[Chennaipy] Looking For a Python Resource Person

[Prasanna Venkadesh]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:48 AM, M Marcus <maghimaimarcus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please count me for volunteering.
>

This is great. We have few pythonistas in Pondicherry and our University as
well. We will also join in volunteering.


>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Vijay Kumar B. <vijaykumar at zilogic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I can help. I am available after 12th March. But to handle about 150
>> people, who are new to Python we will need about 10 - 14 volunteers who are
>> familiar with Python. These volunteers will help with troubleshooting and
>> clarifying basic questions, during hands-on practice.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vijay
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 18 February 2016 10:24 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am from Central University of Pondicherry (http://pondiuni.edu.in/).
>> We are inaugurating a club / community of students, professors &
>> technicians inside the University to promote Freedom of Knowledge (Free
>> Software, Open Access, etc.,). We also have mobilized people from various
>> schools of Engineering & Sciences who were interested with this.
>>
>> We are looking for a someone who could introduce Python to a crowd of
>> 150+ (comprised of Students, Teachers & Technicians). I have been part of
>> Chennaipy for more than a year till now. I also gave a talk at one of
>> Chennaipy's meetup (end of 2014, I remember). We wanted to invite people
>> from outside to deliver a talk / hands-on session, I can assist the speaker
>> with technical needs during the session.
>>
>> We have also sent out invitation to Dr. Ajith Kumar, Scientist(H) at IUAC
>> (http://www.iuac.res.in/) which he accepted.
>>
>> For the past several years he has been involved in promoting Free
>> Software tools in Education and leading a project for developing open
>> hardware laboratory equipment for teaching science, that uses Python for
>> data analysis and visualization. Has been pursuing academic community to
>> include Python in their syllabus and has written a book on Python. Some of
>> the details are on the website expeyes.in
>>
>> Here is our agenda in brief. It's a 2 Day workshop.
>>
>> Day 1 - Common to people from all Schools & Departments. Getting Started
>> with Python. We are looking for resource person for Day 1 (the reason for
>> writing this mail).
>>
>> Day 2 - Two Parallel Sessions
>> 1. Python for Physicists, Mathematicians, & Scientists (Dr. Ajith Kumar)
>> 2. Advance Python for Computer based Streams, Multimedia, etc., (We also
>> need speaker for this).
>>
>> We couldn't confirm the date yet. But we are trying our best to organize
>> this within 2 weeks. If someone could reply here or can contact me off the
>> list that would be better.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Prasanna Venkadesh.
>>
>>
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Thanks & Regards,
Prasanna Venkadesh.
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