Re: [Inpycon] Python Month 2014
Hi, If we aren't waiting for Anand to setup Python Express, then I suggest writing a quick blog post and start spreading the word on social media. Cheers, Kiran Gangadharan http://kirang.in On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
Last year we celebrated the month before PyCon India as Python Month. We had volunteers who went around the country and organized workshops at more than 40 colleges! Organizations like CampusHash also helped us out in promoting Python Month and PyCon India through their workshops. This year we plan to organize the same. The month before PyCon India is chosen because that gives us an opportunity to promote PyCon India. Also, we'd like to keep organizing these workshops even after PyCon this year. So start planning.
This is a really big task to handle and we need volunteers from all the states and cities. If you're reading this, here is how you can help -
1. If you're a student or a profession, propose a workshop at your institute. Talk to the authorities, fix a time and we'll help you find a speaker 2. If you're a Python developer and can speak about the basics of Python, let us know. We'll find you a college around you that has asked for a speaker. If you don't want to speak, still let us know. We can find workshops that you can help organize.
Remember that this is a complete voluntary effort and there is no payment involved in any stage of these workshops. The Institutes should communicate with the speaker directly once they are connected and take care of anything they need, like transportation etc.
Interested? Please sign in here and we'll get back to you - http://bit.ly/pythonmonth2014
We need a Lot of volunteers to manage these workshops, talk to colleges, talk to the speakers and schedule the workshops. Ideally we'd like to have couple of volunteers per city who can look after Python Month workshops in that city. These volunteers will go through the workshop requests in that city and find speakers and connect them. If you're interested in this role, please reply to this mail.
If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know.
Thanks, Bibhas
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Kiran Gangadharan < kiran.daredevil@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
If we aren't waiting for Anand to setup Python Express, then I suggest writing a quick blog post and start spreading the word on social media.
+1
Since we are just week away from python month we should continue with google form for now and use the software later. Can we get blog and get more active volunteer from different state who can reach out to colleges and who can help in conducting workshop.
Bibhas, Can we get blog or page on our website. You can ask people to fill the google form. Did you drop email to college's of last year ? Can other volunteer speak to college and get schedule. We need need to include reimbursement policy in blog. With Thanks Vijay On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:27 AM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Kiran Gangadharan < kiran.daredevil@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
If we aren't waiting for Anand to setup Python Express, then I suggest writing a quick blog post and start spreading the word on social media.
+1
Since we are just week away from python month we should continue with google form for now and use the software later. Can we get blog and get more active volunteer from different state who can reach out to colleges and who can help in conducting workshop.
-- Thanks, Vijay kumar Bang
Hi, There was a view from Sanket that we use 2 forms instead of one. One for volunteer and speaker requests and another for workshop requests. Any view on that? Thanks On Sunday 10 August 2014 05:53 PM, vijay kumar wrote:
Bibhas, Can we get blog or page on our website. You can ask people to fill the google form. Did you drop email to college's of last year ? Can other volunteer speak to college and get schedule. We need need to include reimbursement policy in blog.
With Thanks Vijay
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:27 AM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com <mailto:vnbang2003@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Kiran Gangadharan <kiran.daredevil@gmail.com <mailto:kiran.daredevil@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
If we aren't waiting for Anand to setup Python Express, then I suggest writing a quick blog post and start spreading the word on social media.
>> +1 Since we are just week away from python month we should continue with google form for now and use the software later. Can we get blog and get more active volunteer from different state who can reach out to colleges and who can help in conducting workshop.
-- Thanks, Vijay kumar Bang
Hi, Could you please wait for one more day? The website will be up by tomorrow and we can use it for taking all registrations. Anand On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
Hi,
There was a view from Sanket that we use 2 forms instead of one. One for volunteer and speaker requests and another for workshop requests. Any view on that?
Thanks
On Sunday 10 August 2014 05:53 PM, vijay kumar wrote:
Bibhas, Can we get blog or page on our website. You can ask people to fill the google form. Did you drop email to college's of last year ? Can other volunteer speak to college and get schedule. We need need to include reimbursement policy in blog.
With Thanks Vijay
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:27 AM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Kiran Gangadharan < kiran.daredevil@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
If we aren't waiting for Anand to setup Python Express, then I suggest writing a quick blog post and start spreading the word on social media.
+1
Since we are just week away from python month we should continue with google form for now and use the software later. Can we get blog and get more active volunteer from different state who can reach out to colleges and who can help in conducting workshop.
