.extend()

PyCon India 2020 received an overwhelming number of good talks, but the review panel could pick a selected number of them.

Inspired from Cloud Native Rejekts, the team thought of PyCon India thought of bringing .extend(). A b-side track during the conference with the rejected talks.

Process

The announcement will be going out in the rejection emails and along with the interest form.

The entries for .extend() would be taken through Google Forms who have shown interest. After the folks have submitted the CFP link, along with other personal details a raffle would be conducted.

The raffle would be done to select 10 talks for the 10 available slots. A asciinema recording will also be done as a proof.

The entries would then slotted, and the respective person would be contacted. Adjustment would time would be a rare event. The schedule will be updated both in Hopin, and Ical.

The session will start from 13.55 hrs.

Hopin Setup

.extend() will be hosted on the Pune Hopin Stage.

Questions

• Who all can submit the talk for .extend()?

  Only Attendees who have submitted a talk earlier and have been rejected will be eligible for the raffle. We will be asking proposal link in the Google Form.

• How the selection will happen for the talks?

  Read about it in the Process section.

• What’s the duration of the talk?

  Duration for each of the talk would be 30 min.

• How should I prepare for the conference day?

  Refer to the speaker <personas/speaker.rst>. The steps for the conference day would be the same. You as a speaker will be giving your talk on the Pune stage via the Streamyard platform. So please read the Streamyard flow in the given documentation.

Further Information

Ritesh Agrawal is the primary coordinator/point of contact for .extend().