I'm not particular about the size of the event. If I could sacrifice
attendance for talk quality, I'd do it.

The main complaint about PyCon India (since the maiden event) has been
talk quality. We're aiming to be all things for all people and that
doesn't work out. While I think Arvi's work with the program committee
has been superb, the effect was limited because we *wanted* to dilute
the quality of the talks to satisfy newbies.

-1 i don't agree 

I think name one person in not correct , Program committee was not lead by Arvi for sure. 

I feel bad to see individual name coming like this more often.

We can take offline if more explanation is needed.

If we try to be everything for everyone, we'll end up being nothing. If
we announce that PyCon India is for experienced, serious Python
developers and live upto the announcement, intermediate and even some
beginner people will actually learn something new and improve
themselves. Advanced people will have a forum to discuss real problems
rather than an audience with 60% first timers.

My main concern is that there are more newbies than experienced
folk. There are lots of outlets for newbies to learn things. Tutorials
on the web, user group meetups, tutorials, classes, python express
workshops etc. For advanced people though, there are almost no
outlets. I'm in favour of making PyCon India a high quality event. Even
by sacrificing number of talks and audience size. Quality over Quantity.

Do we really have so much advance talk submissions ?

I still think we should have two track beginners and intermediate/advances which solve the problems.

In future once our advance talk submission increase we can rethink.

 

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