[Inpycon] Python Month

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Anand B Pillai
<anandpillai at letterboxes.org>wrote:

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> On Monday 08 July 2013 12:59 PM, Kiran Gangadharan wrote:
> > Hi Anand,
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> > Shall we write a blog post about our lookout for volunteers for
> > Python Month and publicise in social media ? That ought to get some
> > more volunteers for us.
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> Could be useful, but remember that social media is not
> by itself a silver bullet. If there is no framework or plan in
> place to handle the incoming volunteers, your initiative
> may not work out well.
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> There are many concepts discussed here, I see,
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> 1. Hackathon - Attached to conf.
> 2. Distributed Hackathon.
> 3. Python Month (could be tied to #2)
> 4. Algorithm contest
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> Just to summarize - to streamline further discussions.
>

This thread is focussed on Python Month.
The goal of Python Month is to introduce Python in the student community.
The goals of 1, 2 and 4 are completely different from that.

I agree, we need to have a plan ready before we start publicizing this.
That the reason I suggested to wait for couple of days
before publicizing on full scale.

Anand
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