[Inpycon] Fwd: workshops

[Jaseem Abid]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How many workshops are we going to select this year?
>
> I've noticed that there were some "introduction to Python" workshop
> proposals this time. Are we going to give away some of the already limited
> slots for these newbie workshops?
>
> I'm in general not in favor of having "learn python" talks at PyCon India.
> I think PyCon India should be conference for python programmers, not a
> place for people to start learning Python.
>


Amen!

It should be newbie friendly, but not this much. Completely agreeing to the
point.

Learn python can be extended to learn 'this new flashy library which won't
be there a year or 2 from now. A lot of 'how to do this' talks rather than
'why'. Infinite number of Flask/Request tutorials. Those talks do have a
place, but probably not at Pycon.


I'm not against the idea of spreading/teaching Python along with the
> conference. We could run workshops in different cities as part of Python
> Month. We can even host a 1 full-day python workshop on the tutorial day at
> a different venue. (TERI has hall with seating capacity of 100+ and that
> costs less than 15K.)
>
> What do you think?
>
> Anand
>
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Regards,

Jaseem Abid
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