[Texas] PyTexas 2015

Tue Jan 13 05:21:27 CET 2015

Glen,

wanted to follow-up with you and see if there have been any more
developments with PyTexas 2015's location. You mentioned reaching out to
Rackspace but haven't heard back. I wanted to see who/how you've reached
out and see if I can help move things along and help get an answer. I've
found that many of the conferences have already been planned out but I'm
sure for something so clsoe I could make a compelling option. Let me know
if things have moved at all.

I'm also interested in helping out with the new site if people are looking
for it. I can see that the page loads (https://www.pytexas.org/2015/) but
it seems like 2015 is a clone of 2014. If there's anything I can do to help
let me know.

Landon

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Landon Jurgens <slick666 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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