[Inpycon] Stepping down from the PyCon India 2018 core team

[Aniket Maithani]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 1:29 AM, Aniket Maithani <maithani.aniket at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 1:14 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar <
> benignbala at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:35 AM, chandan kumar
>> <chandankumar.093047 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Anand Chitipothu, Noufal Ibrahim, Anand Pillai, Bibhas and  the
>> > other members of the community,
>> >
>> > decentralized way of working in the year 2014 and 2015.  He always
>> encouraged
>> > each volunteer to understand and take the responsibility to own the
>> task end to
>> > end, provided confidence and made them comfortable.
>> >
>>
>>         Until that distasteful/impolite github comment...
>>
>>
>> > The job of core team was to support volunteers on a need basis.
>> >
>> > Under the leadership of Vijay during PyCon India 2015, we had taken
>> PyCon India
>> > one step above and all the participants, from sponsors till attendees
>> had
>> > something to appreciate in the event. I don't think anyone can deny
>> that PyCon
>> > India 2015 was one of the best conferences to date. Here you can find
>> the
>>
>>     We all agree that he has made great contributions in the past. No
>> one refuted that. But past achievements do not automatically make
>> someone exempt from criticisms. This current call for apology is for
>> what happened in the last few days and the response that he has given
>> in that specific thread.
>>
>>
>> > the mailing list, in 2017 edition all the discussions were taken offline
>> > through Telegram groups. Were those Telegram groups more trustworthy and
>> > transparent than this year team? All the decisions were taken by a
>> particular
>>
>>
>>
> Hi Chandan,
>
> I hope you remember me as the volunteer who always *"joke" *around during
> the conference. The point which you have raised is quite critical that
> while most of the discussions were taken onto the Telegram group, I believe
> we need to focus on the current thread and not deviate from the topic. As I
> wrote in my previous email on the epic "100+ long" email thread that we
> should not make it* A vs B*. The past is gone!  All we need to do now is
> think about what all we can learn from the same.
>
> I don't know if ever I have seen EMOTIONS on this mailing list but I am
> going to pour some of them now. I completely respect each and every
> volunteer who works for PyCon India. My first Pycon was Pycon 2014. Funnily
> enough I would say my ticket was booked by "XYZ" and my flight ticket was
> booked by "ABC" and that how I landed in Bengaluru for the very first time.
>
> I can get your frustration and things which are happening around. But let
> me tell you and for the matter [others who are in the mailing list] that
> this all *NOISE. *As people say "IN THE LONG RUN, NONE OF THIS WOULD
> MATTER" . What actually matter is the fact that we did some epic stuff e.g
> like running a conference.
>
> For most of the people Pycon India is just not only a conference, it's
> more like GEEKY HOLIDAY BONANZA for them. I am not being nostalgic but it's
> quite sad to see that everyone is leaving because of "X" , "Y" and "Z" .
> And to be honest both of the things "PR ACCEPTANCE ISSUE" and "PUTTING YOUR
> PAPERS DOWN" are completely unrelated thing.
>
> I mean for me it's more like : [SARCASM] :
>
> *mera bat hai, main out! toh main ghar ja *
>
>
> I don't know if you remember this or not but you only selected me to be
> the lead volunteer for MAIN HALL during PyCon 2014. And I can never forget
> the fact that I fell sick due to food poisoning on the second day. Courtesy
> [PRAWNS :P] and when I woke up I found Haris, Satya, Anuvrat standing right
> next to my bed in hospital. And as Noufal pointed out in his email earlier,
> it's about these small moments which you remember about the conference. Now
> coming back to the point I would say let's have face to face discussion
> over this put everthing on email
>

Aah.. I hit the sent button by mistake. I would keep it short. Let's take
this through with maturity and keep up the spirits high. :)

regards

Aniket Maithani
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