-- Thanks, Vijay kumar Bang
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Anand, I'm willing to give PE a try. This whole form business is actually messy. In the meantime I'm jotting down the volunteers and workshops requests separately. We have 5 workshop requests on that form till now. I'll pass them on to the corresponding city's volunteers. The way it's now, I'll either have to start calling all the volunteers, or create state specific threads CC-ing all the volunteers. PythonExpress could save a lot of efforts. Essentially we need a publicly available list of requested workshops and a list of speakers who can be contacted based on state/city etc. Before PE, I was thinking about using Trello. But that also requires all the related people to sign up for trello. I'd rather have them sign up at PE. @Vijay, I checked the docs of last year's workshops. I found only 2 colleges whose contact person has an email address. I'll mail them. @Anand, Can I use last year's Python Month mail content? I dont think much has changed. Except maybe this line "In India, Kerala state and CBSE have adopted Python in their school syllabus." is there any update on this info? Any more states added to this list? On Sunday 10 August 2014 06:22 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote:
Hi,
Could you please wait for one more day?
The website will be up by tomorrow and we can use it for taking all registrations.
Anand
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in <mailto:me@bibhas.in>> wrote:
Hi,
There was a view from Sanket that we use 2 forms instead of one. One for volunteer and speaker requests and another for workshop requests. Any view on that?
Thanks
On Sunday 10 August 2014 05:53 PM, vijay kumar wrote:
Bibhas, Can we get blog or page on our website. You can ask people to fill the google form. Did you drop email to college's of last year ? Can other volunteer speak to college and get schedule. We need need to include reimbursement policy in blog.
With Thanks Vijay
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:27 AM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com <mailto:vnbang2003@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Kiran Gangadharan <kiran.daredevil@gmail.com <mailto:kiran.daredevil@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
If we aren't waiting for Anand to setup Python Express, then I suggest writing a quick blog post and start spreading the word on social media.
>> +1 Since we are just week away from python month we should continue with google form for now and use the software later. Can we get blog and get more active volunteer from different state who can reach out to colleges and who can help in conducting workshop.
-- Thanks, Vijay kumar Bang
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-- Anand http://anandology.com/
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On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
Anand,
I'm willing to give PE a try. This whole form business is actually messy. In the meantime I'm jotting down the volunteers and workshops requests separately. We have 5 workshop requests on that form till now. I'll pass them on to the corresponding city's volunteers. The way it's now, I'll either have to start calling all the volunteers, or create state specific threads CC-ing all the volunteers. PythonExpress could save a lot of efforts.
Thats the whole point of Python Express. Last year we don't even have track of number of workshops. This time I want to streamline the process, capture all the details about workshops and create a buzz in the social media while this is happening.
Essentially we need a publicly available list of requested workshops and a list of speakers who can be contacted based on state/city etc. Before PE, I was thinking about using Trello. But that also requires all the related people to sign up for trello. I'd rather have them sign up at PE.
@Vijay, I checked the docs of last year's workshops. I found only 2 colleges whose contact person has an email address. I'll mail them.
@Anand, Can I use last year's Python Month mail content? I dont think much has changed. Except maybe this line "In India, Kerala state and CBSE have adopted Python in their school syllabus." is there any update on this info? Any more states added to this list?
Please hold on for emails and blog posts. I would like to link pythonexpress.in in the blog post and would like to use contact@pythonexpress.in email address for all the communication. Anand
Hi everyone, I am Amar from IIIT-Hyderabad. I am volunteering for PyCon this year. I can definitely make a workshop happen in my college but to get the permissions to make it happen I need a well renowned speaker who could go beyond plain-simple Python because students here are quite familiar with the language as it is part of the curriculum. Please,let me if something can be done about it. Thanks Amar On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
Anand,
I'm willing to give PE a try. This whole form business is actually messy. In the meantime I'm jotting down the volunteers and workshops requests separately. We have 5 workshop requests on that form till now. I'll pass them on to the corresponding city's volunteers. The way it's now, I'll either have to start calling all the volunteers, or create state specific threads CC-ing all the volunteers. PythonExpress could save a lot of efforts.
Thats the whole point of Python Express. Last year we don't even have track of number of workshops. This time I want to streamline the process, capture all the details about workshops and create a buzz in the social media while this is happening.
Essentially we need a publicly available list of requested workshops and a list of speakers who can be contacted based on state/city etc. Before PE, I was thinking about using Trello. But that also requires all the related people to sign up for trello. I'd rather have them sign up at PE.
