Another year of PyCon India comes to a wrap. Thank you for being part of our conference, and helping it become a huge success! We know you might have been waiting for the PyCon India 2020 videos. We are glad to announce that the videos are up, and you can access them on the Python India Youtube channel.
PyCon India 2020 videos are available in this playlist.
We would like to express our appreciation and gratitude for the following people who participated in the review panel at PyCon India 2020. The talk selection process would not have been possible without their effort, expertise, and time they committed to reviewing each talk. The review panel comprised of a few people, who have chosen to stay anonymous. Many thanks to them too.
Aananya is a developer experience engineer (a developer advocate) at Kubric.io. Talk to her - code, communities & creativity! She loves making art & eating idlis & believes ‘to lift as one climbs’ as one of her goals.
Abhiram is a Machine Learning Engineer who likes to work on all things data - engineering, visualization , analysis and forecasting with the programming vehicles of choice being Python and R. He relies on the community to teach him things he does not know, which is most things and is therefore currently currently the co-organizer of Bangpypers (the largest Python User group in Bangalore) and has been running a book club in the city, operational from 2017 - Broke Bibliophiles Bangalore (https://twitter.com/BibliophilesBlr). Apart from tech and books, he's very interested in the intermingling of marketing, behavior and psychology and is open to discussing these topics as well.
Abhisek is a doctoral student in CSE department at IIT Kharagpur. He is currently a member of Complex Network Research Group (CNeRG) at IIT Kharagpur. His research interests lie in the domain of fairness in machine learning and platform governance.
Abhishek is a backend engineer currently working at Saama Technologies. He mostly works on python and evangelizes for the same. He is a organizers of GDG Chennai and a volunteer in Chennaipy, Pyladies chennai meetup group. He has been in PyCon India team since 2019.
Akash help CTOs & SREs with Kubernetes and Container security compliances | CKA, OSCP | Author - Security Automation using Ansible, Burp Suite Essentials
Anant Shrivastava is an information security professional with 12+ yrs of corporate experience with expertise in Network, Mobile, Application and Linux Security. Anant is an avid opensource supporter and runs multiple open source projects prominent of them being Android Tamer and CodeVigilant.
Anirudha has been active in python community with co-organising BangPypers and DjangoGirls Bangalore. Also cofounded the largest blockchain community in India, Blockchained India. Apart from building blockchain and fintech products as Acyclic Labs, Anirudha also does consulting on backend and product architecture.
Anmol is an International Tech Speaker, a Distinguished Guest Lecturer, a Tech Panelist, and has represented India at several reputed International Hackathons. He is a Deep Learning Researcher and has around 8+ publications. Recently, Anmol helped organize EuroPython 2020 and GeoPython & Python Machine Learning Conference 2020, and both of them were a huge success. He has done MSc in Advanced Computing (ML, AI, Robotics, Cloud Computing, and Computational Neuroscience) from University of Bristol, UK, and currently works at OLX Group as an SRE. In past, he has spoken at renowned conferences and tech forums like PyCon, EuroPython, GeoPython, and got invited as a Chief Guest / Guest of Honour at various events. He likes innovating, keeping in touch with new technological trends, and mentoring people.
Archana is an AI Engineer at Continental Automotive Singapore. She is a graduate student, based out of Singapore. She worked as a Deep Learning Engineer at a Pharma IT Company for 1.5 years where I worked on deep learning and NLP Applications. Apart from that, she has a keen interest in edge computing and computer vision. She created a course, “Choosing the Right Hardware for the Edge” for the Intel AI on Edge for IoT Developers Nanodegree on Udacity in April 2020. In her free time, she works at Women Who Code as a Leadership fellow for the Python/Cloud Tracks.
Charmi is a Machine Learning Engineer and one of the youngest Google Developers Expert in ML. She loves helping developers & students looking forward to growing their careers in the field of Artificial Intelligence via tech talks, mentoring sessions, and blogs.
Chetan is a Python enthusiast and open source evangelist. He has been a speaker at Python conferences and takes keen interest in platform engineering, distributed systems and real time cloud communications. In his spare time Chetan reads about the world history and loves helping startups.
Derrick is former PyCon speaker and has been a Pythonista since 2015, he started his career as a Data Scientist and later moved to Engineering. He has experience working with ML, Systems and has implemented business processes automations as generic frameworks. His current area of exploration is CPython and is working with Linkedin's Production Infrastructure Engineering team.
Her interests as an inquisitive #WomenInTech is to learn new every day so she continually looks out for areas that interest her to work on. Being a facilitator for #IamRemarkable initiative and community passionate, playing a role as an Ambassador at WTM Ahmedabad, enthusiastic about emboldening women in every sphere of their life and enjoys people’s synergy.
Girish is a polyglot programmer and a free and open source enthusiast from Pune. He has been a part of the Python Pune community since 2015. For many years, he has been hacking on embedded systems and IoT applications.
Joy likes to hack around the CNCF ecosystem, and in the process help startups build their stack ground up with kubernetes. He has previously attempted this at orgs like Razorpay, ZoomCar, Hotstar and DigitalAPICraft with some measure of success. Currently he is consulting with very early stage startups to help them build MVPs for their Cloud-Native PaaS platforms.
Kuldeep is a husband, traveller and a software engineer working on building a hyper-scale social engagement platform at Disney+Hotstar for millions of users around the world. Kuldeep likes to automate repetitive things and solve complex problems with simple solutions to make life easier for others.
Manivannan is an open source evangelist & a python programmer; He has 17+ years of experience in software development and has performed various roles in organizations. Outside his regular job, he is also a python community leader & organizer in Hyderabad & helped revive the community. He chaired multiple python conferences in India - PyConf Hyd 2017, Pycon India 2018 & Pyconf Hyd 2019. Currently, he is working as a Director in Lifion by ADP Inc based out of NY, building next gen products.
Nancy Chauhan is a Software Engineer at Grofers, India. She works on various tech ranging from Backend to DevOps. She has also been a Google Summer of Code Intern in 2019. She likes to teach and mentor about technology.
Raman Balyan is currently working as a DevOps Engineer with Accion Labs Pvt Ltd. Previously he worked as an independent consultant. He is passionate about remote work and working remotely from past six years.He is always looking for ways to improve life in remote working environment. Apart from work, he loves yoga, exploring places and sports.
