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PyCon 2017 Designs from web chirpy
by qua non May 8, 2017

May 8, 2017

Hey folks, We have some design options from WebChirpy folks, I am including links to them here, could you folks please let us know your preference. https://paste.opensuse.org/65630895 https://paste.opensuse.org/14009172 https://paste.opensuse.org/73748216 Going forward everything else would be based on the design idea we choose. Looking forward for your input. Regards Team PyConIndia 2017 Akkshay

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Re: [Inpycon] Suggestions for the Keynote Speaker
by sourabh May 8, 2017

May 8, 2017

Hello, My suggestion for the Keynote Speaker is Damien P. George [1]. He is the creator of MicroPython [2] for which he also ran a kickstarter in 2013. I asked a few communities for their suggestions for keynote, I have compiled some of them and am listing them out in no particular order: - Cory Benfield (python-hyper, core developer of requests) - Jeff Forcier (fabric, paramiko) - Donald Stufft (pypa guy) - David Beazely - Francois Chollet (Keras) [1] - http://dpgeorge.net/ [2] - https://micropython.org/ Regards T K Sourabh A fellow Pythonista

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Suggestions for the Keynote Speaker
by Jaidev Deshpande May 8, 2017

May 8, 2017

Hi everyone, I'm starting this thread to ask for suggestions for the three (at least two) keynote speakers we need for PyCon India 2017. I have spoken to Peter Wang (https://www.continuum.io/people/peter-wang) about this and he has agreed in principle. He'll block his dates as soon as we send him a formal invitation. Have any of you spoken to anyone about being a keynote speaker? Do you have any suggestions? Thanks

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[X-post] [PythonExpress] Formation of committees around PythonExpress project
by vijay kumar May 6, 2017

May 6, 2017

Hi All, It's been a wonderful year for PythonExpress in terms of growth. We have taken a few initiatives to get sponsors and to reach out to schools. Hope we will be able to move things forward towards our goals. I think PythonExpress has reached to a stage where we have to have committees to meet the needs of the project. In my opinion, we should have the committees formed as below. Financial Committee: 1) Plan for budget and handle approvals on request basis. 2) Manage and maintain the requests in some shared document like google sheet or in the software itself (yet to be designed). Coordinators: 1) Request for tutors if no tutor has taken up a workshop request. 2) Coordinate between tutor and college for the workshop prerequisites and other things as necessary. 3) Help clarify queries from colleges and tutors. Software committee: 1) Wye software development to add new features and enhancements and to resolve issues if any. 2) Maintain the github repo. Technical Content Writing committee: 1) Contribute and maintain the workshop contents for different workshops for different levels (for schools an colleges - beginners, intermediate and advanced) Web Content Writing Committee: 1) Help write blogs. 2) Fine tune the content on website and help with social media publishing as necessary. Let me know your thoughts on the same. Also, requesting interested people to fill the form [0] and let us know how you can help PythonExpress. [0] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AWZAvUFxHWB2DUJemSikS59 xHQv5_jeJXfRRSlN4ACA/prefill Thanks, Vijay

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PythonExpress for school students
by vijay kumar May 5, 2017

May 5, 2017

Hi All, During PyCon India 2016 open space, we discussed about conducting workshops for school students. Teaching school students might be a bit challenging as they have minimal knowledge on programming. Real time and visual results will excite them to learn programming language and try things on their own. We can conduct python workshops with the help of low cost single board computers like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ExpEYES or something similar to it which will be helpful in teaching and also make the students understand. Since the cost of these single board computers are less, its affordable for students to buy on their own to pursue it further. I would request everyone to share your thoughts on the same and help in building the workshop topics and content for school students. Thanks, Vijay

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[Discussion] Guidelines for Keynote speaker
by Kracekumar Ramaraj May 2, 2017

May 2, 2017

Hi As per Vijay Kumar's [0] email in another thread, I'm spinning this conversation to prevent diverting the existing conversation. Here is the stated response ---- Hi Everyone, I have been following this thread, and would like to make a suggestion here. The term keynote speaker is heavily overloaded. As it is obvious from the Wikipedia page on the subject. It will be great, if we can have a guidelines page in https://github.com/pythonindia/pyconindia-handbook as to what is expected from a keynote speaker. This will help set, clear expectations, which will help save time and effort. Just my 2 cents. BTW, I do understand the role of a keynote speaker in the context of PyCon India. But there will definitely be a skew to my own understanding. And in a community run event, where a lot of people are involved, each one will have a distorted view of his own. Setting a common guidelines, will help set a baseline. This will also be useful to people new to the community. Just in case, it sounds so, I am not trying to undermine any suggestion made over here. I have a great respect for all people mentioned on this thread. I am just trying to streamline the process. Regards, Vijay Kumar (@bravegnu) ---- [0]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2017-May/011059.html -- Regards R.Kracekumar http://kracekumar.com

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