Details

• Venue: Barista, Church Street - Opposite Java City (off Brigade road), Bangalore
• Time: 5pm to 7pm on 17 May 2009

Agenda

• Discuss PyCon India (Follow up on the points from the last meeting)

Participants

• Anand Chitipothu
• S Ramdas
• Senthil Kumaran
• Noufal Ibrahim
• Puneeth

Summary

Attendees

Anand Chitipothu, Senthil Kumaran, Noufal Ibrahim, Srikanth Gaikwad, Puneeth, Kamal Govindraj

General points

• No keynote speaker
  • We are not planning to have a keynote speaker for now.
• Dates are 26 and 27 September
  • No real objections raised so we're confirming these.
• Two tracks, 2 days
• Rs. 200 early bird registration and Rs. 300 spot registration.

• We are planning to have a small PyCon India Logo Design contest. Noufal will mail the list with the details.

From last meeting

Venue (Anand C.)

• IISc. is available and confirmed.
• There are no expenses to consider
• As for food, there is a a restaurant inside IISc. which might cater food. This has to be investigated.
• Wireless setup has to investigated

Mailing list and Website (Anand Pillai (along with Kenneth))

• The website is the gating point for us to being publicity and marketing.

• Anand has mailed Python.org and they've the mailing should be (or is already) functional. This will be advertised on the BangPypers list.

• As for the website. We have to
  • Get the in.pycon.org domain from the official pycon people
  • Put a cname entry there pointing to a domain which we have
    • control over
  • Get the application ready
  • Host it at the domain and check functionality.
• Noufal will follow up and get the details from Anand and Kenneth.

Publicity (Senthil)

• Mailing details of the event to everyone
• We can actually start on proper publicity only after we get the site up.
• Puneeth mentioned that colleges need to be targetted as many of the budding programmers will be there. Noufal will create a quick list of colleges and send it out to the list which can be expanded and we can contact them when the site is ready.

Registration of a non-profit (Ramdas)

• Check the feasibility of registering a non-profit which we can use to handle financial and publicity matters.
• Senthil will check with Ramdas about the status.

Other things to do that came up

Possible people to contact

• There might be people who can contribute their experiences to the community as a whole.

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