From gmail at yudocaa.in Thu Mar 5 00:35:57 2020 From: gmail at yudocaa.in (Sayan Chowdhury) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 11:05:57 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Detailed Proposal for PyCon India 2020 in Bangalore, India Message-ID: Hi everyone, I am Sayan Chowdhury, from the Python community of Bangalore. Last month, Ritesh had sent an email with the proposal to host PyCon India in Bangalore. After the positive feedback from the community, we are sending this detailed proposal to host the event in Bangalore. Bangalore, the IT hub of the country, is home to a lot of Python communities and groups, namely BangPypers, PyLadies, PyData, and many more. Bangalore has also been the host of PyCon India in the past years. It's been a long time since PyCon India happened in Bangalore, and the Python community of Bangalore would like to organize the 12th edition of the event in Bangalore, India. Dates: 2nd of October 2020 to 5th of October 2020 ## Event Size & Format We will have a 4-day event. Day 1 & Day 2: Conference Days with a capacity of 1700 people (can be scaled to 2000) Day 3 & Day 4: Workshop & Dev Sprints with a total capacity of 650 people ## Team We've been able to bring in an initial team to make the event successful. The current members of the organizing team are: - Abhishek Mishra - Ananyo Maiti - Anwesha Das - Arun Teja Godavarthi - Ashish Kumar Mishra - Chandan Kumar - Farhaan Buksh - Kumar Anirudha - Nabarun Pal - Neha Kandpal - Pratik Anurag - Pradhvan Bisht - Rayan Das - Ritesh Agrawal - Sayan Chowdhury (Proposed Chair) - Shivam Singhal - Vipul Gupta The above is not an exhaustive list, and more people will be joining in. We welcome anyone and everyone to join us, especially our previous year organizers, to help us organize a great conference. ## Potential Venue We are in the process of drafting the contract with the Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Centre for the conference days. The venue has three halls: - The convention centre with a seating capacity of 2000 people, which we will be using for the main track. - Medium-sized hall with a capacity of 600 people. - Smaller hall with a capacity of 300 people. We are in talks with a couple of venues for the workshop and dev sprints. ## Communication & Planning The central communication platform for PyCon India 2020 would be Zulip and IRC. We're using the same Zulip[1] instance used last year. After login into Zulip, connect to the 2020 discussion stream[2]. The IRC channel is #pyconindia. The IRC channel is also bridged the Zulip instance. We would follow up this email with more updates as they come along. [1] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ [2] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/224385-2020.2Fdiscussion Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 team From amolkahat at gmail.com Fri Mar 6 02:56:56 2020 From: amolkahat at gmail.com (Amol Kahat) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 13:26:56 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 volunteerolunteer Registration Message-ID: Hello All, As you know PyCon India 2020 planning has started. If you are interested to volunteer please fill up the Google Form[1]. We will be connecting you with the respective Working Groups. Join the Zulip for more live discussion[2]. [1] https://forms.gle/tgxhNBMqwiPr2k1u6 [2] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/224385-2020.2Fdiscussion -- Thanks, Amol Kahat 0xFDD3BA6C832D7715 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We will >> contact the respective people for access. >> >> Regards, >> Ananya >> _______________________________________________ >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> Mailing list guidelines : >> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >> > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Mailing list guidelines : > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anirudhastark at gmail.com Sun Mar 8 18:08:02 2020 From: anirudhastark at gmail.com (Kumar Anirudha) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 03:38:02 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 CFP Workgroup Meet MoM - March 9th Message-ID: Hello everyone, We had our initial discussion on talks sessions this year with regards to PyCon India 2020[1]. Here's a brief around the discussed topics (MOM) from today's call. - CFP starts *March 12th 2020*. - There will *3 parallel talk tracks*. - Talk duration is *30 mins* (25 mins for the talk, 5 mins - Q&A). - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule release. - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending with a keynote talk. - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes each and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start on March 12th. - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning and afternoon. - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required basis and will be decided closer or during the event. If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel free to share your views. If you wish to join the next workgroup discussion follow the discussion on Zulip[2] #2020/discussion stream or on IRC #pyconindia. [1]: https://in.pycon.org/2020/ [2]: pyconindia.zulip chat.com Cheers, Kumar Anirudha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From balchandani.sanchit at gmail.com Mon Mar 9 04:06:38 2020 From: balchandani.sanchit at gmail.com (Sanchit Balchandani) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 13:36:38 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 CFP Workgroup Meet MoM - March 9th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 3:38 AM Kumar Anirudha wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We had our initial discussion on talks sessions this year with regards to > PyCon India 2020[1]. > > Here's a brief around the discussed topics (MOM) from today's call. > > - CFP starts *March 12th 2020*. > - There will *3 parallel talk tracks*. > - Talk duration is *30 mins* (25 mins for the talk, 5 mins - Q&A). > > Thanks Anirudha for sharing the MoM. Just a quick suggestion, can we re-consider talk duration and make it 40 mins (incl 5 mins QnA)? 