[Chennaipy] September 2015 Meeting Minutes

[Kiran Gangadharan]

My apologies for the improper formatting.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015, at 03:14 AM, Kiran Gangadharan wrote:
> Hey Everyone, 
> 
> Please find the meeting minutes below.
> 
> 
> Date: 26 September 2015
> 
> The September Edition of the ChennaiPy meetup started with Vijaykumar,
> the
> organizer, welcoming everyone and outlining the agenda for the evening.
> 
> * Introduction to Django
> 
> Rajkumar Rajendran started off the talk with some history of Django.
> After that, he did a
> quick walk through of installing Django and using it to setup a basic
> project
> structure with SQLite as the database. He then went on to illustrating
> how a web
> server works and concluded with a small demo on setting up a hello world
> project
> with the framework.
> 
> * Django REST Framework
> 
> It looks like the audience had a good dose of Django this time, thanks
> to the
> talk by Jagadish Kumar. He started off by talking about API's as a
> bridge
> between a client and server and then went on to explain the basic
> components of
> the Django REST framework. He then demoed a simple TODO application and
> showed
> us how he was able to easily add/remove functionality from the API by
> using
> Mixins that the framework provided, thus illustrating the concepts of a
> loosely
> coupled architecture.
> 
> * Networking Tea Break sponsored by Clay Labs
> 
> * Using G-Code Vis tools
> 
> I'm pretty sure that a lot of people were baffled by the title of this
> talk by
> Shakthi Kannan. But to all our surprise, it turned out to be an
> interesting
> insight into the jargons and processes in the world of 3D printing.
> Shakthi
> started out by explaining the basic components of a 3D printer. He
> talked about
> how one would go about printing something using an STL file. The STL
> file would
> be first converted into G-Code which could then be executed on a 3D
> printer to
> actually print the object. He then gave a quick explanation about
> various gcode
> instructions and metrics that could be fine-tuned by the user. He then
> showed us
> how an object shaped like a pyramid would be printed using YAGV(Yet
> Another
> G-Code Viewer). He also showed us how the final object would appear,
> using
> Blender. The generated model data using G-Codes could be compared with
> the
> actual data obtained from the printer to determine the accuracy of the
> process
> itself. He then concluded with a short and sweet Q&A session with the
> audience.
> 
> * Building a Sublime Plugin using Python
> 
> Text Editors are amongst the biggest contributors of programmer
> productivity,
> and in this session, Gaurav Sehrawat talked about how one could extend
> the
> functionalities of Sublime Text, by building plugins for it in Python.
> Gaurav
> started off by demonstrating a few tips and tricks that make Sublime
> Text an
> awesome editor. He then went on to explain what Window/Text command was
> and how
> one could leverage them to build simple plugins for the editor. He
> demoed an
> event based API to search Google for autocompletion when typing
> something into
> the editor and concluded with a demo of printing better debug statements
> for
> python variables which included the displayed filename and line number
> along
> with the variable.
> 
> * Python, Guido and Snakes
> 
> I guess that after a bunch of serious talks for the evening, Vijay
> thought that
> it was time for something light and refreshing. His talk title was
> concise
> enough to pique our interest, but obscure enough to shroud us in
> mystery. He
> started off by talking about Python and it's creator Guido Van
> Rossum(BDFL). He
> talked about how the name "Python" was inspired by Guido's love for
> Monty
> Python. And to all our surprise, he even showed us a small sketch from
> Monty
> Python's "The Flying Circus", which left us all laughing out loud!
> 
> * Vote of Thanks
> 
> Vijay concluded the meeting by thanking the participants, speakers,
> volunteers,
> IMSc and the sponsors.
> 
> -- 
> Kiran Gangadharan
> http://kirang.in
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Kiran Gangadharan
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