Mailman 3 April 2016 - Ncr-Python.in

PyDelhi Meetup || April 30, 2016
by AMiT Kumar April 28, 2016

April 28, 2016

Hello Everyone, This is the itinerary for this week's community meetup on 30th April, 2016. Venue: L1, Smart Class, Admin Block, Delhi Technological University Schedule ------------- 2:00 - 4:30 : Dev Sprint (Check below for details) 4:30 - 4:45 : Food/Snacks break 4:45 - 5:00 : Open space 5:00 - 5:30 : Talk on Programming an Arduino using python by Sahil Joseph 5:30 - 6:00 : Pitching/Hiring session by companies and students. Venue: L1, Smart Class, Admin Block, Delhi Technological University Dev Sprint Projects: -------------------------- [1] Oppia Tool for collaboratively building intelligent tutors. Oppia is an online learning tool that enables anyone to easily create and share interactive activities (called 'explorations'). These activities simulate a one-on-one conversation with a tutor, making it possible for students to learn by doing and get feedback. Oppia is written using Python and AngularJS, and is built on top of Google App Engine. Pre-requisites: Willingness to learn and contribute to Open Source (Doesn't matter if this is your first time with Open Source, we'll help you get started) Some knowledge about git, Python, HTML, CSS, JS, AngularJS, GAE is a plus. To get a head-start, please install Oppia for your OS using following guides: Linux: https://github.com/oppia/oppia/wiki/Installing-Oppia-%28Linux%29 All other OS using Vagrant: https://github.com/oppia/oppia/wiki/Installing-Oppia%28Vagrant%29 [2] Mozilla Mozilla uses Mercurial for version control. You can use mercurial or use git using (git-cinnabar) to prepare mercurial ready patches for Mozilla. Pre-requisites: Download mozilla-central repo and then build firefox locally using mach. You can use command ./mach build More detail are here. [3] PyDSA Python Data Structure and Algorithms Clone the repo: https://github.com/pydsa/pydsa [4] SymPy SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics. It aims to become a full-featured computer algebra system (CAS) while keeping the code as simple as possible in order to be comprehensible and easily extensible. SymPy is written entirely in Python. Clone the repo: https://github.com/sympy/sympy ----------------------------- For all those who have already volunteered and would like to volunteer to make this local user group bigger and stronger should stay back. Note: 1. This is a bi-weekly meetup that happen every alternate Saturday, so if are not able to make it to this, you can catch up with us next time. 2. This event is completely free, and volunteer driven, please feel free to contribute. Contact Person: --------------------- Mayank Saxena: 9910002161 Archit Verma: 9654737442 Amit Kumar: 9811522423 Akkshay Arora: 9013159973 ᐧ

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PyDelhi Meetup || April 16, 2016
by AMiT Kumar April 14, 2016

April 14, 2016

Hello Everyone, This is the itinerary for this week's community meetup on 16th April, 2016. Venue --------- BetaOut Tech. Pvt. Ltd. B-113, Sector 65, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301 Schedule ------------- 2:00 - 2:30 : Introducing PyDSA by Sanyam and Amit. 2:30 - 4:00 : Dev Sprint on contributing to Open Source (PyDSA project) 4:00 - 4:15 : Food/Snacks break 4:15 - 4:30 : Open space 4:30 - 5:15 : Talk by Peeyush Aggarwal | Github: https://github.com/PeeyushAgg | Twitter: @dhuadaar 5:15 - 5:30 : Flash Talks 5:30 - 6:00 : Pitching/Hiring session by companies and students. -------------------------------------------- Note: 1. This is a bi-weekly meetup that happen every alternate Saturday, so if are not able to make it to this, you can catch up with us next time. 2. This event is completely free, and volunteer driven, please feel free to contribute. Contact Person: Amit Kumar : 9811522423 Peeyush Aggarwal: 9953798946 ᐧ

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Call for Proposals for Talks/Workshop for next meetup
by AMiT Kumar April 7, 2016

April 7, 2016

Hi, We are planning to hold our next meetup at Delhi Technological University (DTU) on 15 April 2016, though its not confirmed yet, hopefully it would be soon. We are in talks with the IEEE & Google Developers Group chapters of the University to help us arrange the meetup. Currently we don't have any proposals for Talks or Workshop for this meetup. To propose a Talk or Workshop for the meetup, please open an issue at https://github.com/pydelhi/talks/issues -- Amit Kumar http://iamit.in ᐧ