25 mins + 5 mins QnA are generally less for speakers as they have to rush through to their content, especially in case of demos included. I experienced the dame during PyCon India 2019. In fact, some of the international Python Conferences keep the duration of the talks to be around 40-45 mins. Regards, Sanchit > > - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* > - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* > - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* > - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule > release. > - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending > with a keynote talk. > - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. > - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes > each and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. > - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start on > March 12th. > - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning and > afternoon. > - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required > basis and will be decided closer or during the event. > > If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel > free to share your views. > If you wish to join the next workgroup discussion follow the discussion on > Zulip[2] #2020/discussion stream or on IRC #pyconindia. > > > [1]: https://in.pycon.org/2020/ > [2]: pyconindia.zulip chat.com > > Cheers, > Kumar Anirudha > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Mailing list guidelines : > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sprajosh at gmail.com Mon Mar 9 06:10:52 2020 From: sprajosh at gmail.com (Siddharth Prajosh) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:40:52 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 CFP Workgroup Meet MoM - March 9th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 1:38 PM Sanchit Balchandani < balchandani.sanchit at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 3:38 AM Kumar Anirudha > wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> We had our initial discussion on talks sessions this year with regards to >> PyCon India 2020[1]. >> >> Here's a brief around the discussed topics (MOM) from today's call. >> >> - CFP starts *March 12th 2020*. >> - There will *3 parallel talk tracks*. >> - Talk duration is *30 mins* (25 mins for the talk, 5 mins - Q&A). >> >> Thanks Anirudha for sharing the MoM. Just a quick suggestion, can we > re-consider talk duration and make it 40 mins (incl 5 mins QnA)? 25 mins + > 5 mins QnA are generally less for speakers as they have to rush through to > their content, especially in case of demos included. I experienced the > dame during PyCon India 2019. In fact, some of the international Python > Conferences keep the duration of the talks to be around 40-45 mins. > > Regards, > Sanchit > >> >> - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* >> >> Since we're planning to some rehearsals to improve the quality of the talks, do you think it'll be better if we close it sooner and spend more time on rehearsing? As of now it's 4 months for CFP and 3 months for rehearsing. I'd say 3 months for CFP and 4 months for rehearsing will give us more time to improve the talks. > >> - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* >> - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* >> - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule >> release. >> - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending >> with a keynote talk. >> - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. >> - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes >> each and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. >> - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start on >> March 12th. >> - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning and >> afternoon. >> - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required >> basis and will be decided closer or during the event. >> >> If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel >> free to share your views. >> If you wish to join the next workgroup discussion follow the discussion >> on Zulip[2] #2020/discussion stream or on IRC #pyconindia. >> >> >> [1]: https://in.pycon.org/2020/ >> [2]: pyconindia.zulip chat.com >> >> Cheers, >> Kumar Anirudha >> _______________________________________________ >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> Mailing list guidelines : >> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >> > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Mailing list guidelines : > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf > Regards, Siddharth Prajosh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ananyoevo at gmail.com Mon Mar 9 07:13:46 2020 From: ananyoevo at gmail.com (Ananya Maiti) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:43:46 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Keynote Speaker Suggestions for PyCon India 2020 Message-ID: Hello Everyone, Last Thursday, we sent the proposal for PyCon India 2020 at Bangalore, and we have already started prepping up for the conference. The date and venue are available on the website[1] now. We want to start the process of selecting Keynote Speakers for PyCon India 2020. For people new to the conference, the keynotes at PyCon India, are inspiring talks from speakers, that leave a lasting impact on the conference attendees. The keynote speakers also help to tip the scales for people having second thoughts about attending the conference. This increases participation in the conference and enriches the overall experience of the conference. As indicated in the CFP MoM, we will have 4 keynote speakers. Please send in your keynote speaker suggestion to the mailing list. Please send in one keynote speaker suggestion per mail, containing a brief description of the speaker or Speaker Bio-Link. If you like a speaker suggestion, use +1 style voting to indicate a preference for a particular keynote speaker. We will start approaching keynote speakers in the order of preference within the next two weeks. As a gentle reminder, please do not use top-posting for the email thread as it will be harder to follow the conversation. In case you want to chime in for the PyCon India 2020 discussion, you can join the #2020/discussion stream in PyCon India Zulip[2] domain. [1] : https://in.pycon.org/2020/ [2] : https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ Regards, Ananya From anirudhastark at gmail.com Mon Mar 9 09:09:57 2020 From: anirudhastark at gmail.com (Kumar Anirudha) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 18:39:57 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 CFP Workgroup Meet MoM - March 9th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 15:41, Siddharth Prajosh wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 1:38 PM Sanchit Balchandani < > balchandani.sanchit at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 3:38 AM Kumar Anirudha >> wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> We had our initial discussion on talks sessions this year with regards >>> to PyCon India 2020[1]. >>> >>> Here's a brief around the discussed topics (MOM) from today's call. >>> >>> - CFP starts *March 12th 2020*. >>> - There will *3 parallel talk tracks*. >>> - Talk duration is *30 mins* (25 mins for the talk, 5 mins - Q&A). >>> >>> Thanks Anirudha for sharing the MoM. Just a quick suggestion, can we >> re-consider talk duration and make it 40 mins (incl 5 mins QnA)? 