Mailman 3 July 2015 - Ncr-Python.in

Call for companies to provide Sponsorship for meet up.
by qua non Aug. 1, 2015

Aug. 1, 2015

Hi Folks, We have seen some nice companies come up for the meet up and pitch them self to freshers/professionals to try and hire them. This a very welcome part of our PyDelhi and a healthy one. To try and keep this relationship healthy and to try and keep the meet ups even more popular with students, freshers and professionals we need some investment from the companies who see a vested interest in keeping this going. We are looking for providing better services like snacks, drinks, food, investment to help us arrange good places for meet up etc. Specifically for our next meet up we have arranged for a place at Hauz Khas Social. http://www.socialoffline.in Being a restaurant they do not allow outside food. We need companies to standup and offer to pickup the tab for snacks, drinks being offered to attendees for the next meet. Our next meet is on the 8th August, so we need to hear back from the companies before that so we can manage things before hand. For a more detailed pitch on what you as a company get out of sponsoring PyDelhi please look at our PyDelhi Sponsorship document. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eRwfTvFhgJwNklo4Fpd7C2DUIpw58YEdQkaE-2J… Kind Regards Akkshay p.s. If you have any additions/changes or things to discuss about this please do not hesitate to chime in.

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Minutes of meeting 30th July 2015
by Vinay Dahiya July 30, 2015

July 30, 2015

Hey everyone last night we had a hangout call following our Thursday tradition. Here is a summary of the things discussed: Next meetup 8th Aug - here is the meetup link http://www.meetup.com/pydelhi/events/224203701/ - Possible speakers for the talks were also discussed. The next talk will be announced soon. - meanwhile do visit https://github.com/pydelhi/talks/issues and https://github.com/pydelhi/talks/pulls to vote for the talks in line. We will give our best effort to bring that talk as soon as possible :). Discussion about general outcome of the Thursday hangout calls and take of people on current state of things - Everyone shared there thoughts about weather they are happy with the current state of things in the community. - No specific are of improvement came up yet. - Here is reminder to the the community members that if you are not happy with the way things are being done please speak up because we the members make the community. Discussion regarding looking for sponsors for food/snacks for the meetups and similar events. Discussion regarding the job corner and feedback in that regard from people who pitched in - So Ajoy's shared his feedback in this regards. - People here is a small reminder also in this regards if you are looking for a fresh start or a job change you can get in touch with possible employers at our community's own meetup. Can be one extra reason to be at the meetup :p Discussion regarding code sprint - Akshay shared his thoughts regarding hosting code sprints. He will be sharing his idea on the mailling list so keep a watch out for that if you are interested in code sprints ;) Discussion regarding Python Mini Conference in delhi: - Anuvrat shared some good news in regards to possible sponsorships. - We all discussed the possible feasibility of hosting the event - During the call we kind of came to conclusion that we should give ourselves a 4 months period to prepare the event. - More to be discussed in the 8th Aug meetup Hope i have covered everything :). Please contribute to the points i might have left out -- Regards, pyvkd (Vinay Dahiya) http://vkd.me

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Its catch up time :)
by Vinay Dahiya July 30, 2015

July 30, 2015

Here is this weeks hangout url. https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/calendar/cHl0aG9uZGVsaGlAZ21haWwuY29t.fp… Discussions will be starting post 9pm. -- Regards, pyvkd (Vinay Dahiya) http://vkd.me

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[Commercial] pitch for freelance projects
by aditya menon July 30, 2015

July 30, 2015

Re: """ > During the open-house, - Aditya Menon requested people to contact him for exciting freelance work. """ Said Aditya Menon may be reached at hello(a)adityamenon.co :-) To reiterate my pitch: """ I'm looking for technically challenging work to expand my capabilities from being a web stack developer. I would like to *take my time* delivering the solution (so as to do justice to my full time gig) but the solution could help your organisation improve something that always annoyed you / wished you could have. We can negotiate on the price and payment terms depending on the "thing" being built: I'm willing to sweeten the deal (but not insult my self respect). I'm happy to work with any tech, except in PHP (unless you're willing to let me try Hack). Examples range from streamlining your deployments and ops in general, to building a PoC in a new language/framework to prove something to your team, to extracting info about performance and security of your application(s), to... """

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[Report] Meetup on 25 July 2015
by Anuvrat Parashar July 29, 2015