@Vijay, I checked the docs of last year's workshops. I found only 2 colleges whose contact person has an email address. I'll mail them.
@Anand, Can I use last year's Python Month mail content? I dont think much has changed. Except maybe this line "In India, Kerala state and CBSE have adopted Python in their school syllabus." is there any update on this info? Any more states added to this list?
Please hold on for emails and blog posts. I would like to link pythonexpress.in in the blog post and would like to use contact@pythonexpress.in email address for all the communication.
Anand
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Thats the whole point of Python Express. Last year we don't even have track of number of workshops. This time I want to streamline the process, capture all the Please hold on for emails and blog posts. I would like to link pythonexpress.in in the blog post and would like to use contact@pythonexpress.in email address for all the communication.
I don't agree with point of we did not track number of workshop. We have captured all data . How long do we exactly need to get website up ? We are able to create momentum do we really need to stop this again ?
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:11 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
Thats the whole point of Python Express. Last year we don't even have track of number of workshops. This time I want to streamline the process, capture all the Please hold on for emails and blog posts. I would like to link pythonexpress.in in the blog post and would like to use contact@pythonexpress.in email address for all the communication.
I don't agree with point of we did not track number of workshop. We have captured all data .
Really? Could you please share that with me?
How long do we exactly need to get website up ?
I've already mentioned that the website will be up by end of tomorrow.
We are able to create momentum do we really need to stop this again ?
Do you think you can handle this with google docs? We barely managed it last time. I was the one who proposed the idea of Python Month year. I think I have a vision for where I want to take this. Like I've already mentioned couple of times that we should make this an on going effort through out the year, not just something that we do for one month before the conference. Also we should scale up the number of workshops that we can handle. Do you want to give a chance to me or go with google docs way? Anand
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:11 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:
Thats the whole point of Python Express. Last year we don't even have track of number of workshops. This time I want to streamline the process, capture all the Please hold on for emails and blog posts. I would like to link pythonexpress.in in the blog post and would like to use contact@pythonexpress.in email address for all the communication.
I don't agree with point of we did not track number of workshop. We have captured all data .
Really? Could you please share that with me?
Please check PythonMonth Schedule Spreadsheet it has all data. You are one who had updated that sheet last so really don't know why you want me to share data again.
How long do we exactly need to get website up ?
I've already mentioned that the website will be up by end of tomorrow.
Even if the website is up by tomorrow we still need to test it and see before we start using it and we don't have enough time for this at this moment.
We are able to create momentum do we really need to stop this again ?
Do you think you can handle this with google docs? We barely managed it last time.
I was the one who proposed the idea of Python Month year. I think I have a vision for where I want to take this. Like I've already mentioned couple of times that we should make this an on going effort through out the year, not just something that we do for one month before the conference. Also we should scale up the number of workshops that we can handle.
Do you want to give a chance to me or go with google docs way?
I agree that the idea was yours but its all volunteer effort to make
your idea successful and people have put more effort to make it successful. Just an example member who started with plan of PyCon India doesn't alone drive it, its a community effort which make it go together and its still run by community and everyone has rights to improvise it every year if whole community agrees. Let me reiterate your idea "PythonMonth is a celebration where PyCon India community plan to conduct Python Workshop freely across different colleges/universities in India *for a month*" We have already agreed to use google form yesterday and I see lot of members have filled forms and it will create chaos if we ask them to fill in a website once again. *Note : it doesn't force me to have github/google account * So please understand lets not confuse user where to fill data and break the momentum created. I would suggest to proceed with next steps rather than sticking to website.
Really? Could you please share that with me?
Please check PythonMonth Schedule Spreadsheet it has all data. You
are one who had updated that sheet last so really don't know why you want me to share data again.
That has only 46 workshops listed. We have conducted far more workshops than that. How long do we exactly need to get website up ?
I've already mentioned that the website will be up by end of tomorrow.
Even if the website is up by tomorrow we still need to test it and see before we start using it and we don't have enough time for this at this moment.
We are able to create momentum do we really need to stop this again ?
Do you think you can handle this with google docs? We barely managed it last time.
I was the one who proposed the idea of Python Month year. I think I have a vision for where I want to take this. Like I've already mentioned couple of times that we should make this an on going effort through out the year, not just something that we do for one month before the conference. Also we should scale up the number of workshops that we can handle.
Do you want to give a chance to me or go with google docs way?
I agree that the idea was yours but its all volunteer effort to make
your idea successful and people have put more effort to make it successful. Just an example member who started with plan of PyCon India doesn't alone drive it, its a community effort which make it go together and its still run by community and everyone has rights to improvise it every year if whole community agrees.
