[Inpycon] FOSS PyCon (was Re: Post Conference analysis about the performance and future plan)

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 12:40:10 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Gora Mohanty <gora at srijan.in> wrote:
> [..]
>
> > My bottom line is based around two points: (a) My commitment, and
> > of people that I know, is based around volunteering for a FOSS
> > conference. I very seriously believe in not volunteering my
> > time for a non-FOSS event, for reasons I am not immediately
> > discussing. (b) If (a) is acceptable, we can provide a home for
> > a FOSS Pycon event in Delhi/NCR, with help in local organisation.
> > My hope would be to merge it with Freed.in (http://freed.in) this
> > coming Feb., but that is open to discussion.
> >
> > Please do let me know if this sounds workable, and let us discuss
> > how people could be involved. Please also understand that I will
> > also need a confirmation from local organisers. At this point, we
> > are just kicking the idea around.
>
> [..]
>
> If there are sufficient people who want a pure FOSS PyCon, I think you
> should go for it.
> I myself incline towards FOSS but I wouldn't enforce a FOSS only
> clause at a PyCon that I was involved in organising. Also, if this is
> to be the official PyCon India 2010, I wouldn't be in support of the
> idea myself.
>
> One thing that I can foresee is difficultly in arranging sponsors.
> You'd have to consider other sources of funding.

chennaipy is interested in bidding for the 2010 conference and will be meeting 
on the 24th the finalise the bid - note that the bid will be without pre-
conditions.
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Project Officer
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/