News coverage:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/data-analytics-hackathon-begins-on-saturday/articleshow/67921059.cms
Data analytics hackathon begins on Saturday 
In the print version the title is: "Hackathon begins at SPPU, on till March 
3"

There's no glaring mistakes in the article, which is.. pleasantly 
surprising. Datameet's mentioned too.

- Nikhil VJ
Pune, India


On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 11:05:01 AM UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> Updating here after over a month. We've had a flurry of sessions, many 
> small, some big under the Pune Open Data Portal. Got very good response, 
> and got some institutional backing as well. IEEE Pune Section is joining 
> in, some corporate backing can come, and lot of possibilities.
>
> I've set up a central place where all datasets, problem statements are 
> collecting:
>
> *https://opendatapune.github.io <https://opendatapune.github.io>*
> (Open all links in new tabs, then you're set)
>
> And it's *open season* for anyone, anywhere to jump in and do something 
> awesome here, in parallel while we conduct sessions. All interactions will 
> happen through the issues section that we've called "Participate". All open 
> source, github style. Also, we are not accepting any submissions that don't 
> open-source the coe
>
> If you want to be published about (and possibly certificate, prizes for 
> selected good work) for your work, please put in your full name and course 
> details (if team, one person put for whole team) and give a way to contact 
> you.
>
> - Nikhil VJ
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at 8:06:32 AM UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> We got in touch with the City Data Officer of Pune who heads the Pune 
>> Open Data Portal recently (thanks Chiranjay for setting us up), and have 
>> set up some collaborations. Pune Open Data Portal can have events like 
>> hackathons organized (not the 1st prize contest types, rather, events with 
>> a pre-set focused and achievable task and people making something 
>> together), if Datameet can provide the technical support and facilitation.
>>
>> To start off, next weekend we're doing a "Business Intelligence 
>> Hackathon" with students in a course at SICSR Pune. *See details here 
>> <https://github.com/datameet-pune/datameet-pune.github.io/issues/18>*.
>>
>> For this one we need to get together a team of people who work in this 
>> field, have experience with BI tools etc and, this is important : who will 
>> be able to spare time to come and attend the event and work on evaluating 
>> the outputs to publish on the Pune Open Data Portal.
>>
>> There are more events at other colleges also being planned.
>>
>> So here's a reach-out to folks in Pune: Jump in!
>>
>> Pls contact me on nikhil.js [at] gmail.com with a brief profile of your 
>> work in the relevant sector, and links if any.
>>
>> Folks elsewhere: Follow the link above; you can pitch in your inputs 
>> there. We need good datasets to work on, for one.
>>
>> Regards
>> Nikhil VJ
>> Pune, India
>>
>

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