Dates for PyCon India 2015
Hi all, We are gone stay with NIHMANS , Bangalore as our venue for PyCon India 2015. As next steps we need to finalize dates two dates which doesn't have public holiday and conferences are 1) Sept 25-28th 2015 2) Oct 2-4 2015 I personally think Oct 2-4 is best as no one need to put leave in office/colleges and no festivals around that time. suggestions ? -- Thanks, Vijay
On 15 October 2014 12:02, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, We are gone stay with NIHMANS , Bangalore as our venue for PyCon India 2015. As next steps we need to finalize dates two dates which doesn't have public holiday and conferences are 1) Sept 25-28th 2015 2) Oct 2-4 2015
I personally think Oct 2-4 is best as no one need to put leave in office/colleges and no festivals around that time.
suggestions ?
-- Thanks, Vijay
Hi All, Oct 2-4 is perfect as no one need to put leave. Thanks Fasih Ahmad Fakhri
+1 for Oct 2-4. As we need not put leave. Regards Praveen On 15-Oct-2014 12:28 PM, "vijay kumar" <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, We are gone stay with NIHMANS , Bangalore as our venue for PyCon India 2015. As next steps we need to finalize dates two dates which doesn't have public holiday and conferences are 1) Sept 25-28th 2015 2) Oct 2-4 2015
I personally think Oct 2-4 is best as no one need to put leave in office/colleges and no festivals around that time.
suggestions ?
-- Thanks, Vijay
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
Most of them will prefer to be in home on festival time. Regards, Aravind. On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:36 PM, praveen patil <praveenkumar103@gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for Oct 2-4. As we need not put leave.
Regards Praveen On 15-Oct-2014 12:28 PM, "vijay kumar" <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, We are gone stay with NIHMANS , Bangalore as our venue for PyCon India 2015. As next steps we need to finalize dates two dates which doesn't have public holiday and conferences are 1) Sept 25-28th 2015 2) Oct 2-4 2015
I personally think Oct 2-4 is best as no one need to put leave in office/colleges and no festivals around that time.
suggestions ?
-- Thanks, Vijay
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
On 10/15/2014 12:02 PM, vijay kumar wrote:
Hi all, We are gone stay with NIHMANS , Bangalore as our venue for PyCon India 2015. As next steps we need to finalize dates two dates which doesn't have public holiday and conferences are 1) Sept 25-28th 2015 2) Oct 2-4 2015
I personally think Oct 2-4 is best as no one need to put leave in office/colleges and no festivals around that time.
The date Oct 2-4 is fine. But can we explore other venues a little please? This year Audi 2 was majorly overflown and people had to stand at the door, a lot of them couldn't even enter the room. We may or may not have the same number of participants next year. But we should be prepared at least.
suggestions ?
-- Thanks, Vijay
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Bibhas wrote: [...]
The date Oct 2-4 is fine. But can we explore other venues a little please? This year Audi 2 was majorly overflown and people had to stand at the door, a lot of them couldn't even enter the room. We may or may not have the same number of participants next year. But we should be prepared at least.
It might be a good idea to simply restrict the maximum number of participants (and talks). [...] -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
On 10/15/2014 12:59 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Bibhas wrote:
[...]
The date Oct 2-4 is fine. But can we explore other venues a little please? This year Audi 2 was majorly overflown and people had to stand at the door, a lot of them couldn't even enter the room. We may or may not have the same number of participants next year. But we should be prepared at least. It might be a good idea to simply restrict the maximum number of participants (and talks).
This year we kept the ticket slot expanding till the last moment. I'd say let's not do that next time. Let's fix it to 1000 participants and no more. I only have the request to check out IISc as a venue and compare it with NIMHANS before booking. Couple of people suggested it to me during PyCon.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
This year we kept the ticket slot expanding till the last moment. I'd say let's not do that next time. Let's fix it to 1000 participants and no more. I only have the request to check out IISc as a venue and compare it with NIMHANS before booking. Couple of people suggested it to me during PyCon.
