Mailman 3 April 2018 - Inpycon

PyCon India Social Media Access
by Sanchit Balchandani Nov. 29, 2018

Nov. 29, 2018

Hi Vijay, As requested, I here by confirm that I and Chirag(copied) have got access for PyCon India social media accounts (i.e. Twitter & Facebook). Note - At the moment in social media workgroup, only I have editor access to PyCon India Facebook page. So to avoid dependency later I'd request few more guys to be added as well. Thanks, Sanchit

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Duration of talks
by Anand Chitipothu May 1, 2018

May 1, 2018

Hello everyone, We have had talk duration as 45 minutes (40 minutes + 5 mins for Q/A and switch over) for historical reasons. Here is how the other conferences are doing: PyCon UK - 25 minutes PyCon AU - 30 minutes EuroPython - 30, 45 and 60 minutes US PyCon - 30 and 40 minutes PyCon DE - 30 and 45 minutes At the CFP workgroup, we thought it might be a good idea to reduce the duration of the talk to 30 minutes, including Q&A and switch over. It forces the speaker, to think deeper, organize better, to stay focused on the topic and cut down the material that is not essential. We discussed about the possibility of having both short and long talks, but adds additional burden on CFP team as that is the an additional parameter to consider and tune when selecting the talks. I think it improves the overall talk quality and also provides room for more talks. What do you think? Anand

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Mentoring Speakers
by Anand Chitipothu May 1, 2018

May 1, 2018

Hello Everyone, At the CFP workgroup, we've been discussing how to raise the quality of talks while encouraging new speakers. Looking around we found that our friends at PyCon AU[1] and PyOhio[2] have been providing mentorship support speakers in proposing, preparing, or presenting the talk. A mentor will be an experienced speaker who is interested to help other speakers. If you see, it is really a nice thing. It encourages the first-time speakers to come forward as they have someone to guide them, increases diversity (assuming we find diverse mentors) and improves the overall talk quality. In addition to all this, it creates stronger bonds between people in the community. The plan is that the CFP team will come up with an initial list of mentors and asks the group for more suggestions. We are still debating about how will the potential speakers pick mentors. We have been discussing about three possible options. We will have pick one or more of those options. 1. Publish a list of mentors and let potential speakers contacts them directly 2. Have a google form and we moderate it 3. Have a public IRC/Slack channel to comminucate Do you think it is a good idea? Any comments or suggestions? [1]: http://2018.pycon-au.org/speak/#mentors [2]: https://www.pyohio.org/2018/program/call-for-proposals Anand

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CFP/Sessions workgroup | Meeting minutes 20180426
by Ramanathan Ramakrishnamoorthy April 26, 2018

April 26, 2018

Attendees : Jaidev, Anand C, Vijay Kumar, TK Sourabh, Divya, Mani, Ram. 1. Contents of the CFP announcement was discussed. - Anand C will take a lead on this. He will circulate a first cut of it for review within the workgroup by April 27th. This will be reviewed by the group and will be passed on to the website and social media team for the announcement by April 29th. 2. The dates for the CFP process was discussed and agreed upon. - Open May 1st - Close July 1st - 1st round decision by July 22nd - Final round decision August 12th - Publish the schedule on the website by September 1st - Workshops to be finalized by July 22nd so that ticket sales for workshops can begin late July. 3. Dev sprint details need to finalized. This will be one point of discussion in the next couple of weeks. 4. Discussion for the fourth Keynote speaker happened. - Two names have come up. 1. Sidu Ponnappa 2. Dhananjay Nene - A discussion will happen on the inpycon mailing list to take suggestions. The final decision will be done next week. 5. Each Keynote speaker will be tagged with a POC. The POC will work closely with the keynote speaker for correspondence. Ram from the local logistics team will be involved in working out the travel and accommodation arrangements. The following are the POCs for each Keynote speakers - Travis Oliphant - Anand C - Armin Ronacher - Jaidev - Carol Willing - Divya 6. There was a brief discussion about honorarium for workshop speakers. The decision will be taken at a later point based on the budget availability. 7. There was a brief discussion about the selection process. This will be the primary topic of discussion for the next week. 8. Vijay suggested moving to Skype for the future meetings. From next week, the meeting will happen on Skype. Regards, Ramanathan