Runcy is an accomplished software engineer with strong SDLC experience and a string of projects primarily in the security domain. Runcy strives constantly to build better software with extra focus on data security that would be kept throughout it’s life-cycle and not just as an after-thought. Considers himself to be a perfectionist yet remains practical, knowing where to draw the line and stop.
Sahil Dua is a software engineer at Google. He has been an active speaker at tech conferences for the last 4 years on various topics like data analysis using pandas, A/B testing for product development and scaling machine learning predictions infrastructure using Kubernetes. Sahil is a passionate open source contributor and has contributed to some famous projects such as git, pandas, hound, Go-Github, and so on. He's also been an open source community leader for over 2 years at DuckDuckGo.
Shivani is one of the rare developers who do not need caffeine to function. She currently works with The Open Information Security Foundation developing and learning about Suricata - A Network Security Monitoring tool. She has been a member of several Open Source communities around the world and is a proud supporter of women in STEM. She got associated with Python and its communities across the country in 2017; and remains a member to the date. She has no particular place of stay but can be found in the mountains or at the beaches for most of the year.
Soham is currently a Graduate Research student at Nanyang Technological University where he is working on Neuromorphic Hardware, Deep Learning and Edge Computing. He is also an instructor for Udacity's Intel Edge AI for IoT and Machine Learning Engineer with Microsoft Azure Nanodegrees. Apart from that, he loves working on open-source projects, giving talks and conducting workshops, and is an Intel Software Innovator.
Soumi Das is a doctoral student in CSE department at IIT Kharagpur. She is currently a member of Complex Network Research Group (CNeRG) at IIT Kharagpur. Her research interests lie in the domain of machine learning and computer vision.
Soumik pursues an interest in the confluence of data mining and software engineering. In a recent position as a Project Scientist@IITKgp , he has taken up a couple of projects in AIOps domain, where he collaborated with companies like NetApp/Cisco with a broader objective of developing real time anomaly detection frameworks for cloud infrastructures. Back in 2017, he graduated from IIT Kanpur with an M.Tech in CSE, defending a thesis on Mining Anomalous Patterns on Weighted Temporal Networks. He also has a brief stint at Qualcomm, where he worked on Automotive Camera Systems.
Soumya is a MS student at IIT KGP working on Machine intelligence using text (NLP). Soumya has previously worked with Myntra and have been developing in Python for about 8 years now. Soumya is a Women Tech Makers scholar and was also an intern for Rails Girls Summer of Code during which Soumya had the chance to solve a bug in CPython! You'll usually find Soumya coding in labs to be able to game on the weekends. :)
Soumyadeep is a researcher by profession, and loves to learn and teach coding. Soumyadeep is currently pursuing Ph.D in CSE department of IIT Kharagpur India on the topic of "Developing Knowledge-aware ML Algorithms with application to Healthcare''. Soumyadeep loves public-speaking and playing chess.
Sukanya is a Data Scientist by profession. She was the Diversity and Inclusion Track lead at PyCon India this year. She leads a couple of communities like PyData Mumbai, Pyladies Mumbai and is also the co-organizer of AWS User Group Mumbai. Besides work and community efforts she also loves to explore new tech and pursue research and has published a couple of white papers with IEEE and a couple more are in the pipeline.
Supreet tenured technical professional with significant experience in Python. He has worked for companies like Yahoo!, Jabong and Tokopedia. Currently, he works for Amazon AWS as Principal Solution Architect focusing on bringing technology best practices to Startups in ASEAN region.
Usha is India’s first women Kaggle Grandmaster and she is ranked as top ten Data Scientists in India for the year 2020 by Analytics India Magazine.She is Data Science Global Ambassador for HP and NVIDIA. She organised NeuroAI (www.neuroai.in) which is India’s first-ever research symposium in the interface of Neuroscience and Data Science. She specialises in Probabilistic Graphical Models, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. She has prepared curriculum for BITS Pilani’s masters in Data Science program (consumed by 20,000+ students ) and Upgrad’s PGP program in DS(consumed by 10,000+ students).
Vinita works as a Member of Technical Staff at Kubric and have over 6+ years of experience working across startups including Myntra and Jumbotail. When not building systems or learning about the latest stuff, Vinita will mostly be painting or playing chess.
Vipin is a passionate engineer who loves visuals and storytelling. Working with the greatest minds in CG to deliver the next blockbuster film using Python!
We have finally released our Program Guide for the conference providing all the teasers, details, and everything that will help you at the conference. You can read it here!
The program guide for PyCon India 2020 will be a fun, infographic journey to help you as an attendee to navigate through the conference experience. We have provided useful insights about communication tools that we will be using throughout the conference. The conference will be happening on Hopin with the async communication on Zulip.
We have tried to link information about new tracks, social events, and exciting things that will be taking place this year. We talk about workshops, devsprints, job fair, the new .extend() track and so much more in detail.
This year with the conference being online, we are also detailing our Code of Conduct with a renewed focus of reporting incidents as they happen. All the information will be available in the PyCon India Program Guide that you all will be receiving with the welcome invite.
If this is your first time attending PyCon India, then we know its hard to get acquainted with the conference model we follow when its virtual. It's really simple if attending offline and hence we thought of creating this document. This documentation is the way forward in providing folks with the right context from the start to help them move in the right direction. We hope this helps and it helps you have a great PyCon India this year.
The PyCon India program guide has been inspired by the Europython 2020 Program Guide and we thank the Europython team for their support!
The content and design team has been working a lot on the program guide and put great effort into making this a reality. Please do pass on your feedback on how we can make it better for the next year!
Diversity and Inclusion have been our utmost priority. To make the conference more accessible we had taken a series of constructive steps to build an inclusive space for all. Promoting the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights by the community without inhibitions and still managing to keep 6 feet apart.
As per our mission statement, we would like to ensure that the conference approaches everyone with respect and that we resolve differences peacefully. In particular, we will proactively extend our invite to women, provide support for students, and ensure that people with disabilities feel welcome at the conference.
