[Inpycon] Dates for PyCon India 2015

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 10/15/2014 09:15 PM, Arvi Krishnaswamy wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com
> <mailto:anandology at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I heard that MLR whitefield has 2 auditoriums of roughly equal size.
>     That might be worth exploring. 
> 
> 
> The MLR Whitefield space is pretty impressive, and is more modern than
> Nimhans. However, it's really one large audi (bigger and nicer than the
> Nimhans main audi - holds 800+)​. The lower area is a banquet dining
> hall (holds 300+ depending on table layouts) whose acoustics are not
> great, but was used for a 2nd track at Droidcon. There's a couple of
> smaller rooms (can fit 50+ people) nearby that work well for open spaces
> and smaller discussions. One nice thing about this venue is that since
> things are multi-level, everything feels closer to each other compared
> to Nimhans. On the other hand, not sure how well it'll scale up to the
> crowds we had this year (not an issue if we cap ticketing at 1000).
> 
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I am totally unimpressed with the MLR Whitefield space. In my opinion,
it only pretends to be modern, but does not provide enough facilities as
expected. :-)

It might be okay for conferences with just one or two tracks, and pure
business audiences. PyCon needs a lot more space than a couple of
auditoriums, for the side-track events that happen, and the interactions
among participants.

The NIMHANS location has much better parking facility, and the NIMHANS
location is more convenient for commuting to as well.

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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)