We used to have foss.in in IISC and it moved to NIMHANS. We found NIMHANS as a better place for a large conference like this. Kushal -- CPython Core Developer http://fedoraproject.org http://kushaldas.in
On 10/15/2014 07:04 PM, Kushal Das wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
This year we kept the ticket slot expanding till the last moment. I'd say let's not do that next time. Let's fix it to 1000 participants and no more. I only have the request to check out IISc as a venue and compare it with NIMHANS before booking. Couple of people suggested it to me during PyCon.
We used to have foss.in in IISC and it moved to NIMHANS. We found NIMHANS as a better place for a large conference like this.
Oh. Then it's fine I guess. NIMHANS again.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
On 10/15/2014 12:59 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Bibhas wrote:
[...]
The date Oct 2-4 is fine. But can we explore other venues a little
please? This year Audi 2 was majorly overflown and people had to stand at the door, a lot of them couldn't even enter the room. We may or may not have the same number of participants next year. But we should be prepared at least.
It might be a good idea to simply restrict the maximum number of participants (and talks).
This year we kept the ticket slot expanding till the last moment. I'd say let's not do that next time. Let's fix it to 1000 participants and no more. I only have the request to check out IISc as a venue and compare it with NIMHANS before booking. Couple of people suggested it to me during PyCon.
I guess you are taking about JN Tata auditorium in IISc Campus. Not sure if it is any better than NIMHANS. I heard that MLR whitefield has 2 auditoriums of roughly equal size. That might be worth exploring. The small audi 2 issue can also be solved by improving the talk schedule. We could ask all the participants to pick the slots that they are interested in and use that info to schedule the talks. Anand
On Oct 15, 2014 8:51 PM, "Anand Chitipothu" <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
On 10/15/2014 12:59 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Bibhas wrote:
[...]
The date Oct 2-4 is fine. But can we explore other venues a little please? This year Audi 2 was majorly overflown and people had to stand at the door, a lot of them couldn't even enter the room. We may or may not have the same number of participants next year. But we should be prepared at least.
It might be a good idea to simply restrict the maximum number of participants (and talks).
This year we kept the ticket slot expanding till the last moment. I'd
say let's not do that next time. Let's fix it to 1000 participants and no more. I only have the request to check out IISc as a venue and compare it with NIMHANS before booking. Couple of people suggested it to me during PyCon.
I guess you are taking about JN Tata auditorium in IISc Campus. Not sure
if it is any better than NIMHANS.
I heard that MLR whitefield has 2 auditoriums of roughly equal size. That
might be worth exploring. Not really. AFAIK Audi has capacity around 700 and banquet hall capacity is around 200 - 300. The Audi 1 is in first floor and hall is in ground floor.
The small audi 2 issue can also be solved by improving the talk schedule. We could ask all the participants to pick the slots that they are interested in and use that info to schedule the talks.
Anand
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:
I heard that MLR whitefield has 2 auditoriums of roughly equal size. That might be worth exploring.
The MLR Whitefield space is pretty impressive, and is more modern than Nimhans. However, it's really one large audi (bigger and nicer than the Nimhans main audi - holds 800+). The lower area is a banquet dining hall (holds 300+ depending on table layouts) whose acoustics are not great, but was used for a 2nd track at Droidcon. There's a couple of smaller rooms (can fit 50+ people) nearby that work well for open spaces and smaller discussions. One nice thing about this venue is that since things are multi-level, everything feels closer to each other compared to Nimhans. On the other hand, not sure how well it'll scale up to the crowds we had this year (not an issue if we cap ticketing at 1000).
On 10/15/2014 09:15 PM, Arvi Krishnaswamy wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com <mailto:anandology@gmail.com>> wrote:
I heard that MLR whitefield has 2 auditoriums of roughly equal size. That might be worth exploring.
The MLR Whitefield space is pretty impressive, and is more modern than Nimhans. However, it's really one large audi (bigger and nicer than the Nimhans main audi - holds 800+). The lower area is a banquet dining hall (holds 300+ depending on table layouts) whose acoustics are not great, but was used for a 2nd track at Droidcon. There's a couple of smaller rooms (can fit 50+ people) nearby that work well for open spaces and smaller discussions. One nice thing about this venue is that since things are multi-level, everything feels closer to each other compared to Nimhans. On the other hand, not sure how well it'll scale up to the crowds we had this year (not an issue if we cap ticketing at 1000).
