[Inpycon] Announcing PyCon Pune 2017 & Call for Volunteers

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Thin Rhino <thinrhino at gmail.com> wrote:
| Would like to register a protest with the python community in general
\--

Wouldn't it be better to be known for contributing to Python, and
organizing related events?

* The consent sent on October 17, 2016 is the legitimate approach and
we shall adhere to it.

  "... can apply for the trademark and if ... gets permission ... can use it."

Source:  https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2016-October/010803.html

* As agreed, the site looks up at http://pune.pycon.org/

  $ whois pycon.org | grep Organization

  Registrant Organization: Python Software Foundation
  Admin Organization: Python Software Foundation
  Tech Organization: Python Software Foundation

* I request the organizers of PyCon Pune to add a "Friends" page
providing links to other Python events and conferences in India.

* The keynote in PyCon India 2016 talked about "building bridges", and
people, today, are sadly always thinking of "building bricks". This
discussion is a good example for the same.

The fact that PyCon Pune folks set out to try something at the scale
of PyCon is itself an achievement!

I hope and wish other regional Python communities aim to scale higher.

* You and I can afford to come to an annual conference once a year in
Delhi or Bengaluru. But, think about people living in other tier
cities. If you can bring the scale of PyCon (multiple) to nearby
cities, you are giving them an opportunity.

I am thankful that PSF understood the same. Yes, it is not convention.
But, communities give you the freedom to innovate, and you and I
cannot curb that!

* There are some conferences that are sponsored and run exclusively by
companies because they own the copyright. But, they are also quite
explicit about it. The Erlang language, for example, is copyrighted by
Ericsson, and the Erlang User Conference is conducted annually only in
Stockholm, Sweden.

* In a community, it does not matter what your designation is. All
that matters is what voluntary work you do. You cannot dictate
anything to others and vice versa. Sure, there are experienced people
who can guide others, but, everyone is still a volunteer.

* I will encourage people to read history, and understand the
difference between an authoritative 'cathedral' model and the
community 'bazaar' model.

  http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

I shall end with a quote from C. Joybell:

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond
that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never
know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto
something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you
don't have something better.”

Best wishes!

SK

-- 
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com