[Inpycon] Venue Finalization {was} PyCon 2010 - Let's get started

[Saju Pillai]

Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 Apr 2010 6:41:45 pm Saju Pillai wrote:
>>> So, in one statement the aim and orientation is to "Have a conference
>>> where Python programmers from around the country can meet, exchange
>>> ideas and network".
>> +1. Agree with this.
>>
>> If most people will agree with "meeting/networking" as the aim of the 
>> conference, it naturally makes sense to hold the conference where the 
>> density of said Python folks is highest (IMO that is Bangalore).
>>
> 
> have you checked what proportion of the active membership of bangpypers is 
> *in* Bangalore? The traffic in Chennaipy mailing list is not all that much 
> because most of the members anyway post to bangpypers as it is an older and 
> more established list and most of us feel that there is no point in duplicate 
> posts except for Chennai specific matters. And the same goes for Hyderabad 


We don't have a simple way of checking the distribution across cities 
short of asking for a show of hands, which is (almost) what the poll 
Noufal created does. The poll has been x-posted to the Bangalore & 
Mumbai list & probably the Chennai list. Lets see what the figures say.

-srp


> also. Anyway if it is a conference on the lines of what Noufal proposes (which 
> sounds eminently sensible to me) the venue is irrelevant as serious people are 
> going to attend regardless of where it is held. If it attracts them, that is. 
> 
> so does the Indian Python community have enough people to provide real 'meat' 
> for such a conference - or is this something for the future?
> 
> secondly is this 'meat' applications using python - or on python itself?
> 
> I think we also need to analyse the participation in the previous conference, 
> where the serious people were from, what was their area of expertise, level of 
> presentation. (we can ignore the newbies and the newbie oriented tutorials 
> which anyway took place in a separate hall away from the main conference)
> 
> And another thing we have to look at is the low entrance fee. 200-300 is far 
> too low. Any serious person would presumably be earning enough to shell out at 
> least 2K for a conference - and think it is well worth it.
> 
> these are randomn ideas - I think the time has come to start summarising all 
> these discussions in a wiki page so that we have some idea where we are going.
>