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

[Gora Mohanty]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:40:10 +0530
Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> 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.

Thank you for starting a new thread.

I guess that I did not make myself clear. As far as I am concerned,
it does not matter if the event is labelled Pycon India, or not,
and am glad to leave that decision to people here. Everyone is
welcome regardless of what the event is labelled as. Also, please
understand that there is no intention on our side of hijacking
anything. We have been thinking of having a FOSS Python conference
for a while, but it has never actually materialised. I just
thought that this would be a good forum for contacting Python
enthusiasts, but can also see that it might be off-topic for a list
specifically dedicated to Pycon India.

As people have suggested, what I will do is to talk to others at
Freed.in, and see if there is interest in a Python sub-conference,
and come back here, or on other Python India lists, with a specific
proposal.

> One thing that I can foresee is difficultly in arranging sponsors.
> You'd have to consider other sources of funding.
[...]

Funding has typically not been a problem for us. Our main issue is
finding enough people to run the conference. In fact, we have toned
down fund-raising, just because we could not live up to the
expectations of large sponsors. We would certainly welcome people
interested in helping out.

Regards,
Gora