Hi everyone,

CFP & Review
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The CFP Working Group (WG) did a great job of reaching out to speakers
and achieving a good number of talk proposals. The Review Panel WG
volunteers worked parallelly to get the proposals as complete as
possible as per the guidelines we built before the Subject Matter
Expert (SME) aka Talk Reviewers started the process. Thanks to the
whole Reviewers team for putting their thought and effort into each
talk.

As of today, based on the reviews of the proposals, the first set of
selected speakers has been created. The team will start reaching out
to all these speakers, to prepare the final list.

The date for the final schedule to be published still stands at 15th
September 2020.

Schedule Outline of PyCon India 2020
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This year, since we have gone online, the number of talks and
registration outside India is substantially high. So, the team has
decided to start the event at noon and end at 8:00 PM IST. This will
help us to accommodate other timezones as well and not moving much
from our core time.

The schedule outline (the mentioned time is in IST):
12:00 - 12:10 - Opening Session of the day
12:15 - 13:15 - Keynote
13:20 - 13:50 - Talk Slot
13:55 - 14:25 - Talk Slot
14:30 - 15:20 - Break / Networking
15:20 - 15:50 - Talk Slot
15:55 - 16:25 - Talk Slot
16:30 - 17:30 - Keynote
17:30 - 17:50 - Break / Networking
17:50 - 18:20 - Talk Slot
18:25 - 18:55 - Talk Slot
19:00 - 20:00 - Keynote
20:00 - 20:05 - Closing session for the day
20:05 - 20:30 - Networking

The `Talk Slot`s are 30 min slot which would have talks, lightning
talks, and sponsored talks. This will be replicated for all the
stages, except for the
Keynote slots.

This year the team also plans to have 4 parallel tracks, and one track dedicated for just *Advanced* talks. Once the schedule is prepared, an
update will be shared detail about how the talks will be placed across
the stages/ or sessions.

Though this schedule is tentative and what the whole team is
following, minor updates might be done to accommodate speakers or
sponsors.


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Miscellaneous info
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Tickets
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The PyCon India 2020 tickets are open but we are selling out fast. So,
if you haven't booked the tickets, please head over to the website and
get your tickets.

We need your help
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This year, we've been very highly active on Zulip[1]. As we move
closer to the event, we would like your support and help to make this
happen successfully. We have ample work where we need a volunteer, so
please join us on Zulip and ping on the main channel.

The Promotions WG needs a helping hand, so if you interested please
follow the instructions

Sponsorship
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The Call for Sponsors[2] is open, and we've some good packages with
amazing benefits. You can visit the sponsorship page or write to us at sponsor@in.pycon.org, and we will revert.

Please share the ticket announcement to that it reaches more in the community. https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1298222867935444992

[1] https://pyconindia.zulipchat.com/