Hi everyone, CFP & Review ------------ The CFP Working Group (WG) did a great job of reaching out to speakers and achieving a good number of talk proposals. The Review Panel WG volunteers worked parallelly to get the proposals as complete as possible as per the guidelines we built before the Subject Matter Expert (SME) aka Talk Reviewers started the process. Thanks to the whole Reviewers team for putting their thought and effort into each talk. As of today, based on the reviews of the proposals, the first set of selected speakers has been created. The team will start reaching out to all these speakers, to prepare the final list. The date for the final schedule to be published still stands at 15th September 2020. Schedule Outline of PyCon India 2020 ------------------------------------ This year, since we have gone online, the number of talks and registration outside India is substantially high. So, the team has decided to start the event at noon and end at 8:00 PM IST. This will help us to accommodate other timezones as well and not moving much from our core time. The schedule outline (the mentioned time is in IST): 12:00 - 12:10 - Opening Session of the day 12:15 - 13:15 - Keynote 13:20 - 13:50 - Talk Slot 13:55 - 14:25 - Talk Slot 14:30 - 15:20 - Break / Networking 15:20 - 15:50 - Talk Slot 15:55 - 16:25 - Talk Slot 16:30 - 17:30 - Keynote 17:30 - 17:50 - Break / Networking 17:50 - 18:20 - Talk Slot 18:25 - 18:55 - Talk Slot 19:00 - 20:00 - Keynote 20:00 - 20:05 - Closing session for the day 20:05 - 20:30 - Networking The `Talk Slot`s are 30 min slot which would have talks, lightning talks, and sponsored talks. This will be replicated for all the stages, except for the Keynote slots. This year the team also plans to have 4 parallel tracks, and one track dedicated for just *Advanced* talks. Once the schedule is prepared, an update will be shared detail about how the talks will be placed across the stages/ or sessions. Though this schedule is tentative and what the whole team is following, minor updates might be done to accommodate speakers or sponsors. --- Miscellaneous info ------------------ Tickets ------- The PyCon India 2020 tickets are open but we are selling out fast. So, if you haven't booked the tickets, please head over to the website and get your tickets. We need your help ----------------- This year, we've been very highly active on Zulip[1]. As we move closer to the event, we would like your support and help to make this happen successfully. We have ample work where we need a volunteer, so please join us on Zulip and ping on the main channel. The Promotions WG needs a helping hand, so if you interested please follow the instructions Sponsorship ----------- The Call for Sponsors[2] is open, and we've some good packages with amazing benefits. You can visit the sponsorship page or write to us at sponsor@in.pycon.org, and we will revert. Please share the ticket announcement to that it reaches more in the community. https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1298222867935444992 [1] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ [2] https://in.pycon.org/2020/sponsorship/ -- Sayan Chowdhury <https://yudocaa.in/> On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/