Re: [Chennaipy] Updating chennaipy/talks

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Rahul,

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 4:35 PM rahul .poruri  wrote:

> I can take care of that. Is there a specific deadline by when you want it
> done?
>

Thank you. No such deadline :)

But if I were to give one, then like the suits, I'm inclined to say
"yesterday" :D
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[Chennaipy] Updating chennaipy/talks

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi All,

Would anyone like to take up the task of updating the chennaipy/talks
repo (https://github.com/Chennaipy/talks) and bring it up to date?

Its just a matter of looking at the meetup links -
meetup.com/chennaipy and then putting it into the readme and sending a
PR.

Of course it might need some coordination to get the slides from the speakers.

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Re: [Chennaipy] Require help in code

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Karthikeyan S  wrote:
> Yes, via CURL command it works perfectly.

Can you share the cURL command for it?

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Karthikeyan S  wrote:
> Thanks Everyone.. The issue seem to be specific with Mac.. I have moved the
> script to CentOS to make it work.

It might be a better approach to actually investigate _why_ the
problem occured in the first place. That way you get closure on the
source of the problem and what you did to fix it. I don't see why it
shouldn't work on Mac but work on CentOS.

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Re: [Chennaipy] Require help in code

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Karthikeyan,

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Karthikeyan S  wrote:

[...]

> Could you please help ?

Are you able to execute the same thing outside of python? i.e. with
another RESTful client like postman?

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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meetup

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Ashok Govindarajan  wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to propose a talk "Deep learning for dummies".

[...]

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Subil A  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to give a talk.
>
> Title: The Python AST (abstract syntax trees) module

[...]

I've added both these talks :)
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Re: [Chennaipy] We should have a feedback form after the Meetup.

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Vijay Kumar  wrote:

> If the feedback is about how better to organize Chennaipy events, it will be
> useful to us (the organizers). But if the feedback is about the talk, then
> it will be useful only for the speaker. It would be better for the speaker
> to ask for feedback (if needed), in that case.

But, as Chennaipy, we could help funnel this feedback to them? Having
one tool to consolidate feedback would definitely be more productive
than expecting each one of the speakers to use their own? The latter
would cause some amount of confusion, I'm sure.

My idea is this:
Publish a URL at the end of every meetup, something like
tinyurl.com/feedback-cpy-201709 where, per talk, we could have a few
simple questions rated on 1 - 5 and an open text to provide more
feedback. The collated results, we could then share with the speakers
individually.

The URL is to be shared to only participants of the meetup. Sharing it
on the mailing list / meetup page would skew the results and might end
up in bogus entries as well.

Thoughts?

> The bottom line is the talk selection will always be on a FCFS basis.
>
> He are some areas that we can work on to improve talk quality.
>
> Ask the speakers to submit slides 3 days before the event. (We used to do
> that.) The idea is to ensure that the speakers is prepared well ahead of the
> event.
> Better timekeeping during the event. Ensure that the talks do not spillover
> the 20 min slot.
> Request speakers to rehearse their talks.

I agree with all these

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Re: [Chennaipy] We should have a feedback form after the Meetup.

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
 wrote:
>
> It just occured to me we stopped asking for feedback from attendees. IMHO 
> feedback is important not just for organizers but for the speakers too.
>
> As always there are ton of channels for feedback like mailing 
> list/twitter/meetup, but people refrain somehow since it's not anonymous. But 
> also, we never explicitly asked for feedback.
>
> Let's do that.

I agree here. This is something that we haven't done and we can start
doing it. Google forms is IMO the simplest form of getting feedback
from the attendees.

Let's give this at shot at Oct's meetup. I can take the lead on this
and figure out the logistics on passing the links on, etc.

> Quick context: Some attendee mentioned to me that "Talks were prepared just 
> out from learning and didn't arise from experience/usage/real use-cases".

This is understandable. That was the whole purpose of keeping the
talks crisp and to 20 minutes. If the talks were too low level for a
set of people then they wouldn't be sitting in it for *too* long to
lose interest.

