[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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> --Anand
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