[Inpycon] PythonExpress Partnership

Hanut hanutsingh at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 23:32:43 EDT 2016


How much funding are we looking to raise?
Just out of curiosity have we looked at Skill India and CSR funding for
supporting us?

Cheers
Hanut Singh

On 20 October 2016 at 18:26, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
> wrote:
>
>> On , Anand Chitipothu wrote:
>> [..]
>>
>>> We are good at doing Python, not fund raising. Raising funds is not an
>>> easy task. Wikipedia will have a team of people working only fund
>>> raising. I think it is easier for PSSI to seek sponsorships instead of
>>> fund raising.
>>>
>>
>> +1. A friend recently got a project of his funded on indiegogo. The
>> amount of trouble
>> he took to get the thing done was enormous. It's very *very* hard to get
>> crowdfunding.
>>
>>
>> Here is something that might work. Apply for PSF grant for running 100
>>> workshops to start with.
>>>
>>> Assuming there'll be 50 participants in each workshop, that would be
>>> covering 5000 people. If we pay honorarium of Rs. 2000/- to every
>>> workshop instructor and let them manage their travel expenses, that
>>> would cost about Rs. 2 lakh, about $3000.
>>>
>>> I'm sure PSF would be more than happy to sponsor $3000 for teaching
>>> Python to 5000 people, at a cost of 60 cents per person (their limit
>>> is $25).
>>>
>>
>> The numbers look good here but I don't know the details of getting the
>> money from the PSF. On a related note, does the PSSI not have enough
>> leftover from the conference and memberships to atleast partially fund
>> PythonExpress?
>>
>
> I think PSSI should have leftover amount to support this project.
> Two years back it was agreed by PSSI members to allocate 1 Lakh per year
> for this project. I assume it's still same.
>
>
>>
>> That would take care of the expenses for the short run. We can ask the
>>> colleges benefiting from these workshops to donate to PSSI to continue
>>> run Python Express. I'm sure at least some of them will come back.
>>>
>>
>> Good point we can think of it but audit /account hassle is what we need
> to check with PSSI account team.
>
>>
>> The next thing that would might be helpful is to try getting some
>>> government to sponsor. I know it is hard, but we can check with out
>>> friends at FOSSEE and see if something can be worked out.
>>>
>>
>>
>> +1. I was even thinking on the same line. We can reach out to FOSSEE and
> other similar organization. But we need to discuss about mutual benefits
> between PythonExpress and Organizations.
>
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