[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[vijay kumar]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Arvi Krishnaswamy <arvi at alumni.iastate.edu>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Anand B Pillai <
> anandpillai at letterboxes.org> wrote:
>
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>> every year". This is wrong. It should be about being more inclusive
>> every year - having the right mix of talks to attract a varied audience.
>
>
> ​The challenge is that I dont see the conference currently becoming more
> inclusive every year. I could be wrong, but from what I see, certain groups
> are dropping off and it's now mostly beginners. 80% of the audience raised
> their hands during the keynote to say they were attending for the first
> time. ​And I also didnt the large number of students who attended in 2013
> return this year. I think definitions of inclusive may vary, but to do that
> we need to make deliberate choices to provide for the target audience that
> we care about. I dont think anyone wants to exclude beginners. However,
> we're talking about moving from the current ratio of 10:10:80
> (expert:intermediate:beginner) to maybe (20:30:50). The rank beginners to
> Python would also be welcome, but urged to instead attend pyexpress.
>
>
 Just to give stats of this year
   Software Engineer(2-4 years) : 40% ,  Student: 18% , Senior
engineer(more than 4 years: 22%  other: 20%
 Which means more than 60% of them were experience people and many were
first timers.
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