• This is a draft for a formal proposal for Pycon India to be submitted to the PSF. This is not the sponsorship brochure draft

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Proposal for PyCon India

In the spirit of encouraging Python as a language and as developer community, we are planning to conduct a Python conference in India early this coming September. This document is a formal proposal detailing what we wish to achieve, what hurdles we expect to face and how we plan to organise the event. It is a also a request to the Python Software Foundation to recognise our effort as an 'official' pycon similar to the one recently held in Chicago.

Aims

The following is a list of things we intend to achieve by this conference (in no particular order)

• Contributing to the python community as a whole - We intend to make available opportunities for talented programmers to contribute to Python itself and related projects.
• Corporate canvassing - We intend to spread information about the language to the corporate world in India so as to encourage use and adoption of the language.
• Focussing efforts - There are a number of python user groups in India. Some large and some small. This conference will serve as a rallying point for all these groups so that we can work together on something larger than the sum of the parts.
• Local event of a global scale - It's not always feasible or possible for working class Indian programmers to attend conferences which are held abroad. A large scale conference like this will offer opportunities for such people to get exposure to world class programmers and personalities.
• make it an annual event