From dinakar at gridlex.com  Fri Apr  3 08:50:56 2015
From: dinakar at gridlex.com (Dinakar K)
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:20:56 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Simple and profound python tricks
Message-ID: <CADV4hT7gWC9gT1AVP8xFpkyO38FmyeWg=VvzftPCmFJ3rfafUQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Guys,

We built a useful page about simple and profound python tricks
and got a very good response from reddit

here is the link Simple and profound python tricks
<https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/316dm5/simple_profound_python_tricks/>

we would love to get your feedback on the page and the type of content you
want us to add to the site

please feel free to add your tricks
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Sat Apr  4 16:24:45 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 19:54:45 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] LSQ - A system to manage simple adhoc-ly written SQL
 queries within an organization
Message-ID: <CAEkH89PeHdzxzxR=Ct0Sq4xhBcBLZfx+7Y6QSjRaeK8464r74g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

We at Logic Soft[1] open sourced one of our internal tools[2] just a few
days ago.

We use it to manage those one off temporary SQL queries that are written to
do something quickly on the system. Usually they are on individual
developer systems or they are deleted. But sometimes it is required to run
them again and we don't end up finding them. LSQ seeks to solve this
problem simplistically.

Also, this is our first open source project as a company. Please do feel
free to share your comments and suggestions. It is a really exciting step
for us since we have remained closed source till now. We've already planned
what we are going to open source next.

Thanks in advance :)

Regards,
Shrayas

--
Footnotes:
[1]: http://logicsoft.co.in
[2]: https://github.com/logicsoftind/lsq
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From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Sat Apr  4 18:30:10 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:00:10 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] LSQ - A system to manage simple adhoc-ly written
 SQL queries within an organization
In-Reply-To: <CAEkH89PeHdzxzxR=Ct0Sq4xhBcBLZfx+7Y6QSjRaeK8464r74g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEkH89PeHdzxzxR=Ct0Sq4xhBcBLZfx+7Y6QSjRaeK8464r74g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAC2qNN4jVs9Lt1jdLNPXhF8YcSgnawXXxQ6SBi4Y5=jBuV_a0w@mail.gmail.com>

Awesome. LSQ truly pragmatic name.

Also nice revamp of logicsoft website.

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We at Logic Soft[1] open sourced one of our internal tools[2] just a few
> days ago.
>
> We use it to manage those one off temporary SQL queries that are written
> to do something quickly on the system. Usually they are on individual
> developer systems or they are deleted. But sometimes it is required to run
> them again and we don't end up finding them. LSQ seeks to solve this
> problem simplistically.
>
> Also, this is our first open source project as a company. Please do feel
> free to share your comments and suggestions. It is a really exciting step
> for us since we have remained closed source till now. We've already planned
> what we are going to open source next.
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>
> Regards,
> Shrayas
>
> --
> Footnotes:
> [1]: http://logicsoft.co.in
> [2]: https://github.com/logicsoftind/lsq
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chennaipy mailing list
> Chennaipy at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
>
>
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Sat Apr  4 18:32:56 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:02:56 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] LSQ - A system to manage simple adhoc-ly written
 SQL queries within an organization
In-Reply-To: <CAC2qNN4jVs9Lt1jdLNPXhF8YcSgnawXXxQ6SBi4Y5=jBuV_a0w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEkH89PeHdzxzxR=Ct0Sq4xhBcBLZfx+7Y6QSjRaeK8464r74g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN4jVs9Lt1jdLNPXhF8YcSgnawXXxQ6SBi4Y5=jBuV_a0w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAEkH89Owc34Z1Xz=DKM+YD3gOgqVzNmpPgfPFE9vZB5T+9kSSA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
<igauravsehrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Awesome. LSQ truly pragmatic name.

Haha. :)

> Also nice revamp of logicsoft website.

Thanks. We spent quite a lot of time on it.

