Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India Proposal
Hi, On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:23, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.net wrote: +1 for hosting PyCon India in other cities in coming years. Suggestions for future events (maybe 2010/11(?)) : + Alternatively PyCon-India could be held multiple times in a year, in each city which finds enough volunteers (read critical mass) to get such an event going. + Heard a Colombian researcher (at the national coalition meet last week) mention that they hold a day long event for Libre software across 20 cities all over South America. They do this simultaneously as a Libre s/w event. Am not sure if a Python-only event will scale that well across cities. Anyway, ideas dont cost (not as much as implementing them :)) The PyCon (US) used to accept everyone, including newbies; sometimes non-coders also coming as speakers. They have tutorials targeting non-hard-core programmers. Remember, Python is a language which can be learned within one month (or one week ? ;) +1. On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:56, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Best aim for the stars. In any case, I wanted to start us off. I'm not really clear on what a 'proposal' should contain as of now. We should trim down the aims though. Yup, ground events/meets/(un)confs is definitely where the action and (daresay) fun is :) My point was wrt the sponsors POV, who may (or not) come on board in future, especially if promised the stars and left undelivered. Not to suggest this will happen but a smaller set of expectations is easier to achieve. Maybe a stock-taking after the event, if need be ?? I think it should not become a Newbies only thing. People who have been hacking python for a long time should have good reason to come as well as the newbie. true, this also depends on how the tracks/sessions are planned, speakers, etc... which a structured conf has more control over, unlike say an unconference (the analogy is probably not correct since the focus is different for each event). Dedicated meaning that we're not planing to be part of a larger event like foss.in. vielen danke for including low hanging fruit like me :) @Bani : Hi *wave* long time no see :) -- || Vid || http://www.svaksha.com || ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India Proposal
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:14 PM, VidA v...@svaksha.com wrote: Hi, Maybe we should stick to the Wiki for the discussion with maybe weekly reminders here that the discussion is going on there. :) ~Roshan ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Reply from David Goodger about PyCon
Looks Fine, Noufel, if you haven't already communicated, I think it will be good if you do write into PSF and complete all formalities. Let's get the modalities done, and announce at least a tentative date for the first meeting to form a committee to manage the event, and take things forward. Ramdas On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings people, I have pasted below the mail I received from David G. when I asked him about the conference. Do take a look. I didn't know that he was the directory of the PSF. :-} Thanks - Hi, I'm sure that you'll be welcome to use the PyCon name for a community conference in India. There are several other national or regional PyCons out there, and we encourage their proliferation. The only thing we want to avoid is competing events in the same region, so ask that you cooperate with all interested groups and operate in an open and inclusive manner. Please write to p...@python.org for official permission. Be sure to describe the type of conference -- the term PyCon is associated with a volunteer-run community conference. We can also offer subdomain registration; in.pycon.org could point to your server, or to a site on the server we're using for the US PyCon. Good luck! David Goodger PyCon 2009 Chair Director, Python Software Foundation -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Reply from David Goodger about PyCon
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Ramdas S ram...@developeriq.com wrote: Looks Fine, Noufel, if you haven't already communicated, I think it will be good if you do write into PSF and complete all formalities. Noufel, thanks for the initiative taken. But I guess the further communication to PSF done with a prior consent with the BangPypers members. I hope we dont rush things up and all the stakeholders in this conference. Let us prioritise what should be done or can be avioded . Before we start communicating aggressively. We need to collectively finilaze on many tasks and sub tasks. We can meet up on the #Bangpypers on say Tuesday 4:30 PM IST. Eg. o Programme Committee needs to be formed o Call for Papers. ( how do we peer review the talks, tutorials , unlike Fsck.in, lets have a open review system of the talks) o Date ( Call for Vote) o Venue o Communication to communities -- Ramakrishna Reddy GPG Key ID:31FF0090 Fingerprint = 18D7 3FC1 784B B57F C08F 32B9 4496 B2A1 31FF 0090 ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India Proposal
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM, VidA v...@svaksha.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:28, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: I checked out the page. I can probably pitch in for stuff like writing the proposal and talking to companies. i would help with the above (and the local media) but wanted to discuss some things on thelist instead of editing the wiki and annoying folks. That would be great. Good ideas. I have a page at http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyConIndiaProposalDraft which I'm working on. 0. Should'nt this page include the proposed dates (September 4,5,6 (Baiju M)) or is that still under discussion ?' Yes , we need to finalise the dates. I guess we'll take it for a discussion on the IRC . irc.freenode.org. #BangPypers 1. The Aims listed on the Draft page are huge in terms of scope and would take more than one conference to achieve. Heh. Its just a two day old wiki draft. give it some time to mature. pythonists are very energetic. wait and watch its gonna be awesome. 2. Would this be held only in Bangalore or would it be possible for local groups in different cities to hold their own 1/2/3 day events? Usually the Original Pycon is given to user groups , who bid for it. we'll BangPypers isnt still a society. So we dont hold an authority .But we are intent to have a 3 day event. atleast I'm a +1 for a 3 day event. As long as people hold the event to spread python, I'm not complaining. The ProposalForPyConIndia wiki page has a community discussion section with varying opinions. Before editing I wanted to clarify the following: 0. Earlier discussions on this list gave an impression of the conf being open to all (read newbies) but this is not clear on this wiki page. Has that changed? 1. Please clarify/define dedicated conference. (As in, is the pyconf open to people like me who dont code for a living and yet grok technical concepts?) Thats an interesting point. learn how to program ;-) It pays to be a python programmer. We need to discuss it over IRC. Ofcourse its open to everybody. Unless we plan to hire bouncers to kick people out after taking their entry fee. another discussion , Entry Fee , is also a topic for discussion. +1 for the low budget, sans swag concept but some clarity on what is the scope of the event, since its being held here for the first time, would be a lot nicer. The conf planning page was a nice read :) so how about a volunteers page ? Lets Keep it volunteer run, low budget and Honest. So everybody can participate. Lets make it happen folks. -- Ramakrishna Reddy GPG Key ID:31FF0090 Fingerprint = 18D7 3FC1 784B B57F C08F 32B9 4496 B2A1 31FF 0090 ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] IDEs Presentation (was Re: Do we have any NetBeans IDE for Python users here?)
