Hi, +1 to Noufal. I wanted to make 2 additional points.
am -1 for not having beginners level sessions. I personally think PyCon India should continue with all three level beginners, intermediate and Advance. This is how PyCon India has grown and would like to continue to see same.
We are conflating good with advanced and bad with beginners. My question is: was there a beginners talk that was highly appreciated and was very useful? A bad talk at whatever level is bad for its audience. A conference can have two aims: 1) A meeting place for practitioners. 2) Evangelism . Pycon has a big component of Python evangelism but I think it might be time to spin that off to initiatives like Python Express and make the core event more focused. This provides depth to the ecosystem.
Just Fyi: This year we had more 60 % first timer.
What is the growth rate? If the growth rate of Pycon is below 50%, this means that significant number of people are not coming back. A high churn rate indicates a problem. Perhaps people are not getting enough value out of it. Regards, Abhaya