This year as the conference goes online, we worked towards adding Diversity and Inclusion as its own track at the conference. We came up with a series of carefully picked up experience sharing sessions by women established in their fields - talking about their journeys and experiences to reach where they are currently. The categories for these sessions are as follows:
Alongside these, we have the traditional PyLadies India Lunch happening on Day 1 (14:30-15:15) - online of course! Experience sharing sessions and PyLadies India Lunch will be happening in the PyLadies Booth. Also, on top of this, we have two other sessions focusing on Diversity and Inclusion happening between 18:00 - 19:00 on both days. The topics for these two sessions include:
More information about the schedule, talks, and speaker details can be found in the document or on the Hopin Calendar. We hope to see you all there!
We are happy to introduce JetBrains as a Silver Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
JetBrains is a global software vendor that creates professional software development tools and advanced collaboration solutions trusted by 8 million users. Since 2000, JetBrains has built a catalog of 28 products, including IntelliJ IDEA, ReSharper, PhpStorm, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, YouTrack, Kotlin, and Space, a new integrated team environment.
Website Link: https://www.jetbrains.com/
As you know, PyCon India 2020 is going online and completely virtual this year. Hence, the team wanted to take the unique opportunity to make the conference bigger, more inclusive, and much more accessible to our attendees the world over. And, we were successful. We were so glad to see the community's response to our efforts, with outstanding submissions to our call for proposals. We finally ended up with a total of 243 talks submitted under 12 primary domains with talks pouring in from all over the world.
The only downside to getting excellent talks each year at PyCon India is that we end up rejecting many talks. This is because, we are almost always under the burden of limited slots available for the conference. The review team is under great stress of having to consider various factors while selecting the talks, including a proper mix of beginner and advanced topics, providing an opportunity for first-time speakers, diversity, all the while maintaining talk quality, etc.
Over the last few years, PyCon India 2020 has been a three-track event. Seeing the quality of the talks this year, we felt inclined to make this year's PyCon India's lineup our biggest ever with an additional track for the event this year!
Hence, PyCon India 2020 will now be a four-track event effectively increasing talks selected for the conference by 33%. This would mean more people getting the opportunity to present, and more talks for us to watch right at our home. Right? Right? We didn't stop there, presenting...!
.extend(), a unique track for talks rejected this year!We believe that no talks are worthy of being rejected anywhere. And, with that ideology comes to the concept of a track that would cater to the awesome proposals that unfortunately get rejected. Well, not anymore. With .extend(), we are giving a second chance to each speaker who submitted their talk to PyCon India to still present their ideas and insights at the conference. We thank Cloud Native Rejekts for the inspiration behind this new track!
Our team's constant efforts to improving talk quality and not undermine anyone's efforts to submitting proposals at PyCon India motivated us to initiate the 5th track for the conference. All of the tracks are equal to our eyes and we expected the attendees to feel the same. Hence, PyCon India will now be a 5 track conference, with 4 usual tracks and the 5th one being our new, .extend() track!
The track is very similar to the other 4 tracks. The only difference being the process of talk selection. Instead of the talk selection done by our esteemed review committee, we will be holding a raffle to select and schedule the talks. Any person who submitted their talk at PyCon India 2020 and attending the conference is allowed to take this opportunity head-on!
This initiative is not to have a separate conference but this becoming an integral part of PyCon India for the years to come. The track will be scheduled in parallel to all the other items in the conference schedule. The talks will be delivered through the same channels as the other tracks. The talks will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube after the conference, along with the other talks and workshops.
At first, we headed out to by naming our new 5th track refusals.py. With valuable feedback from our attendees, we realized we can have a better, more apt name for our track with which people are comfortable, although we received considerable interest in the new track. Hence, this helped us rethink our approach, and considering the feedback, the team decided to name the 5th track .extend() signifying our idea and initiatives of including as many talks as we can. We hope that the community welcomes this initiative with a positive mindset as we continue to work towards a better PyCon India each day!
We would encourage each and every attendee whose talks weren't selected to fill the interest form that they have received in the that were emails sent out yesterday. As always, looking forward to seeing you at the conference!
PyCon India 2020 is THE place for developers from across the country and beyond to gather and celebrate Python. But what good is a tech conference without getting your hands dirty writing some code? Hence, for all open-source enthusiasts out there, the PyCon India team is happy to announce Devsprints @ PyCon India 2020.
Devsprints are a 2 day event being organised at PyCon India 2020 to promote open-source contribution and getting people started with it.
At devsprints, mentors/contributors of popular OSS projects are there to guide you through the end-to-end process of making your very first open-source contribution. Right from setting up the build environments, to developing and testing code, to submitting patches for bugs and features. If you are stuck anywhere, mentors will be available right on the stream to help you figure out issues and resolve them as best as they can! From past experiences, we’ve seen a lot of people start off contributing to FOSS through PyCon India Devsprints and later go on to become regular contributors to various projects across the web.
2020 has been a roller coaster for all of us. And, we want to sure we make the most of it. Hence, this year the devsprints will be conducted online on 4th and 5th October 2020 at the Hopin conference platform. In addition to that, project maintainers will be available async on Zulip with each project having their own stream. With Devsprints on 4th October 2020, you can also check out our 2 track workshops that will be happening that day as well. Tickets are selling out fast for Workshops! Grab them now! For one ticket, you will be getting access to all 8 workshops, their content and also any resources that speakers are going to share!
If you are a contributor or have been involved in the maintenance of any Python-based open-source projects, please come forward and add your project to the PyCon India 2020 Devsprints. Ideally, you should have a history with the project through previous code commits. Your responsibility will be to help new contributors set up their development environment, list out beginner-friendly bugs, and guide folks on any problems they face during the event.
Note: You need to be logged into your GitHub account to edit the page
If you have any questions regarding the devsprints, be sure to reach out to us on Zulip over on the #2020/devsprint stream!
We are happy to introduce D. E. Shaw India as a Platinum Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
Established in 1996 as a technological development center, D. E. Shaw India has become an integral part of the D. E. Shaw group, expanding its business into a broad range of software and financial activities.
The firm brings together some of the sharpest minds to work on end-to-end solutions with their global counterparts. They not only build cutting-edge proprietary software systems that form an intrinsic part of the D. E. Shaw group’s investment activities but also provide research and operations support to the group’s systematic, discretionary, and hybrid strategies.
Technology is at the core of our business. Our talented and innovative engineers engage in informed problem-solving to process large data sets into useful analytics and forecasts using a combination of technology and deep domain knowledge. They also work on financial data-feed infrastructure, high- performance middleware, interactive trading systems, portfolio management and workflow tools, and quantitative analysis.
