🌐 Mailman 3 June 2014 - Inpycon - python.org

Open spaces & Lightning Talks
by Shrayas rajagopal Sept. 15, 2014

Sept. 15, 2014

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. What do y'all feel ? /Shrayas [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLvERZQSok&list=PLLj6w0Thbv02lEXIDVO46kotA…

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Re: [Inpycon] Panel discussion
by Prasun Kumar Gupta July 14, 2014

July 14, 2014

> On Tue, Jun 03 2014, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > > [...] > > > How about something like "Python in government projects"? Find some > > people > > > at NIC who are using Python and let them share their experiences about: > > > > > > * using Python in government projects > > > * what are the issues preventing them using Python > > > * how can the python community help > > > > Hi All, Most government projects use a blend of languages based on merits and compatibility with systems. A classic example of this is the BHUVAN-NUIS project under the aegis of Ministry of Urban Development executed by National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, Hyderabad. They have developed a Python plugin for QGIS to integrate landuse mapping & planning with cloud computing etc. You can find out more about the project here [1]. The person incharge would be Dr. P. G. Diwakar, Deputy Director, National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad. With regard to NIC - I think the guys at National Knowledge Network (NKN), one of the ambitious project of Planning Commission executed by NIC, are heavily relying on Python. They can be reached on piu(a)nkn.in [1] http://www.indiageospatialforum.org/2014/proceedingPDF/Smarter%20Cities/Dr.… ---- slides 14 and 15 showcase the python plugin Regards, Prasun K. Gupta IIRS, ISRO, Dehradun

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Volunteer Required: Create FAQ content
by vijay kumar July 8, 2014

July 8, 2014

Hi , We need 2-3 volunteer to create FAQ content and gather information about hotel, P.G and bus details and other general question which will be useful for attendee who come from different cities. Example page for reference on what we need to capture. http://in.pycon.org/2012/faqs -- Thanks, Vijay kumar Bang

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Python month
by Noufal Ibrahim KV July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

Is there a plan for a Python month this year? Who's in charge? -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

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Announcing the 3rd keynote speaker for PyCon India 2014!
by Baiju Muthukadan June 26, 2014

June 26, 2014

Hello people! Surprise, surprise, surprise. What is better than 2? Definitely the answer is 3! We were extremely happy when we announced Kushal Das and Michael Foord as our Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2014 (http://in.pycon.org/2014/ ). Now we are ecstatic to announce our 3rd keynote speaker - none other than Jessica McKellar herself! Jessica McKellar is an entrepreneur, software engineer, and open source developer from San Francisco, California, USA. She is a Director for the Python Software Foundation, PyCon North America's Diversity Outreach Chair, and a maintainer for several open source projects, including OpenHatch and the Twisted event-driven networking engine. For her outreach efforts in the Python community, she was awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013. This edition of PyCon India promises to be the best so far and is absolutely going to be one that you don't want to miss. Not just in terms of our 3 excellent keynote speakers, but in terms of the 143 talk proposals that we have as well. We wish we could give all of them a chance, but unfortunately we only have 2 days of conference. Maybe we should consider making it a 5 days conference next year huh? ;) So jump in and vote for your favourite talks now! (http://in.pycon.org/funnel/2014/ ) Oh, and better make sure you grab the tickets (http://pyconindia2014.doattend.com/ )before they are sold out as well. Hope to see many of you there! -- Baiju M

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Chrome extension to filter funnel proposals
by me kracekumar June 24, 2014

June 24, 2014

Hi Right now we have 143 proposals! A sweet number. Funnel doesn't support filtering of proposals based on types like workshops. Shreyas - https://twitter.com/shrayasr wrote a chrome extensions https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pycon-funnel-filter/cnioaeeidokid… to filter proposals. Also there is a bookmarklet https://github.com/shrayas/pycon-funnel-filter. -- Regards Kracekumar http://kracekumar.com +91 85530 29521

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How many workshops?
by Anand Chitipothu June 20, 2014

June 20, 2014

Hi, How many workshops are we planning to have this year? Last year we had 9 workshops with 3 parallel tracks. There are couple of small rooms and big open space upstairs and we can potentially use them to accommodate another track, if we need. So how many workshops are we going to select? Anand

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First Gold Sponsor
by vijay kumar June 18, 2014

June 18, 2014

Hello, PyCon India welcomes Plotly as our Gold sponsor. Thanks Plotly for supporting PyCon India. -- Thanks, Vijay

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PyCon India 2014 - Call for Voting
by Baiju Muthukadan June 16, 2014

June 16, 2014

Hi, PyCon India 2014 recently announced its Call for Voting on the submitted talk proposals. Visit our blog post to know more details on it: http://in.pycon.org/2014/blog/call-for-voting/ PyCon India 2014 will be taking place from September 26-28 in Bangalore. This year's response was absolutely brilliant in terms of the number & variety of proposals submitted from different parts of the world. Registration are open now ( http://pyconindia2014.doattend.com/ ), so mark your calendars and get ready to visit Bangalore for another great edition of PyCon India. If your company is interested in sponsorship, we need you. Sponsors are the ones who make PyCon India possible, and sponsorship offers some great values to the generous organizations who support the conference. Check out our prospectus at http://in.pycon.org/2014/sponsorship-prospectus.pdf. Contact Vijay Kumar at contact(a)in.pycon.org for any sponsorship inquiries. Keep an eye out for the latest news on our blog at http://in.pycon.org/2014/blog/ and follow us on twitter (https://twitter.com/pyconindia) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/PyConIndia) Vijay Kumar, Coordinator vnbang2003(a)gmail.com Baiju Muthukadan, Publicity Coordinator baiju.m.mail(a)gmail.com

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Small update for Michael Foord's bio
by Kushal Das June 16, 2014

June 16, 2014

Mock[1] is part of standard library, it is not a third party library. It was introduced in standard library in Python3.3 [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html Kushal -- CPython Core Developer http://fedoraproject.org http://kushaldas.in

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