🌐 Mailman 3 October 2012 - Inpycon - python.org

Artwork for 2013
by Bibhas Ch Debnath Oct. 19, 2012

Oct. 19, 2012

This year we've seen that we're lacking good designers in our community. There has been posts since about couple of months before the event asking designers to design a logo and that didn't help Everything happened at the last moment. As the main concern is the Logo, I'd suggest that we host a logo designing contest and announce it soon. Maybe the winner can get a free ticket to the event. That'd be much better compared to finding a single freelancer and paying him/her to make a logo. Your thoughts? ---- Bibhas http://bibhas.in

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Next Venue
by Abdul Muneer Oct. 19, 2012

Oct. 19, 2012

Hi, Kiran in his hasgeek blog<http://blog.hasgeek.com/2012/ticket-pricing-the-venue>states that they have evaluated nearly every venue in Bangalore before settling on places like NIMHANS and MLR. These venues cost a lot but are among the only usable venues for events with between 300 to 1000 participants. He also mentions about NIMHANS that the venue has to be booked roughly an year in advance. Shouldn’t we be hurrying up in deciding the venue and booking it? What is the ideal time by which we should close this so that can avoid waiting for the right mood <http://rcrosing.home.xs4all.nl/images/ch_lm_panic.gif>? :-) Regards, Abdul Muneer -- Follow me on Twitter: @abdulmuneer <http://twitter.com/#%21/abdulmuneer>

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Artwork for 2013
by Bibhas Ch Debnath Oct. 19, 2012

Oct. 19, 2012

This year we've seen that we're lacking good designers in our community. There has been posts since about couple of months before the event asking designers to design a logo and that didn't help Everything happened at the last moment. As the main concern is the Logo, I'd suggest that we host a logo designing contest and announce it soon. Maybe the winner can get a free ticket to the event. That'd be much better compared to finding a single freelancer and paying him/her to make a logo. Your thoughts? ---- Bibhas http://bibhas.in

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PyCon India Handbook
by Bibhas Ch Debnath Oct. 17, 2012

Oct. 17, 2012

Can we proceed with that as we discussed? Make a git wiki maybe? ---- Bibhas http://bibhas.in

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LearnStreet's Free Online Python Course
by Aakash Prasad Oct. 16, 2012

Oct. 16, 2012

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PyCon local events
by Abdul Muneer Oct. 16, 2012

Oct. 16, 2012

Hi, One of the suggestions during the AGM was to have city based events. I remember somebody suggesting about conducting an event in his city, Hyderabad. There are many advantages to have local events such as: - A local network and their frequent interactions will do a world of good for pythonistas than an annual event. - PyCon India being an apex event, its quality will go up as people get more experience in a lower tier. - Low barrier for people to participate and present talks. - Popularise language by reaching out to wider participation. I think it is imperative to have formal events at a lower level if we want the quality of PyCon to go up. Perhaps these events should finish before we announce CFP for PyCon India as people will get more experience and can come up with quality talk submissions. Any thoughts? Regards, Abdul Muneer -- Follow me on Twitter: @abdulmuneer <http://twitter.com/#%21/abdulmuneer>

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Exit survey
by Noufal Ibrahim Oct. 15, 2012

Oct. 15, 2012

Is the exit survey sent out? Can someone do it and get it over with? -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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volunteer to uploads
by Anand Chitipothu Oct. 10, 2012

Oct. 10, 2012

Hi, We need a volunteer to upload the videos of PyCon India 2012 conference. We have two different recordings in most of the rooms. One with the slides+video (live mixed on computer) and one without the slides (from cameras). Some rooms have both of these and some have only one. Someone should look at the quality of both the videos and upload the one with best quality. Please let me know if any of you can take up this. Thanks, Anand

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Minutes of meeting - 4th Oct, 2012 at Khosy
by kracekumar Oct. 5, 2012

Oct. 5, 2012

All, We had meeting in khosy's at 7:30 on 4th Oct, 2012 and had discussion about PyCon India 2013, during the discussion we forgot to order the soup :-(. Following people were present * Anand * Noufal * Vijay * Jnana Sagar * Sreekanth * Devi * Kracekumar Discussion was mainly focussed on selection process for talks, tutorials, how to engage student community, volunteers, venue, sponsorship amount etc ... * Minutes of the meeting * * Provide certificate to students/ volunteers. This may encourage students to attend tutorials & talks which can be latter produced in college for adjusting attendance of labs if required etc ... * Send Posters to college in 2 months advance. * Conduct Python workshop during college tech fest as part of spreading awareness of Python through IPSS. * Clearly mention in posters, PyCon India is pure volunteer effort and need volunteers. * Shortlist all possible venues in bangalore and compare the price. Venues can be private convention hall, 5 star hotel, College auditorium. * Deadline for venue finalisation is January. * Decide on the sponsor kit. * All volunteers who are coordinating speakers should have all speakers phone no, photo, twitter handle to contact them. * First timers are not allowed to present tutorials. * Process for selecting speakers has to be strict. First short list all speakers and provide two weeks of time for speakers to upload the presentation and finalise the talk. * Keep a separate volunteer to take care of lighting talks. * During tutorial day it should be assumed INTERNET is not reliable. Volunteers are supposed to handover few pen drives to speakers for distributing materials. * Expectation from volunteer is high, volunteer cannot attend any talks. * Special ticket price for students at early bird ticket. * If possible try to find Indian Keynote speaker, speaker needn't be Python contributor for example PyCon US 2012 keynote speaker was Paul Graham who is known for Y Combinator. * If sponsors company strength is less than 20, 50% discount will be given on sponsorship amount. * There is no hard slab in number of gold and silver sponsors. * Lanyards will have * only Python * logo. * Hat or t-shirt will be given to volunteer to distinguish from participants. Since we ran out of time, we dint get time to decide on website launch. -- Thanks & Regards Kracekumar.R "Talk is cheap, show me the code." -- Linus Torvalds

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PSF Community Award for Kenneth Gonsalves
by Anand B Pillai Oct. 5, 2012

Oct. 5, 2012

Hi all, FYI, PSF just released the official announcement for this. http://pyfound.blogspot.in/2012/10/kenneth-gonsalves-posthumously-awarded.h… -- Regards, --Anand

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