I totally agree. It was a volunteer effort and I'm not trying to take all the credit. All the work is done by a lot of volunteers and esp. your efforts help in managing it were incredible. Being the coordinator of Python Month Last year, I'm trying to avoid the mistakes that we did last year. Let me say this again. Google docs approach is not going to scale. We are going to get the same issues that we got last year. Let me reiterate your idea "PythonMonth is a celebration where
PyCon India community plan to conduct Python Workshop freely across different colleges/universities in India *for a month*"
Yes. That was just a start. The eventual plan to build an infrastructure to continue running it forever. I've mentioned it in dicussions and also in a mail to the group. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2014-July/008235.html
We have already agreed to use google form yesterday and I see lot of members have filled forms and it will create chaos if we ask them to fill in a website once again.
No. Bibhas created the google form and I objected. We never reached any conclusion. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2014-August/008426.html Anand
That has only 46 workshops listed. We have conducted far more workshops than that.
In this case members have not informed about workshop they conducted.
I totally agree. It was a volunteer effort and I'm not trying to take all the credit. All the work is done by a lot of volunteers and esp. your efforts help in managing it were incredible.
Being the coordinator of Python Month Last year, I'm trying to avoid the mistakes that we did last year. Let me say this again. Google docs approach is not going to scale. We are going to get the same issues that we got last year.
Let me reiterate your idea "PythonMonth is a celebration where
PyCon India community plan to conduct Python Workshop freely across different colleges/universities in India *for a month*"
Yes. That was just a start. The eventual plan to build an infrastructure to continue running it forever. I've mentioned it in dicussions and also in a mail to the group.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2014-July/008235.html
I know this point but when we are not ready with all workflow should we use software . Please understand there are lot of usecase we need to still cover in workflow. 1) Does software allow me to add more than one college information in case college doesn't add ? 2) How are we gone tracker members who goes in support the tutors during workshop ? 3) Are you creating login which doesn't need me to have google/Github account ? 4) Do we plan to have workflow for our PythonMonth partners like FSMK, CampusHash ?
We have already agreed to use google form yesterday and I see lot of members have filled forms and it will create chaos if we ask them to fill in a website once again.
No. Bibhas created the google form and I objected. We never reached any conclusion.
In this thread only we have decide to move on with spreadsheet this year.
Testing of application also need sometime.
In any case i feel we are going nowhere. I feel effort to create momentum is stopped as member are confused where to fill in data. Do you think 5 days is enough to ask colleges to fill data and start pythonmonth workshop . (Last year we started one month before to create momentum?) I think Bibhas need to take final call as he is co-ordinator for this year ?
Hi, On Monday 11 August 2014 10:08 AM, vijay kumar wrote:
That has only 46 workshops listed. We have conducted far more workshops than that.
In this case members have not informed about workshop they conducted.
I think that's a serious issue. We cannot keep poking everyone individually to fill in details for each workshops. They should do that themselves. It should be an easy process.
I totally agree. It was a volunteer effort and I'm not trying to take all the credit. All the work is done by a lot of volunteers and esp. your efforts help in managing it were incredible.
Being the coordinator of Python Month Last year, I'm trying to avoid the mistakes that we did last year. Let me say this again. Google docs approach is not going to scale. We are going to get the same issues that we got last year.
Let me reiterate your idea "PythonMonth is a celebration where PyCon India community plan to conduct Python Workshop freely across different colleges/universities in India *for a month*"
Yes. That was just a start. The eventual plan to build an infrastructure to continue running it forever. I've mentioned it in dicussions and also in a mail to the group.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2014-July/008235.html
I know this point but when we are not ready with all workflow should we use software . Please understand there are lot of usecase we need to still cover in workflow. 1) Does software allow me to add more than one college information in case college doesn't add ? 2) How are we gone tracker members who goes in support the tutors during workshop ? 3) Are you creating login which doesn't need me to have google/Github account ? 4) Do we plan to have workflow for our PythonMonth partners like FSMK, CampusHash ?
These are good points. I think the idea was to make the person who asked for a workshop from a certain institute, a representative of that institute who can login as that institute and take it forward. Such people usually will have a github/google account as they are either students or professors who roamed around the internet and actually found the Python Month details. But yes, we could do with an email address login.
We have already agreed to use google form yesterday and I see lot of members have filled forms and it will create chaos if we ask them to fill in a website once again.
