[Texas] PyTexas 2015

Sun Jan 4 21:44:04 CET 2015

Glen,

Sounds like we might have something going here. We might be able to
leverage all the work that we're doing for DjangoCon to help organize
PyTexas. Here is the list of Hotels/Venues that we're considering and we
plan on finalizing this week.

https://github.com/djangocon/djangocon-us-docs/blob/master/hotels.yml

I can see how much support I can drum up in the community and see if Austin
would be a good fit this year. We may want to seek out a key sponsor in the
community to make it happen and it may be worth looking over number to make
sure we have things covered.

As far as having at The Castle in San Antonio I work for Rackspace out of
both SA and Austin offices. Perhaps I can see about greasing the wheels and
getting some sort of a reply back. Perhaps you can share your contact with
me privately and I can see what I can do from the inside.

Cheers
Landon

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Glen Zangirolami <glen at glenbot.com> wrote:

> Landon/Peter,
>
> We have been hosting PyTexas in College Station over the last few years
> because of the value it gives us. The venue is very nice and very
> inexpensive (we can take this offline for financial details). The college
> town is cheap to stay in and it’s mostly central to Houston, Austin,
> Dallas. Some quirks we have found with Austin are finding a place that is
> well priced and convenient to get to without a lot of hassle. Traffic in
> Austin and price of Hotels makes it more difficult for people to come from
> out of town.
>
> That said, we are outgrowing the venue in College Station. We had over 200
> registrations last year and are expecting at least 300 this year. This
> could allow us to have it in College Station 1-2 more years. My ignorance
> in Austin venues is what has been driving me to stay in College Station. I
> just don’t know enough or have any venue contacts in Austin. We have
> reached out to Rackspace to see if they were willing to host 2015 at the
> Castle in San Antonio but have not heard back.
>
> I’m all for hosting this in Austin if our budget allows us and we can hit
> the points above. PyTexas is entirely community volunteers and is not
> organized by a 3rd Party company or a business so we have to count our
> pennies when it comes to a venue. We do funnel the expenses through the
> PyTexas Foundation, a Texas Non-Profit,  which consists of me (Glen
> Zangirolami), Jeremy Boyd, and Kevin Horn.
>
> If you want to take this further in a separate thread we are always
> looking for volunteers and it so happens we need a venue chair this year.
>
> Glen Zangirolami
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2015, at 11:00 PM, Peter Wang <pwang at continuum.io> wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Glad to see some discussion about this.  FWIW, SciPy has been in Austin
> for several years now; that's its new home ever since it moved from
> Pasadena in 2010 (2009?).
>
> I am an organizer for Austin Python and if there is interest in doing
> PyTexas in Austin, I think there would be a lot of enthusiasm from the
> local crowd to help volunteer and organize...
>
> -Peter
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Landon Jurgens <slick666 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh and it looks like the SciPy conference is going to be in Austin this
>> year too.
>>
>> https://conference.scipy.org/scipy2015/
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Landon Jurgens <slick666 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, depending on the time and location of PyTexas this year I was
>>> thinking a community table might be appropriate (either a DjangoCon booth
>>> at PyTexas or visa-versa) and general sharing of Ideas. I haven't been able
>>> to find much on PyTexas plans for this year but you all are welcome to take
>>> a look at our notes that we have posted. While I've been to plenty of
>>> conferences I'm really excited to help out.
>>>
>>> I'd also like to help out on PyTexas in any way that I can. I'm new to
>>> Texas (~3 months) so I don't have as much of a feel for the area but I'd
>>> like to help get involved and get things rolling if possible. College
>>> Station isn't too far from where I am so I'd like to volunteer and help the
>>> organization in any way that I can.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for your help
>>> Landon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Glen Zangirolami <glen at glenbot.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Landon,
>>>>
>>>> We have not started organizing PyTexas 2015 yet. I have put out a few
>>>> bids to places for hosting 2015 with no bites. In what ways would you like
>>>> to collaborate?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Glen Zangirolami
>>>> glen@ <glenbot at gmail.com>glenbot.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014, at 09:43 PM, Landon Jurgens wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Paul beat me to the punch! You can find out more information on our
>>>> mailing list
>>>>
>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/djangocon-organizers
>>>>
>>>>  We also keep our notes on organization up on github
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/djangocon/djangocon-us-docs
>>>>
>>>>  I'm wondering what the plans are for PyTexas this year. Do we think
>>>> there might be an opportunity to collaborate here?
>>>>
>>>>  Landon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Paul Bailey <paul.m.bailey at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes DjangoCon 2015 was already announced: September 7-10, at the Hilton
>>>> in Austin, Texas
>>>>
>>>> See
>>>> https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/oct/10/call-volunteers-djangocon-us-2015/
>>>>
>>>> On Mon Dec 29 2014 at 3:20:12 PM Sheila Allen <sheila at allendev.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looping in the PyTexas organizers....
>>>>
>>>> It's interesting to hear that DjangoCon is planned for Texas in 2015.
>>>> Have the venue & date been set yet?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Landon Jurgens <slick666 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm reaching out to the community to see where the discussion is
>>>> happening for PyTexas 2015. I'm interested in helping but not sure where I
>>>> can. DjangoCon is going to be in Texas this year so I'll probably be
>>>> working on both projects.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Landon
>>>>
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