Although I do agree with Naren also here. Such "public" feedback would
discourage a lot of people from coming forward and giving talks. The
feedback system would be of great assistance here.

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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Everyone,

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Vijay Kumar  wrote:

> please send in your talk title and talk description.
>

​Title:
Possibilities in the land of 1s and 0s

Description: ​
This talk aims to open freshers up to the world of computer science. Tips
on what to do and what not to. Additionally, I share the gist of what I've
learnt in my 10+ years of writing code, working in teams and leading teams.

---

Note: This is majorly a beginner focussed talk with close to NO python
involved except for occasional mentions. If the community doesn't see it
fitting into our scheme, I'd be happy to step back and let others take the
slot :)

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Re: [Chennaipy] Easy to read Python libraries for beginners

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Vijay Kumar 
wrote:

> feedparser[1] originally by Mark Pilgrim (author of Dive Into Python),
> should be a good start. It is known for its extensive test-suite.
>

​Noted, nice.​


We should probably restart activity on libcipher[2].
>

​Yeah, definitely. ​


> [1] https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser
> [2] https://github.com/Chennaipy/libcipher
>

​@Others: Thoughts?

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[Chennaipy] MOM | Aug 2017

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Dear All,

Ravi volunteered to do the minutes this month:

-

WHat is a Meetup?

A way to meet up - don't expect to understand details - know who is
doing what etc.

-
Talk 1
Bringing back VanGogh - Krishna Sangeeth
@whitetruelearn

"Looks like my system crashed"
about_vanGogh:
Starry Night
cult painting that inspires many
How to recreate this using technology?

VanGogh(content image + style image) -> stylized content image

Not New, But pretty new -> 2015 papers, Prisma App:
Not just filters
styles are learnt from style image
features of content image are maintained

about_deep_neural_networks:
based on human brain nueron
perceptrons
ex1: identifying a car using a deep NN
ex2: identifying edges, curves, eye shape, nose shape etc = identify dog

how to get style and content right:
content will be taken from close to end of content image
style will be taken from close to start of style (first 4 layers)   

minimizing_loss_functions:
optimize loss of content and loss of style

use the MS CoCo dataset but only 5K images

Use PyTorch for DNN

- Does  not work for pure white (needs research)

--


Talk2
Python Immigrants - Parthi

People who are born in late 90s etc are Digital Natives and older
people are Digital Immigrants
Similarly, speaker came to Python late, and hence is a Python Immigrant

4th wave is AI

What is MachineLearning?

Most popular language for ML is python  
Other websites, pygame, music, scientific, etc

Tools - Git, Jupyter
Popular Libraries - numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas

About AI, ML and DL
Tools in DL - TF, PyTorch, theano, CNTK + Keras frontend

-

Talk3
Vishwanath

Product is more complex than service

the 'ec' library : to make command line parsing simpler:
without arguments, a shell is opened, help is available on shell
has an inbuilt debugger
Click library on github has similar features and 4000 stars
using/reading this code will give a good idea of Python decorators, a
\   very useful feature in Python

--  
Lighting Talk1
Praveen

imgiko app that searches news and gives an image for sharing
ImageMagick port is Python Magick

Lighting Talk2
Shreyas

port something from a language you know
lpthw - it may be paid now
hacker rank - may be too complex
invent with python

pymongo to connect with Mongo
ETL - Python (pandas etc) is really good for these
Reddit has a page for learning python
Do small bits of automation
cheatsheets

David Beazly videos on concurrency etc.

-

Anyone willing to send a PR to the website adding this in?

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Re: [Chennaipy] [Discussion] About scope of programming languages in Chennai's IT industry

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Subil,

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Subil A  wrote:

> A friend of mine in college from the ECE department told me he was
> considering joining a Java course and asked me if there was scope for the
> language. I didn't know how to answer that as I'm a clueless college
> student myself. Java was once the best thing since sliced bread but is it
> still the same?
>
​Java still is relevant in this time. The JVM is an *insanely* robust
virtual machine that is very performant. Its ability to do `java -jar
` stands unrivaled​.

