🌐 Mailman 3 July 2011 - Inpycon - python.org

Bringing tickets to the venue
by Noufal Ibrahim Sept. 15, 2011

Sept. 15, 2011

Last year, there were a bunch of chaps who didn't bring printouts of the ticket to the venue. We need to put this information boldly in a couple of places to reduce the number of people who will do this this year. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in Some bird populations soaring down -Headline of an article in Science News, page 126, February 20, 1993.

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Swag
by Noufal Ibrahim Aug. 3, 2011

Aug. 3, 2011

Sree has agreed to take care of the T-shirts (similar to last time). Is everyone okay with the same design as last time but with the year changed? I don't think we have the time to discuss/debate/decide on a new design. Let's get this out of the way. Thoughts? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in Cum tacent, clamant. When they are silent, they shout. -Cicero

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[OT] Python games open space at PyCon India 2011
by Noufal Ibrahim July 31, 2011

July 31, 2011

My original mail to BAngpypers: > Are there any people on this list who are into developing games in > Python? If there are atleast 3 or 4, it'd be swell if we could get > together at PyCon India and write one. We could discuss the overall > direction beforehand and then get our hands dirty at the conference and > release ver 0.1 along with the event. Would anyone be interested in something like this? -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in "Triumph without Victory, The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War", -Headline published in the U.S. News & World Report, 1992.

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Student Reimbursement Policy Re: Financial aid
by Dhananjay Nene July 29, 2011

July 29, 2011

This is the final consolidated policy for student reimbursement : a. Upto 5 students for students with an accepted talk or tutorial. If more than 5 students are eligible, the team selecting the talks will decide the subset of 5 who qualify. b. Student ID + Letter from institution required c. Upto III tier II class AC Rail Fare / Bus Fare (upto Rs. 2500 round trip) + Stipend of Rs.750 per day of attendance per student. d. Payment after the talk against bills produced for travel. e. Qualifying students still need to register (registration is mandatory for all - no point making too many exceptions) Students who have an accepted talk are requested to mail in their request for reimbursement no later than August 15th. I will be sending a mail to all the accepted speakers this weekend, so that we make sure the message reaches them. While it is unlikely that there will be more than 5 students speakers who qualify, if such an event indeed occurs, we will take the matter under consideration to explore if more than 5 requests can be approved. So the figure of 5 is a soft limit - but we'll debate about it only if there are more than 5 applications whether the number should be increased. Dhananjay On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > [...] > > > Updated consolidated policy for student reimbursement. > > > > a. Upto 5 students for students with an accepted talk or tutorial. If > > more than 5 students are eligible, the team selecting the talks will > > decide the subset of 5 who qualify. > > b. Student ID + Letter from institution required > > c. Upto III tier II class AC Rail Fare / Bus Fare (upto Rs. 2500 round > > trip) + Stipend of Rs.750 per day of attendance per student. > > d. Payment after the talk against bills produced for travel. > > [...] > > Point a. I don't think we need to restrict it to 5. All students with > accepted > talks will have reimbursements. I think it will be below 5 > anyway. I don't think we're short of money. > > I presume there are no changes with the registration amount for > these students? > > The rest of the points look fine to me. > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > > A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Include me out. > -Samuel Goldwyn > _______________________________________________ > Inpycon mailing list > Inpycon(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://blog.dhananjaynene.com twitter: @dnene <http://twitter.com/dnene>google plus: http://gplus.to/dhananjaynene

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BoF/Hack Sessions
by Anand Balachandran Pillai July 28, 2011

July 28, 2011

It might be a good idea to create a wiki page on the site (which anyone can edit) so that folks can plan out BoF/hacks sessions on the side during the conference. It will make the conference more democratic as well as provide some forum for folks to plan something early enough. I think it might be a hit with those who plan to come together during the conference and hack on some problems. I am looking forward myself to some things I can do, if we can plan ahead early. Especially since we have limited talks this year, so we need to give some highlight and support to such activities. Thoughts ? -- --Anand

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Accomodation and reimbursements
by Noufal Ibrahim July 28, 2011

July 28, 2011

I've a bunch of queries to contact(a)in.pycon.org asking about 1. Accomodations - Whether there are cheap ones near the venue etc. 2. Reimbursements for students, speakers etc. I know that these two things were brought up on the list but I'm not sure if there was a conclusion. Will someone summarise the points and put them up the http://in.pycon.org/2011 blog? That way, we'll have something to point people to when they ask questions. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in I distinctly remember forgetting that. -Clara Barton

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Keynote speaker confirmed
by Noufal Ibrahim July 25, 2011

July 25, 2011

Good news everyone! I've been in touch with Raymond Hettinger[1] and he's agreed to come down for the conference as our keynote speaker. Raymond is a core contributor to Python, author of tons of awesome recipes on Active State recipes, author of the itertools module and lots of other niceties. We need to discuss details like payment etc. and one person in Pune needs to make sure of things like accomodation and transport. I'll open a private mail thread with Sree and the others involved in the financial stuff to discuss those aspects. Footnotes: [1] http://us.pycon.org/2011/speaker/profile/131/ -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in It is nearly nine, and the landlady babbled of green peas at seven-thirty. -- Sherlock Holmes