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Re: [Inpycon] Looking for accommodation at PyCon 2018 Hyderabad
by Renjith s.raj April 26, 2018

April 26, 2018

The accommodation and other personal related chats you can do with PM mail, i feel its irritating. ________________________________ From: Inpycon <inpycon-bounces+renjithsraj=live.com(a)python.org> on behalf of Aakanksha Jain <aakanksha.jain8(a)gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 9:34 PM To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference Subject: Re: [Inpycon] Looking for accommodation at PyCon 2018 Hyderabad Accommodation is not something managed by PyCon (correct me if I'm wrong), although they do suggest some hotels nearby. I've attended PyCon once before, in 2017. ( in Delhi). Once the tickets are out, we'll discuss this personally! I'll mail you or vice versa. On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Nikita Rana <nikitarana1497(a)gmail.com<mailto:nikitarana1497@gmail.com>> wrote: Hey! Akansha Sure sure do inform me when you have decided. Also, are you an experienced attendee in this conference. Because seriously, I have no clue how the shared accommodation thing for pycon is organised. Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Aakanksha Jain<mailto:aakanksha.jain8@gmail.com> Sent: 24 April 2018 09:13 PM To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference<mailto:inpycon@python.org> Subject: Re: [Inpycon] Looking for accommodation at PyCon 2018 Hyderabad hi Nikita, I'm not sure as of now, whether I'll come or not, but its like 90% I will, I mostly won't have any other female friend also with me, maybe we can share accommodation. On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:46 PM, Nikita Rana <nikitarana1497(a)gmail.com<mailto:nikitarana1497@gmail.com>> wrote: I am a student and this shall be my first time attending PyCon Conference. I am currently looking for accommodation arrangement during the 5 days of the conference. I do not know the procedure and request the moderators to publish the procedure for applying for the accommodation with the fellow female attendees. Thanking you Nikita Rana _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon(a)python.org<mailto:Inpycon@python.org> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon(a)python.org<mailto:Inpycon@python.org> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon

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Re: [Inpycon] Looking for accommodation at PyCon 2018 Hyderabad
by Gaurav Singh April 26, 2018

April 26, 2018

Hi Everyone, I am very new to the group and just wanted to know if any idea about the price of the tickets for this conference and also if any agenda is released for the event. Thanks in advance!! *Thanks Gaurav Singh* > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Aakanksha Jain <aakanksha.jain8(a)gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:02 AM > Subject: Re: [Inpycon] Looking for accommodation at PyCon 2018 Hyderabad > To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon(a)python.org> > > > Yes this is why told her I'll mail her in person. :) > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Renjith s.raj <renjithsraj(a)live.com> > wrote: > >> The accommodation and other personal related chats you can do with PM >> mail, i feel its irritating. >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Inpycon <inpycon-bounces+renjithsraj=live.com(a)python.org> on >> behalf of Aakanksha Jain <aakanksha.jain8(a)gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 24, 2018 9:34 PM >> *To:* Mailing list for the PyCon India conference >> *Subject:* Re: [Inpycon] Looking for accommodation at PyCon 2018 >> Hyderabad >> >> Accommodation is not something managed by PyCon (correct me if I'm >> wrong), although they do suggest some hotels nearby. >> I've attended PyCon once before, in 2017. ( in Delhi). >> Once the tickets are out, we'll discuss this personally! I'll mail you or >> vice versa. >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Nikita Rana <nikitarana1497(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hey! Akansha >> >> Sure sure do inform me when you have decided. Also, are you an >> experienced attendee in this conference. Because seriously, I have no clue >> how the shared accommodation thing for pycon is organised. >> >> >> >> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >> Windows 10 >> >> >> >> *From: *Aakanksha Jain <aakanksha.jain8(a)gmail.com> >> *Sent: *24 April 2018 09:13 PM >> *To: *Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon(a)python.org> >> *Subject: *Re: [Inpycon] Looking for accommodation at PyCon 2018 >> Hyderabad >> >> >> >> hi Nikita, >> I'm not sure as of now, whether I'll come or not, but its like 90% I >> will, I mostly won't have any other female friend also with me, maybe we >> can share accommodation. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:46 PM, Nikita Rana <nikitarana1497(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I am a student and this shall be my first time attending PyCon >> Conference. I am currently looking for accommodation arrangement during the >> 5 days of the conference. I do not know the procedure and request the >> moderators to publish the procedure for applying for the accommodation with >> the fellow female attendees. >> >> Thanking you >> >> Nikita Rana >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon(a)python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon(a)python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon(a)python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon(a)python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > > > > Disclaimer: > The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are > intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email > by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the > contents to anyone or make copies thereof.

