[Inpycon] Concern regarding PyCon India 2016 sponsors

[vijay kumar]

Hi,

I think PyCon India 2016 did not facilitate sponsors with everything we
promised. We did not share contact point app with them to collect
participants info but the participant badges were printed with the barcode.
I have no idea why we really spent time and money on barcodes when contact
point app was not planned to be shared.

One of the sponsors raised this concern recently and the sponsorship
co-ordinator mentioned today that it was not shared because the app was not
ready. We should have at least informed the sponsors about this or used the
last year's app and told them to not get the device with latest android
version since our app was not up-to-date.

Another point to be noted is that we had not communicated sponsors about
the pamphlets they can share with us to include in swag kit.

Am really concerned how sponsors took this and how would they react. It
took us good enough time and effort to reach the point we are now with
PyCon India and handling them this way affects PyCon India.

There were a lot of inconveniences caused w.r.t the venue and stuff to the
participants but all that can be fixed in next PyCon India. But upsetting
sponsors is not the right thing as we represent Python India
Community(PyCon India).

Am not here to criticize the efforts put this year, I just want to let the
next year PyCon India team know that we have to be precautionary handling
sponsors as they are our pillars. Please plan things well.



With Thanks
Vijay
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