[Inpycon] Talks in PyCon India (was Re: Development Sprints)

[Anand B Pillai]

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On Friday 17 October 2014 03:21 AM, Jaseem Abid wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV 
> <noufal at nibrahim.net.in <mailto:noufal at nibrahim.net.in>> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 16 2014, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
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> [...]
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>>> We, as a community, should make avenues open for first time
>>> speakers, presenters, programmers etc. I just don't think that
>>> these 20 odd talks that are selected once a year for which
>>> people actually fly down and stay in Bangalore should be that
>>> avenue.
>>> 
>> 
>> Would a separate track for first time speakers, presenters,
>> programmers, to be held along with the main conference, be
>> something to consider ?
> 
> I don't know. I'm still undecided on how to split tracks. Level
> wise, topic wise. I think splitting them mostly topic wise and then
> marking talks is one way of doing it[1].
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> 
> I'd love to see one, at least one good extreme talk per year. My
> $0.02


Topic Reset - this started as Development Sprints but seem to
bifurcate to Talks and Quality of talks - Forking another thread for it.

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> Doing it like you suggest makes this track, in some ways, "lower".
> This is where you go to if you're inexperienced, a first timer or
> something else we think less of. This is a gut feeling but I think,
> within the conference, everything should be equal.
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> [...]
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> Footnotes: [1]  https://us.pycon.org/2011/speaker/extreme/
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> -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in 
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