[Chennaipy] September 2015 Meeting Minutes

[Gaurav Sehrawat]

Nicely written.

Cheers

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Kiran Gangadharan <me at kirang.in> wrote:

> 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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