On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
+1. PyCon India should be just what it is and not be piggybacking (If I may use that term?) on Barcamp. Bets, Amit > >> Ramdas >> >> I >> > > > -- > -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
