🌐 Mailman 3 November 2014 - Inpycon - python.org

Development Sprints
by Bibhas March 12, 2015

March 12, 2015

Hi, As someone pointed out earlier and I also think that we don't have enough activities at PyCon to engage newer developer. It's kind of just people coming to venue, sitting at the audis all day long and going home with some points that they might even forget in couple of days. I think a development sprint is a great way to get people started programming and contributing and networking. Like it's done in most PyCons, after the conf is over, they take 2-5 days and organize dev sprints that's open for everybody. I know we might not have budget for that many extra days, but we have a whole floor(if we go for NIMHANS again) lying unused for 3 whole days. We can throw in some tables, chairs, mattresses and it could make a great dev sprint spot. This will make the conference more engaging for the participants. It'd have been perfect if we could get an extra day and experiment for a year. But _if_ that's not possible, can we do it within the conf days? Thanks, Bibhas

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Stickers for Python Express
by Anand Chitipothu Feb. 3, 2015

Feb. 3, 2015

Hi, We distributed python stickers last time at the python workshops done as part of Python Month. We would like to do the same this year. One of the issues last time was sending the stickers to speaker in time. We had couple of volunteers, but that didn't workout very well. I've spoken to Isaac of Sticky Stamp and they charge Rs. 6 per piece for 1000 and more. They are open to reduce the price slightly and ready to take care of drop shipping (sending the stickers to speakers directly). I think this is going to be very helpful as we plan to run Python Express though out the year. My plan is to send 200 stickers to each speaker so that he can use them for about 3 workshops. If we order 5000 stickers, that'll cost slightly less than Rs. 30,000. Please let me know if this look alright. Anand

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Re: [Inpycon] Python Month 2014
by Kiran Gangadharan Feb. 3, 2015

Feb. 3, 2015

Hi, If we aren't waiting for Anand to setup Python Express, then I suggest writing a quick blog post and start spreading the word on social media. Cheers, Kiran Gangadharan http://kirang.in On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Bibhas <me(a)bibhas.in> wrote: > > Last year we celebrated the month before PyCon India as Python Month. We > had volunteers who went around the country and organized workshops at > more than 40 colleges! Organizations like CampusHash also helped us out > in promoting Python Month and PyCon India through their workshops. This > year we plan to organize the same. The month before PyCon India is > chosen because that gives us an opportunity to promote PyCon India. > Also, we'd like to keep organizing these workshops even after PyCon this > year. So start planning. > > This is a really big task to handle and we need volunteers from all the > states and cities. If you're reading this, here is how you can help - > > 1. If you're a student or a profession, propose a workshop at your > institute. Talk to the authorities, fix a time and we'll help you find a > speaker > 2. If you're a Python developer and can speak about the basics of > Python, let us know. We'll find you a college around you that has asked > for a speaker. If you don't want to speak, still let us know. We can > find workshops that you can help organize. > > Remember that this is a complete voluntary effort and there is no > payment involved in any stage of these workshops. The Institutes should > communicate with the speaker directly once they are connected and take > care of anything they need, like transportation etc. > > Interested? Please sign in here and we'll get back to you - > http://bit.ly/pythonmonth2014 > > We need a Lot of volunteers to manage these workshops, talk to colleges, > talk to the speakers and schedule the workshops. Ideally we'd like to > have couple of volunteers per city who can look after Python Month > workshops in that city. These volunteers will go through the workshop > requests in that city and find speakers and connect them. If you're > interested in this role, please reply to this mail. > > If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know. > > Thanks, > Bibhas >

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[X-Post] Diversity
by Vanitha Shanmugam Nov. 18, 2014

Nov. 18, 2014

Hi, This is regarding diversity group organized by PSSI. I have been actively volunteering for PyCon India from past 3 years and I see the female python developers participation getting reduced year by year. This was one of the concern PSSI had discussed during the AGM. PSSI has come up with the initiative, diversity, where we all female developers can share and discuss to see how we can improve the active participation from female developers. If we have any concerns/expectations, PSSI can help us the way they can. We have the mailing list ( http://lists.pssi.org.in/mailman/listinfo/diversity) created. This mailing list only for female pythonistas and the archives are not public so the discussions are kept private. I would request all female developers to join in the mailing list and share your thoughts. Please spread the word. Thanks, Vanitha

