🌐 Mailman 3 April 2013 - Inpycon - python.org

Encouraging women developers to join PyCon
by Bibhas Ch Debnath Aug. 27, 2013

Aug. 27, 2013

Hi everyone, We have been talking about encouraging women to join PyCon and start working on python. Why not take a step towards it? How about we decrease ticket price to some amount or maybe waive it totally for them? This could bring some questions like how'd we know that the ones joining are bringing some value to the conference. Well, if more women are attending, that's already a plus. To ensure even more, we could start a program, like, ask them to create a github account, create 2-5 repo, show us and they get a free ticker. Sounds odd and silly, but this will also encourage them to start using git or any VCS. And this also shows us that those participants actually made some effort to join the conference. They are not just drove by the offer of freebies. I haven't seen many girls take up the initiative to become a developer, only couple of my college friends did. They have no one to encourage them in becoming developers. So to do that, we might have to put some extra manual effort. But it should be overall good for the community. PS: Should have put the gender field in last year's feedback form. Could get a statistic. This year will definitely do it. ---- Bibhas http://bibhas.in

6 9

Keynote speakers
by Anand Chitipothu June 7, 2013

June 7, 2013

Hi, I think it is time to think about keynote speakers. Anand Pillai is attending US PyCon, I hope he'll be abe to speak to potential keynote speakers there if we decide whom to invite. Anybody else from bangpypers attending US PyCon? Whom should we invite? How many keynote speakers should we have? 2 or 4? Anyone from India? Please share your inputs? Anand -- Anand http://anandology.com/

16 34

Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013
by Noufal Ibrahim May 19, 2013

May 19, 2013

Okay. We need to get this wrapped up. We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for. - Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects. - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib. - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general. - Steve Holden - PSF - Van Lindberg - PSF - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements). In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker. - Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project). I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to make a decision. I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong, active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict. Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective. The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

14 16

[OFF-TOPIC] New PSF member
by Anand B Pillai May 2, 2013

May 2, 2013

Hi all, Slightly off-topic but wanted to inform the list that Kushal Das has been elected to PSF board member roster this year. Congrats Kushal! Ref: http://www.python.org/psf/members/ -- Regards, --Anand

9 8

First Gold and Silver sponsor's for pycon 2013
by vijay April 30, 2013

April 30, 2013

Hello everyone, Good news! Enthought is our first Gold sponsor. Projectplace is our first Silver sponsor. http://in.pycon.org/2013/ Thanks Enthought and Projectplace for supporting PyCon India. Vijay

3 2

Tutorials
by Anand Chitipothu April 26, 2013

April 26, 2013

Hello everyone, We need to roll out CFP soon. Before that we need to finalize how we are planning to have tutorials. Tutorials didn't work out very well last year. We had newbies submitting tutorials. One tutorial speaker didn't turn up and many were not up to the mark. One of the ideas to improve it is to have only experienced trainers give these trainings and we pay these trainers for their efforts. Instead of keeping one flat fee for attending tutorials, we can have fee for each tutorial and people will have to pay for each tutorial that they want to attend. This helps in keep the number of attendees in each training in control and we can plan the logistics better. I suggest keep Rs. 1500 for each training, limit each training to 30 people and pay about half of that amount to trainer. What do you think? Anand

9 24

Updated Sponsorship Prospectus
by Anand Chitipothu April 25, 2013

April 25, 2013

Hi, I made a small update to sponsorship prospectus. It had "logo on swag kit" as benefit to platinum sponsor, I've replaced it with "Logo on the notebooks given to participants". Last year, we had to negotiate with our platinum sponsor to change this benefit as we didn't go with a swag bag. The updated sponsorship prospectus is available at: http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf Please use this when showing it to all our potential platinum sponsors. :) Anand

1 0

Potential sponsors
by Anand B Pillai April 16, 2013

April 16, 2013

Hi all, Myself and Ramki met with around 8-10 companies and shared contact details while we were at PyCon U.S. Many of them are potential sponsors and likely supporters. Will send more details in next few days. Those who are handling sponsorship directly please raise your hand and let me now. -- Regards, --Anand

3 3

PyCon India 2013 Sponsorship Prospectus
by Anand Chitipothu April 12, 2013

April 12, 2013

Hi, Vijay made sponsorship prospectus for PyCon India 2013 and I made some fine tunings to it. Please have a look at it and let us know if anything is missing. http://in.pycon.org/2013/static/pyconindia2013-sponsorship-prospectus.pdf Changes from last year are: * sponsorship slabs are raised * 50% discount to startups * Free passes Anand -- Anand http://anandology.com/

9 14