Mailman 3 March 2020 - Inpycon

PyCon India 2020 - The Road Ahead?
by Sayan Chowdhury April 19, 2020

April 19, 2020

Hi everyone, I'm dropping this email to discuss the road ahead for PyCon India 2020, around the current situation of COVID-19. COVID-19 was one of the first topics we discussed within the team and we're giving a close watch with its developments. We planned that we would come back to the topic later if situations worsen. The team discussed it hours before it was declared a pandemic by WHO and had a formal meeting this week. I would like the community to actively participate in this discussion thread. Problems ======== - COVID-19: The rate of spread for COVID-19 is high, and even there is no timeline to when things would get better. - Hotel Booking: Sheraton has prepared the contract and we have to send out our payment and book the venue, but the situation is quite volatile now. Paying the hotel would mean we would be locked with the venue and if things go south, then we will end up losing money. - Complete Isolation: At this point in time, it is better to stay in complete isolation, and same goes for the volunteers. - Keynote Speakers: With the current VISA situation, we cannot fly in any of the keynote speakers from outside - Sponsors: The team talked to other organizers, and the companies at the moment are refraining from sponsorships. This is not true for all companies but a fair percentage of them. - Travel, Tickets & Participation: We also fear ticket sales. Till the time things don't get better, people might be reluctant to buy tickets. - Lockdown: If things don't get better there is a possibility of lockdown which means any public gathering would be banned How are we planning to go ahead? ================================ We are planning to do some research with other options in hand, which means we won't be doing it at Sheraton. The options that we have are: - Smaller conference: We are planning to have talks with smaller venues like NIMHANS, BIC. The plan is to talk and negotiate with the cancellation. This means the expected crowd will fall down - Online conference: The other option is to have an online conference. We need to do budgeting for both the options and do some research if we go for the online conference option. The plan is we will closely monitor the situation and make the decision on which option to opt for. It would be great to have the community come forward with questions, suggestions to make PyCon India 2020 a success. -- Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 team

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Re: [Inpycon] Inpycon Digest, Vol 128, Issue 9
by Kurian Benoy March 13, 2020

March 13, 2020

> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:43:46 +0530 > From: Ananya Maiti <ananyoevo(a)gmail.com> > To: Mailing list for the PyCon India conference <inpycon(a)python.org> > Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote Speaker Suggestions for PyCon India 2020 > Message-ID: > <CA+x1+wdeW9Ca7HbtA6DohLtH7R8f1CpU7bk0QfsB1XUvRcF6Vg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hello Everyone, > > Last Thursday, we sent the proposal for PyCon India 2020 at Bangalore, > and we have already started prepping up for the conference. The date > and venue are available on the website[1] now. > > We want to start the process of selecting Keynote Speakers for PyCon > India 2020. For people new to the conference, the keynotes at PyCon > India, are inspiring talks from speakers, that leave a lasting impact > on the conference attendees. The keynote speakers also help to tip the > scales for people having second thoughts about attending the > conference. This increases participation in the conference and > enriches the overall experience of the conference. > > As indicated in the CFP MoM, we will have 4 keynote speakers. Please > send in your keynote speaker suggestion to the mailing list. Please > send in one keynote speaker suggestion per mail, containing a brief > description of the speaker or Speaker Bio-Link. If you like a speaker > suggestion, use +1 style voting to indicate a preference for a > particular keynote speaker. > > We will start approaching keynote speakers in the order of preference > within the next two weeks. > > As a gentle reminder, please do not use top-posting for the email > thread as it will be harder to follow the conversation. > > In case you want to chime in for the PyCon India 2020 discussion, you > can join the #2020/discussion stream in PyCon India Zulip[2] domain. > > [1] : https://in.pycon.org/2020/ > [2] : https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ > > Regards, > Ananya Kushal Das I propose Kushal Das[0] due to his significant contributions to free and open source communities around the world. Kushal Das is a CPython Core Developer and lone Indian serving as director of Python Software Foundation[1]. He has worked on different aspects of the standard library, including unit test and mock. He is also the author of the draft “Local Packages Directory” PEP (PEP 582) along with many other community members. Kushal has inspired a whole generation of people to contribute to upstream projects and has helped start DGPLUG and has conducted online training to get more upstream developers from India. Kushal works as a public interest technologist in non-profit called Freedom of the Press Foundation. His day job is to maintain SecureDrop[2]. SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to securely accept documents from anonymous sources. Kushal is also part of the core team of the Tor Project and a long time contributor to the Fedora Project. He has helped as a staff volunteer in Pycon US and is an active part of other conferences all over the world. Regards, Kurian Benoy [0] https://kushaldas.in/ [1] https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/history/ [2] https://securedrop.org/ [3] https://github.com/kushaldas/

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PyCon India 2020 CFP Workgroup Meet MoM - March 9th
by Kumar Anirudha March 12, 2020

