[Inpycon] Call for Proposal for PyCon India 2025

[Koti Vellanki]

If you are interested in joining us, please fill out the volunteer
interest form: https://in.pycon.org/volunteer.


*Best,*
*Koti Vellanki*


On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 at 9:32 PM, Saumya Katiyar via Inpycon <
inpycon at python.org> wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>
> I would like to volunteer as well. I will be in Bangalore from next month.
> Let me know the process to apply for the volunteer.
>
> Regards,
> Saumya
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM Kumar Anirudha via Inpycon <
> inpycon at python.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 23:25, Kumar Anirudha <anirudhastark at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 23:16, Nabarun Pal <pal.nabarun95 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi everyone!
>> > >
>> > > We would like to submit a proposal to organize PyCon India 2025 in
>> > > Bengaluru in the month of September. Once the proposal is accepted, we
>> > > will finalize the dates for the conference.
>> > >
>> > > The plan is to conduct the conference at NIMHANS Convention Center
>> > > which has a capacity of 1100 people in the main room for the keynote
>> > > talks and two other halls having a capacity of 300 and 200
>> > > respectively. We don’t want to make too many changes to the format of
>> > > the conference from last year as it worked pretty well and we want to
>> > > additionally refine our processes to make the organization of the
>> > > conference leaner and simpler.
>> > >
>> > > ** Proposed Event Format - 4 days of event
>> > > - 1 day of workshop
>> > > - 2 days of general sessions - Keynotes, Breakout Sessions, Open
>> > > Spaces, Poster Presentations
>> > > - 1 day of developer sprints
>> > >
>> > > An initial team of volunteers has agreed to help with the conference:
>> > > (Note: This is not an exhaustive list and is in alphabetical order.)
>> > > - Abhishek
>> > > - Ananyo
>> > > - Anirudha
>> > > - Arjun
>> > > - Arka
>> > > - Ashish
>> > > - Bhavin
>> > > - Bibhas
>> > > - Chandan
>> > > - Farhaan
>> > > - Nabarun
>> > > - Pratik
>> > > - Rayan
>> > > - Sayan
>> > > - Shabnam
>> > > - Shilpi
>> > > - Sohom
>> > > - Surbhi
>> > >
>> > > We invite interested people from all the Python chapters in India to
>> > > join in helping make the event a great success. We will continue
>> > > following the Working Group model to manage the conference, with some
>> > > consolidations done learning from experiences from the recent past.
>> > > Once the proposal is accepted, I will send out an email detailing the
>> > > responsibilities of each working group.
>> > >
>> > > We will be setting up WhatsApp groups to manage internal
>> > > communications, with Zulip and this mailing list being the medium for
>> > > inbound communications from attendees. Specific working groups can
>> > > choose different communication media depending on their requirements.
>> > > All these groups on instant messaging platforms will be spun down
>> > > after the conference is over in the interest of long term
>> > > communications on Zulip. We will be communicating event updates to the
>> > > broader community through this mailing list. Tasks will be
>> > > co-ordinated through GitHub Project Boards.
>> > >
>> > > We would really appreciate a go-ahead from the community so that we
>> > > can start booking the venue, gathering volunteers, involve a design
>> > > agency and call for talk proposals for the conference.
>> > >
>> > > If you have any questions or comments or concerns, please chime in on
>> > > this thread.
>> > >
>> > > Best,
>> > > Nabarun
>> >
>> > Thank you for providing such a detailed proposal. Let’s give it
>> > another week to proceed under lazy consensus and finalise by January
>> > 12th.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Kumar Anirudha
>>
>> Given that this is the only proposal for 2025 and the timeline has
>> already passed, I believe Bengaluru it is, for this year.
>> All the best!
>>
>> Everyone else: Please share your feedback or suggestions on Nabarun's
>> proposal.
>>
>> 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
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/attachments/20250121/92950482/attachment.html>