At D. E. Shaw India, we value our people and their extraordinary work. We go to great lengths to invest in those who think beyond the status quo, thrive in a collaborative culture, and set the highest standards for themselves. We believe that our diverse and inclusive work culture drives creativity, productivity, and performance.
Our goal is to cultivate an environment of continuous learning and development that enables exceptional people to do their best work.
Website Link: D.E. Shaw India
We are happy to introduce Pipal Academy as a Startup Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
Pipal Academy is a collective of experienced technologists, who care deeply about the art of software development. We offer in-depth courses on niche technical topics.
We regularly conduct public workshops and also offer on site corporate trainings. Our courses are targeted at professional software developers and we make sure they are hands-on and interactive. Very often the participants finish our courses with a lot of excitement and joy of learning.
Website Link: https://pipal.in/
We are happy to introduce Essentia SoftServ LLP as a Silver Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
Sponsoring PyCon India is a proud moment for us since the conference was pivotal in bringing the Essentia Team together.
To say the least, our founders met at PyCon India 2012, and the community helped us get discovered by prospective clients with a word-of-mouth marketing.
We also have to mention that we have had the chance to hire and mentor some of the most amazing talents from the PyCon community.
This sponsorship is a small token of showing gratitude and support for nurturing and helping a start-up thrive.
Thank you PyCon India.
Website Link: https://essentiasoftserv.com/
We are happy to announce Terri Oda as a Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020!
Terri specializes in saying no and explaining things, which either describes her professional work as an open source security expert, her personal time as the parent of a child who always wants to know “what’s happening?” or her volunteer service bringing new contributors into Python projects through Google Summer of Code.
You can find her on twitter @terriko.
We are happy to introduce Microsoft Azure as a Platinum Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
Microsoft is the leading platform and company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Microsoft has worked with Python communities to create tools and services which provide ease of development. This year at PyCon India, Microsoft is super excited to introduce two tracks at the Microsoft Learning Hub – Skilling and Community. The Skilling room is where you can skill-up your Cloud, Python, AI and Machine Learning knowledge. The Community room is the place to hear from the Community Leaders on both tech and non-tech topics.
Join us at the Microsoft Learning Hub at PyCon India 2020 to learn more about Microsoft Azure.
Website Link: Microsoft Azure
We are happy to introduce GitHub as a Silver Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
GitHub is a development platform inspired by the way you work. From open source to business, you can host and review code, manage projects, and build software alongside 50 million developers. Automate from code to cloud using GitHub Actions, host your container images using GitHub Container Registry and bring GitHub collaboration tools to your small screens with a fully-native mobile and tablet experience with GitHub for mobile.
GitHub is home to the world’s largest community of developers and their projects - whether you’re making your first commit or sending a Rover to Mars, there’s room for you here, too.
Website Link: GitHub
We are happy to introduce Red Hat as a Silver Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Website Link: https://www.redhat.com/en
We are happy to introduce Auth0 as a Gold Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
Auth0 guards over 4.5 billion logins every month, and we couldn’t do it without the help of our community. Which is why we are really happy with being able to not only take part in, but sponsor, PyCon India this year.
We provide a platform to authenticate, authorize, and secure access for applications, devices, and users. Working with everyone from enterprise clients to one-dev teams, we make it easier for devs to build secure access into every application.
Read about how we help developers at companies all over the world protect their customers: http://a0.to/pycon-india-flyer
Website Link: https://a0.to/pycon-india-devs
We are happy to introduce Toyota Connected as a Silver Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
Toyota Connected is enabling improved safety and convenience with a cloud-based digital connected mobility intelligence platform. We are leveraging vehicle data and artificial intelligence to change the way people interact with vehicles. We are a team of data scientists, engineers, and designers who share the vision of transforming Toyota from an automotive giant to a mobility company with cutting-edge technology. We work on improving people’s lives. This requires an insatiable curiosity about people. It also needs an amalgamation of passion, creativity, and innovation. We provide an inspiring environment for our teams to grow and be able to create smooth experiences for people. Millions of people around the world drive a Toyota or a Lexus. Our mission is to ensure that their drives are safer and more connected.
Website Link: https://toyotaconnected.co.in/
We are happy to introduce EPAM as a Gold Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has leveraged its software engineering expertise to become a leading global product development, digital platform engineering, and top digital and product design agency. Through its ‘Engineering DNA’ and innovative strategy, consulting, and design capabilities, EPAM works in collaboration with its customers to deliver next-gen solutions that turn complex business challenges into real business outcomes. EPAM’s global teams serve customers in more than 30 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. As a recognized market leader in multiple categories among top global independent research agencies, EPAM was one of only four technology companies to appear on Forbes 25 Fastest Growing Public Tech Companies list every year of publication since 2013 and was the only IT services company featured on Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list of 2019.
Website Link: https://welcome.epam.in/
We are happy to introduce DeepSource as a Silver Sponsor for PyCon India 2020.
DeepSource continuously analyzes source code changes to find and fix issues categorized as security, performance, anti-patterns and bug-risks. It integrates with GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket and runs analysis on every commit and pull request, discovers and fixes potential issues before they make it to production. With support for Python, Go, Ruby and JavaScript and guaranteed less than 5% false positives in results, DeepSource is trusted by open-source teams at NASA, Slack, Intel, DGraph among many others to ship good code. Free to use for open-source projects and small teams.
Website Link: https://deepsource.io/
We know you all have been waiting for this eagerly. Don't worry, you don't have to wait anymore! The Workshop and devsprint tickets for PyCon India will be available on September 16th, 5 PM IST on our website.
PyCon India 2020 Devsprints will happen on 4th and 5th October. We are happy to announce the devsprint tickets are now open.
You don't need to have a conference ticket to participate in the devsprints, anyone can buy the tickets. The devsprint tickets will be free this year.
You can find the list of projects on our wiki page. If you are a contributor/maintainer for a project and would like to represent your project in the devsprints, please refer to our devsprints page to add your project to our devsprints.
The workshops for this year will be taking place on October 4. Each workshop is 2.5 hours duration. There are a total of 4 parallel tracks, with two workshops in each track, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. There is only a single ticket for the workshops and you will be able to attend any of the workshops.
