Mailman 3 April 2017 - KolPy

[X-post] [PythonExpress] Formation of committees around PythonExpress project
by vijay kumar May 6, 2017

May 6, 2017

Hi All, It's been a wonderful year for PythonExpress in terms of growth. We have taken a few initiatives to get sponsors and to reach out to schools. Hope we will be able to move things forward towards our goals. I think PythonExpress has reached to a stage where we have to have committees to meet the needs of the project. In my opinion, we should have the committees formed as below. Financial Committee: 1) Plan for budget and handle approvals on request basis. 2) Manage and maintain the requests in some shared document like google sheet or in the software itself (yet to be designed). Coordinators: 1) Request for tutors if no tutor has taken up a workshop request. 2) Coordinate between tutor and college for the workshop prerequisites and other things as necessary. 3) Help clarify queries from colleges and tutors. Software committee: 1) Wye software development to add new features and enhancements and to resolve issues if any. 2) Maintain the github repo. Technical Content Writing committee: 1) Contribute and maintain the workshop contents for different workshops for different levels (for schools an colleges - beginners, intermediate and advanced) Web Content Writing Committee: 1) Help write blogs. 2) Fine tune the content on website and help with social media publishing as necessary. Let me know your thoughts on the same. Also, requesting interested people to fill the form [0] and let us know how you can help PythonExpress. [0] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AWZAvUFxHWB2DUJemSikS59 xHQv5_jeJXfRRSlN4ACA/prefill Thanks, Vijay

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[X-POST] I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 2017
by Sayan Chowdhury April 13, 2017

April 13, 2017

Hi, Do you want to see your name next time you install GNU/Linux in your friend's computer? If yes, then go ahead and read ... We are happy to announce the 10th edition of "I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 2017",[1] a free (as in freedom), online (IRC-based) [2] training sessions for new comers to Free/Libre/Open Source Software at #dgplug on irc.freenode.net [3]. If you are a mentor, or trainer, or prospective enthusiast who would like to participate in this years' sessions please go through last years' IRC logs: http://www.dgplug.org/irclogs/ We will have a review or Q&A session on last years' sessions before we proceed into new topics, this year. The session timings are mostly varying, usually after 1900 IST every day. To participate, you need a good internet connection and any latest Linux Distribution installed (Fedora 25 preferably ). Anyone can participate. We do get participants from all across the world, so this is real chance for you to make friends in the community. What we teach? =============== Through this training we build contributors. Upon completing this training you will be able to successfully contribute to upstream projects, you will know the tools used by different upstream projects and yes, we will teach you how to solve real life problem using Python programming language. Guest sessions ============= Through out the training we organize special sessions from well known upstream contributors. They share their own stories, and take in-depth sessions on various subjects. You can find the list of guest speakers in the website (and there will be more people joining in later). As we are celebrating the 10th edition of our dgplug training, we are going to have more sessions this year compared to the previous years. To know more ============= [4] is an interview on opensource.com about this training. [5] is the talk we had in PyCon 2014 on the same topic. How to participate? ==================== If you are interested in participating, please confirm your participation by filling up this [6] form. This training is for open to anyone and everyone so share the news among your family and friends. Probable Starting Time ====================== 18th June 2017, 19:00 IST Home page: http://dgplug.org/ Planet: http://planet.dgplug.org/ Mailing list group (for queries, discussions) : http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org IRC Channel: #dgplug on Freenode server [1] https://dgplug.org/summertraining17/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo [4] http://opensource.com/life/14/6/enroll-now-free-online-open-source-programm… [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YV5KzIbOc [6] http://bit.ly/dgplugst2017form -- Sayan Chowdhury <https://sayanchowdhury.dgplug.org/> Senior Software Engineer, Fedora Engineering - Emerging Platform GPG Fingerprint : 0F16 E841 E517 225C 7D13 AB3C B023 9931 9CD0 5C8B Proud to work at The Open Organization!

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Financial support for PythonExpress Project
by vijay kumar April 9, 2017

April 9, 2017

Hi All, We had a discussion earlier about getting sponsors for PythonExpress ( http://blog.pythonexpress.in/posts/support-request/) as some colleges cannot afford to support the financial needs of the workshops like tutor's travel and accommodation. We did not see any progress in getting sponsors. Request everyone to spread the word and help PythonExpress get financial support. Though PSSI has agreed to reimburse tutor's travel and accommodation, we would require fund to take care of the below items. 1. Certificates to participants as workshops in colleges come with that expectation. 2. A token of appreciation in some form to the tutor for their excellent job without expecting anything in return. Apart from getting sponsors, we can consider below options. 1. Request college to share the cost, but not all colleges would be able to provide the support in this front. 2. Request student participants to pay a nominal fee. 3. Get crowd funding. 4. Reach out to PSSI for financial grant apart from the current reimbursement policy. 5. Reach out to PSF if PSSI could not provide financial support continuously. Looking for suggestions. -- Thanks, Vijay

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