[Inpycon] Help with Venue for PyCon India

[AMiT Kumar]

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
wrote:

> On Sat, May 07 2016, Jaidev Deshpande wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> 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
>

I feel this is good.


>    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
>

I strongly disagree with this, every great speaker have his first talk
someday & there is no proven research that experienced speakers deliver
great talks. We should learn from conferences like DjangoCon which
encourages first time speakers and there is no doubt that's a great
conference.


>    absolute intro topics.
>  - The general audience "quality is low" (this should probably be
>

I don't understand what they mean by quality. How do you measure quality?
Do you call beginners as bad audience or veterans as great audience? If
that's so, I still disagree. Nevertheless it's very subjective to say that.


>    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.
>

I don't see this as a solution to the problem you mentioned.


>
> As I mentioned in an earlier email, this might be a bad direction but
>

+1 Yes, it is.


> 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.
>
>
-1


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> Noufal
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