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 >> > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