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PyCon 2015 volunteer meet
by Kracekumar Ramaraju Nov. 10, 2014

Nov. 10, 2014

Hi We are having volunteers meetup for PyCon 2015 in Hacker Earth office [1] in Kormangala at 12.00 PM. Please reply to the thread if you are coming. For directions please call Kracekumar: 85530 29521 Sayan: 96869 92532 [1]: https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Hackerearth/@12.936892,77.624862,17z/da… -- Regards Kracekumar Ramaraju http://kracekumar.com +91 85530 29521

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PyCon 2015 volunteers' meet - Topics discussed.
by Haris Ibrahim K. V. Nov. 8, 2014

Nov. 8, 2014

Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls, On the 1st of November 2014, the volunteers meet in order to plan for PyCon 2015 was held at the HackerEarth Office in Koramangala. 6 of us were there at the meeting and another 6 joined us through Google Hangouts. Here is a list of what all were discussed and decided: 1. "For 2015, we would like to see..." a) Hackfest / Dev sprint - Get started by user groups in various places organizing sprints locally. - Needs to have planning. - Chandan, Sayan & Bibhas along with Tenzin, to take the lead in planning. 2. PyCon India 2015, Website. a) Learn from PyCon US and EuroPython websites. - They use something called Symposion. - Sheesh, Siva, Krace, Vanitha & Bibhas to lead the effort. b) Get more volunteers to keep testing the website iterations. c) Logo design. - Praseetha & Bibhas to lead the effort. - Get more designers involved. - Sayan to talk to his juniors. d) To be launched on January 1st, 2015. 3. Opening CFP & Talk selection. a) Dates: - CFP opens on January 20th, 2015. - CFP closes on May 31st, 2015. - Month of June will be for talk selections. - Month of July will be for speakers to prepare and upload content. - Month of August will be for preparing the schedule. - Final Schedule to be prepared by September 1st. b) Proposal submission & selection. - Talk selection committee to have 11 members. - Slide deck should be submitted when the talk is proposed. - Talk selection committee should prepare guidelines for Slide Deck creation. - Rejection emails to be crafted and to be sent out for rejected proposals. - IMPORTANT: Talk selection committee should be proactive in providing feedback to speakers. - Have volunteers who will follow up with talk selection committee members & keep them on their toes. - Talk selection committee to be finalized by December 1st week. - Open a mail thread asking for experienced practitioners who can be on the talk selection committee. - Step 1 in talk selection process will be to judge by content. c) Outreach for getting a wide variety of topics. - Actively get in touch with communities who work in different areas like OpenStack, SciPy, etc. - Have more sections in talk proposal form. - Use Mailchimp to create specific mail notification groups that people can selectively subscribe to. - Notify previous speakers. - Have a form/site/something, where potential sponsors can register themselves so that we can reach out to them. - Krace to handle the outreach effort. 4. Mobile App. a) Should have schedule and some feedback mechanism. b) Feedback. - Requires a lot more thought. - Open up a thread on mailing list for discussion. 5. Financial stuff. a) Get more companies to sponsor. - Understand what is stopping a company from sponsoring PyCon India. - Understand what the expectation of smaller companies are. - Get more volunteers to be point of contacts and to reach out to sponsors. - Prepare a proper prospectus with details and points. - Rejy had previously expressed interest in being involved. 6. Open spaces. - IMPORTANT: Open spaces should be given more visibility. - Separate open spaces & sponsor tracks from each other? - Thought: Might be good to let only the Platinum Sponsors have dedicated sessions. - Thought: The other sponsors are free to use open spaces / lightning talk sessions. - Apparently there was a miscommunication between the open space organizers and the other conference organizers in terms of ground work needed to be done and other related things. This needs to be rectified. - Have the planning done at least one month before hand. - Display Open spaces in the conference schedule on the website. That's about it. Here is looking forward to an awesome PyCon India 2015! -- Haris Ibrahim K. V. http://sosaysharis.wordpress.com @harisibrahimkv

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Worthy read for all planners and volunteers
by Ankur Gupta Nov. 2, 2014

Nov. 2, 2014

Hi All, http://composition.al/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real… The organizers of !!Con conference tried few ideas that worked for them including anonymous talk review. Makes for a worthy read for all planners and volunteers of Pyconindia. http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/05/28/anonymous-talk-submission-equals-amazing/ Regards, Ankur -- Homepage -> http://importpython.com

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