[Inpycon] Suggestions for the next PyCon

[sankarshan]

On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Nigel Babu <nigelbabu at gmail.com> wrote:
> PyCon was great and congratulations to the organizers and volunteers. I want
> to bring up a few things I thought we should think of doing before I forget.
>
> * Actually conference being on Friday and Saturday.
> This is probably a bit debatable. We'd have people needing to take a day off
> from work or college on Friday to attend. But the advantage is that people get
> a day off to recover instead of heading back to work or college directly on
> Monday.
>
> * Schedule printed on a sheet small enough to carry.
> We had a large pouch for the ID card. If the schedule was printed small enough
> to fit in there, that'd have been incredibly useful. I know this is challenging
> enough with last minute changes, but just a thought.
>
> * Schedule stuck outside the halls and in the common areas.
> I only noticed the schedule outside the main auditorium. It'd have been nice to
> have it displayed near the second one as well.
>
> * A separate page on the website with a very lightweight schedule.
> I'm thinking on the lines of a text file. Conference internet can be a little
> unspectacular. It'd be nice to be able to see the schedule even on slow
> internet.

In the middle of the discussions over the other thread I noticed that
these suggestions were not part of a discussion. Nigel, I'd like to
thank you for putting them out. I do not know how the organizers would
like to keep track of these, but they will make the conference
experience better.

With regards to the day of the conference, I noticed that another
conference (Droidcon) has been discussing the same [a tweet exchange
between Kiran and Aravind]


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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>