On Mar 12, 2018 9:19 PM, "E Manivannan" <elangovan.manivannan@gmail.com> wrote: Hi All, Hyderabad Python group(HydPy) is organising "Pycon Hyderabad" in the 1st weekend of October, 2018. We have a team of volunteers who are working on upcoming conference relentlessly & we have got in-principle agreement from 2 international speakers to be the keynote speakers as well. Having said that, I wanted to see a lot more enthusiasm, commitment & free spirit from rest of the community in organising Pycon India. However I'm disappointed with the direction it has taken so far. I was very sad when Pycon Pune got cancelled and now Pycon India event also seems to be in jeopardy, which is completely not acceptable to me & rest of the community. So here is my proposal, HydPy is willing to host "Pycon India" event in Hyderabad instead of "Pycon Hyderabad" this year. Current HydPy volunteers will work with rest of the volunteers across India to make this event happen in October, 2018. We would need some level of automnomy in running the event - venue, food, ticket volunteer etc. If the community agrees, Hydpy will host Pycon India 2018 otherwise you are all welcome to join us in "Pycon Hyderabad 2018". +1 I think you will have enough atonomy to running the event. PSSI need to be involved for receiving and sending/paying money and paying taxes. It would be good to use this mailing list for most of the discussions so that everyone is aware of what is going on. Anand