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[X-post] Venue & dates update
by vijay Dec. 31, 2012

Dec. 31, 2012

Hi , We have booked NIMHANS on August 30 - Sept 1 2013 for pycon India 2013. Thanks to Sreekanth and Anand M for visiting NIMHANS and doing needful. Wishing all a Happy new year 2013. Regards, Vijay

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MoM of meeting on new society - 28 Dec
by Anand B Pillai Dec. 31, 2012

Dec. 31, 2012

Dear all, (Sorry for the X-post as it is intended) Three of us - myself, Anand C and Srikanth of Mahiti met at ICH, MG Road on this Friday (28 Dec) to chalk out plans for the new society registration which has become a requirement after the unfortunate death of Kenneth. Here are the minutes of the meeting in brief. 1. New society to be registered in Bangalore within the next 1 month or so. 2. Society name would be mostly "Python India" assuming the officials have no issues with it. (We might have to append "Society" at the end otherwise). 3. Plans to close the current society (IPSS) would start in parallel. Once the new society is registered and we have a bank account, we would move the funds from IPSS to the new organization's account. There are some formalities here so this would take a bit more time than registration of new society. We also discussed Kenneth Gonsalves memorial award and came up with some plans. 1. The award guidelines document would be published in Jan and would be made available for comments. 2. Once finalized, we plan to announce submissions for the award by Feb-Mar 2013 - details of which would be announced later. We would update the lists with status of these items as and when we tick off the tasks. Wish everyone a Happy New Year 2013. -- Regards, --Anand

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Re: [Inpycon] venue for 2013
by Niyaz Puzhikkunnath Dec. 26, 2012

Dec. 26, 2012

If Nimhans is affordable as Vijay says, then why can't we finalize on that? BTW I am kind of late to the party, but was PESIT ever considered? I think they have at least one big hall for keynotes (and popular talks) and a couple of seminar halls. The lecture halls are also supposed to be at least as spacious as the Dharmaram ones. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Niyaz Puzhikkunnath <hello(a)niyaz.pk> wrote: > If Nimhans is affordable as Vijay says, then why can't we finalize on that? > > BTW I am kind of late to the party, but was PESIT ever considered? I think > they have at least one big hall for keynotes (and popular talks) and a > couple of seminar halls. The lecture halls are also supposed to be at least > as spacious as the Dharmaram ones. > > > > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace(a)pobox.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > The only problem with Nimhans is that we can't use the venue overnight. >> They >> > start harassing us to get out from 7 PM onwards because the staff want >> to go >> > home for the night (they'll change their minds and become nice if you >> tip >> > them, but still not overnight). >> >> We can book the venue for 3 days including tutorials day. If we >> promise to setup the sponsor booths only for the main conference, we >> can use the tutorials day for the doing some of the arrangements. >> >> Anand >> _______________________________________________ >> Inpycon mailing list >> Inpycon(a)python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon >> > > > > -- > - Niyaz > >

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Re: [Inpycon] Inpycon Digest, Vol 42, Issue 8
by Abhaya Agarwal Dec. 9, 2012

Dec. 9, 2012

Hi, > > The hard disk with the videos is with one of the volunteers. We need > people with high bandwidth connections to upload them. If there are > sufficient people here who can take that up, the videos will be available online. > > I may have some spare bandwidth. Can do about 20 GB. If that helps, let me know. Abhaya

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PyCon 2012 Videos
by Alagappan Dec. 9, 2012

Dec. 9, 2012

Hi Guys, On looking at the official YouTube channel of PyCon, I realize that a lot of videos taken at PyCon 2012 have failed to be officially released. Having missed some of the popular sessions, I was really looking forward to seeing those videos online. If any help/support etc is required, I would be more than happy to volunteer and put in some effort from my end and will also try to get a few friends involved. On the same note, we should strive to get some great videos for PyCon 2013. Also if possible try to get it listed on pyvideo.org as well. Thanks & Regards, Alagappan Ramu +91 9840 143 620 http://about.me/alagappanr NIT Trichy <http://www.nitt.edu/> | Global Analytics India Pvt Ltd<http://global-analytics.com/>

