[Inpycon] Help with Venue for PyCon India

[qua non]

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:56 PM, qua non <akshayaurora at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> In case not all of you are aware the current slowdown in interaction with
>> the mailing list for PyCon related tasks is cause we had a setback.
>>
>> Our existing booking for the SriFort was cancelled by Sri fort
>> Authorities cause they have their own function that conflicts with our
>> dates.
>>
>> They have further increased the booking price to be exactly double of
>> what it was earlier. We have been looking for and have been in talks with
>> other venues since then.
>>
>
> Thats insane. Are they not even ready to consider some other dates with
> the same price since we have already booked in advance?
>

As far as they are concerned it's not their problem.


>
> In our efforts have have looked at almost every other place possible in
>> delhi most are either not available or not big enough for our needs, we
>> need main audi with 1000+ seating and two secondary halls with 300, 200
>> seating.
>>
>> We are currently in talks with IIT Delhi to book Dogra hall and
>> accompanying seminar halls for this purpose. We are also in talks with
>> people from J.P University in Noida for this purpose
>>
>> Currently our efforts are not really getting us anywhere so this is a
>> call to the people out in the community.* **If some of you folks have
>> some contacts in a place that you can get us a booking then please contact
>> us and help out.***
>>
>> Backup we are booking JNU, Convention Center if nothing else goes
>> through. It has a seating capacity of hall 1 350 + hall 2 350. Lecture hall
>> 1 150, Lecture Hall 2 150, Meeting room 60+.
>>
>
> 350 + 350 is quite decent IMHO.
>

I f we can't get any other option then we will go through with JNU.


All the best!


Thanks.


Regards
Akkshay
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