I was the second time attendee of Pycon. First time I attended in 2012 and second 2014. I am also disappointed with the quality of workshops and some talks being given. With my watch I can say 2012 workshops in Christ were better than 2014 workshops. Talks on Day 2 were better than Day 1 this year...this was the feedback of some of my friends as well who attended Pycon this year. I agree with Noufal than just for the sake of pulling crowd we should not compromise with the quality. I would tell you honest feedback of mine. Paying 1000 bucks for one workshop and then you come to know that's not worth peanuts . Definitely we should concentrate on quality speakers whether be it for intermediates or experts . On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:53 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
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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