Create list of categories for CFPs

[soumendrak]

We need to finalize the categories we will accept the Talk proposals. Essential criteria to decide the topics:

1. As there will be a diverse set of audiences of 1k+, we need to cover mainstream topics with a sizeable audience. Later when the audiences will book tickets, we can ask them about the categories of Talk proposals in which they are interested. This poll response can help us add weightage to our final list of Talk proposals. This can be taken as an action item for the Ticket booking team.
2. The Reviewers' skills must also be matched with the categories. We can draft the categories list and check for skillsets in the Reviewer panel.
3. Theme of the conference: If there is any

[adarshdigievo]

Here are the proposal categories from EuroPython CFP and Pycon US CFP. We can refer to these as the starting points and tweak them based on our theme.

EuroPython: ["Arts, Crafts Culture & Demos", "Career, Life, Health", "Community & Diversity", "DevOps", "Education, Teaching & Training", "Ethics, Philosophy & Politics", "Infrastructure: Cloud & Hardware", "Makers, Microcontrollers and IoT", "PyData: Data Engineering", "PyData: Deep Learning, NLP, CV", "PyData: Ethics in AI", "PyData: Machine Learning, Stats", "PyData: Software Packages & Jupyter", "Python Friends", "Python Internals & Ecosystem", "Python Libraries", "Security", "Software Engineering & Architecture", "Testing", "Web", "~ None of these topics"]

Pycon US: ["Applications", "Community, Careers & Professional Development", "Concurrency & Async", "Data Science & Data Visualization", "Data Processing & Data Visualization", "Development & Software Engineering Practices", "DevOps / SRE", "Distributed Systems", "Documentation", "Hardware", "Machine Learning", "InteractivePython & Notebooks", "Other", "Packaging & Distribution", "Optimization, Performance & Python Environments", "Python Language & Features", "Scientific Applications", "Security", "Testing", "Typing", "Web"]

[soumendrak]

• We will have our first CFP Reviewers' meeting tomorrow. There we are planning to finalize the categories.
• If you are a reviewer and want to join the meeting, please join using this Zulip link to access the meeting details.

[soumendrak]

The categories are almost finalized. You can see those on this spreadsheet.

[soumendrak]

Finalized