[Inpycon] PyCon India Workgroups

[Sreekanth S Rameshaiah]

> On 28-Feb-2018, at 11:26 AM, 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
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> 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]: https://www.europython-society.org/workgroups <https://www.europython-society.org/workgroups>

This sounds interesting. I went through the link but could not get enough info about how these independent workgroups coordinate. How are these workgroups anchored together to make the event a success? How does EuroPython do this? 

Sree
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