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. :)

I actually see a consensus here till now.

folks have responded against removing beginner talks but for having more quality.

@noufal what you suggest in detail is exactly what others are suggesting too.

Increase quality by having more quality checks and higher selection standards like

- Only let people with experience an advance level of understanding give talks/workshops even for beginner level

- Make sure first time speakers have to give a talk locally and provide a video of the talk

We choose based on the quality of the talk.

- Avoid intro to X kind of talks.

Honestly you folks are right CFP is one of the biggest things we need to focus on for quality.

The PyCon India team would need your feedback and support to make this successful.

Please keep the suggestions coming.

Regards

Akkshay on behalf of Team PyCon India

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:

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

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