[Inpycon] ChennaiPy Bids For PyCon India 2010

[Noufal Ibrahim]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com>wrote:

> > On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 11:46:50 am kausikram krishnasayee wrote:
> > > ChennaiPy likes to bid to host PyCon India 2010 at Chennai. We Were
> looking
>
> Well, I am normally +1 on this Chennai, but I have a request, can you
> do it for 2 years?  The US pycon happens this way for few reasons like
> (Hotel registration) and 2nd time familarity for visitors.
>
> We can adopt the way, like with first year's experience could prove
> helpful during the second year.
>
> Bangalore could do it again, but given enough enthu from Chennai
> folks, it is okay for Chennai to host PyCon India 2010.
>

This occurred to me as well but given the enthusiasm of the Chennai folks, I
think we'd have a better conference if it was there. Gut feel really. Apart
from the familiarity reason, are there any other concrete ones for the 2
years in one city rule?


>
> Few thoughts.
>
> 1. Let it be towards year end. Please don't hurry up.
> 2. Think of the 2 year request.
>

Sep/Oct is fine. I think once we have a couple of meetings, discuss some
ideas, we can beat the thing into shape. However, your warning about jumping
into things is very sound. I reappy think we should make this a big event
this time and rope in good sponsors. Google is one thing that comes to mind
and Anand C. had an awesome suggestion about talking to the FOSSEE people to
see if they can get the Govt. to atleast partly sponsor this. If we have an
event that's sponsored by the Govt., it'd do wonders for the language
publicity and adoption. I really think we should try.



>
> And yeah Delhi's bid comes in too from Gora, but it should be PyCon,
> otherwise at Delhi freed.in can always have a cohost of python
> specific topics.
>

I think it's great if other events have some Python stuff going on in them.
However, there should be just one official PyCon in India and most (if not
all) the Pythonistas should support it.


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~noufal
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