[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[Noufal Ibrahim KV]

On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Abhaya Agarwal wrote:


[...]

> But that would mean moving the conference days to Friday-Saturday making it
> harder for many to attend the first day.

[...]

Yup. Can't have it all. 

In one way, this is a good thing. One thing about PyCon India is that
it's very easy to attend. It's usually on a weekend, the prices are low,
the food is good, the swag is nice. 

The result is that it attracts a huge crowd. Just statistically, the
number of people who don't particularly care but just "drop by" will be
high.

Now imagine if there were a bar. If it was costly or the days were
inconvenient or something else, that automatically acts as a filter, the
"don't care much" crowd will drop saying things like "too costly" or
"not worth a leave" or something similar. *Most* of the passionate
people will still make it and that will improve the audience quality and
reduce the quantity. This makes for a more manageable conference which
is more beneficial to the people that actually attend. 

People who crib about a ticket costing a few hundred rupees and not
being able to expense it for some reason will simply stay away and that
will, I think, make for a better conference. 

I'm probably in the minority here but I genuinely think we should try to
change the event to attract a smaller of number of
good/passionate/talented/experienced people rather than a large number
of people who simply drop by. The latter might have been a good idea
back in the day but now with local user groups and python express, I
don't think it's necessary any more. 


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Cordially,
Noufal
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