25 mins + >> 5 mins QnA are generally less for speakers as they have to rush through to >> their content, especially in case of demos included. I experienced the >> dame during PyCon India 2019. In fact, some of the international Python >> Conferences keep the duration of the talks to be around 40-45 mins. >> >> 30 (25+5) minutes is actually fairly standard for talks. But if that doesn't work for you, we've open-spaces which can be utilised in-case your content is too big to accommodate in 30 mins. > Regards, >> Sanchit >> >>> >>> - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* >>> >>> > Since we're planning to some rehearsals to improve the quality of the > talks, do you think it'll be better if we close it sooner and spend more > time on rehearsing? As of now it's 4 months for CFP and 3 months for > rehearsing. I'd say 3 months for CFP and 4 months for rehearsing will give > us more time to improve the talks. > Great suggestion. We actually had this discussion. And 3 months of rehearsals seems adequate. This is just to help provide a finishing touch. Couple of more eyes might figure out what's missing. Also, each rehearsal team will have very limited number of speakers to take care of. So, ideally, the process shouldn't take more than a month. Open to more suggestions. > >>> - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* >>> - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* >>> - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule >>> release. >>> - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending >>> with a keynote talk. >>> - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. >>> - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes >>> each and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. >>> - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start on >>> March 12th. >>> - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning >>> and afternoon. >>> - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required >>> basis and will be decided closer or during the event. >>> >>> If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel >>> free to share your views. >>> If you wish to join the next workgroup discussion follow the discussion >>> on Zulip[2] #2020/discussion stream or on IRC #pyconindia. >>> >>> >>> [1]: https://in.pycon.org/2020/ >>> [2]: pyconindia.zulip chat.com >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Kumar Anirudha >>> _______________________________________________ >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>> Mailing list guidelines : >>> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> Mailing list guidelines : >> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >> > > > Regards, > Siddharth Prajosh > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Mailing list guidelines : > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf Cheers, Kumar Anirudha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Just a quick suggestion, can we >>> re-consider talk duration and make it 40 mins (incl 5 mins QnA)? 25 mins + >>> 5 mins QnA are generally less for speakers as they have to rush through to >>> their content, especially in case of demos included. I experienced the >>> dame during PyCon India 2019. In fact, some of the international Python >>> Conferences keep the duration of the talks to be around 40-45 mins. >>> >>> > 30 (25+5) minutes is actually fairly standard for talks. > But if that doesn't work for you, we've open-spaces which can be utilised > in-case your content is too big to accommodate in 30 mins. > > >> Regards, >>> Sanchit >>> >>>> >>>> - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* >>>> >>>> >> Since we're planning to some rehearsals to improve the quality of the >> talks, do you think it'll be better if we close it sooner and spend more >> time on rehearsing? As of now it's 4 months for CFP and 3 months for >> rehearsing. I'd say 3 months for CFP and 4 months for rehearsing will give >> us more time to improve the talks. >> > > Great suggestion. We actually had this discussion. And 3 months of > rehearsals seems adequate. This is just to help provide a finishing touch. > Couple of more eyes might figure out what's missing. Also, each rehearsal > team will have very limited number of speakers to take care of. So, > ideally, the process shouldn't take more than a month. > Open to more suggestions. > If you've already had a discussion and decided the dates it's fine. Thanks for clarifying. :) > >> >>>> - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* >>>> - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* >>>> - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule >>>> release. >>>> - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending >>>> with a keynote talk. >>>> - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. >>>> - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes >>>> each and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. >>>> - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start >>>> on March 12th. >>>> - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning >>>> and afternoon. >>>> - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required >>>> basis and will be decided closer or during the event. >>>> >>>> If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel >>>> free to share your views. >>>> If you wish to join the next workgroup discussion follow the discussion >>>> on Zulip[2] #2020/discussion stream or on IRC #pyconindia. >>>> >>>> >>>> [1]: https://in.pycon.org/2020/ >>>> [2]: pyconindia.zulip chat.com >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Kumar Anirudha >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>>> Mailing list guidelines : >>>> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>> Mailing list guidelines : >>> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >>> >> >> >> Regards, >> Siddharth Prajosh >> _______________________________________________ >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> Mailing list guidelines : >> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf > > > > Cheers, > Kumar Anirudha > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Mailing list guidelines : > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Just a quick suggestion, can we >>> re-consider talk duration and make it 40 mins (incl 5 mins QnA)? 