It is possible to attend workshops and the devsprints. The devsprint will also be running an extra day than the workshops. So, you can also attend the devsprint on the second day if you choose to spend your time on October 4th on Workshops.
2020 has been a rollercoaster for all of us. Our team had setbacks, we pushed through them, and what a ride it has been for all of us helping to make PyCon India 2020 a huge success.
The sheer amount of proposals we received from you all over the last couple of days exceeded all our wildest expectations. The review committee along with all the volunteers worked quite hard to make the deadlines work. The schedule has been released a day before the deadline which signals us that we are on track as we move forward according to the plan. All these efforts go on to accomplish one outcome. An awesome PyCon India keeping you at its epicenter!
As we are releasing the talk and keynotes schedule, be sure to look out for the release of workshops and information about many more events in the coming days on Twitter and on our mailing list. Our rehearsal team is working double-time to get all the speakers in top shape for making this year's PyCon India experience amazing for everyone.
Checkout the PyCon India 2020 schedule
As a final note, we are nearly out of our regular tickets. Be sure to grab yours before stocks last as tickets to the conference are limited. If you haven't bought your ticket yet, the only thing you be left with is regret when they all would go out of stock! So be sure to buy your PyCon India ticket now.
We will see you folks in 18 days!
We are happy to announce Victor Stinner as a Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2020!
Victor Stinner is a Python core developer for 9 years. He is paid by Red Hat to maintain Python upstream (python.org) and downstream (RHEL, Fedora). Author of pyperf, faulthandler and tracemalloc modules, he is working on Python performance, security and stability (member of the Night's Watch, maintain Python CIs: Travis CI, AppVeyor, and the large fleet of buildbot workers). He also mentors Python contributors.
You can find him on Twitter: @VictorStinner
We are happy to announce S Anand as a Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2020!
Anand is the co-founder of Gramener, a data science company. He is recognized as one of India's top 10 data scientists. He leads a team that automates insights from data and narrates these as visual data stories.
You can find him on Twitter: @sanand0
We are happy to announce Alolita Sharma as a Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020!
Alolita Sharma is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services. She leads open-source strategy and engineering for projects focused on observability and search including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Apache Lucene, and Open Distro for Elasticsearch. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. Alolita has built and led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal, and IBM. Alolita is passionate about language technologies that enable everyone to participate in the Web's information revolution. She serves on the board of Unicode Consortium and is an invited expert on W3C and ECMA workgroups. She has served on the boards of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and SFLC.in.
You can find her on Twitter @alolita.
We are happy to announce James Powell as a Keynote Speaker for PyCon India 2020!
James Powell is a professional Python programmer and enthusiast. He started working with Python in the finance industry building reporting and analysis systems for prop trading front offices. He currently works as a consultant building data engineering and scientific computing platforms for a wide-range of clients using cutting-edge open source tools like Python and React. He also offers a variety of corporate training courses and coaching sessions in all areas of Python.
In his spare time, he serves on the board of NumFOCUS as co-Chairman and Vice President. NumFOCUS is the 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports all the major tools in the Python data analysis ecosystem (incl. pandas, numpy, jupyter, matplotlib, and others.) At NumFOCUS, he helps build global open source communities for data scientists, data engineers, and business analysis. He helps NumFOCUS run the PyData conference series and has sat on speaker selection and organizing committees for over two dozen conferences. James is also a prolific speaker: since 2013, he has given over seventy conference talks at over fifty Python events worldwide.
You can find him on Twitter @dontusethiscode.
We are happy to announce Naomi Ceder as a Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2020!
Naomi Ceder earned a Ph.D in Classics several decades ago, but switched from ancient human languages to computer languages sometime in the last century. Since 2001, she has been learning, teaching, writing about, and using Python.
An elected fellow of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi is the immediate past chair of its board of directors. She also speaks internationally about the Python community, and on inclusion and diversity in technology in general.
By day she leads a team of Python programmers for Dick Blick Art Materials, and in her spare time she enjoys sketching, knitting, and deep philosophical conversations with her dog.
She can be reached at her Twitter handle: @NaomiCeder
There is lots to be gained by attending PyCon India 2020. Unfortunately, it takes time to sit down and compose an email to send to your boss enumerating all of them. Now consider that at least half of our attendees attempt to do that, we would lose so many hours of productivity reinventing the wheel ;) Hence, in the spirit of Python and automation, the PyCon India Content team is here to save the day. Down below, we have composed a "Convince your boss" letter. Of course, feel free to edit the parts you need and remove some you don't.
Dear {BOSS},
I am excited to brief you about PyCon India 2020, India's premier conference on using and developing the Python programming language that takes place online from October 2-5, 2020. About 1500+ Pythonistas from diverse fields and all over the world are bound to be in attendance for the 12th edition of this mega event.
It would be great if I can get an opportunity to attend this conference as there will be innumerable benefits for me as an individual which will in turn impact the organization as well. To list a few:
{OPTIONAL} I am particularly keen on attending this {TALK/WORKSHOP/DEVSPRINT} on {TOPIC} presented by {SPEAKER-NAME} as our {PROJECT/UPCOMING PROJECT} is based on this.
Exposure to the actionable best practices & tools that we could use in our projects, saving money and time spent exploring different options.
Provides a forum to get a sneak peek at upcoming innovations.
Provides a platform to unmask the rationality behind the trending technologies like ML/AI, automation, web development, software development, IoT, and more that uses Python.
Learning technologies from a wide array of talks, workshops, keynotes, and developer sprints each presented by inspiring and enthusiastic industry experts, community leaders, and many young minds delving into important concepts and new technologies.
Opportunity to network or even able to hire like-minded people from diverse backgrounds including programmers, enthusiasts, researchers, entrepreneurs scholars, and many more.
A chance to spread the word about our company and create goodwill about the opportunities and incentives the employees are given. This will be the ideal way to attract future employees from a diversified talent pool.
{OPTIONAL} As an {employee}, attending the conference will also demonstrate to the tech community that our company believes in providing more such opportunities very seriously.
PyCon India's committed to keeping the event inclusive and easily accessible by all. Hence, due to the online nature of the conference, we have kept the ticket prices to a bare minimum this year. The ticket includes access to 2 days of PyCon India 2020 keynotes & talks.
I would be happy to write a post-conference report detailing what I've learned and to recommend any changes that we could implement to improve our practices. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I hope we make use of this opportunity for the benefit of our company.
