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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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