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

Anand Chitipothu anandology at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 23:06:54 EST 2018


On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:35 AM, chandan kumar <
chandankumar.093047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> [...]
>
> Coming to PSSI, they have given us n-steps on how invoices should be
> raised for
> sponsorship money, one step says they are the only people to share invoice
> as
> they are the statutorily accountable for invoices. We completely
> understand we
> wanted one changed in steps Sponsorship co-ordinator will loop PSSI board
> while
> we should be sending an invoice as continuity for discussion instead of
> PSSI
> suddenly sending the invoice as a surprise. The problem is it took 5
> days for PSSI
> treasurer to accept our proposal, but other members did not agree.  Looks
> like
> PSSI even don't trust that we will do it in right spirit and they are
> citing
> like a company where marketing team's job is to find a customer and let
> other
> teams take over. Does PSSI really trust any PyCon India volunteers? And
> that
> makes me think of a very interesting point. If the people (Lords?) running
> PSSI
> are so concerned about the community, why are you not involving the
> community
> in the organization (PSSI), instead kicked everyone else out from the
> organization (no one allowed us to renew our memberships)? Could anyone
> please
> tell me when was the last Annual General Meeting happened? So, please do
> not
> show your concern about the community when you do not care about the
> community
> at all.
>

There is the email thread that happened in PSSI mailing list.

https://anandology.com/tmp/pssi-sponsorship-thread.pdf

In which, Vijay threatened to run PyCon India without PSSI and demanded
Sree for explanation for why a courier was delayed by a day.
Is that a way to treat a senior volunteer who as been with PyCon India from
the very beginning and even lost a family member for PyCon India (yes, many
of you don't know that).

I Agree that PSSI has its own problems. I've been arguing that PSSI need to
be more efficient and transparent. It is a big mess and there is no sense
of trust among the members. I've suggested everyone to stepdown and let new
people representing all python usergroups in India to take over and drive.
Everyone who replied to that agreed except Vijay and Varnita.

I don't want to change the topic to PSSI here. I'll start a separate thread
discussing that.

Anand
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