Thank you,
{YOURNAME}
The article is loosely based on PyCon India 2019's version of Convince your Boss
While the PyCon India team is going full speed ahead to make PyCon India 2020 online an amazing conference and a great experience for everyone. We bring to you a golden opportunity for your brand and company to shine and represent themselves at the forefront of the Python India community.
The entire organizing team and the Python community at large are extremely thankful to all the sponsors for supporting the conference throughout the years. Without the support of our sponsors, it wouldn't have been possible to make the conference bigger, better, and more accessible for everyone year after year. For this year as we move to an online platform, let us take you through why sponsoring PyCon India 2020 would be beneficial for your organization:
Increase your brand exposure and elevate your business identity within the Python community. It is your chance to stand out among the conference attendees by prominently displaying your products and marketing material.
Establish your goodwill with the community and show the community you’re a reliable partner, willing to support the ecosystem and help it thrive in such challenging times. Sponsorship is a way of giving back to the community and thanking them for their support. Your sponsorship helps PyCon India make the conference affordable and accessible to the widest possible audience.
Instead of spending a fortune on traditional advertisements, take a look at our reasonably priced sponsorship slabs and pick one - letting you be discovered and known to the diverse and widespread Python community at maybe half (or even less!) of your marketing budget.
Get matched with folks who could become your next potential clients or employees. The conference has a history of attracting smart folks and businesses from various backgrounds. Get connected, make your pitch, and find the best programmers or clients to join your organizations!
A sponsorship is a two-way partnership; we want both parties to be happy and gain something from this opportunity. If you have something specific you require from us, please don’t hesitate to ask! We are more than happy to work with you and tailor the sponsorship benefits to suit your needs.
Are you a newly established startup or a small business that wants to give back to the community, but cannot justify the price slabs? Don't worry, to make PyCon India affordable to small businesses and startups, we are providing a special Startup slab, just for you. This slab is applicable for organizations with less than 10 employees or less than 5 years in operation.
Interested in sponsoring the conference? Check out our Sponsorship Prospectus
If you have any queries whatsoever, please don't hesitate to reach out to sponsor@in.pycon.org
PyCon India is a grass-roots, volunteer-driven conference. What that means is every year for the past 12 years Python communities across the nation have come together to help plan, organize, manage, and run the conference. It's the country's largest premier conference for the Python programming language unparalleled in the opportunities, knowledge, and networking potential it fosters.
With over 250+ proposals coming in globally, this year PyCon India 2020 is set to be the biggest one yet. The conference will be having a packed schedule of workshops, keynotes, talks, and dev-sprints strung together through 3 parallel tracks. Any person who has a conference ticket is eligible to attend the Devsprints. Although the Developer Sprints are free, we would be having registrations beforehand to manage the logistics.
We have started with the ticket sales of our mega event and the details for the same are available on PyCon India official website. To make the event inclusive and accessible to all, we have kept the ticket prices to a bare minimum, namely.
Rush to grab your early bird tickets now from Townscript!
An Early bird ticket reserves your seat for 2 days of the conference, with the pricing of INR 149 (GST excluded), the sale of early bird tickets ends in 5 days after their release or when the sale of tickets has been completed, whichever comes earlier.
A regular ticket reserves your seat for 2 days of the conference, with the pricing of INR 199 (GST excluded), the sale of regular tickets begins after the sale of early bird tickets ends till the sale of tickets have been completed.
A late bird ticket reserves your seat for 2 days of the conference, with the pricing of INR 499 (GST excluded), the sale of the late bird begins after the sale of regular tickets ends till the ticket sales for the conference close. These are unlimited in number.
A Contributor ticket is for anyone to purchase who would like to support the conference in the years to come. The contributor ticket reserves your seat for 2 days of the conference, with the pricing of INR 1499 (GST excluded), the sale of these tickets start right from day 1 and are unlimited in number.
Workshop tickets are released and sold separately, we will update this column and the website as we release more information regarding the same.
Devsprints at PyCon India are free and open to everyone. You don't need any ticket for participating in the dev sprints. Although we do need folks to register before the event happens to take care of the logistics. We will be using Zulip for collaboration and will update this section once we have a concrete process in place.
For more updates regarding tickets, please check back this blog, our official twitter account @pyconindia, or our mailing list! For any queries, we are happy to help out on Zulip.
Looking forward to seeing you folks at the conference!!
PyCon India 2020 call for proposals (CFP) received a tremendous amount of talks and workshops from the global community as a whole. The deadline for the CFP was 14 August 2020.
After the official closure of CFP, we are getting a large number of talk submissions and requests from folks who were not able to complete their proposals in time. So, due to popular demand, we are extending our CFP deadline for talks until August 19, 23:59 UTC+5:30. If you were unable to submit your proposal on time, you now have 5 more days to do it now.
Please take this time to submit new proposals, improve the ones you submitted based on the review received, and make sure to fulfill the submission criteria by all means. This will be our final extension to the call for proposals. Hope you make the most of it.
PyCon India is looking for outreach partners that can help spread the word about our conference in communities all over the world and bring fresh faces to the platform in hopes of creating a more inclusive, accessible conference this year.
PyCon India is the largest gathering of Python learners, programmers and enthusiasts in India who come from all over the world together once a year to celebrate the programming language and share their experiences, insight and expertise with the community. Last year alone we had an audience of 3000+, with over 300+ proposals submitted and a packed 2-day agenda in addition to 50+ sponsors supporting us. This year we like to bring forward positive change, and make the conference even more inclusive by bringing forth combined efforts of our communities in helping PyCon India reach more viewers.
We would like to invite your community to be an outreach partner for PyCon India 2020. You can help us spread the word about the conference among your members who are looking to learn more regarding Python. We expect our outreach partners to help us in the following ways:
For supporting the conference, our outreach partners can expect following in return from PyCon India:
Please note that the primary channel for communication will be Zulip, post confirmation.
If you are an organization or a community interested in becoming an outreach partner for PyCon India 2020, please fill the outreach partners form.
To know more about PyCon India please visit : About Us
Announcing PyCon India Mentorship team's resources, contact links, and weekly calls for first-time speakers as well as veterans.
Do you have that one idea that can make the world “a better place”? (Silicon Valley Fans, Assemble!)
