[Inpycon] Venue for PyCon India 2018

[Naman Bhalla]

+1
The conference should be on weekends for higher participation.
25 and 26 for conference might be a better choice.

On 04-Dec-2017 1:10 PM, "Sreekanth S Rameshaiah" <sree at mahiti.org> wrote:

> Please consider including weekend days for the conference. There will be
> sizeable dropout in the participation if weekends are not part of the main
> conference.
> -sree
>
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 at 13:03 Vanitha Shanmugam <vani.pree at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 for August 22 - 26
>>
>> On 4 December 2017 at 12:26, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Sayan Chowdhury <
>>> sayan.chowdhury2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:23 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi All,
>>>> > During our last F2F meeting , we spoke on different venue available
>>>> to host
>>>> > PyCon India 2018.
>>>> >
>>>> > Below is list
>>>> > 1) NIHMANS(One of the volunteer infomred it's not available sept
>>>> month)
>>>> > 2) BIEC:
>>>> > 3) Palace ground
>>>> > 4) MLR white field
>>>> > 5) College(Chirst college)
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > BIEC:
>>>> >
>>>> > Biec is the place where lot of big conferences are happening in
>>>> bangalore.
>>>> > (http://www.biec.in/capacity_chart_confrence)
>>>> > BIEC's convention centre provide multipe halls of capacity
>>>> > (1400,700,250,100)
>>>> > It also has few other smaller halls that can used as per need.
>>>> >
>>>> > Cost of BIEC convention centre is 4.5 L per day. (Apart from setup
>>>> > cost(chairs, internet, and other things))
>>>> >
>>>> > They even have multiple expo halls with 2500 + people capacity. Each
>>>> expo
>>>> > hall will cost us around 8 Lakh per day.
>>>> >
>>>> > If we plan to go with BIEC, we surely need to raise our registation
>>>> fee to
>>>> > minimum 3,000 - 3,500 rupee per head and find more sponsors.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Do share thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We are going forward with BIEC as the venue. Based on the number of
>>>> talks, keynotes, 3 days is the optimum so the days for the conference.
>>>> The conference dates for PyCon India 2018 would be 29th, 30th, 31st of
>>>> August 2018.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Some bad news
>>>
>>> BIEC is not availabel for date August 29-31 as that got boking done last
>>> week itms.
>>>
>>> Availbale dates as of today
>>>
>>> August 20-29 : Onam on August 24
>>> September : 9-18(Ganesh Chaturthi - Sept 13)
>>> Octorber : 14 -19th(Dussehra: Oct 19 )
>>> Novmeber : 1st week(Diwali : Nov 6-7)
>>>
>>> I think it safe to go with August 22-24 (conference). August
>>> 25-26(workshop/dev sprint)
>>>
>>> We need to let them know asap.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vijay
>>>
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