[Inpycon] Announcing PyCon Pune 2017 & Call for Volunteers

[Noufal Ibrahim KV]

We're talking at cross purposes here. Let me try to explain.

I'm not arguing (or for that matter even interested in) whether using
the name is legal (esp. from a copyright perspective) or not.  This
indifference of mine extends to the organisations who do have an
interest in the topic and their members (specifically the PSSI and PSF).
Your analysis of the topic, while accurate, is not really addressing my
concern.

I'm also not interested in authority. If Kushal and other others who are
most involved with this effort right now go ahead and just use the name,
no one can legally shut them down or anything. Please note, I'm not
arguing about whether someone can shut them down or not (as you seem to
imply that the PSSI cannot). I'm saying that I'm not interested in the
question and am addressing another point.

My objections are as follows. 

1. Using the name violates a rather deep set convention of having one
   PyCon per country (or in the case of APAC, a group of
   countries). This gives it a certain "national" character.

2. Having more than one "PyCon *" in India per year dilutes the
   brand. It splits the sponsors, divides the community etc.

Now both of these objections can over ruled if there is a genuine
reason to use the "PyCon *" name. There were two that were brought up
namely size and duration. Both of these, to me, are not sufficient
reasons and that's where we are. Secondly, the whole thread can be
aborted as Thin Rhino suggested by simply using a name like PyPune. Why
is that not an option?

I don't view the original email as "asking permission" nor do I view the
resulting thread as an attempt to "deny permission". It's a discussion
where certain people have raised objections based, not on the legality
of using the name, but whether it's simply a good idea or not.

As a poor analogy to try to explain my position, I don't think it's
"illegal" in any way to conduct a Ruby conference in Bangalore and
call it "PyCon Kozhikode". It's inappropriate and would probably be
rightly criticised by all communities involved. The idea should be
shot down because of this community disagreement rather than a tenuous
argument which proves that it's not "legal" to do this.


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