A prime area where Java stands tall is Android development. I'm sure we all
know that the future is moving towards everything on the mobile -- and
Android is leading the rat race to get there. Kotlin is making a foray into
this area, sure; but Java is still the leader.

Another thing to not forget is the ecosystem around this language. The java
ecosystem is extremely mature with a large number of libraries. Be it
embedded systems, web development or machine learning you can rest assured
that Java has you covered.

So my answer is: YES. It is very much the same and I don't see it fading
out anytime soon.

> So, fellow pythonistas in the industry, my question is:
> Which languages/technologies, in your opinion, has scope in Chennai's IT
> industry today? And in what niches (like embedded, medical and so on)?
>
- Web development:
  - Backends: Python, Ruby, Javascript, Java, C#
  - Frontend: Javascript (with Angular, React et al)
- Data Sciences:
  - Python, Python, Python

​[...]

I look forward to everyone else's input too.

Great question, Subil!

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[Chennaipy] PyCon Delhi (was: Re: Chennaipy Digest, Vol 47, Issue 5)

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 10:35 PM, survinder pal 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Is anybody planning to attend Pycon Delhi this year?
>

​I'm not planning to. Delhi is just too far away for me to make the effort
to go. Although Noufal keynoting is *very* tempting for me to miss out on.

---

Also, Survinder, please take a moment and go through the mailing list
guidelines: http://chennaipy.org/mailing-list-guidelines.html. You're
replying to a digest instead of starting a new thread -- it breaks context
at this point.

Feel free to ask questions about it though :)

Best Regards,
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Re: [Chennaipy] Github account for chennaipy

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Arvind Nedumaran 
wrote:

> We do have one : https://github.com/chennaipy
>

​For more context:
  We manage our website here: http://github.com/chennaipy/website​ and
  We manage our talk list here: https://github.com/Chennaipy/talks

It looks like our talk repo is quite dated. The last update was in April.

@Survinder/Deepak: Feel free to send a Pull Request that adds the talks and
the associated slides for the May, June and July version of the meetups :)

​Best Regards,
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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

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Hi Suresh,

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:54 PM, suresh vv  wrote:

> I would like to talk about,
>
> "Using the Hypothesis package to solve the Fox-Hen-Grain problem".
>

Thank you. ​Your talk has been added :) ​

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Re: [Chennaipy] Why we stopped recording talks?

[Shrayas rajagopal]

​Dear Gaurav,​

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat 
wrote:

> There might have been issues with recording screen and audio. But I think
> it's will be fairly easy to record talks with a screen recorder for video
> and bluetooth headset's mic for audio now, from speaker's laptop itself.
>

A screen recorder + a mobile based voice recorder will be more than enough
-- you're right on that. However, logistics is the bigger issue:

- How do we communicate it to *all* the speakers before hand and expect
their co-operation with it?
- How do we collate the footage from the speakers?

It feels like we need a dedicated team to be able to take care of this in a
bullish fashion?

[...]

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Re: [Chennaipy] Feb meetup talk slots are full!

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:53 AM, hafizul azeez 
wrote:

> All this you are able to pull without my efforts for the past two months.
> Just kidding!
>

​Haha. Join us for the Feb meetup, been a while since we caught up :)​
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Re: [Chennaipy] Keeping the list of talks updated

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:10 PM, vengat lnx  wrote:

> Done :)
>

​​Merged. Thank you :) ​

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Rengaraj D 
wrote:

> Will update my talk content in this file with separate PR.
>

​Sure sir :)​
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[Chennaipy] Keeping the list of talks updated

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Dear All,

In case you didn't know, we keep a track of all the talks presented at
Chennaipy here: https://github.com/Chennaipy/talks.

This hasn't been updated since the November meetup.

I invite anyone from the community to take this up. You can find all the
info over here: https://github.com/Chennaipy/talks/issues/23.