25 mins + >>> 5 mins QnA are generally less for speakers as they have to rush through to >>> their content, especially in case of demos included. I experienced the >>> dame during PyCon India 2019. In fact, some of the international Python >>> Conferences keep the duration of the talks to be around 40-45 mins. >>> >>> > 30 (25+5) minutes is actually fairly standard for talks. > But if that doesn't work for you, we've open-spaces which can be utilised > in-case your content is too big to accommodate in 30 mins. > I think It's not about working for me or not, I made that suggestion in general for both attendees and speakers. I checked PyCon Us and Euro PyCon schedule, both of these premier conferences have 40+ mins of talks. Anyways, if that is already decided then hopefully some other year. > >> Regards, >>> Sanchit >>> >>>> >>>> - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* >>>> >>>> >> Since we're planning to some rehearsals to improve the quality of the >> talks, do you think it'll be better if we close it sooner and spend more >> time on rehearsing? As of now it's 4 months for CFP and 3 months for >> rehearsing. I'd say 3 months for CFP and 4 months for rehearsing will give >> us more time to improve the talks. >> > > Great suggestion. We actually had this discussion. And 3 months of > rehearsals seems adequate. This is just to help provide a finishing touch. > Couple of more eyes might figure out what's missing. Also, each rehearsal > team will have very limited number of speakers to take care of. So, > ideally, the process shouldn't take more than a month. > Open to more suggestions. > > >> >>>> - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* >>>> - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* >>>> - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule >>>> release. >>>> - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending >>>> with a keynote talk. >>>> - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. >>>> - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes >>>> each and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. >>>> - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start >>>> on March 12th. >>>> - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning >>>> and afternoon. >>>> - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required >>>> basis and will be decided closer or during the event. >>>> >>>> If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel >>>> free to share your views. >>>> If you wish to join the next workgroup discussion follow the discussion >>>> on Zulip[2] #2020/discussion stream or on IRC #pyconindia. >>>> >>>> >>>> [1]: https://in.pycon.org/2020/ >>>> [2]: pyconindia.zulip chat.com >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Kumar Anirudha >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>>> Mailing list guidelines : >>>> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>> Mailing list guidelines : >>> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >>> >> >> >> Regards, >> Siddharth Prajosh >> _______________________________________________ >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> Mailing list guidelines : >> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf > > > > Cheers, > Kumar Anirudha > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Mailing list guidelines : > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I propose Florian Bruhin (aka The-Compiler)[0] due to his significant contributions to the Python community, mainly in the form of qutebrowser[1], which is a cross-platform web browser with vim-style key bindings and a minimal GUI written in Python using PyQt - for which he also received a CH Open Source award in 2016[2]. He is also a long term contributor and maintainer for pytest and has done significant work in the development of PySide. Apart from his in-numerous contributions to the Free and Libre Open Source Software, he has also mentored many people, in his personal capability, as well as through the means of various open source programs, like Google Summer of Code, Rails Girls Summer of Code, etc and otherwise. Thanks! Sincerely, Rahul [0]: https://bruhin.software/ [1]: https://qutebrowser.org/ [2]: http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/24116/ch-open-source-awards-2016-vergeben.html -- https://rj722.github.io Department of Electronics Engineering Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - 202002 GPG Fingerprint: C984 E9A2 D2E3 E581 4F3E DB1E DD53 53EC 154B 6811 From anuvrat at anuvrat.in Mon Mar 9 15:42:55 2020 From: anuvrat at anuvrat.in (Anuvrat Parashar) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 01:12:55 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 CFP Workgroup Meet MoM - March 9th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <871rq1qpq8.fsf@anuvrat.in> Kumar Anirudha writes: > Hello everyone, > > We had our initial discussion on talks sessions this year with regards to > PyCon India 2020[1]. > > Here's a brief around the discussed topics (MOM) from today's call. > > - CFP starts *March 12th 2020*. > - There will *3 parallel talk tracks*. > - Talk duration is *30 mins* (25 mins for the talk, 5 mins - Q&A). > - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* > - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* > - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* > - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule release. > - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending with > a keynote talk. > - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. > - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes each > and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. > - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start on > March 12th. > - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning and > afternoon. > - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required basis > and will be decided closer or during the event. > > If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel > free to share your views. A few members of the community have requested for an advanced track. Anything from stories of firefighting to scaling infrastructure on a war footing. Folks who have been in the industry for half a decade or more, and not as emotionally invested with community as the organizers do not find much to take away from the conference. My two