[Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 CFP Workgroup Meet MoM - March 9th

[Sanchit Balchandani]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020, 18:40 Kumar Anirudha, <anirudhastark at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 15:41, Siddharth Prajosh <sprajosh at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 1:38 PM Sanchit Balchandani <
>> balchandani.sanchit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 3:38 AM Kumar Anirudha <anirudhastark at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>
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> 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.
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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.


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>> Regards,
>>> Sanchit
>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - CFP closes on *1st July 2020.*
>>>>
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>> 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.
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> 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.
>
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>>>>    - 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 <http://pyconindia.zulipchat.com>chat.com
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Kumar Anirudha
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>> Regards,
>> Siddharth Prajosh
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