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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Sangeeth,

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Krishna Sangeeth KS
 wrote:
> I would like to do a talk on "Data Fusion"
>
> Data Fusion is a statistical method by which we
> combine two data sources to create a more rich
> dataset that that provides much more information
> than the individual datasets.
>
> We will go through details on what would constitute
> a good Fusion methodology.

all 3 slots have been filled up this time. Can we put it on wait list
in case someone opts out? Otherwise we'll schedule this for the next
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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet.

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Abhirath,

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:42 AM, abhirath  wrote:
> Title:- A Web Testing Framework in Python
>
> Description:-
> The following will be discussed
> - Using Lisp to write test cases by creating a wrapper around Selenium
> - Internal workings and reasoning of a few decisions

Your talk has been added.

---

You seem to have replied to a digest email. This loses context and
threading if the subject line isn't put in properly. I request you to
change to receiving emails instead of digests so that it becomes
easier to engage in the community.

Also do give these set of mailing list guidelines[0] a read.

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Re: [Chennaipy] Regarding Stickers for ChennaiPy

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Subil Tries To Speak
 wrote:
> The Meetup page,
> The website,
> The github account,
> The slides of whoever is hosting the meetup (be it Vijay, Shrayas or whoever
> is hosting in their absence) if they want to do so (don't want to force it
> down their throats).

+1

To be honest, I think that the website needs a *major* overhaul in
itself. It feels like a lot of information is being lost on our
website. We need to highlight the things we're doing and what we want
to do.

I remember @Vijay doing some initial work on this [0]. It would be
awesome if someone would spearhead this from the community :)

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Re: [Chennaipy] Regarding Stickers for ChennaiPy

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Vijay Kumar B.  wrote:
> The winning entry:
> https://github.com/Chennaipy/logo-contest#logo-design-from-vengatesh

@Vengatesh: Can you please provide the high res version of this?

I think we should be bullish in starting to use this everywhere.

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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Rengaraj,

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Rengaraj D  wrote:
> I would like to give a talk on PyShark.

I've added your talk in. Excited for this!

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Re: [Chennaipy] Regarding Stickers for ChennaiPy

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Gaurav,


On Jan 11, 2017 12:04 AM, "Gaurav Sehrawat" 
wrote:

Hello everyone,

I was thinking if we could get some swag for ChennaiPy members in form
stickers.


Totally on board!

We already had done some logo competition for ChennaiPy, we can take some
inspiration from those entries or design new.


Let's stick to the logo that we currently have. Although it's hardly used
:( we need to make its use more widespread.

If all agree we need to decide whether to crowd source(I think will be
good) or get some sponsors. Also from where to get them printed.


We could get multiple sponsors, that way we can print more?

Also I highly recommend inkmonk[0] for printing. Never been disappointed.

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Re: [Chennaipy] Early bird ticket available for Pycon India 2016

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Hi Azeez,

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 2:01 PM, hafizul azeez  wrote:

[...]

> If anyone is interested to go and have not purchased a ticket yet, you can
> consider to take mine.

Also consider sending the email to the pycon india mailing list.
People might be on the lookout for tickets now.

[...]

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[Chennaipy] [JOB] Hiring Interns

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# Intern at Logic Soft Pvt. Ltd.

## About us

Logic Soft (http://logicsoft.co.in) has been in the business of
providing software to the Book Trade since 1986. We are associated
with some of the biggest names in the trade and some of them have been
with us for the greater part of 15 years. Having stood the test of
time, we have accumulated years of dedicated experience in the Book
Trade, and today we probably understand the nuances of Book Trade as
much as an experienced person from the trade does if not better.
Starting so early allowed us the opportunity to experiment with and be
a part of a huge movement in the technology world. The initial system
was based on RM-COBOL and ran on the DOS platform. As time progressed,
we moved the entire system to a Windows based system running on the
.NET platform using C# and SQLServer. We are however a team that
believes in using technology to the fullest. Even though our main apps
are written on the .NET platform, we have a host of internal and other
production services running on other platforms like Python and
Clojure.

## The problem at hand

In order for us to keep the business running, we need to be able to
maintain a lot of information - Accounts / Maintenance contracts /
Client information are a few to name. For us to do this, we need to
have systems in place. Currently the major sum of them are basic excel
sheets or small systems that were written years in the past. Time has
come for us to evolve and move forward building out new systems and
revamping the older ones.