We've had the IDE discussions before..many times on many mailing lists. Would love to hear from Amit about NetBeans Python support. I personally mostly work on Windows...so PyScripter http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter/ is the choice for me (its a complete IDE only 6MBs heavy). On linux, it has to be Emacs :)) Vishal 2009/2/27 Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com On a related note : http://jjinux.blogspot.com/search?q=netbeans -V- http://twitter.com/venkat83 ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers -- So say...Day by day, in every way, I am getting better, better and better !!! A Strong and Positive attitude creates more miracles than anything else. Because...Life is 10% how you make it, and 90% how you take it Diamond is another piece of coal that did well under pressure” Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong, Sorrow keeps u Human, Failure Keeps u Humble, Success keeps u Glowing, But only God Keeps u Going.Keep Going. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
[BangPypers] PyCon India IRC Discussion
We need to have an IRC discussion on the #Bangpypers on IRC , Server :: irc.freenode.org I would request all the stake holders to participate Agenda :: o Programme Committee o Date Which day is convenient for al the folks. o Tuesday , 3rd march 4:30 PM o Tuesday, 3rd March, 9:00 PM or someother day / time let me know. I always do hangout on the channel, stop by to say print hello world -- Ramakrishna Reddy GPG Key ID:31FF0090 Fingerprint = 18D7 3FC1 784B B57F C08F 32B9 4496 B2A1 31FF 0090 ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India IRC Discussion
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Ramakrishna Reddy ramkr...@gmail.com wrote: Which day is convenient for al the folks. o Tuesday , 3rd march 4:30 PM o Tuesday, 3rd March, 9:00 PM Either choice is good. 9.00 pm is fine for me. -- Baiju M ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Reply from David Goodger about PyCon
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ramakrishna Reddy ramkr...@gmail.com wrote: o Call for Papers. ( how do we peer review the talks, tutorials , unlike Fsck.in, lets have a open review system of the talks) We required one web app like the one used for PyCon. Any idea whether we can use the same software and customize it ? Or is there any other free software for co-ordinating an entire conference ? Regards, Baiju M ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Reply from David Goodger about PyCon
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Baiju M mba...@zeomega.net wrote: We required one web app like the one used for PyCon. Any idea whether we can use the same software and customize it ? Or is there any other free software for co-ordinating an entire conference ? https://pycon.coderanger.net/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India Proposal
On Saturday 28 February 2009 12:07:46 VidA wrote: 1. Please clarify/define dedicated conference. (As in, is the pyconf open to people like me who dont code for a living and yet grok technical concepts?) dedicated to python - no other languages -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Reply from David Goodger about PyCon
On Sunday 01 March 2009 09:33:31 Baiju M wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ramakrishna Reddy ramkr...@gmail.com wrote: o Call for Papers. ( how do we peer review the talks, tutorials , unlike Fsck.in, lets have a open review system of the talks) We required one web app like the one used for PyCon. Any idea whether we can use the same software and customize it ? Or is there any other free software for co-ordinating an entire conference ? we have the fossconf software written in django - it has all the features needed for a conference including rating of papers, hall allotment, scheduling etc etc. The only thing to be added is payment receipt module and of course, to upgrade to django 1.x. The team that built it is absconding, but anyone who wishes to work on it (some hard coded stuff needs to be removed) may contact me. The code is here: http://registration.fossconf.in/code/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Reply from David Goodger about PyCon
On Sunday 01 March 2009 11:58:12 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: etc etc. The only thing to be added is payment receipt module and of course, to upgrade to django 1.x. The team that built it is absconding, clarification: I am the main developer and am still around - the rest of the team has vanished ... -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] PyCon India IRC Discussion
I think apart from the IRC meeting, we should also have a proper face to face thing. It's a little premature perhaps given how recent the last BangPypers meeting was but I think it'd be useful. We can Skype in the people who are from outside the city. -- ~noufal ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
[BangPypers] Questions regarding Image cropping
Dear friends, I am a beginner in Python programming. I am not a computer professional I am a physicist. I was trying to write a code in python for my own research which involves a little image processing. All I need to do is to display an image and then select a region of interest using my mouse and finally crop out the selected region. I can do this in Matlab using the ginput() function. I tried using PIL. But I find that after I issue the command Image.show(), the image is displayed but then the program halts there unless I exit from the image window. Is there any way to implement what I was planning. Do I need to download any other module? Please advise. Arunabha Adhikari -- Arunabha Adhikari Reader, West Bengal State University Barasat, 24 arganas, North 25844178, 25844179, 25844180 ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
