Hi, On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Ramdas S <ram...@developeriq.com> wrote: > 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 >
Frankly, I dislike going this way. For one, it spreads energies and barcamp is definitely an unconference. I think the first PyCon India, if it ever happens should be a regular conference. Let us not confuse ourselves right from the start. Barcamp is barcamp, not pycamp, period. > Ramdas > > I > -- -Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
