python for kids track and below are the pointers. 1. Provide free passes for kids. 2. Accommodate 100 - 150 kids. 3. Should not be restricted to Python programming alone but welcome all open source technologies. 4. Make this a parallel track to conference which provides students an opportunity to interact with professionals. 5. To get hardwares necessary to teach kids, we might have to look for sponsors. 6. Cover the travel cost for kids and a mentor/parent per kids if logistics permits. The next steps is to create teams as below: 1. Co-ordinators 2. Mentors *Role of Coordinators:* 1. Connect with schools to create awareness on python for kids track in PyCon India 2018. 2. Communicate with school co-ordinator to identify what works better for school kids and share the inputs with mentors. 3. Send a formal invitation to schools if required. 4. Work with school coordinators to plan the logistics. 5. Closely work with PyCon India organisers and mentors to take care of the ground work required at the venue. *Role of Mentors:* 1. Mentoring kids and working closely with them. 2. Work with peer mentors to come up with detailed plan for Python for kids track. 3. Work with coordinators to understand the requirement and feedback from schools. 4. Work with PyCon organisers for ground work at the venue. As we all know that this is the first time we are planning for Python for Kids track, we call for mentors who has experience in teaching programming to kids. And also looking for support in planning and executing the event. Request interested people to fill in the below forms to help us connect with you. *Coordinator* : http://bit.ly/python-kids-coordinator *Mentor*: http://bit.ly/python-kids-mentors -- Thanks, Vijay

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Re: [Inpycon] Looking for people with good writing skills
by Farhaan Bukhsh Nov. 21, 2017

Nov. 21, 2017

Hello People, As discussed in the meeting we are looking for people who got good writing skills, this will be really helpful when we start rolling out blogs and making social media posts. We will be forming a team which would take care of that so in case you are interested and want to be a part of the team do drop a mail to this thread. -- Farhaan Bukhsh Blog: https://farhaanbukhsh.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @fhackdroid IRC: fhackdroid on freenode

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Extra Ticket for PyCon India
by Soumyo Dey Nov. 20, 2017

Nov. 20, 2017

Hey Guys, I have an extra ticket for pyCon India 2017 Conf. If someone is interested, I can arrange a transfer at usual price. Regards, Soumyo Dey

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