cents. Cheers -- Anuvrat Parashar https://anuvrat.in From anirudhastark at gmail.com Mon Mar 9 19:19:41 2020 From: anirudhastark at gmail.com (Kumar Anirudha) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 04:49:41 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 CFP Workgroup Meet MoM - March 9th In-Reply-To: <871rq1qpq8.fsf@anuvrat.in> References: <871rq1qpq8.fsf@anuvrat.in> Message-ID: On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 01:13, Anuvrat Parashar wrote: > > Kumar Anirudha writes: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > We had our initial discussion on talks sessions this year with regards to > > PyCon India 2020[1]. > > > > Here's a brief around the discussed topics (MOM) from today's call. > > > > - CFP starts *March 12th 2020*. > > - There will *3 parallel talk tracks*. > > - Talk duration is *30 mins* (25 mins for the talk, 5 mins - Q&A). > > - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* > > - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* > > - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* > > - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule > release. > > - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending > with > > a keynote talk. > > - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. > > - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes > each > > and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. > > - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start on > > March 12th. > > - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning and > > afternoon. > > - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required > basis > > and will be decided closer or during the event. > > > > If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel > > free to share your views. > > A few members of the community have requested for an advanced track. > > Anything from stories of firefighting to scaling infrastructure on a war > footing. > > Folks who have been in the industry for half a decade or more, and not as > emotionally invested with community as the organizers do not find much > to take away from the conference. > > My two cents. > Interesting. How do you propose we structure this? Can you explain more with an example? > > Cheers > -- > Anuvrat Parashar > https://anuvrat.in > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Mailing list guidelines : > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf Cheers, Kumar Anirudha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Just a quick suggestion, can we >>>> re-consider talk duration and make it 40 mins (incl 5 mins QnA)? 25 mins + >>>> 5 mins QnA are generally less for speakers as they have to rush through to >>>> their content, especially in case of demos included. I experienced the >>>> dame during PyCon India 2019. In fact, some of the international Python >>>> Conferences keep the duration of the talks to be around 40-45 mins. >>>> >>>> >> 30 (25+5) minutes is actually fairly standard for talks. >> But if that doesn't work for you, we've open-spaces which can be utilised >> in-case your content is too big to accommodate in 30 mins. >> > > I think It's not about working for me or not, I made that suggestion in > general for both attendees and speakers. I checked PyCon Us and Euro PyCon > schedule, both of these premier conferences have 40+ mins of talks. > Anyways, if that is already decided then hopefully some other year. > It's not all decided yet. But we would like to take final decisions by 12th and get started with CFP process. Hence this mailing thread. Let's say we do this, this would definitely be beneficial for a few speakers getting more time for their talk. But this would also mean less number of speakers will get the opportunity to present at all. This could have worked if we were to do a 3 day conference or had more parallel tracks. If I'm not wrong, PyCon US is a 3 day conference (talk sessions) with 6 parallel tracks. > > >> >>> Regards, >>>> Sanchit >>>> >>>>> >>>>> - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* >>>>> >>>>> >>> Since we're planning to some rehearsals to improve the quality of the >>> talks, do you think it'll be better if we close it sooner and spend more >>> time on rehearsing? As of now it's 4 months for CFP and 3 months for >>> rehearsing. I'd say 3 months for CFP and 4 months for rehearsing will give >>> us more time to improve the talks. >>> >> >> Great suggestion. We actually had this discussion. And 3 months of >> rehearsals seems adequate. This is just to help provide a finishing touch. >> Couple of more eyes might figure out what's missing. Also, each rehearsal >> team will have very limited number of speakers to take care of. So, >> ideally, the process shouldn't take more than a month. >> Open to more suggestions. >> >> >>> >>>>> - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* >>>>> - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* >>>>> - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule >>>>> release. >>>>> - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending >>>>> with a keynote talk. >>>>> - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. >>>>> - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes >>>>> each and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. >>>>> - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start >>>>> on March 12th. >>>>> - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning >>>>> and afternoon. >>>>> - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required >>>>> basis and will be decided closer or during the event. >>>>> >>>>> If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, >>>>> feel free to share your views. >>>>> If you wish to join the next workgroup discussion follow the >>>>> discussion on Zulip[2] #2020/discussion stream or on IRC #pyconindia. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [1]: https://in.pycon.org/2020/ >>>>> [2]: pyconindia.zulip chat.com >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Kumar Anirudha >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>>>> Mailing list guidelines : >>>>> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>>> Mailing list guidelines : >>>> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >>>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Siddharth Prajosh >>> _______________________________________________ >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >>> Mailing list guidelines : >>> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> Kumar Anirudha >> _______________________________________________ >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> Mailing list guidelines : >> http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf >> > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > Mailing list guidelines : > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf Cheers, Kumar Anirudha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference is scheduled in October as of now and an update regarding CFP will be posted by next week. > > - There will *3 parallel talk tracks*. > - Talk duration is *30 mins* (25 mins for the talk, 5 mins - Q&A). > - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.