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Looking for accommodation at PyCon 2018 Hyderabad
by Nikita Rana April 24, 2018

April 24, 2018

I am a student and this shall be my first time attending PyCon Conference. I am currently looking for accommodation arrangement during the 5 days of the conference. I do not know the procedure and request the moderators to publish the procedure for applying for the accommodation with the fellow female attendees. Thanking you Nikita Rana

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Sponsorship workgroup Meeting minutes | 20180417
by Chirag Choudhary April 24, 2018

April 24, 2018

Hello Everybody The first sponsorship workgroup meeting started on Tuesday, April 17th. Attendees: Mani, Sree, Peeyush, Chirag Below are the important changes proposed by the workgroup: - Replacement of associate sponsor with a Startup sponsorship with the following changes: - Reduce no of free tickets to 3 - Having a price of 25k - Startup Visibility options: - Giving a small stall for half a day - Lightning talk like startup talks session with each startup getting, say 3-5 minutes. - Startup definition: The company should be registered less than 3 years ago with not more than 10 employees. - Silver category to also have a startup discount of 50% - Having a community champion/donor ticket with a cost of 7.5k with access to workshop & conference The workgroupWorkgroup is expectingthe last set of major changes in the brochure fromthe discussion on the above items, which is expected to close in the next few days. Here is the brochure for reference: https://in.pycon.org/2018/sponsorship_prospectus.pdf Looking forward to your valuable inputs. Regard *s* *Chirag*

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CFP/Session workgroup Meeting minutes | 20180419
by Ramanathan Ramakrishnamoorthy April 23, 2018

April 23, 2018

Attendees: Vijaykumar, Anand C, Jaidev, Nithin, Chirag, TK Sourabh, Ramanathan. 1. A discussion was done on the topics for the CFP opening. It was agreed to go ahead with the topics that were used in the last year. Tracks will be finalized based on the proposals received. 2. Talk selection criteria - Based on the talk selection committee's discretion, also by taking public votes as a dimension. A discussion on encouraging first time speakers was done - the first time speaker could be mentored as required. Relevance, Clarity, and Potential of the talk would be some important parameters of evaluation. 3. A brief discussion on stage time for Gold, Silver and startup sponsors was considered. The CFP WG will consider the feasibility of this alongside ensuring proper timing of these (if decided to be done). 4. The platinum sponsors get a sponsored talk time. The exact hall details of this need to be fleshed out in the future meetings. 5. CFP will be opened this week. It will be announced there might be more information shared in next 2-3 weeks about the fine print of selection process, Guidelines, etc,. P.S: Apologies - I got a little busy over the weekend and hence the delay in sending meeting minutes. Regards, Ramanathan.

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Re: [Inpycon] Accordian style FAQ page Design
by Ananyo Maiti April 18, 2018

April 18, 2018

Thanks everyone for your feedback. Will keep using the existing page as per suggestion. ᐧ On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 9:37 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <noufal(a)nibrahim.net.in> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15 2018, Ananyo Maiti wrote: > > > Hi all, There is redesign of FAQ page with accordian style at > > https://in.pycon.org/2018/faq-new.html . I would like to have > > everyone's feedback on the design. If it looks good we will replace > > the existing FAQ page with the newly designed page. > > I think the old one is decent enough. > > [...] > > > -- > Cordially, > Noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in >

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