We are staunch believers in the Open Source methodologies and believe
that anything reusable can and should be open sourced. LSQ
(https://github.com/LogicSoftInd/LSQ) is one such attempt and putting
out our internal Ad-Hoc SQL query management system.

## The Role

We are looking for a enthusiastic, self motivated person with a good
foundation of computer science principles. You should understand
simple and the very basics of programming. Your task will involve
rewriting / writing new systems that will be used for internal
purposes. The technologies you will be working with will be:

- Python
- C#
- HTML / CSS
- Javascript
- Android

All of the above, on a Linux environment.

Knowledge in Python and basic web know how is a must but anything else
is an added bonus. AngularJS is what we use as a frontend framework
and knowledge in this is also considered a plus.

## Job Perks

- Ability to write a **LOT** of code. This will allow you to get to
your [10,000 hours of
practice](http://www.wisdomgroup.com/blog/1-hours-of-practice/).
- Very lean hierarchy. The 2 founders lead the company and everyone
else reports to them
- Opportunity to work in an environment where production code is
pushed out everyday

---

Anyone who is interested, please write to me offline, at
shray...@logicsoft.co.in (in cc)

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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Vijay,

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Shrayas rajagopal <shray...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to propose a talk:
>
> Title:
>   Gradual Typing - Introduction, purpose and a small look at `mypy`
>
> Description:
>
>   Python is dynamically typed.
> Dynamic typing is awesome.
> Dynamic typing is also a pain.
>   C# is statically typed.
> Static typing is awesome.
> Static typing is also a pain.
>
> Is there no middle ground? Lets explore the realm of Gradual typing to
> know more.

I don't think i'll be able to attend the meetup this month. There are
some year end activities at office that needs to be taken care of and
so we're working on the weekend :(

Sorry about this.

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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

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Hi Kiran,

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Kiran Gangadharan  wrote:
> Building a Tic Tac Toe AI in Python

Added :) Looking forward to this.
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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Vijay,

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Vijay Kumar  wrote:
> If you are interested in
> doing a talk at the meetup, please send in a talk title and short
> description.

I'd like to propose a talk:

Title:
  Gradual Typing - Introduction, purpose and a small look at `mypy`

Description:

  Python is dynamically typed.
Dynamic typing is awesome.
Dynamic typing is also a pain.
  C# is statically typed.
Static typing is awesome.
Static typing is also a pain.

Is there no middle ground? Lets explore the realm of Gradual typing to
know more.

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Re: [Chennaipy] Minutes of January meetup

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Abhishek Yadav
 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The meetup started with Shreyas setting the context. He gave a short
> presentation on what a meet-up is, and what is it not, and what to expect.
> After that we went in for the talks.

[...]

> With that, and a group photo, the meet-up came to an end.


Thanks Abhishek for the minutes.

@group: Would anyone like to take up the task of adding this into the
website? :) This is a great opportunity for you to contribute to the
community.

Regards,
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[Chennaipy] [OT] Fwd: [Chennai Trekking Club] Fwd: Chennai Beach Cleanup - Dec 27 2015 (6-9am)

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi All,

This is quite a change from what I would share in this group. So apologies
upfront if this is unacceptable.

I feel that the Chennai rains taught us all something. All those in Chennai
were affected in one way or the other. Chennai has been a home for us, be
it long term or short term and I'm sure that each of you has found
something in this city that kindled your interest :) I think it makes sense
for us to give back to the city when it needs us?

It would be nice to have a large bunch of Chennaipy volunteers helping
clean up the beach.

We all love Python the language and that has brought us together. But
something that I strongly feel about is the human connect that exists above
all of that.

Do let me know your thoughts and apologies once again if this mail is
irrelevant to the group.

Have a happy weekend.

