Re: [BangPypers] [x-post] Petition for MHRD to include Open Source in New Education Policy
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Rushabh Mehta <rme...@gmail.com> wrote: > To this effect Prof Milind Oka has drafted a petition to the Minister to > rectify this. More details in the petition: > > https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-mandating-use-of-free-and-open-source-software-in-new-education-policy-2016 Is there a particular reason why this petition narrows down the choice to a particular Linux distribution while attempting to put together a rationale for the usage of Free and Open Source tools in education? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Online communication channel
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:53 PM, kracekumar ramaraju kracethekingma...@gmail.com wrote: [...] BTW do take a look at scrollback.io[1]. [1]https://scrollback.io/scrollback Scrollback looks totally different concept, create rooms and create discussions. It has IRC/Twitter bridge. Not sure if it can match all features of slack. There is that other service https://www.waartaa.com/ and Ratnadeep/Sayan could speak about it. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Online communication channel
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Noufal Ibrahim KV nou...@nibrahim.net.in wrote: On Sat, Aug 15 2015, kracekumar ramaraju wrote: [...] Biggest problem with IRC is to on board new comers. The learning curve is steep for normal tech users. It only makes life for already acquainted users easier not for new comers. It hardly takes 5-15 minutes get new person to get used to slack whereas that is not case with IRC. An anecdote_of_one: a reason Slack or, Scrollback like services are often preferred over IRC/email is because of the asynchronous nature of request-response. For example, you seek some answer and unless you are logged in, the responses will not be available at a later stage (and here if you'd like to come in with IRC bouncers, logging and so forth ...) Chat or, conversations are being replaced with messaging. There's a small end-user-experience difference between the two. Also, countering some of the objections. - The learning curve is not that steep if you're using a GUI client. You get a list of servers. Connect to one and then a list of chatrooms (channels). Join #bangpypers with a click and you're on. Surely people who code and learn coding can pick up IRC. Once you stick on for a while, all the idiosyncrasies like the / commands become normal.[1] Surely people who want to participate and contribute ... Let's not limit these conversations to only those who want to code. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:16 PM, vijay kumar vnbang2...@gmail.com wrote: There was a suggestion of having 10 minutes slot at the end of the meetup where companies can speak about them and openings for 2 minutes. -1 Today lot of participants come as it's a place to gain and share knowledge. We should not be changing the intention of meetup by providing space for hiring, it might turn out being a commercial space. Am afraid allowing companies to talk about themselves and their job opportunities might create conflict of interest with the company providing space for our meetup which may not be good for us. As a thought exercise consider this. Company A offers the space for the meetup. On the day of the meetup the host ensures that there is adequate material/swag/branding available that provide a guidance to available opportunities, how to apply etc. And if you stop and think about it, this is not too far fetched. For example, at my day job, the external facing areas have branding material which make it easy to identify with specific projects/products. Asking companies to create anechoic chambers as a pre-condition for hosting is somewhat untenable. I would say lets stick to knowledge sharing and discussion about python for meetup We already have job page on python India website ( http://python.org.in/jobs/). We should plan to work on that page instead. How often is that used to be a platform for opportunities within the Python community? Otherwise we can have Bangpypers newsletter where we send meetup details along with job opportunities as well. But my question is What does Bangpypers get in return for publishing about X company job requirement? A question in turn (although it is poor form to respond to a question with another) - why does Bangpyper want to get anything in return of the stated objective is sharing and discussing about Python? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Why PyLadies
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे mandarv...@gmail.com wrote: before, and I would be interested in your response: What purpose is served by creating a women's group, instead of joining the existing group thus making it more diverse? In other words, what purpose is served by intentional segregation? Was this ever answered ? Is it very relevant and material to the Bangalore Python Users Group that this question be answered in excruciating detail? If an individual has an affiliation to the idea around which http://www.pyladies.com/ is derived you'd be already aware of the need. It is also possible that individuals feel strongly that this particular approach might not be a viable one. Either way, there is no reason, within the limits of what I can perceive, that the group proposing to form a PyLadies initiative require to justify their existence. The Python space is large enough to include everyone and, welcoming enough to let all approaches do a very good job of attempting to achieve whatever they want to achieve. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Incorrect sponsor links on Pycon website
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Anish Kurian anish...@gmail.com wrote: I just noticed that the links for dubizzle and McAfee are incorrect on the Pycon website. McAfee has plivo.com as it's link and dubizzle has dubbizle as link. I wasn't sure whom to contact (or the mailing list) for the correction and hence this mail to Bangpypers. Probably a ticket at https://github.com/pythonindia/pyconindia2013-design would help. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