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dates for PyCon India 2013
by Anand Chitipothu Dec. 9, 2012

Dec. 9, 2012

Hi, We need to finalize the dates of PyCon India 2013 to book the venue early. Like previous years we can pick a date in september. Assuming it is a three day conference like last year, we need to finalize on friday,saturday and sunday. Dates that we should avoid: September 6-7: Hasgeek is doing an event September 9: Ganesh Chaturdhi Possible dates: September 13-15 September 20-22 Sepetmber 27-29 The first might be too short time for hasgeek folks to recover from their event to help us. The last two looks equally good to me. If there are no objections, we can finalize September 20-22. What do you think? Anand

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Carl and pyvideo.org for Pycon-India-2013?
by Vid Dec. 9, 2012

Dec. 9, 2012

Hello Folks, I could not attend Pycon-IN this year but did check out the videos on Youtube and didnt find too many of them for 2012 - was there a different tag or are they being hosted elsewhere? Fwiw, I was talking to Carl Karsten, the unofficially official A/V master for all things PyCon. So far, has done videos for: PyCon DE 2012, and 11, DjangoCon 2009,10,11, PyOhio 2009,10,11 , SciPy 2012, PyCon US 2012 and, 08, 09,10,11, PyGotham 2011, PyTexas 2011 and I was blown away by the recording quality. I would like to see Pycon-India talks have the same quality that you see listed on http://pyvideo.org/, so I asked if he would be interested in visiting India and helping us out in 2013 and he is interested, but here are some things we need to consider: 1. Travel costs - Chicago to Bangalore (Can someone confirm if Pycon-IN 2013 will be held in BLR?) flight cost for him and his colleague. 2. He needs volunteers to work with him during the conference (which is how he keeps costs down). Here are some links from their discussions on the pyconca list below: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/pyconca/bJ3ez_ni0zE/nu240JWWrUoJ> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pyconca/dxNCKpMMWM4/E8A5MNXc6dEJ> <https://github.com/codersquid/veyepar/wiki/conference-recording-thoughts> For those who think its too early to decide for 2013, do remember that he has quite a busy schedule. Also, I'd like to ask Carl to follow the discussion online, and earlier the list was private, so I am CC'ing him. Thoughts? Thanks and Regards, Vid ॥ http://svaksha.com ॥

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venue for 2013
by Anand Chitipothu Dec. 9, 2012

Dec. 9, 2012

Hi, We should book dates and venue for PyCon India 2013 early this time. The possible options are: * Nimhans * JN Tata * some 5 start hotel We discusses briefly about it the last meeting and but haven't reached a conclusion. I spoke to Kiran about the quality of 5-hotels and here is what I got from him. * They don't have seats with raised elevation like in auditoriums, making it hard for people it the back to see what is happening. * They don't push back seats, don't have arm rest. * They put a white cover over the seat, which starts sliding down when sit on it for long. On the whole these places are not designed for people to sit for long hours. Kiran, is there anything that you would like to add it this? That leaves us with the option of Nimhans and JN Tata. I would for Nimhans because it is more accessible, it has a 25MBPS BSNL line and hasgeek is doing another event there early september 2013. Since hasgeek is doing an event there, we'll get to know about the issues early and we can prepare for well. I also heard from some hasgeek folks that Nimhans is planning to raise their rates from 2013. We'll save some money if we book it right now. I suggest we book Nimhans once the dates are finalized. I'll start another thread to discuss the dates. Comments? Anand

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New requirement from PSF for code of conduct
by me kracekumar Dec. 7, 2012

Dec. 7, 2012

Hello PSF has made code of conduct for pycon across the world. In order to receive grant from PSF, Pycon should follow the conduct. http://pyfound.blogspot.in/2012/12/psf-moves-to-require-code-of-conduct.html

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