On Wed, Mar 23 2016, rajat arora wrote:
Hey folks,
We had some suggestions in our feedback last year to do away with the beginner track talks and workshops as they seem to lower the quality bar for the conference.
We would like to know what do you folks think about this? Since this is a community event, your feedback is important and would shape the path we take.
This came up in a thread a long time ago https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2014-October/009183.html The thrust of my argument was that we try to make PyCon a smaller but higher quality event. This means (among other things) - Don't have talks by inexperienced or first time speakers. - Don't have "intro to X" kinds of talks on popular technologies. but rather focus on more quality material. Reducing the number of tracks, talks or even days so that it's tighter and more intense gets a +1 from me. Talks by experienced people for beginners is probably okay but the opposite where first time speakers are using the conference mostly like a forum to practice is probably not. At the very least, I think it's a worthwhile experiment to focus on quality rather than quantity. People on the list disagreed with me when I brought this up last time. Maybe this time, the argument will find a more receptive ear. :) [...] -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in