[Inpycon] Help with Venue for PyCon India

[Noufal Ibrahim KV]

On Sat, May 07 2016, Jaidev Deshpande wrote:

[...]

> +1
>
> One of the best PyCons I've been to, was in 2011, which was also,
> AFAIK, the smallest PyCon.

[...]

I supped with some new friends last week and PyCon India came up. They
had similar sentiments. 
Their feedback had 3 points. 
 - The size is too much. It feels very impersonal. This is perhaps okay
   since when size is big, people form cliques and smaller groups by
   themselves.
 - The talk quality is low. Very basic talks ("build your first website
   in Django" etc.). These talks are not useful for experienced people
   (since they already know all this) and not for beginners (since they
   usually need more than 30-40 minutes to learn something like
   this). This can be fixed by disallowing first time speakers and
   absolute intro topics.
 - The general audience "quality is low" (this should probably be
   rephrased more accurately). One of the chaps I spoke to mentioned
   some heckler who gave a speaker a hard time about the semantics of
   the id function. Of course, we can't police the people who attend but
   projecting the whole event as something that's on the advanced side
   for experienced people might have positive benefits. 

As I mentioned in an earlier email, this might be a bad direction but
it's atleast worth an experiment and given the circumstances right now,
I think it's a good time to try. 

So basically, less (simple) talks, less (first timer) people, higher
quality.

-- 
Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in