* > - Schedule shall be released on *15th August 2020.* > - Talks will be presented on *October 2nd and 3rd 2020.* > - There will be rehearsals for the talks selected post schedule > release. > - There will be *4 keynote speakers*, each day starting and ending > with a keynote talk. > - Keynotes are 1 hour duration each. > - There will 2 small breaks (morning and evening) of 20-30 minutes > each and 1 lunch break for 1 hour. > - Workshop CFP dates follow same as talks CFP and will also start on > March 12th. > - Workshop will carried on *October 4th 2020* in 2 slots, morning and > afternoon. > - Open Space sessions and lightening talks will be on as required > basis and will be decided closer or during the event. > > If you've any thoughts or suggestions around the discussion above, feel > free to share your views. > If you wish to join the next workgroup discussion follow the discussion on > Zulip[2] #2020/discussion stream or on IRC #pyconindia. > > > [1]: https://in.pycon.org/2020/ > [2]: pyconindia.zulip chat.com > > Cheers, > Kumar Anirudha > Cheers, Kumar Anirudha -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The keynote speakers also help to tip the > scales for people having second thoughts about attending the > conference. This increases participation in the conference and > enriches the overall experience of the conference. > > As indicated in the CFP MoM, we will have 4 keynote speakers. Please > send in your keynote speaker suggestion to the mailing list. Please > send in one keynote speaker suggestion per mail, containing a brief > description of the speaker or Speaker Bio-Link. If you like a speaker > suggestion, use +1 style voting to indicate a preference for a > particular keynote speaker. > > We will start approaching keynote speakers in the order of preference > within the next two weeks. > > As a gentle reminder, please do not use top-posting for the email > thread as it will be harder to follow the conversation. > > In case you want to chime in for the PyCon India 2020 discussion, you > can join the #2020/discussion stream in PyCon India Zulip[2] domain. > > [1] : https://in.pycon.org/2020/ > [2] : https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/ > > Regards, > Ananya Kushal Das I propose Kushal Das[0] due to his significant contributions to free and open source communities around the world. Kushal Das is a CPython Core Developer and lone Indian serving as director of Python Software Foundation[1]. He has worked on different aspects of the standard library, including unit test and mock. He is also the author of the draft ?Local Packages Directory? PEP (PEP 582) along with many other community members. Kushal has inspired a whole generation of people to contribute to upstream projects and has helped start DGPLUG and has conducted online training to get more upstream developers from India. Kushal works as a public interest technologist in non-profit called Freedom of the Press Foundation. His day job is to maintain SecureDrop[2]. SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to securely accept documents from anonymous sources. Kushal is also part of the core team of the Tor Project and a long time contributor to the Fedora Project. He has helped as a staff volunteer in Pycon US and is an active part of other conferences all over the world. Regards, Kurian Benoy [0] https://kushaldas.in/ [1] https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/history/ [2] https://securedrop.org/ [3] https://github.com/kushaldas/ From anandology at gmail.com Fri Mar 13 00:16:56 2020 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:46:56 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] Inpycon Digest, Vol 128, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 9:24 AM Kurian Benoy wrote: > [...] > > Kushal Das > > I propose Kushal Das[0] due to his significant contributions to free > and open source communities around the world. Kushal Das is a CPython > Core Developer and lone Indian serving as director of Python Software > Foundation[1]. He has worked on different aspects of the standard > library, including unit test and mock. He is also the author of > the draft ?Local Packages Directory? PEP (PEP 582) along with many > other community members. > > Kushal has inspired a whole generation of people to contribute to > upstream projects and has helped start DGPLUG and has conducted online > training to get more upstream developers from India. Kushal works as a > public interest technologist in non-profit called Freedom of the Press > Foundation. His day job is to maintain SecureDrop[2]. SecureDrop is an > open-source whistleblower submission system that media > organizations can install to securely accept documents from anonymous > sources. > > Kushal is also part of the core team of the Tor Project and a long > time contributor > to the Fedora Project. He has helped as a staff volunteer in Pycon US > and is an active part of other conferences all over the world. > Kushal was one of the keynote speaker in 2014. https://in.pycon.org/2014/ Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gmail at yudocaa.in Thu Mar 19 08:43:10 2020 From: gmail at yudocaa.in (Sayan Chowdhury) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:13:10 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 - The Road Ahead? Message-ID: Hi everyone, I'm dropping this email to discuss the road ahead for PyCon India 2020, around the current situation of COVID-19. COVID-19 was one of the first topics we discussed within the team and we're giving a close watch with its developments. We planned that we would come back to the topic later if situations worsen. The team discussed it hours before it was declared a pandemic by WHO and had a formal meeting this week. I would like the community to actively participate in this discussion thread. Problems ======== - COVID-19: The rate of spread for COVID-19 is high, and even there is no timeline to when things would get better. - Hotel Booking: Sheraton has prepared the contract