Mailman 3 April 2017 - Ncr-Python.in

[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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Pydelhi Meetup/Hackathon. 28th April,2017.
by Akash Mishra April 28, 2017

April 28, 2017

Hello everyone, Zomato, Gurgaon <https://www.google.com/maps/place/One+Horizon+Center/@28.451086,77.095795,1…> will be hosting us for next meetup <https://www.meetup.com/pydelhi/events/235843454/> on 28th April, 2017. Location : 22nd Floor, One Horizon Center, DLF Phase V, Golf Course Road, Sector 43, Gurgaon, Haryana 122003, Delhi <https://www.google.com/maps/place/One+Horizon+Center/@28.451086,77.095795,1…> We will be conducting a hackathon during the meetup where everyone would be divided into teams with the task being to develop an app using the google vision api <https://cloud.google.com/vision/>. Everyone votes for the best team/winner. The best team gets goodies from PyDelhi. Goodies would include: - T-shirts - Stickers - Notepad, Pen Please note that you will have to *bring a valid Identity Card* to get entry into the office. Entry would not be allowed without a valid identity card. Cheers, Akash Mishra

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Data Science Meetup @JNU - Minutes of the Meeting
by Shagun Sodhani April 20, 2017

April 20, 2017

Please find the minutes of the meeting for the Data Science Meetup at JNU on 15th April 2017 *Attendees* 1. Members of PyDelhi 2. PhD and MSc students from JNU *Discussion around on-going work:* 1. *Gene Expression* - Ajay Verma (from JNU) presented his work on dimensionality reduction of data with use of auto-encoders. 2. Vishwas (from JNU) talked about the Burrows–Wheeler Transform algorithm he is implementing to achieve *lossless compression of DNA Data* (in general sequential data in the biological domain). 3. *Identifying biomarkers for predicting cancer or other genetic diseases*- The speaker was not present. *Discussion around domains for which data can be provided by JNU:* 1. Publicly available DNA data. 2. Publicly available astronomical data. 3. Census data - The version in JNU has far more information than the one available publically. 4. Publicly available financial data 5. Environmental data *Resources that can be provided by JNU:* 1. Compute - Clusters with > 1 Tb of RAM 2. Storage - Clusters with > 128 Tb of Disk Space *Possible Ideas:* 1. Investing Psychology - Why do people invest in certain companies and not in other companies. 2. Identifying traits for savants. 3. Sentiment Analysis of Markets using Social Data 4. Predicting evolution of languages on a global scale. *Future Agenda* 1. Organise another meet next month, with more members. 2. Come up with possible use cases for collaboration. If I missed anything, please feel free to add it as a reply. Thanks, Shagun https://twitter.com/shagunsodhani

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[X-POST] Announcing PyCon India 2017 dates and Call for Volunteers
by Sanyam Khurana April 17, 2017

April 17, 2017

Hello everyone, It's time to mark your calendars for the most awaited conference, PyCon India 2017. This year there would be 2 days of Dev Sprints and workshops followed by 2 days of talks. The community has finalized the following dates: - 2-3 November 2017 - Thursday, Friday - Workshops + Dev Sprints - 4-5 November 2017 - Saturday, Sunday - Main Conference + Talks PyCon India is a community conference and run by volunteers. If you think you will be able to help out in some way, feel free to submit your contact details in the following form [1]. There will be opportunities to join in as on-site volunteers as well. [1]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WXkev5oYAw9KiW0H6viIB7c3S-wRkFRI8BCCcctdkLk Best, Sanyam On behalf of Team PyCon India -- Mozilla Rep http://www.SanyamKhurana.com Github: CuriousLearner

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AI Grant
by Shagun Sodhani April 16, 2017

April 16, 2017

Hello everyone Nat Friedman is offering 5 grants of $5,000 each to anyone who wants to do open source work in AI. He is interested in funding existing projects, and new projects that haven’t started yet, but that this grant would make possible. For more information, please see the announcement: http://aigrant.org/ The basics: - Offering five grants of $5,000 each to any project in AI which is contributed to open source. - Anyone can apply (individuals or teams) - Deadline is April 30th - Open-minded about what qualifies as an AI project: large or small, code or data, etc. Since many of us are interested in pursuing AI based projects, this might be a good opportunity. Thanks, Shagun https://twitter.com/shagunsodhani

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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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[Random] Anyone going to rootconf
by Amit Sethi April 13, 2017

April 13, 2017

Hi Guys is anyone here going to rootconf. If yes , we can share hotel or something. Thanks Amit -- A-M-I-T S|S

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PyDelhi Meetup + Linux Install Party 15th April 2017
by Shashank April 11, 2017

April 11, 2017

Hello Hope you all are having a wonderful time. PyDelhi is planning to make it more efficient by inviting you to Linux Install Party this Saturday [1] while PyDelhi Meetup in JNU [2]. Volunteers will help you out with the distro of your choice with the installation. No matter if you are a complete beginner to Linux or an enthusiast trying different distros to find your soulmate, this party is for you. Install Party Will Happen just after this week's PyDelhi meetup on 15th April Saturday. Distros to choose from 1. Ubuntu16.10 2. Lubuntu 16.10 3. Xubuntu 16.10 4. Open Suse 5. Mageia 6. Fedora 7. NetRunner 8. FreeBsd 9. Gparted Live 10. Gentoo 11. Other [1] Meetup Schedule and RSVP- ( https://www.meetup.com/pydelhi/events/235843449/ ) [2] Venue - School of Computational And Integrative Sciences, JNU, New Delhi ( https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=28.542616,77.168860 ) Regards Shashank Kumar (@realslimshanky) Volunteer Team PyDelhi + ILUG-D + LinuxChix India

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Financial support for PythonExpress Project
by vijay kumar April 10, 2017

April 10, 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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Collaboration with academics at JNU,Delhi
by Akash Mishra April 9, 2017

April 9, 2017

Hello everyone, We have a collaboration opportunity with people at JNU. To discuss all the possible ways through which this collaboration could be beneficial for all, we will be meeting them in the first hour of our meetup on *15th April (Saturday) , 2017*. In order for the discussion to be fruitful, we need input from everyone. This is an invitation to the whole PyDelhi community for the discussion on 15th, especially for people working in *machine learning*, to come and give their inputs. If you cant make it for some reason, kindly let us know your thoughts here so that they can be brought up on 15th. Thanks, Akash Mishra (@akash47)

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