Mailman 3 August 2013 - Inpycon

Questions for "python in education" panel
by Noufal Ibrahim Aug. 16, 2013

Aug. 16, 2013

Hello everyone, I emailed about this earlier. We're doing a panel discussion on education at PyCon India. I'm still getting the folks together but there will be 4 or 5 people at the panel. My plan is to pose a few questions we select up front to guide the talk in general and open it up to the panel towards the end of the discussion. So, I'll need folks on the list to suggest questions which are interesting[1] and I'll pick a around 7 or 8 (5 minutes for each question). Please reply to the thread with "interesting" questions. Thanks. Footnotes: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Meeting Caterer team for Food menu
by vijay Aug. 16, 2013

Aug. 16, 2013

Hi , I will be meting caterer team on Sunday 11.30 AM to finalize food menu at Garadu mall . M.G road, Bangalore. If you are interested to join me let me know. With Thanks Vijay

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conference schedule is out
by Anand Chitipothu Aug. 15, 2013

Aug. 15, 2013

Hello everyone, The tentative schedule of the conference is up on the website. http://in.pycon.org/2013/ Anand

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Lead Volunteers
by Anand Chitipothu Aug. 14, 2013

Aug. 14, 2013

Hi, We need some people to own and manage some big parts of the logistics. We have found some people to take care of this, we need some more. Video Recording - Vishal Sood Contact Point Kit - Elvis Workshops - Konark Modi Guest Speaker & Panel Discussion - Noufal Ibrahim Lightening Talks - Ramki We need some volunteers to manage the following: Wifi & networking - Kingsly will help with wifi, but we need someone to manage it. Registrations - is Abdul Ralf around to take care of this again this year? Food - making sure food/tea arrives in time, speak to caterer as needed Open Space - We have one auditorium dedicated for open spaces. We need someone to make sure it is going on smoothly. Sponsor Coordinator - Vijay has been coordinating this right now, but I'm sure he'll have lot of other things to pay attention at the conference. It'll nice if someone can take care of this. HasGeek Coordinator We need some to take care of coordinating with HasGeek. They are helping us in a big way. Providing all the hardware for wifi, video recording, contact point kits etc. and even doing a 2-day workshop for us on video recording. They are very busy with their own development and won't be able to spend time. We need someone to be the contact point for all hasgeek related things. interested? Did I miss anything? For all these things, we have more volunteers to help, but we need one lead volunteer who can be the contact person for that job. Here is your chance to become part of PyCon India and make it more awesome! Who is interested? Anand

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Volunteer for Conduct workshop on August 24 in bnagalore
by vijay Aug. 14, 2013

Aug. 14, 2013

Hi, We need few volunteers to conduct multiple workshop in different colleges . College will be arranging transportation for workshop tutors. Below are colleges as of today 1) IEEE UVCE , bangalore 2) REVA ITM (2-3 parallel tracks) , bangalore 3) East Point CampusJnana Prabha(Tentative) , bangalore Please do drop email to me or call me on +91 9886761820 if you are available. With Thanks Vijay

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Volunteers Required: Video Recording
by Anand Chitipothu Aug. 14, 2013

Aug. 14, 2013

Hello everyone, We need some volunteers for video recording. Video recording very important for the event and required dedicated time. I expect the volunteer handle video recording of one full day in one room. There are lot of details that we need to know to make high quality videos. HasGeek is organizing 2 day workshop on video recording for us. We need about 4 volunteers for this. If you are interested to help us with video recording, please let me know by replying to this email. You'll have to be available this weekend for the video workshop and one of the days of the conference. Anand

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Blog posts on Python Month
by Bibhas Ch Debnath Aug. 14, 2013

Aug. 14, 2013

Hi, I just want to check, are those of us who are helping organize workshops across the country also blogging about what we're doing? If we could post at least one blog post on every workshop, that could help publicize Python Month and PyCon in the long run. ---- Best Regards, * Bibhas Ch Debnath*

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Book Sale at PyCon
by Kiran Gangadharan Aug. 13, 2013

Aug. 13, 2013

Hi, I had recently got a request from someone asking if it would be possible to sell his book "Introduction to Python" at the PyCon India conference this year. So, do we allow this ? Cheers, Kiran

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PyCon India 2013 - Workshop Registrations
by Anand Chitipothu Aug. 13, 2013

Aug. 13, 2013

Hi, We are excited to let you know that we have a choice of 9 awesome workshops available on August 30, Friday as part of PyCon India 2013. These workshops will happen in 3 parallel tracks, so you can attend a maximum of 3 workshops. The seats in each workshop are limited to keep it very interactive. A separate ticket much be purchased for attending each workshop and each ticket costs Rs. 1000/-. If you haven't bought tickets already, go and grab them at: http://pyconindia2013.doattend.com/ If you are a student, use discount code *STUDENT* to avail 50% student discount. Breakfast, lunch and tea/snacks are included in the ticket. Here is the schedule of workshops. *09:30 - 12:00* - Test your code - *Ratnadeep Debnath* - Introduction to scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python - *Bala Subrahmanyam Varanasi* - When to Optimize code? Performance and Memory Optimizations in Python - *Venkata Ramana* *13:00 - 15:30* - Functional Testing Using Selenium - *Baiju Muthukadan* - Advanced data analysis with Pandas - *Anand S* - Idiomatic Programming - Getting the best out of your Python code -*Anand B Pillai* *16:00 - 18:30* - Distributed task processing using Celery - *Narahari Allamraju* - Openstack Workshop covering Intro to Basics and Installation - *Rahul Krishna Upadhyaya* - Document your code (Sphinx workshop) - *Kushal Das* The full schedule of the workshops and more detail about each workshop are available on the conference website <http://in.pycon.org/2013/>. We look forward to see you at the workshops. Anand For PyCon India 2013

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Workshop at Netaji Subhas Engineering College
by Bibhas Ch Debnath Aug. 13, 2013

Aug. 13, 2013

Hi, The linux user group of Netaji Subhas Engineering College, Kolkata are organizing the Python month workshop tomorrow. I'll be there giving a hands-on introduction to Python. Estimated number of participants are about 30 or more. Should I update the Python Month Schedule google doc with the info? ---- Best Regards, * Bibhas Ch Debnath*

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