July 29, 2015

Namaste PyDelhi had yet another successful meetup attended ~50 budding as well as practicing pythonistas. We continued the python-basics workshop and covered iterators and data-structures in detail. We also touched upon the basics of classes and object oriented programming in python. The workshop was followed by a well recieved talk on "prospector" by Anurag Sharma (@anurag89sharma). Video link for the same shall soon be available on our youtube channel http://bit.ly/pydelhi-youtube . Thereafter, Akshay (@qua-non) inspired everyone with his demo-driven "not-so-short" flash talk on touch programming with Kivy and TIUI. During the open-house, - Aditya Menon requested people to contact him for exciting freelance work. - Amit Sethi announced that http://siminars.com is hiring python programmers for working on their tornado based web-application. - Akshay encouraged the audience for contributing to Kivy via http://translation.kivy.org/ - Ajoy Oomen asked python programmers with 2+ yrs of experience to apply at NoranSoft. - PyDelhi implored the audience to contribute in its various endeavors. Hope to see you guys in the next meetup which is at AntiSocial, Hauz Khas on 8 Aug 2015. Keep an eye on our meetup.com page or pydelhi.org homepage for more details. Cheers, Anuvrat

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Links of recruiters who came up
by Geetika Batra July 26, 2015

July 26, 2015

Hi, Can anyone post the links and contacts to the people who came up for hiring. Thanks Regards Geetika Batra

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Minutes 23 July 2015 (Prev: Re: Our Weekly conf call link)
by Saurabh Kumar July 25, 2015

July 25, 2015

> Lets keep up the tradition of Thursday Calls: > https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/calendar/cHl0aG9uZGVsaGlAZ21haWwuY29t.fp… Link to minutes of Meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fEXT0C9JAAoev3ksd4xLnosnYfF1FQaV0V8p7zY… ---- *Agendas* * Anurag Confirmed for the weekend * * Draft link for Pycon Delhi (Mini Pycon) * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pkx9Jql9Em1A_kKIgC_Z3Oxnt3QNMYqmd-8pw8w… * Find Suitable Dates * Find Suitable Venue * Updating the names of people who can be contacted for the Pycon Delhi ( Mini Conf ) Keynote Speakers. Things Done: * Renaming of the community [a][b] * Setting Accounts and Website * Things Yet To Done: * Team finalize * Date Finalize * Venue Finalize * Organize the event PyconDelhi *Attendees:* Anurag Fasih Akshay Geetika Balaji Vinay [a]Need to contact PSSI for renaming to PyDelhi. https://pssi.org.in/usergroups/ [b]This has already been by a PR https://github.com/pythonindia/pssi.org.in/pull/87. I think it just need to be deployed live. cheers, -- **Saurabh Kumar https://saurabh-kumar.com On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Vinay Dahiya <vinay.not.nice(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Lets keep up the tradition of Thursday Calls: > > > https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/calendar/cHl0aG9uZGVsaGlAZ21haWwuY29t.fp… > > -- > Regards, > pyvkd > (Vinay Dahiya) > http://vkd.me > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ncr-python.in > https://pydelhi.org/mailing-list-guidelines/ >

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Our Weekly conf call link
by Vinay Dahiya July 23, 2015

July 23, 2015

Lets keep up the tradition of Thursday Calls: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/calendar/cHl0aG9uZGVsaGlAZ21haWwuY29t.fp… -- Regards, pyvkd (Vinay Dahiya) http://vkd.me

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Nominations for Kenneth Gonsalves Award
by Deep Sukhwani July 18, 2015

July 18, 2015

Its time of the year to nominate for the prestigious Kenneth Gonsalves award. This award is instituted by PSSI and PSF in the name of our late friend and mentor, Kenneth Gonsalves who passed away in August 2012. KG, as he is fondly known in the community, was the founder of the Indian Python Software Society. This award is for the ones who are doing exemplary work in Python programming language, its development/adoption/advocacy in India. You can read more about it on PyConIndia blog: https://in.pycon.org/blog/2015/kenneth-gonsalves-2015.html We Pythonistas, strongly encourage you, to come forward and nominate a worthy candidate for this year's Kenneth Gonsalves award. The nominations are open now. If you know someone who has played a key role in the Indian Python community's development, please nominate their name through the link below: https://pssi.org.in/nomination/KG2015/ Do your part to help us find a deserving personality to accept the award this year. -- Regards Deep L Sukhwani

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25th July Meetup
by Vinay Dahiya July 15, 2015

July 15, 2015

Hey everyone we have zeroed in on the location for the next meetup. So lets gather for the next powerhouse event of PyDelhi. Agenda: - Discussion about hosting a Mini Pycon like event in Delhi before Pycon India 2015. - We will be having a talk YTB. - Hiring Corner - Any other thoughts you have ? ? RSVPs invited through: Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/pydelhi/events/223938944/ Mailing List P.S. We will be following up on the beginners workshop that happened on 11th of July. Topics to be covered are : - Iterations - Data Structures - Classes - Some more python magic if the time permits :P Timings For the workshop will be 2pm - 4pm the same venue. Here is a link to tell us about yourself if you want to join in on the workshop. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JnzWJ2Yc7ouJDz1zdIBnjgzgqmwbsFZECUyIks9-nL… In case you are wondering this is a free workshop all you need is to show up with a laptop. Contact: Anuvrat 09910589350 Vinay Dahiya 09871093546 -- Regards, pyvkd (Vinay Dahiya) http://vkd.me

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