Do you wish to submit a proposal to PyCon India 2020 but cannot figure out the flow of your talk or how to present it?
We know it's not always easy to find the right words when you have something to share. It happens to the best of us. But no need to worry, as the PyCon India mentorship team is here to help you out with your proposal. Whether you are submitting a proposal at PyCon India for the first time or you are a veteran speaker with years of experience behind you, our mentorship team will guide you through the process and help you wherever required in a number of ways as mentioned below. We want to help you put your best foot forward when it comes to submitting proposals!
Prospective speakers of PyCon India can take a look at our curated blog posts on writing better talk and workshop proposals.
You can always contact our mentors on Zulip. You can join them on the PyCon India Zulip Channel and drop a text in the pre-cfp topic of the #Mentorship stream (Streams are available to choose from the sidebar on the left).
In the hopes of providing better opportunities and assistance for first-time speakers at PyCon India 2020, we are starting weekly mentorship calls. This would be an open call for participants and potential speakers to interact with PyCon India mentors to review, share, and discuss draft proposals. Details of the call are as follows:
Date: Weekly on Saturdays
Time: 15:00 to 17:00 IST
Platform: Google Meet - Join with the invite link
This way you can interact with the mentorship team instantly and clear out queries on a more real-time basis.
Whichever platform you choose to opt for interacting with the mentors, you would be asked to share a Google document with comment access to a mentor, who will then review and help you polish the draft. If you don't get any response in 48 hours, please send a direct message to @siddharthvipul on Zulip. And that’s all you need to do.
Hope this helps in the process of framing a proposal and make it easier for you to apply for a talk at PyCon India. After all, PyCon India is a community-driven event and our foremost priority is to help you learn and grow. So, keep your worries aside and just keep on submitting them proposals. If you need any help, we are just a text away!
P.S. Looking forward to reading your proposal.
Have you ever wished you could contribute or give back to the Python community? Well, here’s an awesome opportunity for you to do it with the year's premier conference for the Python programming language, PyCon India 2020.
PyCon India is a grass-roots, volunteer-driven conference. What that means is every year for the past 12 years Python communities across the nation have come together to help plan, organize, manage, and run the conference. The conference is operated entirely by volunteers from planning to finding the speakers to managing call for proposals to handling the mega event successfully without fail.
Before you embark on a journey helping the community make the conference even more amazing, there are a few things you should know:
There is a lot of work that goes into a conference, and all of it is done by the volunteers. So, naturally, volunteering requires a lot of time and effort, and some activities like running outreach and social media, building content, and finding speakers, a lot more than others. So, make sure you can allocate sufficient time to your volunteering efforts.
If you are engaged in a volunteering activity while a session is going on, you might not be able to attend that session. If someone needs your assistance with a task, you need to be there. So, plan your conference schedule accordingly.
Volunteering does not provide you a free way into the event. At PyCon, everyone needs to buy a ticket, even the organizers. We volunteer because we love Python and the community, and want to make this event great, not to get a free pass to the conference.
Workgroup - Group of people responsible for the execution of specific tasks focused on a particular aspect of the conference mandated for a given team. The workgroup is also responsible for setting guidelines on the team's working.
Volunteers - The workgroup, along with its volunteers, execute various tasks as agreed within the workgroup. Each Workgroup consists of several volunteers who assign each other tasks, complete the assigned tasks, and help manage the group.
Finally, volunteers are the most important part of the event. Without volunteers, the event cannot happen. So, even if you are attending PyCon for the first time, we encourage you to volunteer with whatever you can. If you don't want to miss any of your favorite sessions, then volunteer for smaller tasks.
All the aspects of the conference are managed by the volunteers. There are a variety of areas where you can help.
If you have a passion for social media and love interacting with the masses, you can join our social media team and help us take the conference to a wider audience.
If you’ve always had a knack for amazing designs and visuals, and you like to express your ideas in designs, you can join our design team and help make our content beautiful and visually pleasing to our community members.
If you love the nuances of a language and words have always helped you express yourself, you can join our content team and help us make our content more expressive and remarkable for all our readers.
If you’re great at programming and looking to make some contributions that might help the community, you can join our technology team and help us out with numerous implementations for our platforms. Your frontend skills can help us improve our website and blog. You can also contribute to our CFP platform, Junction, with your Django skills.
We don’t have any specific requirements for our volunteers. Any contributions to any area of the conference which will make the event better are welcome. If you need any help with any kind of work or contribution, feel free to reach out to any of us at our Zulip channel.
All the workgroup leaders and volunteers have a weekly meeting to brief about the progress in their respective workgroup so that everyone's on the same page. Here is a list of our workgroups and their contact persons:
You might be wondering, what will you get out of helping us make the event better? What will you gain for providing the conference hours of your time? Other than having an insight and say into the decisions and the direction of the conference you will be attending, there are also some other benefits to volunteering too.
You will get to meet many exceptional people, many of whom are recognized experts in their field. Along with the industry leaders and experts, you will also get to meet a plethora of new people who are working in Python and other open source communities. Some of them might even be developers and contributors to the software you use, and you’ll get to interact with them and get some insights into the development process.
You will also get first-hand, practical experience in managing an event, working with a team, and the open-source development ecosystem. You will get to learn how large-scale, real-life projects work, and what is it like being an important component of the massive machinery behind all the community events. You will get the chance to work alongside some amazing people, from whom you can get to learn a lot if you’re willing to learn.
Now that you’re aware of what it takes and what it means to volunteer, if you wish to help us make the conference even better with your contributions, you should start with:
Joining the mailing list, there you can stay up to date with all the happenings, discussions, and overall progress of the conference preparations.
Join our Zulip channel and follow the workgroups you would like to contribute to. There you can meet all other volunteers, and discuss and share your work with others.
You can also pro-actively "Watch" the following repos on GitHub where you can stay up to date with the progress of various tasks and even contribute where you feel you can help. Feel free to actively participate in any discussion, open an issue, or file a Pull Request for any contribution you feel will be helpful to the conference.
Our CFP software, Junction
If you have any questions, please drop a mail to the mailing list, but make sure to check the mailing list archives, for previous discussions, before posting. You should also check out the PyCon India Handbook, containing the experiences and guidelines from previous organizers, which might be helpful to you in your volunteering journey.
Happy volunteering!