Regards,
Shrayas

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From: Peter Van Geit 
Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:56 PM
Subject: [Chennai Trekking Club] Fwd: Chennai Beach Cleanup - Dec 27 2015
(6-9am)
To: The Chennai Trekking Club 


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From: "Vinodh Sundar" 
Date: 18 Dec 2015 9:46 pm
Subject: Chennai Beach Cleanup - Dec 27 2015 (6-9am)
To: "Peter Van Geit" 
Cc:


Register *here* if you are interested to join forces with us !!!


The recent rains in Chennai has flushed out tonnes of garbage from the
city's rivers and other water bodies into the ocean, which got thrown back
by The Sea, onto our once beautiful beach shores.

Not only the streets of Chennai but the beaches are also now filled with
tonnes of garbage. These garbage will slowly mix into the ocean and affect
the lives of sea animals and birds, which have a direct impact on our
eco-system. What goes around comes around. Also it will significantly
affect the coming turtle nesting season, if our shores aren't cleaned up by
that time.

Chennai Trekking Club is planning a major beach cleanup drive on Dec 27th
Sunday morning 6 am - 9 am. We are calling out to volunteers to join forces
with us to restore the beauty of Chennai's beaches and give a helping hand
to those beautiful Ridley Turtles which return every year to our coast to
breed.

Both individuals and Groups/NGOs/Corporates are welcome to join us.

Gloves and other necessary materials will be provided to Individuals and
NGO's.

Corporates has to procure the necessary materials for their employees.
Details of things that need to be procured will be shared with registered
corporates.

As a initial step we are planning to conduct this cleanup in two
beaches. Broken Bridge and Foreshore Estate. Both of which is piled with
tonnes of garbage. Basically North and South of Adyar river where lots of
city garbage got flushed into the sea and thrown out back onto the shores.

Spread the word with your friends & colleagues and make them join forces.

Lets show the true spirit of Chennai to the whole world once again.

Register *here* if you are interested to join forces with us !!!

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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Shakthi, Gaurav,

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Shakthi Kannan  wrote:
>
> Topic: "G-code Visualization Tools"

[...]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
 wrote:
>
> Topic: Building a sublime package/plugin using python

[...]

Added both these talks to the meetup page :) Looking forward.

Cheers,
Shrayas
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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Shakthi,

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.com wrote:
 Topic: Paho Python client for MQTT

Since Rengaraj backed out, I'll replace his talk with yours.

[...]

Regards,
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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.com wrote:

[...]

 I am not sure what Shrayas had covered earlier on Hy in
 his lightning talk

I just gave a quick intro to lisps and compared Hylang and Python. You
can find the slides and the video over on the Chennaipy/Talks repo[1]

[...]

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[1]: https://github.com/chennaipy/talks#a-lisp-powered-python
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Re: [Chennaipy] chennaipy talk topic-GAE

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Krithika Vembu
krithivembu51...@gmail.com wrote:
   I  would like to give a talk on GOOGLE APP ENGINE.I am going to give an
 overview of how the Google App Engine works and some slides regarding
 that.Is that fine?

Hi Krithika,

Are you going to be talking about deploying a simple application on
GAE as well? That would be nice.

Also, A small request would be to continue to reply within the email
chain itself and not send a new email. We have listed some mailing
list guidelines on our website[1]. Please do go through that.

[1]: http://chennaipy.org/mailing-list-guidelines.html
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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:20 AM, James Mortensen
james.morten...@synclio.com wrote:

[...]

 Making the lightning talks 20 minutes instead of 10 might make the idea of
 giving a talk scarier to some people, so maybe we can have some flexibility
 there for first time speakers.

Maybe we should make the messaging clear. A better model would be to
have talks that can be all the way from 5 minutes to 20 minutes? I
don't think we decided anywhere that talks *should* be 20 minutes
long?

 Also, I think another idea that could help is if we could get a group to
 help people prepare for their speeches.  In my public speaking class in
 college, the instructor suggested we practice in the same place where we'd
 be giving the speech, so maybe IMSc would let a group come in on the 3rd
 Saturday to practice in front of a small group of people.