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Python Workshop request on Friday April 15 2016
by vijay kumar April 3, 2016

April 3, 2016

Hi all, We have received request to conduct python2 workshops on *Friday, Apr. 15 2016.* More details : https://pythonexpress.in/workshop/20/ Interested volunteer please do ping me. With Thanks Vijay

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procuring video equipment for recording talks
by Anuvrat Parashar April 3, 2016

April 3, 2016

Namaste We need video equipment for recording talks and workshops conducted at pydelhi meetups. Could someone here suggest what to buy and how much it would cost? Cheers -- Anuvrat Parashar <http://anuvrat.in> http://anuvrat.in

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Looking for a RGSoC Coach
by Soumya Sharma April 3, 2016

April 3, 2016

Hey, Me and my partner(srishti13108(a)iiitd.ac.in) are looking for a coach for RGSoC. We plan on picking up python projects and would love if someone can help us out in this front. Thanks, *Soumya Sharma & * *Srishti Sengupta* *GitHub: **soummyaah <http://github.com/soummyaah> & **SrishtiSengupta <http://github.com/SrishtiSengupta>* *CS Undergrads | IIIT - Delhi*

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Re: [PyDelhi] procuring video equipment for recording talks
by AMiT Kumar April 1, 2016

April 1, 2016

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:05 PM, qua non <akshayaurora(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> ok, folks here is the current state of voting [image: Inline image 1] >> >> If you plan to put your opinion in please vote >> > > The survey is very misleading. You are suggesting as if the community > can't grow without the video equipment, as if it is the only blocker right > now. > > If you think it'll improve the community, why don't you try it out with a > simple camera and see if that really works? First of all, who are the > expected audience of the recorded video and how'll it benefit the community? > > The number of views of recorded videos of even PyCon India are very > disappointing. Each video has about 200-400 page views. Recorded videos of > bangpypers are not any better. Just for comparison, many of the US PyCon > videos has page views ranging from 10K-90K. > > It doesn't makes sense to compare US PyCon with PyCon India as the PyCon US community is much older, larger and popular than PyCon India. The videos of PyCon India 2014 on youtube are raw videos, which are not worth watching. Though PyCon India 2015 videos are excellent and it has been there for just 4 months, so you can't expect a million views in such a short time. > Buying and owning equipment has its own problems. Since the meetup happens > once in a month, who will keep the camera rest of the time? Who owns it > (PyDelhi is not a legal org)? What happens if the interest to take videos > goes down? > > The meetup happens twice a month & we have volunteers who turn up for almost all the meetups, So keeping the camera shouldn't be an issue. > I suggest considering live streaming instead of recorded video if you are > keen to improve the participation. Recorded video is really boring. live > streaming will help members of the community to join the meetup without > having to travel long distances. > > Again I would recommend to try it out with a simple camera or webcam first. > > Anand > > _______________________________________________ > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ncr-python.in > http://bit.ly/pydelhi-mailinglist-guidelines > ᐧ

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Sponsorship Prospectus for PyCon India 2016
by Sanyam Khurana April 1, 2016

April 1, 2016

Hi fellow Python aficionados, We hope you've received the mail regarding call for proposals for PyCon India 2016. This time, we want your help to get more sponsors for the event! Sponsors are what make PyCon India successful , and sponsorship offers great value to the generous organizations who support the conference. For more details check out: https://in.pycon.org/2016/sponsorship.html Contact sponsorship(a)in.pycon.org with any sponsorship inquiries. By sponsoring the conference, your organization would be better connected to the Python community. Your sponsorship helps us keep PyCon India affordable and accessible to the widest possible audience. This year, PyCon India 2016 will be taking place from September 23 - September 25, 2016 in New Delhi. Check out our site at: http://in.pycon.org/2016 Keep an eye out for news on our blog at http://in.pycon.org/blog/ and follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/pyconindia and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PyConIndia Please forward this mail to other related groups, organizations, companies and individuals Join us in making PyCon India a success Thanks Sanyam Khurana On behalf of Team PyCon India -- www.SanyamKhurana.com Github: CuriousLearner

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