Mailman 3 February 2021 - Inpycon

PyCon India 2021 Weekly Update - Week 1
by Nabarun Pal March 1, 2021

March 1, 2021

Hi everyone, Starting this week, the team is going to do asynchronous updates over the mailing list. We will be creating a new thread for each week's updates. Every Workgroup lead is expected to post their updates for this week to this thread before Friday End of Day IST. We request the community to provide us with their inputs. PS: Please remember to send plain text emails, use inclusive language in your updates/comments, and not top-post in this thread. Please read this article [1] to have a primer. Having said that, let me start with the Technology Workgroup Updates. Updates: - Website has been bootstrapped [2] - Navigator is up and being seeded with information [3] - Sync with initial set of shadows for the workgroup Recurring Tasks - Blog updates - Website updates Blockers: - None [1]: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquet… [2]: https://in.pycon.org/2021/ [3]: https://in.pycon.org/navigator/ -- Best, Nabarun Pal https://naba.run | pronoun.is/he

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PyCon India 2021: Call for Volunteers
by Shashank Kumar Feb. 26, 2021

Feb. 26, 2021

Hello everyone, Organizing PyCon India every year is only possible because of the ever expanding volunteer team working behind the scenes. If you are interested in joining the team of volunteers this year, please read the blogpost [1] to know more about the perks of volunteering at PyCon India 2021 and fill out the form below [2]. We will be looking forward to onboarding both new & old volunteers willing to join this year's workgroups. [1] https://in.pycon.org/blog/2021/call-for-volunteers.html [2] https://forms.gle/v7xHpz2RHbwaVQ6T6 Please retweet the call for volunteers tweet to reach to all the interested parties: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1365276202496270340 -- Regards, Shashank | @realslimshanky On behalf of PyCon India 2021 Team https://in.pycon.org/2021/

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Announcing PyCon India 2021 Online
by Chandan Kumar Feb. 25, 2021

Feb. 25, 2021

Hello everyone, I am Chandan Kumar, from Python India Community. I would like to officially announce the 13th iteration of PyCon India[1] for 2021. Considering the health and safety of everyone involved, PyCon India 2021 will be taking place online as a 4-day event on Hopin[2] from 16th to 19th September 2021, including 2 conference days, 1 day of workshops, and 2 days of Devsprints**. The Call for Proposals for the conference will open in the first week of March and close on 15th May 2021. We will be sending the announcements for Call for Proposals soon. You can read more about the conference on our announcement blog post[3]. Please join the Zulip discussion stream[4] to keep up with the updates from the conference. ** Devsprints are subject to changes according to future planning. [1] https://in.pycon.org [2] https://hopin.com [3] https://in.pycon.org/blog/2021/pycon-india-announcement.html [4] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/#streams/275447/2021.2Fdiscussion Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1364908887040663555 -- Chandan Kumar On behalf of PyCon India 2021 Team https://in.pycon.org/2021/

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Detailed Proposal for PyCon India 2021
by Chandan Kumar Feb. 22, 2021

Feb. 22, 2021

Hi everyone, Hope everyone is doing safe and well. I am Chandan Kumar, from the Python India community. With the world affected by COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we held PyCon India 2020 virtually with the support of the entire community with us. Following the footsteps, we are now planning to host PyCon India 2021 virtually as well. Below you can find the detailed proposal for PyCon India 2021. Dates for the event: 16th to 19th September, 2021 ## Event Size and Format * We will have a 4-day event on Hopin platform. * Day 1 & Day 2: Conference days with 4 general tracks, sessions, BOFs and community booths in the Expo area with a capacity of 1000 people (can be scaled to 1500) * Day 3 & Day 4: Workshop & Dev Sprints** ## Team We've been able to reach out to different local Python meetup user groups to make them a part of the team, and make it successful. The current members of the organizing team are: - Abhishek Mishra - Abhiram R - Arvind - Arun Teja Godavarthi - Chandan Kumar (proposed chair) - Kumar Anirudha (proposed co-chair) - Nabarun Pal - Nikhil Maan - Pradhvan Bisht - Pravin Patil - Rayan Das - Ritesh Agrawal (proposed co-chair) - Sanchit - Sayan Chowdhury - Shashank - Subhendu Ghosh - Satyakam Goswami - Sukanya Mandal - Vipul Gupta The names mentioned above is not an exhaustive list, as it contains people from the PyCon India 2020 team, volunteers & supporters. We welcome anyone and everyone to join us, especially our previous year's organizers, in helping us organize a great conference yet again. We are in talks with AFROST for handling the event's finance and WebChirpy for the event's Website. ## Planning & Communication The team recently met virtually and drafted the plan [1]. In order to drive all the aspects of planning and execution of PyCon India 2021, we will be rolling the Working Group (WG) model this year as well. The central communication platform for PyCon India 2021 would be Zulip and IRC. We're using the same Zulip[2] instance used last year. After logging in to Zulip, connect to the 2021 discussion stream [3]. The IRC channel is #pyconindia. The IRC channel is also bridged to the Zulip instance. We would follow up on this email with more updates as they come along. Before proceeding further, We need an ACK from the community. If any other group is also interested or planning to host PyCon India 2021. We are happy to collaborate with them. [1] https://github.com/pythonindia/inpycon2021-tasks/blob/5ddfc0d9fea141dbaa3c7… [2] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ [3] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/#streams/275447/2021.2Fdiscussion ** Dev Sprints is not decided yet. Keeping the online format in might and learnings from last year, we might replace it with another more community engaging event. Thanks, Chandan Kumar On behalf of PyCon India 2021

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PyCon India 2020: Onwards to closure!
by Sayan Chowdhury Feb. 15, 2021

Feb. 15, 2021

Hi everyone, Hope everyone is doing safe and well. True to the words "The Last Mile takes the longest" - We are slowly marching towards the closure of PyCon India 2020. In case you missed the announcement, the videos are out on the Python India channel[1]. Here is the link to the PyCon India 2020 talk playlist[2]. I hoped to send the pyvideo link as well in this email but seems like that it will take some more time. I've sent a PR [3] to the pyvideo.org as well to which the maintainer requested a few changes. If you would like to help with updating the speakers into the file feel free to contact me **off-list**. Thanks to everyone for making PyCon India 2020 possible. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/PythonIndia/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YjPB35GA4&list=PL6GW05BfqWIf5TzoTkQSwg-gD… [3] https://github.com/pyvideo/data/pull/1051 Stay safe and continue wearing a mask! -- Sayan Chowdhury <https://yudocaa.in/> GPG Fingerprint : 0F16 E841 E517 225C 7D13 AB3C B023 9931 9CD0 5C8B Q: How can I use more inclusive language? A: https://heyguys.cc

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