Last time when we tried which was 2 years back, we actually had three to four sponsors willing to cough up something like 10-20 K each which was pretty good to organize a single day event.
If I remember to do an event in Bangalore at St Joseph College Auditorium, our budget was around 40-50 K which included a CD and T Shirt each for approx 200 participants. We even planned to charge a delegate fee of Rs 99/ which would have covered lunch and refreshments, plus housekeeping charges. Things fizzled out since few were willing to volunteer beyond a point. What we require is some legs (young and old) to run around. Btw the Barcamp guys had offered to actually host a Python conference within their unconference. So that could also be a start. Someone need to hook up Ramdas I On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Amit k. Saha <amitsaha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy <ramkr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > >> <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I skip fsck.in, missed freed.in and it seems osidays > >>> are for suits. So where am I placed ? > >> > >> +1. Lets have a PyCon India, on a the similar lines of Pycon, > >> community run. Nothing big and fancy, but proper Developer | System > >> Administrator | user mini conference or a Python Activity Day. > >> Sometime later this year. I personally would not prefer fsck.in. Not > >> everone is a developer :P but with python you can become one in a few > >> hours. I still believe there is lot we can do in order to spread > >> python . Over past few years I have seen Ruby. Rails as a framework > >> picking up only with the hype around the technologies. > > > > +1 for this (for long time, it must be now carrying interest). > > We have mooted this idea here and even tried to pull one > > but I guess the planning was not good. > > > > I think a conference where everything down from concept, > > planning, motives and finances were open and not > > controlled by a secret cabal is what we want. It should > > be for developers, but for anyone who has even written > > only one line of code in Python. Still, it should not be > > too generic so that it becomes an unconference. > > > > Also, we will accept all fruits and vegetables, > > including high and low hanging, not just people making > > omlettes ;) > > Lol. > > > > > > I think, if we can get a discussion going around this topic, > > we can form ideas concrete enough to organize > > PyCon India at least in 2010. > > +1 > > -Amit > > > >> > >> > >> regards > >> -- > >> Ramakrishna Reddy GPG > >> Key ID:31FF0090 > >> Fingerprint = 18D7 3FC1 784B B57F C08F 32B9 4496 B2A1 31FF 0090 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> BangPypers mailing list > >> BangPypers@python.org > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > >> > > > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > -Anand > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > Amit Kumar Saha > http://amitksaha.blogspot.com > http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ > *Bangalore Open Java Users Group*:http:www.bojug.in > > "Recursion is the basic iteration mechanism in Scheme" > --- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TailRecursion > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Ramdas S +91 9342 583 065
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