March 12, 2020

Hello everyone, We had our initial discussion on talks sessions this year with regards to PyCon India 2020[1]. Here's a brief around the discussed topics (MOM) from today's call. - CFP starts *March 12th 2020*. - There will *3 parallel talk tracks*. - Talk duration is *30 mins* (25 mins for the talk, 5 mins - Q&A). - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule release. - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending with a keynote talk. - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes each and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start on March 12th. - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning and afternoon. - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required basis and will be decided closer or during the event. If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel free to share your views. If you wish to join the next workgroup discussion follow the discussion on Zulip[2] #2020/discussion stream or on IRC #pyconindia. [1]: https://in.pycon.org/2020/ [2]: pyconindia.zulip <pyconindia.zulipchat.com>chat.com Cheers, Kumar Anirudha

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Keynote Speaker Suggestions for PyCon India 2020
by Ananya Maiti March 10, 2020

March 10, 2020

Hello Everyone, Last Thursday, we sent the proposal for PyCon India 2020 at Bangalore, and we have already started prepping up for the conference. The date and venue are available on the website[1] now. We want to start the process of selecting Keynote Speakers for PyCon India 2020. For people new to the conference, the keynotes at PyCon India, are inspiring talks from speakers, that leave a lasting impact on the conference attendees. The keynote speakers also help to tip the scales for people having second thoughts about attending the conference. This increases participation in the conference and enriches the overall experience of the conference. As indicated in the CFP MoM, we will have 4 keynote speakers. Please send in your keynote speaker suggestion to the mailing list. Please send in one keynote speaker suggestion per mail, containing a brief description of the speaker or Speaker Bio-Link. If you like a speaker suggestion, use +1 style voting to indicate a preference for a particular keynote speaker. We will start approaching keynote speakers in the order of preference within the next two weeks. As a gentle reminder, please do not use top-posting for the email thread as it will be harder to follow the conversation. In case you want to chime in for the PyCon India 2020 discussion, you can join the #2020/discussion stream in PyCon India Zulip[2] domain. [1] : https://in.pycon.org/2020/ [2] : https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ Regards, Ananya

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Regarding credentials for various accounts
by Rengaraj D March 8, 2020

March 8, 2020

Hi PyCon India 2020 Team We have list of people those helped last year with ownership of accounts and their details in the github wiki[1]. For this year if you need any help reach out these people. Regards Rengaraj [1]. https://github.com/pythonindia/inpycon2019-tasks/wiki/Account-Credential-Ow…

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PyCon India 2020 volunteerolunteer Registration
by Amol Kahat March 6, 2020

March 6, 2020

Hello All, As you know PyCon India 2020 planning has started. If you are interested to volunteer please fill up the Google Form[1]. We will be connecting you with the respective Working Groups. Join the Zulip for more live discussion[2]. [1] https://forms.gle/tgxhNBMqwiPr2k1u6 [2] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/224385-2020.2Fdiscussion -- Thanks, Amol Kahat 0xFDD3BA6C832D7715

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Detailed Proposal for PyCon India 2020 in Bangalore, India
by Sayan Chowdhury March 5, 2020

March 5, 2020

Hi everyone, I am Sayan Chowdhury, from the Python community of Bangalore. Last month, Ritesh had sent an email with the proposal to host PyCon India in Bangalore. After the positive feedback from the community, we are sending this detailed proposal to host the event in Bangalore. Bangalore, the IT hub of the country, is home to a lot of Python communities and groups, namely BangPypers, PyLadies, PyData, and many more. Bangalore has also been the host of PyCon India in the past years. It's been a long time since PyCon India happened in Bangalore, and the Python community of Bangalore would like to organize the 12th edition of the event in Bangalore, India. Dates: 2nd of October 2020 to 5th of October 2020 ## Event Size & Format We will have a 4-day event. Day 1 & Day 2: Conference Days with a capacity of 1700 people (can be scaled to 2000) Day 3 & Day 4: Workshop & Dev Sprints with a total capacity of 650 people ## Team We've been able to bring in an initial team to make the event successful. The current members of the organizing team are: - Abhishek Mishra - Ananyo Maiti - Anwesha Das - Arun Teja Godavarthi - Ashish Kumar Mishra - Chandan Kumar - Farhaan Buksh - Kumar Anirudha - Nabarun Pal - Neha Kandpal - Pratik Anurag - Pradhvan Bisht - Rayan Das - Ritesh Agrawal - Sayan Chowdhury (Proposed Chair) - Shivam Singhal - Vipul Gupta The above is not an exhaustive list, and more people will be joining in. We welcome anyone and everyone to join us, especially our previous year organizers, to help us organize a great conference. ## Potential Venue We are in the process of drafting the contract with the Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Centre for the conference days. The venue has three halls: - The convention centre with a seating capacity of 2000 people, which we will be using for the main track. - Medium-sized hall with a capacity of 600 people. - Smaller hall with a capacity of 300 people. We are in talks with a couple of venues for the workshop and dev sprints. ## Communication & Planning The central communication platform for PyCon India 2020 would be Zulip and IRC. We're using the same Zulip[1] instance used last year. After login into Zulip, connect to the 2020 discussion stream[2]. The IRC channel is #pyconindia. The IRC channel is also bridged the Zulip instance. We would follow up this email with more updates as they come along. [1] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ [2] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/224385-2020.2Fdiscussion Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 team

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