[Inpycon] Open spaces & Lightning Talks

Kracekumar Ramaraju me at kracekumar.com
Sun Jul 13 19:50:21 CEST 2014 

Shrayas

 I don't exactly remember all the events. The talks/topics are not in
chronological order.


   - Deploying python application in heroku
   - Python 3 difference and experience in porting python 2 to python 3
   - GSoC experience and how to apply for GSoC.
   - Q&A testing in RedHat (don't remember the tool name).
   - Web scrapping with scrapy.
   - Learning science with expeyes (http://www.expeyes.in/)


That's all I can recollect. Open session topics were diverse and few
sessions had 80+ participants (audi 3 capacity). All open session had
strict time of 45 minutes. Open sessions had lot of interaction from
participants. Let me know if you need any more specific info.


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Krace, could you give me a list of things that happened in the last year's
> open space?
>
> I am writing a blog post now and I want to use that information in the
> post.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, makes sense.
>>
>> I tried setting up ruby on my system to write the blog post but failed
>> miserably. Will give it another shot today.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:44 AM, me kracekumar <me at kracekumar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nice. Now that we have volunteers if we can have confirmation for space,
>>> then writing a blog post and publishing will help.
>>> I think it will be good once announcement of open space comes after
>>> selected talks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Sukhbinder <
>>> sukh2010 at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am based in Bangalore and can help as volunteer for this and any
>>>> other activity.
>>>>
>>>> -sukhbinder
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 30, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Awesome.
>>>>
>>>> @Krace, Now that we have a person who can take up the lead, what do you
>>>> suggest are the next steps?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Jaseem Abid <jaseemabid at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <
>>>>> shrayasr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Completely agree with everything you just said.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That is precisely what i was going for. The level of interaction at
>>>>>> open spaces is something that i dont think we can achieve in talks or even
>>>>>> after the talks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have one thing to mention here though:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Consider the way these things are playing out, it seems like there is
>>>>>> more of an opportunity to have multiple open spaces are compared to just
>>>>>> one session at an open space.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If multiple open spaces make more sense, then I think the first floor
>>>>>> would be the right place for it. We could arrange multiple small tables
>>>>>> around which people could discuss. We could make like the first floor an
>>>>>> "open zone" with multiple things happening at the same time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also Jaseem, could you take the lead for this? As Krace said, we need
>>>>>> someone to organize all this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I dont mind :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /Shrayas
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Jaseem Abid <jaseemabid at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <
>>>>>>> shrayasr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I was watching talks from 2014 Pycon and there is a lightning
>>>>>>>> talk[1] where Greg of the aosabook fame talks about how they want people to
>>>>>>>> come together in an open space and work on something. I feel that we should
>>>>>>>> make way from great discussions like those.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Last year, I do remember that we had open spaces but they were
>>>>>>>> tucked away in some corner of the place and it didn't attract too much
>>>>>>>> attention (correct me if I am wrong)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What I feel is this time, we should bring more (way more) focus to
>>>>>>>> Open spaces and Lighting Talks. It is a great way for people to connect, do
>>>>>>>> things together and learn SO much more.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are a few good things worth mentioning about
>>>>>>> unconferences/open table
>>>>>>> discussions/hack spaces.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. A lot of people (including me) still go to conferences and attend
>>>>>>> no talks
>>>>>>>    other than the keynote. Either they are there to socialize/hire
>>>>>>> and an open
>>>>>>>    space is perfect for that. Hacking on something interesting in
>>>>>>> your own pace
>>>>>>>    with a few similar minded people is a lot more interesting than
>>>>>>> an average
>>>>>>>    talk. It leads to a lot more interaction among attendees.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. You can always learn from watching good folks work. We tried
>>>>>>> Debian packaging
>>>>>>>    at last foss.in and it went really well. I remember a vegetable
>>>>>>> seller by day
>>>>>>>    keenly observing, asking a million questions and towards the end
>>>>>>> of the day
>>>>>>>    managing to package a small gem. Those moments give you the
>>>>>>> feeling that the
>>>>>>>    conference actually have some real world value. Such level of
>>>>>>> interaction is
>>>>>>>    just not possible in a talk. Learning with a small group is
>>>>>>> awesome.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3. A lot of folks have ideas they want to share, but its not
>>>>>>> possible to make it
>>>>>>>    into a polished 30-60m talk. I could talk about interesting ways
>>>>>>> we use ZMQ @
>>>>>>>    Ideadevice or a 10m demo about the awesome things you can do with
>>>>>>> decorators.
>>>>>>>    Someone could show me an interesting refactoring technique. Its
>>>>>>> too hard to
>>>>>>>    make something like this into a talk, but it adds value to a lot
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>    not-so-beginner folks. Unconferences/open tables are perfect for
>>>>>>> that. I've
>>>>>>>    learned quite a bit like that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Generally all you need is a good wifi and lot of open space for
>>>>>>> things like this
>>>>>>> to happen. I can help if anything is required of me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What do y'all feel ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /Shrayas
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLvERZQSok&list=PLLj6w0Thbv02lEXIDVO46kotA_tv_8_us#t=1311
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>>>>>>>
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