No. Bibhas created the google form and I objected. We never reached any conclusion.
In this thread only we have decide to move on with spreadsheet this year.
Testing of application also need sometime. In any case i feel we are going nowhere. I feel effort to create momentum is stopped as member are confused where to fill in data. Do you think 5 days is enough to ask colleges to fill data and start pythonmonth workshop . (Last year we started one month before to create momentum?)
I think Bibhas need to take final call as he is co-ordinator for this year ?
Vijay, before taking up the coordination of Python Month I asked for the responsibilities and a response was from Anand saying that the software will take care of everything and you said it would take about 1-2 hours each day. Now that I see the google form and last year's data, and that there is no easy way of managing workshops requests from the form and connecting them to the appropriate volunteers unless I call/mail each and every one of them individually. If PythonExpress isn't around, I myself would have written a small app that does it. I wont have enough time to make calls or mails all day long. It's going to take a lot more than straight 1-2 hours. Right now I'm sorting the volunteers by states and the workshop requests by their status of completeness manually. But that is working because there are just 14 entries in that form right now. Once we make it public on social media, it'd be inhuman to actually sort all of them if we don't have a proper system in place that automatically matches volunteers to requested workshops based on location. I know it wont be possible for me alone to do it. Not sure how you guys managed it last year. And there are not many experienced volunteers active this year who can share the responsibility. So, We need a publicly visible list of workshop requests and volunteers who can opt for them if they are around. If it's on me then I'm willing to give the software a try and take it beyond one month this year. Last year we talked about taking Python Month workshops even after PyCon. But we didn't plan that way and we had no discussion after the event for that. If we push this year, we can do that I think. Right now, we have a list of volunteers from many states and they are regular in this mailing list because that's the only place I shared Python Month details till now. So, I can start assigning (sort of) city/state leads so that they can look after the requests from their states, whether we use PythonExpress or Google forms.
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I think Bibhas need to take final call as he is co-ordinator for this year ?
Vijay, before taking up the coordination of Python Month I asked for the responsibilities and a response was from Anand saying that the software will take care of everything and you said it would take about 1-2 hours each day. Now that I see the google form and last year's data, and that there is no easy way of managing workshops requests from the form and connecting them to the appropriate volunteers unless I call/mail each and every one of them individually. If PythonExpress isn't around, I myself would have written a small app that does it. I wont have enough time to make calls or mails all day long. It's going to take a lot more than straight 1-2 hours.
Right now I'm sorting the volunteers by states and the workshop requests by their status of completeness manually. But that is working because there are just 14 entries in that form right now. Once we make it public on social media, it'd be inhuman to actually sort all of them if we don't have a proper system in place that automatically matches volunteers to requested workshops based on location. I know it wont be possible for me alone to do it. Not sure how you guys managed it last year. And there are not many experienced volunteers active this year who can share the responsibility. So, We need a publicly visible list of workshop requests and volunteers who can opt for them if they are around.
If it's on me then I'm willing to give the software a try and take it beyond one month this year. Last year we talked about taking Python Month workshops even after PyCon. But we didn't plan that way and we had no discussion after the event for that. If we push this year, we can do that I think.
Right now, we have a list of volunteers from many states and they are regular in this mailing list because that's the only place I shared Python Month details till now. So, I can start assigning (sort of) city/state leads so that they can look after the requests from their states, whether we use PythonExpress or Google forms.
