[Inpycon] venue
Kenneth Gonsalves
lawgon at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 03:08:41 CET 2011
I have explained my point of view in another message on this thread - I
am not going to repeat myself.
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 18:51 +0530, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10 2011, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > I would like to also point out that being obstinately
> repeating
> > Coimbatore is good, great, fine etc doesn't make it so. You
> seem to
> > believe that hammering a point down the throat of others,
> makes it by
> > default a valid and accepted one.
>
>
> I didn't get the impression he was shoving the point down
> anyone's
> throat. I think the crux of his argument was
> - That Chennai was what was suggested but is not in a
> position to
> conduct it
> - Most of the people who proposed Chennai are now in
> Coimbatore.
>
> This is not a valid argument. Let us assume for a moment that myself,
> you, Anand C, Vijay Bang, Sri and a bunch of others who helped ran
> Pycon 2010 move to Mysore in 2011. Would you use that as a basis for
> saying
> we will run Pycon 2012 in Mysore ?
>
>
> - There are enough colleges and students there to do the
> groundwork.
>
> Great. But as I have personally seen and experienced in Pycon 2010,
> just having a bunch of college students to run around is not good
> enough.
> Someone has to be on the ground, directing them.
>
>
>
> - And it's now accessible.
>
> These however don't address your comments about requiring a
> cosmopolitan
> city with an active *Python* community (not a LUG most of the
> members of
> which code in Python) so your point is still valid and I'm
> personally,
> not too hot about holding it in Coimbatore (-0).
>
> Yes, so you got my point.
>
>
>
> Let's see what the Chennai (and others if any) have to say
> about the
> event. We'll beat it out on the list for a few days and
> finally
> decide. The groundwork *has* to start with March if we're to
> get a good
> event happening. Also, the PyCon in the US is then so if we
> get the ball
> rolling, we can invite someone from there for our conference
> here.
>
>
> Exactly. It is not good to argue and make it appear that the following
> is an axiom.
>
> 1. We first decided to do this in Chennai.
> 2. Most of the organizers who would have done this in Chennai
> is now in Coimbatore.
> 3. Most of these organizers feel this can be done in Coimbatore.
> 4. 1 and 2 with the support of 3, implies that Coimbatore is the
> natural
> venue for this.
>
> I would like to point out that 4 doesn't lead directly from 1,2 and 3.
> We need to hear about other city folks in the list, discuss
> thoroughly,
> call for a telecon of interested folks if required and take a proper
> decision within a week or two at most.
>
> [...]
>
>
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