[BangPypers] PyCon India Proposal Submission Deadline
Hi, PyCon India 2014 proposal submission deadline is approaching! The last date for proposal submission is May 30. As of today, there are 50+ proposals in the funnel. If you haven't submitted your proposal yet, submit now! If you're interested in submitting a proposal, take a look at our Call for Proposals at http://in.pycon.org/funnel/2014/ and poke around the site for advice and resources to help you create a great proposal. PyCon India 2014 will be taking place from September 26-28 in Bangalore and we're ready to accept proposals. Registration will open soon, so mark your calendars and get ready to visit Bangalore for another great PyCon India. If your company is interested in sponsorship, we need you. Sponsors are what make PyCon India a possibility, and sponsorship offers some great values to the generous organizations who support the conference. Check out prospectus at http://in.pycon.org/2014/sponsorship-prospectus.pdf Contact Vijay Kumar at cont...@in.pycon.org with any sponsorship inquiries. Keep an eye out for news on our blog at http://in.pycon.org/blog/ and follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/pyconindia and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PyConIndia Vijay Kumar, Coordinator vnbang2...@gmail.com Baiju Muthukadan, Publicity Coordinator baiju.m.m...@gmail.com ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
[BangPypers] Python in India, for India
Hi folks, Some of you may know me as a Director for the Python Software Foundation or from PyCon North America. I'm gathering examples of Python being used to do great, uniquely *regional* work. Do you have suggestions for cool, impactful projects that use Python in India, for India? They might, for example, be related to local conservation, culture, science, education, sports, or politics. Regards, Jessica -- Jessica McKellar http://jesstess.com ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Python in India, for India
Hi Jessica, It's nice to see you here. I think this topic is the perfect place to talk about what me and my friends do. We are a small non-profit called Karnataka Learning Partnership( http://klp.org.in/) with the target of better education for all children in Karnataka. We gather data from (almost) *all* the primary schools in the Karnataka state from various sources including govt provided data and the open data available out there. These data are usually unstructured. So we put efforts to clean them up, connect unrelated data(with both automated softwares and manual efforts), and derive useful information out of them. We then publish those information in two ways. 1. Reports in printable format and 2. through API. We send the printed reports back to the Member of Parliaments and other govt officials who needs these data to make better decisions and we open the API to the public. And we do *all* of this using Python. We've been doing this for years. For our webapps, we have used web.py for a long time. Now mostly using Django. All our data migrations tools, automation scripts, web apps etc are built with Python. You can see it all at https://github.com/klpdotorg Any feedback is welcome. :) Thanks, Bibhas Debnath http://bibhas.in On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Jessica McKellar jessica.mckel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Some of you may know me as a Director for the Python Software Foundation or from PyCon North America. I'm gathering examples of Python being used to do great, uniquely *regional* work. Do you have suggestions for cool, impactful projects that use Python in India, for India? They might, for example, be related to local conservation, culture, science, education, sports, or politics. Regards, Jessica -- Jessica McKellar http://jesstess.com ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