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Announcement : Talk Selections for Pycon India 2011
by Dhananjay Nene July 24, 2011

July 24, 2011

It is my pleasure to announce the selected talks and tutorials for Pycon India 2011. I am pleased that the selected talks and tutorials reflect a set of interesting and diverse topics on Python. We had a large number of submissions and it is unfortunate that we had to decline the ability to host many other talks / tutorials which were also likely to be quite interesting. The numbers referred to are the same as the numbers on the Pycon India 2011 talks page ie. http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks . We hope to update that page soon (hopefully some time later today). The selected talks are 1 pyjs: compiling python to javascript Anand Chitipothu 5 python based push frameworks Shamail Tayyab 7 Emacs as a Python IDE Noufal Ibrahim 11 Machine Learning Using Python Vikram Kamath 12 From Python to Silicon Shakthi Kannan 13 Python on Android Sajjad Anwar 15 LastUser for user management Kiran Jonnalagadda 20 PyTI(PyPI Testing Infrastructure) Yeswanth 23 Deployment and Hosting of your Python Web Applications Lakshman Prasad 24 Creating Domain Specific Languages in Python Siddharta Govindaraj 25 Plivo - Developing Telephony Apps in the Web World Venky 30 Python in the Real World: From Blinking LEDs to Advanced Robotics Jivitesh Singh Dhaliwal 32 Interacting with the larger Python community around the world Anand B Pillai 34 Doing your homework with Python Nirbheek Chauhan 35 Network programming with Umit Project Narendran Thangarajan 41 Python threads: Dive into GIL! Vishal Kanaujia, Chetan Giridhar 43 Decorators as composable abstractions Sidhant Godiwala 45 Wikipedia, Dead Authors, Naive Bayes and Python Abhaya Agarwal 46 Snakes for your GIS Abhishek Mishra 49 Manage your Amazon AWS assets using boto Chirag Jog 51 Python in the Life Sciences Farhat Habib 56 Sensors, Embedded Systems and Chuk Chuk Praneeth Bodduluri 63 Using Python for Data Analysis and Business Intelligence Dhananjay Nene 68 Quick Multitouch Apps using kivy and Python Karan Pratap Singh, Nitin Chadha The selected tutorials are : 4 Functional Programming with Python Anand Chitipothu 37 Twitter/Facebook/Linked-in/Google Data, Oh My! Web API programming using Python Navin Kabra 47 Art of Web Scrapping using Python (Low level) Siddhant Sanyam 55 Using Python with Other Languages Vishesh Yadav, Siddhant Sanyam 67 image processing and computer interaction nitin chadha, karan pratap 71 Redis & Python Sunil Arora The talks page should be updated soon on the matter (it is not yet updated). In addition to these we have shortlisted a few reserve talks in case any of the existing talk submitter would need to withdraw for any reason whatsoever. The submitters of these talks have been informed accordingly. Also due to unavailability of contact information (which is purely an internal communication issue), I have been unable to inform 4 submitters yet (one of them having submitted a talk which has been selected). I intend to rectify it later today as soon as I can. However, after careful thought, I considered it best not to hold up the selected talk announcement on that count. Preferably this shortcoming should've been avoided. Congratulations to all the submitters to the talks that have been selected. We look forward to submissions from all those who submitted this year and didn't in 2012. And we also look forward to meeting all the Python enthusiasts at Pune at Pycon India 2011. May I remind you to register at http://in.pycon.org/2011/register if you haven't already done so? Note that the special early bird rate is active only for a few more days (ie. until July 31st). Dhananjay

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Talk Selection
by Anand Balachandran Pillai July 22, 2011

July 22, 2011

Hi, We have got a pretty good response this year as well - 54 unique submissions so far (59 minus test talks and duplicates), with 2 more days to go! This year we have 45 min talks and I would prefer to have the session last 1 hour so that there is ample time to deliver the talk plus take questions at the end. Assuming we start at 10.00 every day and end at 5 and leaving the lunch hour, that gives us 6 hours in a day. Again assuming we want to have talks only for half a day in the last day (valid ?), that gives a total of 15 hours for the 3 days. So the total number of talks we want to accept with this calculation becomes. 15*(number of halls). If we have 3 halls in all we can accept around 30 talks (2 halls for talks) plus roughly 5-6 tutorials considering 3 hrs per tutorial. If we have 4 halls this of course becomes around 45 talks (give or take a few), plus again 5-6 tutorials. Right now we have a total of 8 tutorial submissions plus 46 talk submissions (which could go up in the next few days), so we have enough content to manage either of these. To go ahead with finalizing the number of talks, I need the information on the halls. Plus other suggestions if any. I will send out another email to the panel once again, before we start the process - mostly tomorrow. Thanks, -- --Anand

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AGM
by Kenneth Gonsalves July 22, 2011

July 22, 2011

hi, http://ipss.org.in/newsfull/2/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

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