This sounds like an idealistic thing to do but the availability of
people and the venue would become very big variables in the execution
of such a plan. For example: I would really love to help people with
their presentations and patter but I work on 3rd Saturdays so it would
not be possible for me to make it in spite of the fact that I'd want
to help.

Maybe another way to think of this would be to use talks at user
groups like Chennaipy as practice for higher level conferences like
the PyCons. We're a closely knit set of people with a lot of us being
recurring members now. Many of us want to help each other and I don't
think there will be too much of judgement imposed on first time
speakers (if any at all).

 Another idea is to do group presentations.  We have people who I suspect
 would be more comfortable if they were up on stage with another person and
 not just themselves.

This I like and something that I will +1 for. I don't know why this
hasn't come up yet. Group presentations make sense now that we can
have talks for 20 minutes.
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Re: [Chennaipy] Interested to join python Community

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:00 PM, jakkampudikiranku...@eaton.com wrote:

 My Name is Kiran Can you please suggest the procedure to take part in the
 events and the conferences conducted on python in Chennai.



​Hi Kiran,

Welcome to Chennaipy.

We have a meetup coming up:
http://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/events/223800671/. Please do feel free a
join us for the meet. There isn't any procedure as such.

All announcements will be made here. So if you follow this list, you'll not
miss anything :)

Cheers and hope to see u this time.

Regards,
Shrayas​
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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Murugadoss B murugado...@gmail.com wrote:

[...]

 Let me know what you think.

As long as it is related to python, you're more than welcome :)
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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Vijay Kumar vijayku...@bravegnu.org wrote:

[...]

 What do you say Shrayas?

+1 :)
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Re: [Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Nikhil Ketkar nik...@indix.com wrote:
 Has iPython (http://ipython.org/) been covered so far?

Yes, Gaurav spoke about something[1] in the February meetup.

[...]

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Re: [Chennaipy] ChennaiPy Sprints - Creating something awesome as a community.

[Shrayas rajagopal]

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Krishna Sangeeth KS
kskrishnasange...@gmail.com wrote:

[...]

 What about trying a variant of this idea of sprints. Instead of say maybe
 hacking on opensource projects , we can thinking
 of the community as a whole coming together and creating an awesome Python
 tutorial

+1. I really like this idea. In the workshop that we did in Feb, it
was majorly content that we prepared and took from the Google Python
Class. It would be great if the community as such would participate in
building the material itself. It will help the newcomers within
Chennaipy and outside also.

 which could be a collection of Ipython
 notebooks.

Unsure about this. Like Vijay mentioned previously, I agree that it is
hard for a beginner to grasp the concept of running python in a
browser window as opposed to just doing it on the terminal itself
with the interpreter.

 Almost anyone can participate in such an activity

We could have sprints on the day of the meetup itself where we see if
we can meetup 1/2 hrs before (depending on the feasibility of the
venue, etc obviously) and work on pushing out such material.

[...]

 Community could create guidelines to ensure that the content of Notebook
 adheres to some quality check.

Enforcing PRs based content building would really take care of this by itself :)

[...]

 I would think the latter is a better
 option as it is also helps in the process of community building.

Agree with you. Co location helps a lot in community building.

[...]

---

The only roadblock I see is the initial push, as with any other
initiative. We need to have some solid ground set up before we can get
started. Even with the projects that Vijay puts up on Github, he does
quite a lot of work setting the initial set up so it is easy to
onboard people. This is something we need to think about.

Otherwise, Great initiative!
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Re: [Chennaipy] Diversity in Chennaipy

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Hi Abhishek,

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Abhishek bigbelie...@gmail.com wrote:
 Here's the Ruby group code of conduct:
 https://github.com/chennairb/code-of-conduct/blob/master/README.md
 I am a bit ashamed to admit that I didn't write it down until recently. We
 learned what we learned through some negative instances, so most of us had
 clarity on whats right and what is not. Still, having it documented improves
 everyone's confidence, and also prevents arbitrary moderator action.

Thanks so much for sharing this. It looks like a good first cut to get
started with. Appreciate it :)

[...]

@Others: What do you think?

@Vijay: Shall we get an initial version of this into the site?
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