[Inpycon] venue

[Noufal Ibrahim]

On Fri, Feb 11 2011, Ramdas S wrote:


[...]

> Point is which is the alternative city if not Coimbatore? Chennai has
> over-ruled itself.

Not yet. 

> While people are suggesting Pune, I have not seen a comment which
> inspires confidence in organizing in Pune. Suggestions are fine, but
> we need 2-3 names who inspires confidence in rest of us, that they
> would be able to deliver a property like Pycon. Now that exists with
> Coimbatore. We can all be confident under Kenneth's stewardship we may
> be able to deliver in Coimbatore.

It's not only about the leaders. I put it to the list that Pune has a
better tech. culture than Coimbatore. There are more startups and other
hacker friendly conferences that take place there. The immediate crowd
would be better and so would the mood of the conference. 


> Delhi is another place where activities have started, again no one
> whom we can all trust has come forward and bid

True. While we were discussing regional conferences at the APAC PyCon,
many people asked me why not Delhi and the main reason I gave was lack
of any cogent community that I was aware of. 

> This boils down to just Coimbatore and if Coimbatore is not accepted
> we need to rethink, Bangalore.

No. There's Chennai and Pune. I'd prefer BAngalore be out of the
question and frankly, I'm quite adamant about it. 


[...]

> 1) Hold it in Coimbatore
>
> If Yes,
>    Lets all gang up and make it great for Coimbatore
> OR
>
> 2) Go Back to Bangalore Let's make it the best Pycon ever, probably
> the last to be held in Bangalore for next 2-3 years, unless we have
> situation like this again, next year.

[...]

I think you're summarily dismissing Pune and I don't agree with that. 



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