[Inpycon] Prizes/mentors for newbie track

[Anand Chitipothu]

2010/7/20 Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>:
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> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> [...]
>> >> Now the next question is who is eligible?
>> >
>> > Everyone who submits a "newbie" track talk. Winner to be decided
>> > by a panel of judges and announced on the 2nd day - Panel should
>> > include David and anyone else from us.
>> >
>> > Fine ?
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>> I thought "newbie" is the level of the speaker. I think we should only
>> make students eligible for this prize.
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> That got me thinking about - will there by any kind of repercussion
> i.e frustration among regular talk folks ("seniors" so to speak) of
> not being considered for a similar prize ? Kind of like "being a newbie
> is an advantage, no point in talking in this conf in the future"
> feeling ?
>
> Perhaps I am being unduly worrying here...
> Many of us are talkers here ourselves - what do you feel ?

Let me ask another question. What is motivation for doing this? To get
more newbie speakers or newbie audience?