== 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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