Mailman 3 May 2021 - Inpycon

[THREAD] PyCon India Weekly Update - Week 12
by praveen patil May 28, 2021

May 28, 2021

Hello Everyone Here are the updates from Sessions WG Updates: - We had a meeting with the team and volunteers on 24th May 2021 for micro-planning of BoFs and Panel Discussions. - It was decided to have more interactive sessions along with 4-5 BoFs a maximum of 4 Panel Discussions. Members suggested various out of the box ideas. - Reached out to a few sr. pythonistas requesting ideas and active participation Next up: - ApproachReach-out to Sr. programmers, scientists, educationists to have them at BoFs various panel discussions - Promote CFP for BoFs and Poster Presentation Sessions on nSocial Media. Blockers: - None Regards Praveen > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Mailing list guidelines : > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquet…

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[THREAD] PyCon India Weekly Update - Week 12
by Akshay Gaikwad May 28, 2021

May 28, 2021

Hi everyone, Here are the updates from Mentorship WG: Updates: - Final open mentorship call happened last Saturday, 3-4 people joined. - Discuss with review team about SME invitation mail content Blockers: - None Up next: - Start reaching out to SMEs for review and mentorship

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Announcing Community Partner AFROST
by Kumar Anirudha May 25, 2021

May 25, 2021

Hello everyone, Hope all are keeping safe and well. We'd like to thank AFROST for supporting PyCon India 2021 as Community Partner. Hope to continue working together on this engagement. Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1397173292243423237 Cheers Kumar Anirudha Team PyCon India 2021

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CFP for PyCon India 2021 Closes in 9 Hours
by Rayan Das May 22, 2021

May 22, 2021

Hello folks, Call for proposal (CFP) for talks and workshops closes today at 23:59 IST (+5:30 UTC). Please submit your proposals if you haven't yet. [1] Regular tickets for PyCon India 2021 are still available. Get them here. [2] [1]: https://in.pycon.org/cfp/2021/proposals/ [2]: http://bit.ly/pyconindia-tickets -- Rayan Das https://rayandas.in GPG Fingerprint: 78B4 4DEF 5455 951E C7A5 91BB 3B06 A834 8A9F 8BF3 Q: How can I use more inclusive language? A: https://heyguys.cc

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[THREAD] PyCon India Weekly Update - Week 11
by Bhavin Gandhi May 21, 2021

May 21, 2021

Hi everyone, Here are the updates from Mentorship WG: Updates: - We had a volunteering kick-off call with the folks who were interested in volunteering, unfortunately none of them joined. Blockers: - None Up next: - Mentorship call tomorrow, 22nd May[1] - Reach out to the interested volunteers again using a different communication medium. [1] https://in.pycon.org/blog/2021/announce-mentorship.html

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PyCon India 2021 Keynote: Alolita Sharma
by Kumar Anirudha May 20, 2021

May 20, 2021

Hello Folks, We are happy to announce Alolita Sharma as our First Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2021. About Alolita Sharma ----------- Alolita is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where she leads open source observability and development on OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Cortex, Grafana focused on metrics and log based observability. Alolita also serves as a member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and as a board director of the Unicode Consortium. She contributes to open standards on Unicode Technical Committees and W3C. She has served on the boards of the OSI and SFLC.in. Alolita has led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal and IBM. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. You can find her on Twitter @alolita. Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1395366758454685696 Cheers, Kumar Anirudha

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Call For Proposals Closes in 5 Days
by Rayan Das May 18, 2021

May 18, 2021

Hello everyone, Call for Proposals (CFP) for talks and workshops closes in 5 days. Please spare some time and submit your proposals if you haven't already. The last date is: *May 22 23:59* *UTC+5:30* Submit your proposals here: [1] Our Regular tickets are still there, please get yours from here: [2] The Regular ticket will give you access to PyCon India 2021 conference days 18th & 19th Sep and also to DevSprints happening on 20th Sep. [1]: https://in.pycon.org/cfp/2021/proposals/ [2]: http://bit.ly/pyconindia-tickets -- Rayan Das https://rayandas.in GPG Fingerprint: 78B4 4DEF 5455 951E C7A5 91BB 3B06 A834 8A9F 8BF3 Q: How can I use more inclusive language? A: https://heyguys.cc

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CFP for BoF and Poster Presentation are Open
by Rayan Das May 17, 2021

May 17, 2021

Hello everyone, At PyCon India, we keep trying to find new and interactive ways for participants to learn, discuss and interact with each other. At this year's conference, we will be having Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Poster Presentation sessions along with our regular talks. Read more about it. [1] Submit your proposal at: [2] Important dates: - CFP for BoF and poster sessions closes on 27th June 2021, 23:59 UTC+05:30. - BoFs and poster presentation sessions will be conducted on 18th and 19th September 2021. [1]: https://in.pycon.org/blog/2021/announce-bof-poster-cfp.html [2]: https://in.pycon.org/cfp/bofs-and-posters-2021/proposals/ -- Rayan Das https://rayandas.in GPG Fingerprint: 78B4 4DEF 5455 951E C7A5 91BB 3B06 A834 8A9F 8BF3 Q: How can I use more inclusive language? A: https://heyguys.cc

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[THREAD] PyCon India Weekly Update - Week 10
by Rayan Das May 14, 2021

May 14, 2021

Hi everyone, Here are the updates from Communication/Promotion WG: Updates: - Announcement about PyCon India 2021 website is live. [1] - Early bird ticket announcement. [2] - PyCon India office hours announcement. [3] - Regular tickets opening announcement. [4] - FOSS United as Outreach Partner announcement. [5] - GirlScript as Outreach Partner announcement. [6] - Posted a tweet to support those who all are affected by COVID-19. [7] - 7 days left for CFP announcement. [8] Blockers: - None Up next: - InKind Sponsors announcements. Also, please like/retweet our posts from PyCon India handle so that the conference has a wider reach of the audience. [1]: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1390916050405916672 [2]: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1390920830150840320 [3]: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1390939403103576067 [4]: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1391339576128688129 [5]: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1392084010612924416 [6]: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1392388284131680257 [7]: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1392734338454679553 [8]: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1393169881449701380 -- Rayan Das https://rayandas.in GPG Fingerprint: 78B4 4DEF 5455 951E C7A5 91BB 3B06 A834 8A9F 8BF3 Q: How can I use more inclusive language? A: https://heyguys.cc

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PyCon India 2021 regular tickets are live!
by Chandan Kumar May 13, 2021

May 13, 2021

Hello Everyone, PyCon India 2021 tickets are live.[0] Early bird tickets are sold out! The sale of Regular tickets is open now. To make the event inclusive and accessible to all, we have kept the ticket prices to a bare minimum. You can read more about our ticket structure in our blog. [1] For any queries, we are happy to help out. Feel free to reach out to us on Zulip. [2] Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social networks as widely as possible. Thank you ! Tweet Link: https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1391339576128688129 Links [0] https://in.pycon.org/2021/ [1] https://in.pycon.org/blog/2021/announce-ticket-sales.html [2] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/275447-2021.2Fdiscussion Thanks, Chandan Kumar

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