[Inpycon] PyCon India 2020 - The Road Ahead?

[Haris Ibrahim K. V.]

> - 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.


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