Bibhas, The python express software is almost there and I can do a demo today. I'm sure it is going to take off lot of this manual work. How about having a Google hangout today 8:30PM? I'll a demo of what pythonexpress can do and we all can see it can be used for running these python workshops. Anyone interested to volunteer for PythonMonth/PythonExpress is welcome to join. Please RSVP if you plan to join. https://plus.google.com/events/c5fbfomlrha7h10vrdrsv3s47bo?authkey=CMz6lJOg0... Anand
Hi, Me, Anand, Baiju, Sukhbinder from Bangalore and Anil were in a hangout and saw a demo of Python Express. The features that work now - 1. It let's people signup using Github/Google or if needed we can use FB/twitter login. 2. If someone doesn't have github/google/fb/twitter a/c, Admins can manually add them to the system 3. People can be added as member of an Organization/Institute and they can create Workshops. Admins can do it for them too if needed. 4. The users who sign up as Trainer can go ahead and show interest to conduct the workshop. 5. A mail will be sent to both the organizer and the trainers and they can interact between them. 6. Organization members can also see the trainer's contact details so that they can contact and finalize things. 7. Workshop links are shareable. So organizers or anyone can share the link on any social media and ask for speakers. We can promote workshops/ask for speakers from our social network a/c too. The basic features we needed were a public list of proposed workshops and speakers being able to go ahead and matchmake themselves without some individual doing that for them. I think that is well taken care of as of now and PE is usable. Things that are upcoming - 1. Notify all the trainers in a city when a new workshop is created in their city 2. more controls from the admin panel e.g. remove, modify workshops. Block trainers or organizations if they are spamming. 3. Commenting feature on each workshop page 4. Testimonials from Organization head or participants We'll need about 4-6 volunteers who can - 1. Call the organizations who sign up and see if they need any help in deciding what to do, or if no speaker is interested in a workshop, then find one for it. Only when one has to call and check things. 2. Call the proposed workshop organizers and speakers to ensure that everything is going well. 3. because we have a defined list of workshops, couple of volunteers can just go ahead and call after the event is over to get a report. Or maybe the organizers themselves can do that from the website. (@Anand?) I already have volunteers from some cities listed. We'll need more volunteers from each city. We can then assign one or two of them as city leads and they can look over the whole process in their city. Baiju is helping Anand with the development, so we expect to see some upcoming features live soon. But I think we can start pushing PythonExpress from tomorrow evening once Baiju and Anand fix couple of bugs, and write the blog posts and publicize. If any experienced Python developers want to help in development of PythonExpress, here is the repo[1]. Let us know what you think. Thanks, Bibhas [1]: https://github.com/anandology/broadgauge
Hi, The following new features have been added to pythonexpress. * ability to edit workshops (thanks Baiju) * ability to set trainer for a workshop by admins * login using facebook * email integration - still need more work on deciding when and what to email I think with this pythonexpress is ready to be used. Please try out the demo site and let me know if you find any issues. http://demo.pythonexpress.in/ I'll be setting up the main website by tomorrow. I've already setup a blog[1] and contact-at-pythonexpress-dot-in email. [1]: http://blog.pythonexpress.in/ Bibhas, anything else that is required immediately? Anand On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote:
Hi,
Me, Anand, Baiju, Sukhbinder from Bangalore and Anil were in a hangout and saw a demo of Python Express. The features that work now -
1. It let's people signup using Github/Google or if needed we can use FB/twitter login. 2. If someone doesn't have github/google/fb/twitter a/c, Admins can manually add them to the system 3. People can be added as member of an Organization/Institute and they can create Workshops. Admins can do it for them too if needed. 4. The users who sign up as Trainer can go ahead and show interest to conduct the workshop. 5. A mail will be sent to both the organizer and the trainers and they can interact between them. 6. Organization members can also see the trainer's contact details so that they can contact and finalize things. 7. Workshop links are shareable. So organizers or anyone can share the link on any social media and ask for speakers. We can promote workshops/ask for speakers from our social network a/c too.
The basic features we needed were a public list of proposed workshops and speakers being able to go ahead and matchmake themselves without some individual doing that for them. I think that is well taken care of as of now and PE is usable.
Things that are upcoming - 1. Notify all the trainers in a city when a new workshop is created in their city 2. more controls from the admin panel e.g. remove, modify workshops. Block trainers or organizations if they are spamming. 3. Commenting feature on each workshop page 4. Testimonials from Organization head or participants
We'll need about 4-6 volunteers who can - 1. Call the organizations who sign up and see if they need any help in deciding what to do, or if no speaker is interested in a workshop, then find one for it. Only when one has to call and check things. 2. Call the proposed workshop organizers and speakers to ensure that everything is going well. 3. because we have a defined list of workshops, couple of volunteers can just go ahead and call after the event is over to get a report. Or maybe the organizers themselves can do that from the website. (@Anand?)
I already have volunteers from some cities listed. We'll need more volunteers from each city. We can then assign one or two of them as city leads and they can look over the whole process in their city.
Baiju is helping Anand with the development, so we expect to see some upcoming features live soon. But I think we can start pushing PythonExpress from tomorrow evening once Baiju and Anand fix couple of bugs, and write the blog posts and publicize. If any experienced Python developers want to help in development of PythonExpress, here is the repo[1].
Let us know what you think.
