[Inpycon] Post Conference analysis about the performance and future plan

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, abstract things
<abstractthings at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello All,
> As we have concluded PyCon for year 2009, I guess it is time now to have a
> Post Conference analysis about the performance of the decided milestones
> and discloser of PyCon account to PyCon *Janta *here on mailing list and
> Twitter.
>
> Following things will be helpful to include in this post event analysis
> exercise for the betterment of PyCon 2010 in India:
>
> 1) Listing out all the milestones got decided before the start of PyCon 09.
>

  Did not understand this. What do you mean by milestones got decided
  before start of PyCon 09  now that the conference is over ?


>
> 2) Total number of on paper attendees.
>
> 3) Total number of on paper paid attendees.
>
> 4) Amount got collected from the Sponsors.
>
> 5) Account of amount spend.
>
> 6) Amount left over for the PyCon 2010.
>

 These details will be made clear once the organizers sort out the details.
 We have had one meeting after the conference for follow-up actions
 w.r.t informing delegates about videos, feedback forms etc and also
 regarding formation of a PyCon India society.

 Further meetings will be held shortly to discuss funds and once the
 accounts are settled, all information will be made available to this list.


> 7) Who holds the PyCon India web presence on http://in.pycon.org.
>

 Web presence ? The site is owned and managed by Kenneth and his
 team of volunteers. The domain name is owned by PyCon.


>
> 8) Total number of uploaded videos.
>

These are getting uploaded by volunteers including me. It is some process
 since the videos need to be ripped from the DVDs, compressed and
 uploaded to blip.tv. I assume the number right now must be around 4-5
 at least though I haven't checked.


>
> 9) If some videos didn't get uploaded, who is responsible (if the number is
> just less than 5 then it could be considered video recorders negligence).
>

 The organizers are responsible for any video that got uploaded or did not.


>
> 10) Not so pleasant or negative comments by any attendee on any matter of
> PyCon e.g. WiFi access, access to power plug pins etc. We can consider this
> as the positive inputs for the betterment of next PyCon.
>
> 11) Names of all the PyCon 2009 committee members who devoted their
> personal time and efforts for organizing this event.
>

 There is no need to discuss this. Most of the people who have taken
 part have done so by contributing their valuable personal time without
 expecting publicity. As said in the site and this list, this has been a
100%
 volunteer effort with everyone who took part in organizing chipping in
 to do their bit. The successful completion of the conference itself is
 the best vote of thanks for everyone. There has been no armchair
 volunteer in this conference.

 If you want to know the names, you can perhaps do a scan of the
 people who have actively taken part in this list over the last 5 months
 or so. That would give you an approximate idea.



>
> 12) Plans for PyCon 2010.
>

 These will be discussed in further meetings and posted here for follow ups.
 Currently there are no concrete plans though the idea is to continue to
hold
 the conference in Bangalore itself for 2010 with better amenities and
 aiming for wider participation and better planning in every aspect.


>
>
> I believe that keeping things in public eye, Python lovers or attendees at
> least, as we open source lovers for Open source software will be a good
> practice to organize future PyCon in India.
>

 PyCon as visualized now will continue to be a Python conference, focussing
 on the Python aspect. We don't want to mix in FOSS/non-FOSS into
 it early in its childhood.



>
> Regards,
> Sundar
>
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Thanks,

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--Anand
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