and we have to send out our payment and book the venue, but the situation is quite volatile now. Paying the hotel would mean we would be locked with the venue and if things go south, then we will end up losing money. - Complete Isolation: At this point in time, it is better to stay in complete isolation, and same goes for the volunteers. - Keynote Speakers: With the current VISA situation, we cannot fly in any of the keynote speakers from outside - Sponsors: The team talked to other organizers, and the companies at the moment are refraining from sponsorships. This is not true for all companies but a fair percentage of them. - Travel, Tickets & Participation: We also fear ticket sales. Till the time things don't get better, people might be reluctant to buy tickets. - Lockdown: If things don't get better there is a possibility of lockdown which means any public gathering would be banned How are we planning to go ahead? ================================ We are planning to do some research with other options in hand, which means we won't be doing it at Sheraton. The options that we have are: - Smaller conference: We are planning to have talks with smaller venues like NIMHANS, BIC. The plan is to talk and negotiate with the cancellation. This means the expected crowd will fall down - Online conference: The other option is to have an online conference. We need to do budgeting for both the options and do some research if we go for the online conference option. The plan is we will closely monitor the situation and make the decision on which option to opt for. It would be great to have the community come forward with questions, suggestions to make PyCon India 2020 a success. -- Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 team From blucalvin at gmail.com Thu Mar 19 09:10:59 2020 From: blucalvin at gmail.com (Haris Ibrahim K. V.) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:40:59 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 - The Road Ahead? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > - Online conference: The other option is to have an online conference. Putting effort into this depends on why PyCon India is being conducted in the first place. The "people physically getting together at a common place" adds a lot of value to the conference. Since that is indubitably not going to happen if we take the online route, then why are we putting in the effort for this? 1. So that the consistent chain of PyCon India conferences that has been happening won't break? 2. What do people get from an "online pycon india" happening that they won't be able to get otherwise? I mean that if the focus is the "content", then isn't really good content already available that people can consume online? What more would they gain? I don't mean this in a discouraging tone, but unless there is a proper tangible value that comes out of people attending a conference this way, again, "why" do it? > We need to do budgeting for both the options and do some research if > we go for the online conference option. The plan is we will closely > monitor the situation and make the decision on which option to opt > for. I am not completely aware of the venue booking policies that these places have, but since things are in a flux as you've already pointed out, and also since no payments and bookings and other formalities have been made (or have they been made already?), why not relax the October dates as of now and keep it December or so? Obviously because this would give us more time (2 more months at least) to monitor the situation and then make bookings accordingly. A lot of conferences already seems to have made this decision around the globe. Do we have any other concerns that force us to stick strictly with the October dates? If there are, then maybe prioritize them based on which of them we can sacrifice considering this unexpected setback. -- Haris Ibrahim K. V. http://sosaysharis.wordpress.com @harisibrahimkv From gmail at yudocaa.in Fri Mar 20 09:04:30 2020 From: gmail at yudocaa.in (Sayan Chowdhury) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:34:30 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 - The Road Ahead? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > > Putting effort into this depends on why PyCon India is being conducted > in the first place. The "people physically getting together at a > common place" adds a lot of value to the conference. Since that is > indubitably not going to happen if we take the online route, then why > are we putting in the effort for this? "Hallway Track" is the unofficial part of the conference which all of us look forward too. And in no means, this can be replicated in the online one. Why? The core of "Hallway Track" is fluidity and serendipity. Which I don't think any of the online platform can replace. But I've dug into platforms which can help us do that. Obviously, the hallway track would be replaced by video/audio calls. The closest match I've found is Hopin[1]. > > 1. So that the consistent chain of PyCon India conferences that has > been happening won't break? It can be indirectly inferred, yes but A lot of people actually look forward to PyCon India as a place to meet people, talk to people and listen to wonderful talks. A year of cancellation means another year of wait. Even if the conference is online, and if we can replicate the hallway track in its minimalistic form it will a beneficial to a lot of people. Making it online also increase the reach of the conference with more people getting to attend the conference. > 2. What do people get from an "online pycon india" happening that they > won't be able to get otherwise? I mean that if the focus is the > "content", then isn't really good content already available that > people can consume online? What more would they gain? This would apply to an offline conference as well. Content is indeed available over the internet so there would be no point of having talks in online/offline conference but this is not true. The reasons talks happen: - Content is scattered. Talks provided an excellent way to aggregate this into one place. You get to know about new things, get an update on projects, trivia and more in one place. You spend a lesser amount of time to cover more domain. - Experience: A lot of time these talks provide an excellent way for the presenter to present their experience, which is not usually available over the internet. This is one of the ways new content is created. - Discussion: Talks provokes ideas and discussion. A good talk can start a discussion around a topic and work around it. This does not happen in a silo