Thanks, Bibhas
[1]: https://github.com/anandology/broadgauge
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Hi Anand, On 12 August 2014 at 23:23:22, Anand Chitipothu (anandology@gmail.com) wrote: Hi, The following new features have been added to pythonexpress. * ability to edit workshops (thanks Baiju) * ability to set trainer for a workshop by admins * login using facebook * email integration - still need more work on deciding when and what to email I think with this pythonexpress is ready to be used. Please try out the demo site and let me know if you find any issues. First of all, thank you for taking out time and setting up a website. That being said, this how I get the Welcome mail from PE: “Hello Kiran Gangadharan, Thanks for signing up as trainer on Python Express. Regards, Python Express Team” It’s not a major bug, just my 2 cents :) http://demo.pythonexpress.in/ I'll be setting up the main website by tomorrow. I've already setup a blog[1] and contact-at-pythonexpress-dot-in email. [1]: http://blog.pythonexpress.in/ Bibhas, anything else that is required immediately? Anand On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Bibhas <me@bibhas.in> wrote: Hi, Me, Anand, Baiju, Sukhbinder from Bangalore and Anil were in a hangout and saw a demo of Python Express. The features that work now - 1. It let's people signup using Github/Google or if needed we can use FB/twitter login. 2. If someone doesn't have github/google/fb/twitter a/c, Admins can manually add them to the system 3. People can be added as member of an Organization/Institute and they can create Workshops. Admins can do it for them too if needed. 4. The users who sign up as Trainer can go ahead and show interest to conduct the workshop. 5. A mail will be sent to both the organizer and the trainers and they can interact between them. 6. Organization members can also see the trainer's contact details so that they can contact and finalize things. 7. Workshop links are shareable. So organizers or anyone can share the link on any social media and ask for speakers. We can promote workshops/ask for speakers from our social network a/c too. The basic features we needed were a public list of proposed workshops and speakers being able to go ahead and matchmake themselves without some individual doing that for them. I think that is well taken care of as of now and PE is usable. Things that are upcoming - 1. Notify all the trainers in a city when a new workshop is created in their city 2. more controls from the admin panel e.g. remove, modify workshops. Block trainers or organizations if they are spamming. 3. Commenting feature on each workshop page 4. Testimonials from Organization head or participants We'll need about 4-6 volunteers who can - 1. Call the organizations who sign up and see if they need any help in deciding what to do, or if no speaker is interested in a workshop, then find one for it. Only when one has to call and check things. 2. Call the proposed workshop organizers and speakers to ensure that everything is going well. 3. because we have a defined list of workshops, couple of volunteers can just go ahead and call after the event is over to get a report. Or maybe the organizers themselves can do that from the website. (@Anand?) I already have volunteers from some cities listed. We'll need more volunteers from each city. We can then assign one or two of them as city leads and they can look over the whole process in their city. Baiju is helping Anand with the development, so we expect to see some upcoming features live soon. But I think we can start pushing PythonExpress from tomorrow evening once Baiju and Anand fix couple of bugs, and write the blog posts and publicize. If any experienced Python developers want to help in development of PythonExpress, here is the repo[1]. Let us know what you think. Thanks, Bibhas [1]: https://github.com/anandology/broadgauge _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon -- Anand http://anandology.com/ _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
First of all, thank you for taking out time and setting up a website. That being said, this how I get the Welcome mail from PE:
“Hello Kiran Gangadharan, Thanks for signing up as trainer on Python Express. Regards, Python Express Team[image: open.php.gif]”
It’s not a major bug, just my 2 cents :)
Hi Kiran, It is HTML email. Haven't spent enough time formatting it. You are welcome to contribute. Anand
Hello, I saw only Prof. or student could create workshops. It would be great if Trainers would have same feature. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:
First of all, thank you for taking out time and setting up a website.
That being said, this how I get the Welcome mail from PE:
“Hello Kiran Gangadharan, Thanks for signing up as trainer on Python Express. Regards, Python Express Team[image: open.php.gif]”
It’s not a major bug, just my 2 cents :)
Hi Kiran,
It is HTML email. Haven't spent enough time formatting it. You are welcome to contribute.
Anand
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Milap Bhojak <milapbhojak.exe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I saw only Prof. or student could create workshops. It would be great if Trainers would have same feature.