Credits: Parts of the article were inspired from:
Volunteering for PyCon India 2019, PyCon India 2019
Volunteering for PyCon India, PyCon India 2015
Become A Volunteer, PyCon hyderabad 2018
Volunteer at PyCon AU, PyCon AU 2019
The call for proposals for workshops has been officially opened! If you are slight to moderately unsure of submitting a workshop proposal, you won't be after reading this.
Here's a question for you.
Do you think that you would be able to assemble 2.5 hours of material and lead an online session full of PyCon attendees through learning a new skill, library, or technology? Then you might be someone we are looking for. Apply to host your workshop at PyCon India 2020! PyCon India 2020 workshops will be held online on October 4th, 2020.
As with the talks, we are looking for workshops that can grow this community at any level. We aim for workshops that will advance Python, advance this community, and shape the future. Each workshop runs for 2.5 hours plus a break for coffee. As workshops are longer, more in-depth than talks, they require much more preparation. Much more when it comes to writing your proposal.
CFP for Workshops closes on 31st August, 2020.
As you think about your experiences, skills, and knowledge that you would want to bring to the table. We also want you to focus on the proposal that you will be submitting to us. A well thought out proposal means everything here at this point. Take your time to go through our team's advice on preparing a kickass proposal that turns heads (virtually):
When submitting a proposal for a workshop, you would need to fill the following details.
Give your workshop a name that accurately describes the workshop's focus in regards to potential attendees.
A brief description of the workshop is needed here. Do provide as much detail as you can to guide us through your plans for the workshop. The workshop duration is needed to be 2.5 hours. Hence, a rough timeline detailing how you will be spending time explaining the concept would be a great idea to start with.
At what level of Python and other topic-specific experience or expertise is the workshop aiming for? We realize this may be too narrow for a workshop, for example, if the workshop is aimed at experienced programmers but novices to Python, but give it your best shot. Reviewers need to know what level of Python experience is targeted and also what level(s) of domain-specific expertise is targeted, for example, networking, SQL, database, etc.
Preferences or requirements if any in regards to your workshop that attendees need to take care of before joining in.
With PyCon India 2020 being online this year, we are introducing preview videos to our proposal submission workflow. Preview videos are you talking about your proposal, topics you intend to cover in the workshop, and how you intend to cover them. Participants are strongly suggested to upload links of their preview videos while submitting their proposals. It will be immensely helpful for reviewers to go through preview videos and take that into account before making final decisions on your workshop proposal. Please keep in mind to strictly follow all guidelines for creating your video preview as mentioned here.
You'll be asked to enter your biography and the information will be made public. Here, you may wish to include more information for reviewers to complement information about your previous experience. This can include your subject matter experience, past workshops if any, past speaking events if any, or anything else that would help us understand and gauge your abilities as a workshop presenter. A link to a video would be ideal (to be added in speaker URLs)
In the end, we would like to mention the workshop selection process attempts to choose a good variety of workshop topics and levels that will be in demand, i.e., it doesn't just select the best proposals! The selection process has also tended to prefer Python-related topics over more general software development tools or practices that aren't Python-specific.
Proposal type is selected as Workshop from the Proposal type dropdown.
Do make sure to read the best practices before you start typing them proposals especially if this is your first workshop proposal!
Feel free to ping us on Zulip or IRC (#pyconindia) or contact the coordinators through email:
We look forward to seeing your proposals filling our inboxes in the coming months! Till then stay safe, stay vanilla!
Inspired by PyCon US's 2019 Tutorials CFP. Adapted by Vipul Gupta @vipulgupta2048
That time is upon us again, folks. PyCon India is back, it's online and the call for proposals has officially opened!
2020 has been a rollercoaster for all of us. As this year's PyCon India 2020 is being organized online (Announcement tweet!), we want your support to make the conference bigger, better, and more accessible to all. After all, PyCon India is made by you, for you and with you at its center.
So, whether you are someone submitting a proposal for talks for the first time or just want to share what you have been up to with Python this past year. This is YOUR time to shine!
Divided by COVID. Connected by Python!
We are looking forward to seeing beginner, intermediate, and advanced proposals on topics mentioned below from beginner, intermediate, and advanced speakers to present those talks. You don’t need to be a 10-year veteran who has spoken at dozens of conferences. For making our conference truly diverse, we are looking for all kinds of people. That’s what our community is comprised of, and that’s what this conference’s schedule should be made from.
Please make note of some important dates as mentioned below:
Read the call for proposals editorial for more information on writing proposals. Next, start with drafting your proposal in the New Proposal page after signing up for an account.
Do make sure to read the best practices before you start typing them proposals especially if you are a first time speaker!
With PyCon India 2020 being online this year, we are introducing preview videos to our proposal submission workflow. Preview videos are you talking about your proposal, topics you intend to cover in the talk, and how you intend to cover them. Participants are strongly suggested to upload links of their preview videos while submitting their proposals. It will be immensely helpful for reviewers to go through preview videos and take that into account before making final decisions on your talk proposal. Please keep in mind to strictly follow all guidelines for creating your video preview as mentioned below:-
Duration & orientation
A 1-3 minute video to be recorded, preferably in portrait mode.
Upload to YouTube
The video has to be uploaded on Youtube. If you don’t want other people to find it, mark it as unlisted. Don’t mark it as private or disallow embedding, or we won’t be able to see it.
Only you talking about your talk
The video should contain nothing except you talking about your talk. Try to make a video that holds our attention and helps us understand more deeply about what's your talk is all about.
No effects & No Music
Please do not add any background music to your video. No screenshots or postproduction wizardry please; we don’t want this to turn into a video making contest. If you’re going to spend time making something cool, put that into your slides & proposal instead.
No Script
Please do not recite a script written beforehand. Just talk spontaneously as you would to a friend. People delivering memorized speeches (or worse still, reading text off the screen) usually come off as dull and uninspiring. Think of this as fun activity and let your heart do the talking. Be vanilla!
Check Audio
Try to keep your voice clear and check that its being recorded properly. Make sure there isn't any background noise. Try to record this in an empty room if possible without much going on in the background.
Feel free to ping us on Zulip or IRC (#pyconindia) or contact the coordinators through email:
We look forward to seeing your proposals filling our inboxes in the coming months! Till then stay safe, stay vanilla!
Written by Vipul Gupta (@vipulgupta2048)
