[Inpycon] Concern regarding PyCon India 2016 sponsors

[Saurabh Kumar]

Good points, I think everyone would have/would benefit if there is an upto
date central handbook with these things mentioned for everyone to follow.

Every year organising members change and they are not going to read through
all the past emails per say.

My 2 cents!

Cheers,
Saurabh

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On Nov 28, 2016 6:38 PM, "vijay kumar" <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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