[Inpycon] PyCon India Workgroups

[Jaidev Deshpande]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 at 11:28 Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I would like to propose having permanent workgroups for PyCon India just
> like europython[1].
>
> Think of something like sponsorships. We usually have people running the
> conference looking at sponsorships, which is usually focused on host city.
> We hardly keep contact with our past sponsors. Wouldn't it is nice to have
> a team of volunteers across all the major cities and coordinating?
>
> The plan is to have one workgroup for each of talk selection, sponsorship,
> website etc. and people in the workgroup continue even if the location
> changes. This will make sure that the institutional knowledge is preserved
> and moving conference to a new place is not that hard and we don't end up
> reinventing everything again and again.
>
> Each workgroup will more more or less independently, coordinating with the
> conference team. Volunteers can join one or more workgroups of their
> interest.
>
> We can start with the following workgroups and create more as the need
> arises.
>
> Progam WG - talk selection/voting, scheduling, session chairs,
> sprint/openspace/keynote/lightning talks, Python for young coders
>
> Sponsors WG - sponsor contacts, sponsor logistics, room/booth assignment
>
> Web WG - website management, issue tracking
>
> Marketing Design WG - brochures, banners, flyers, t-shirts, lanyards,
> badges, panels, logo
>
> Media WG - video recording, live streaming, uploads to YouTube
>
> Did I miss any other important ones?
>
> Please share you thoughts and feel to suggest if you have any
> alternative/better ideas.
>

+ 1
Like EuroPython, we should also set up a Google form to let people apply to
the workgroups. For now, I think you, Anand C, should be the one receiving
the applications until we have quorum.


>
> [1]: https://www.europython-society.org/workgroups
>
> Anand
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