but happens quite often in the hallway tracks of a conference. This year one of our plans is to set up an editorial working group whose sole responsibility is to find good speakers and topics they can talk on. This is also in the lines of what Anuvrat had suggested as an "Advanced Track" in one of the previous PyCon India 2020 emails. > > I don't mean this in a discouraging tone, but unless there is a proper > tangible value that comes out of people attending a conference this > way, again, "why" do it? Not at all discouraging. I appreciate the questions which are the point of the email thread. > > > We need to do budgeting for both the options and do some research if > > we go for the online conference option. The plan is we will closely > > monitor the situation and make the decision on which option to opt > > for. > > I am not completely aware of the venue booking policies that these > places have, but since things are in a flux as you've already pointed > out, and also since no payments and bookings and other formalities > have been made (or have they been made already?), why not relax the > October dates as of now and keep it December or so? > > Obviously because this would give us more time (2 more months at > least) to monitor the situation and then make bookings accordingly. A > lot of conferences already seems to have made this decision around the > globe. > > Do we have any other concerns that force us to stick strictly with the > October dates? If there are, then maybe prioritize them based on which > of them we can sacrifice considering this unexpected setback. We are open to a reschedule. We even talked with the Sheraton hotel where they said we can reschedule the conference up to 3 months but that would still be a risky move. Depending on how things turn out we might move dates to November or December. Under no circumstances, we will move PyCon India 2020 into next year. As of now, the first option is to have smaller offline conference, if that fails then online. [1] https://hopin.to/ -- Sayan Chowdhury GPG Fingerprint : 0F16 E841 E517 225C 7D13 AB3C B023 9931 9CD0 5C8B Q: How can I use more inclusive language? A: https://heyguys.cc From anandology at gmail.com Fri Mar 20 20:54:44 2020 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 06:24:44 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 - The Road Ahead? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:13 PM Sayan Chowdhury wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm dropping this email to discuss the road ahead for PyCon India > 2020, around the current situation of COVID-19. > > COVID-19 was one of the first topics we discussed within the team and > we're giving a close watch with its developments. We planned that we > would come back to the topic later if situations worsen. > > The team discussed it hours before it was declared a pandemic by WHO > and had a formal meeting this week. > > I would like the community to actively participate in this discussion > thread. > > Problems > ======== > - COVID-19: The rate of spread for COVID-19 is high, and even there is > no timeline to when things would get better. > - Hotel Booking: Sheraton has prepared the contract and we have to > send out our payment and book the venue, but the situation is quite > volatile now. Paying the hotel would mean we would be locked with the > venue and if things go south, then we will end up losing money. > - Complete Isolation: At this point in time, it is better to stay in > complete isolation, and same goes for the volunteers. > - Keynote Speakers: With the current VISA situation, we cannot fly in > any of the keynote speakers from outside > - Sponsors: The team talked to other organizers, and the companies at > the moment are refraining from sponsorships. This is not true for all > companies but a fair percentage of them. > - Travel, Tickets & Participation: We also fear ticket sales. Till the > time things don't get better, people might be reluctant to buy > tickets. > - Lockdown: If things don't get better there is a possibility of > lockdown which means any public gathering would be banned > > > How are we planning to go ahead? > ================================ > > We are planning to do some research with other options in hand, which > means we won't be doing it at Sheraton. > > The options that we have are: > - Smaller conference: We are planning to have talks with smaller > venues like NIMHANS, BIC. The plan is to talk and negotiate with the > cancellation. This means the expected crowd will fall down > - Online conference: The other option is to have an online conference. > > We need to do budgeting for both the options and do some research if > we go for the online conference option. The plan is we will closely > monitor the situation and make the decision on which option to opt > for. > > It would be great to have the community come forward with questions, > suggestions to make PyCon India 2020 a success. > It looks like the biggest risk is the money getting locked with the hotel. If the situation continues to be the same till October, that means the economy would be severely hit and I don't think we will be able to find a single sponsor. Given this situation, I think it may be too risky to spend any money on the venue at this point in time. One option that can be considered is to plan the event at an academic institution, of course we need to plan for a smaller size conference. For example, IIM Bangalore has a good auditorium and connected rooms and we can talk to them and see if they are willing to host the event. I'm sure we can even talk to many engineering colleges in the city. This allows us to run the conference of if the situation improves, but not lose any money if have to cancel the conference. This also gives us confidence to run the conference even if we don't find any sponsors as budget is very low. Anand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noufal at nibrahim.net.in Sat Mar 21 13:49:54 2020 From: noufal at nibrahim.net.in (Noufal Ibrahim KV) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:19:54 +0530 Subject: [Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 - The Road Ahead? In-Reply-To: (Anand Chitipothu's message of "Sat, 21 Mar 2020 06:24:44 +0530") References: Message-ID: <87r1xlwqbh.fsf@sanctum> My own opinion that we should cancel it. The situation is too unpredictable and we really don't know when things will clear up. A lot of commitments financial and otherwise have to made upfront to conduct the event and making these at a time like this is short sighted. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in