Can you provide a use case of that? How can a trainer create workshop without someone from college arranging it? Anand
Hi All, I am new to this mailing list and I am currently based in Hyderabad. I am glad to help you folks in conducting a workshop here and I will available for any kind of help I can :). Thanks, RaviTeja From: anandology@gmail.com Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:17:38 +0530 To: inpycon@python.org Subject: Re: [Inpycon] Python Month 2014 On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Milap Bhojak <milapbhojak.exe@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, I saw only Prof. or student could create workshops. It would be great if Trainers would have same feature. Can you provide a use case of that? How can a trainer create workshop without someone from college arranging it? Anand _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
Hey all, Milap here. I got selected as Student ambassador at Google. I've got one idea about how to reach at maximum colleges for Python Month.This year 179 Google Student ambassador <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1syzzic-A7-ZkD3se3o6WMOEDu_MaE8Bn6uVE...> are selected from different different colleges around the India. GSA India could be Python Month partner(in the sense of helping to community). It will create huge impact. Pleas let me know ASAP if you are interested So i could talk to my program manager. Thanks, Milap Bhojak On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:52 AM, RAVI TEJA <ravi-teja@live.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I am new to this mailing list and I am currently based in Hyderabad.
I am glad to help you folks in conducting a workshop here and I will available for any kind of help I can :).
Thanks, RaviTeja
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Milap Bhojak <milapbhojak.exe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I saw only Prof. or student could create workshops. It would be great if Trainers would have same feature.
Can you provide a use case of that? How can a trainer create workshop without someone from college arranging it?
Anand
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Hi, On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:
First of all, thank you for taking out time and setting up a website.
That being said, this how I get the Welcome mail from PE:
“Hello Kiran Gangadharan, Thanks for signing up as trainer on Python Express. Regards, Python Express Team[image: open.php.gif]”
It’s not a major bug, just my 2 cents :)
Hi Kiran,
It is HTML email. Haven't spent enough time formatting it. You are welcome to contribute.
I tried sending a html email (without using any templates) with envelope in send_email() and it formatted correctly. I don't really know why I got an unformatted email earlier.
Anand
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Kiran Gangadharan < kiran.daredevil@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:
First of all, thank you for taking out time and setting up a website.
That being said, this how I get the Welcome mail from PE:
“Hello Kiran Gangadharan, Thanks for signing up as trainer on Python Express. Regards, Python Express Team[image: open.php.gif]”
It’s not a major bug, just my 2 cents :)
Hi Kiran,
It is HTML email. Haven't spent enough time formatting it. You are welcome to contribute.
I tried sending a html email (without using any templates) with envelope in send_email() and it formatted correctly. I don't really know why I got an unformatted email earlier.
It was a plain text template sent as HTML email. The line breaks got converted to white space in HTML rendering. The issue is fixed now. Anand
On 14 August 2014 at 19:18:26, Anand Chitipothu (anandology@gmail.com) wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Kiran Gangadharan <kiran.daredevil@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote: First of all, thank you for taking out time and setting up a website. That being said, this how I get the Welcome mail from PE: “Hello Kiran Gangadharan, Thanks for signing up as trainer on Python Express. Regards, Python Express Team” It’s not a major bug, just my 2 cents :) Hi Kiran, It is HTML email. Haven't spent enough time formatting it. You are welcome to contribute. I tried sending a html email (without using any templates) with envelope in send_email() and it formatted correctly. I don't really know why I got an unformatted email earlier. It was a plain text template sent as HTML email. The line breaks got converted to white space in HTML rendering. The issue is fixed now. Anand Awesome! Thank you for doing the necessary.
Hello All, We had talked with our University and confirmed the workshop at PythonExpress (http://www.pythonexpress.in/workshops/43). As per the introductory mail, We are arranging workshop through out the year. Please make me clear if we had done any mistake. Thank you. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Kiran Gangadharan < kiran.daredevil@gmail.com> wrote:
On 14 August 2014 at 19:18:26, Anand Chitipothu (anandology@gmail.com) wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Kiran Gangadharan < kiran.daredevil@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:
First of all, thank you for taking out time and setting up a website.
That being said, this how I get the Welcome mail from PE:
“Hello Kiran Gangadharan, Thanks for signing up as trainer on Python Express. Regards, Python Express Team[image: open.php.gif]”
It’s not a major bug, just my 2 cents :)
Hi Kiran,
It is HTML email. Haven't spent enough time formatting it. You are welcome to contribute.
I tried sending a html email (without using any templates) with envelope in send_email() and it formatted correctly. I don't really know why I got an unformatted email earlier.
It was a plain text template sent as HTML email. The line breaks got converted to white space in HTML rendering. The issue is fixed now.
Anand
Awesome! Thank you for doing the necessary.
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Amar Budhiraja -
Anand Chitipothu -
Bibhas -
Jaysinh shukla -
Kiran Gangadharan -
Milap Bhojak -
RAVI TEJA -
vijay kumar