[Inpycon] Fwd: Sponsorships from IITB

Noufal Ibrahim noufal at gmail.com
Wed May 26 19:36:36 CEST 2010


I've been in touch with Prabhu from IITB about getting some
sponsorships. This was the email which I last received.

Some of the points would affect the way we structure things so I think
we need to have a discussion.

What do you guys feel?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Prabhu Ramachandran
Date: Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: Sponsorships from IITB
To: Noufal Ibrahim
Cc:


Hi,

On Tuesday 27 April 2010 09:47 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
>
>    We've started work on this years PyCon and are currently working on
> the sponsorship drive.
>
>    I remember you mentioned a possibility of getting some sponsorship
> for the conference from IITB. Being a govt. thing, I imagine it will
> take a while but do you think it will be possible to start some
> threads to see if something turns up? It'd definitely help the
> conference a lot. The estimate of the budget is at
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/BudgetEstimates and the
> overall sponsorship plans are at
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndia2010/SponsorShip. They're
> subject to change but not dramatically so.

I've thought about this and discussed with Asokan.  I think we could
fund you for about 1 lakh but we have the following suggestions:

 1. You should produce something worthwhile at the end of the
conference, like hold sprints, or help coordinate for spoken tutorials
(http://www.spoken-tutorial.org).  Basically the Python community
should get something out of this.

 2. Exercise better control over the talks and their selections.  More
lightning talks or shorter talks.  No long talks except if the speaker
is known to be a really good speaker. Unlike last time, the no. of
parallel sessions should also be planned better.

 3. Allow us to conduct a tutorial track for science and engineering streams.

 4. Put up a fossee logo on the t-shirt and also some banners and
allow us to setup a small stall.

Judging by your current budget I think you might not need to contact
Enthought and I am not sure it will help much since Enthought is a
really small company and I am not sure they will be in a position to
do much given that they are doing most of the work for SciPy2010 this
year.

cheers,
prabhu



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~noufal
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