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
I am totally unimpressed with the MLR Whitefield space. In my opinion, it only pretends to be modern, but does not provide enough facilities as expected. :-) It might be okay for conferences with just one or two tracks, and pure business audiences. PyCon needs a lot more space than a couple of auditoriums, for the side-track events that happen, and the interactions among participants. The NIMHANS location has much better parking facility, and the NIMHANS location is more convenient for commuting to as well. -- Regards, Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
The date Oct 2-4 is fine. But can we explore other venues a little please? This year Audi 2 was majorly overflown and people had to stand at the door, a lot of them couldn't even enter the room. We may or may not have the same number of participants next year. But we should be prepared at least.
We can explore having 3 simultaneous tracks for talks.
On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Gaurav Dadhania wrote: [...]
We can explore having 3 simultaneous tracks for talks.
[...] Or simply reduce the number of talks. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
+1 for oct 2 - 4. Nimhans is good enough. On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Gaurav Dadhania wrote:
[...]
We can explore having 3 simultaneous tracks for talks.
[...]
Or simply reduce the number of talks. --
+1 for less number of high quality talks. [open spaces] There were some discussions about having more (in number and more organized) open spaces ... and Nimhans seems to have a lot of room for that. Regards. -- Anuvrat Parashar http;//anuvrat.in
Great. Works for everyone. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Kracekumar Ramaraju <me@kracekumar.com> wrote:
We have blocked Oct 2, 3, 4 for PyCon India 2015 in NIMHANS.
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
-- Regards : Venktesh Guttedar.
jhakkas!!! And I am going to book my flight tickets :) On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Kracekumar Ramaraju <me@kracekumar.com> wrote:
We have blocked Oct 2, 3, 4 for PyCon India 2015 in NIMHANS.
Hallelujah! :)
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
-- Anuvrat Parashar http;//anuvrat.in
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Kracekumar Ramaraju <me@kracekumar.com> wrote:
We have blocked Oct 2, 3, 4 for PyCon India 2015 in NIMHANS.
Awesome!
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
-- Cheers, Kiran Gangadharan http://kirang.in
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:02 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
2) Oct 2-4 2015
This sounds good. Train/flight tickets will also be available during this time. Kushal -- CPython Core Developer http://fedoraproject.org http://kushaldas.in
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:02 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, We are gone stay with NIHMANS , Bangalore as our venue for PyCon India 2015. As next steps we need to finalize dates two dates which doesn't have public holiday and conferences are 1) Sept 25-28th 2015 2) Oct 2-4 2015
I personally think Oct 2-4 is best as no one need to put leave in office/colleges and no festivals around that time.
+1 for Oct 2-4
suggestions ?
-- Thanks, Vijay
_______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
-- Cheers, Kiran Gangadharan http://kirang.in
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:02 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
2) Oct 2-4 2015
+1 from me as well. Sounds good. But we'll have to announce this in advance to make sure arrangements for travel can be made. Lots of people would be travelling in and out during this time.
On 15 October 2014 19:21, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:02 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
2) Oct 2-4 2015
+1. Sree -- Sreekanth S Rameshaiah Executive Director Mahiti Infotech Pvt. Ltd. An ISO 9001:2008 & ISO 27001:2013 Enterprise Phone: +91 80 4905 8444 Mobile: +91 98455 12611 www.mahiti.org www.mahiti-infotech.com
participants (17)
-
Anand Chitipothu -
Anuvrat Parashar -
Aravind Muthu -
Arvi Krishnaswamy -
Bibhas -
Fasih Ahmad Fakhri -
Gaurav Dadhania -
Kiran Gangadharan -
Kracekumar Ramaraju -
Kushal Das -
Noufal Ibrahim KV -
praveen patil -
Rejy M Cyriac -
Shrayas rajagopal -
Sreekanth S Rameshaiah -
VENKTESH GUTTEDAR -
vijay kumar