From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Sat Apr  4 18:41:27 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:11:27 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] LSQ - A system to manage simple adhoc-ly written
 SQL queries within an organization
In-Reply-To: <CAEkH89Owc34Z1Xz=DKM+YD3gOgqVzNmpPgfPFE9vZB5T+9kSSA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEkH89PeHdzxzxR=Ct0Sq4xhBcBLZfx+7Y6QSjRaeK8464r74g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN4jVs9Lt1jdLNPXhF8YcSgnawXXxQ6SBi4Y5=jBuV_a0w@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAEkH89Owc34Z1Xz=DKM+YD3gOgqVzNmpPgfPFE9vZB5T+9kSSA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAC2qNN6EQ6DgwvLkNhDvNR=y6MddvxV6MvOHUUi5f1u7BaXRTQ@mail.gmail.com>

Also share it on https://news.ycombinator.com/ , you will get good feedback
(may be some pull requests).

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
> <igauravsehrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Awesome. LSQ truly pragmatic name.
>
> Haha. :)
>
> > Also nice revamp of logicsoft website.
>
> Thanks. We spent quite a lot of time on it.
> _______________________________________________
> Chennaipy mailing list
> Chennaipy at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
>
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Sat Apr  4 18:43:22 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:13:22 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] LSQ - A system to manage simple adhoc-ly written
 SQL queries within an organization
In-Reply-To: <CAC2qNN6EQ6DgwvLkNhDvNR=y6MddvxV6MvOHUUi5f1u7BaXRTQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEkH89PeHdzxzxR=Ct0Sq4xhBcBLZfx+7Y6QSjRaeK8464r74g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN4jVs9Lt1jdLNPXhF8YcSgnawXXxQ6SBi4Y5=jBuV_a0w@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAEkH89Owc34Z1Xz=DKM+YD3gOgqVzNmpPgfPFE9vZB5T+9kSSA@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN6EQ6DgwvLkNhDvNR=y6MddvxV6MvOHUUi5f1u7BaXRTQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAEkH89MzjE2+HT7wvMDUH2re4OdAy5COTsk=DNU-9fCJBNDWag@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
<igauravsehrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also share it on https://news.ycombinator.com/ , you will get good feedback
> (may be some pull requests).

Done, Looks like no one noticed :)

From kracethekingmaker at gmail.com  Sat Apr  4 18:47:33 2015
From: kracethekingmaker at gmail.com (kracekumar ramaraju)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:17:33 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] LSQ - A system to manage simple adhoc-ly written
 SQL queries within an organization
In-Reply-To: <CAEkH89MzjE2+HT7wvMDUH2re4OdAy5COTsk=DNU-9fCJBNDWag@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEkH89PeHdzxzxR=Ct0Sq4xhBcBLZfx+7Y6QSjRaeK8464r74g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN4jVs9Lt1jdLNPXhF8YcSgnawXXxQ6SBi4Y5=jBuV_a0w@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAEkH89Owc34Z1Xz=DKM+YD3gOgqVzNmpPgfPFE9vZB5T+9kSSA@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN6EQ6DgwvLkNhDvNR=y6MddvxV6MvOHUUi5f1u7BaXRTQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAEkH89MzjE2+HT7wvMDUH2re4OdAy5COTsk=DNU-9fCJBNDWag@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAO5c=mkm3XxxiOgmHFysthkn1JEG8vOFAnUcxocS3LFVAnzQgg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
> <igauravsehrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Also share it on https://news.ycombinator.com/ , you will get good
> feedback
> > (may be some pull requests).
>
> Done, Looks like no one noticed :)
>

Probably, they found it as irony. Mongodb to store SQL queries!


> _______________________________________________
> Chennaipy mailing list
> Chennaipy at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
>



-- 

*Thanks & Regardskracekumar"Talk is cheap, show me the code" -- Linus
Torvaldshttp://kracekumar.com <http://kracekumar.com>*
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Sat Apr  4 18:49:15 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:19:15 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] LSQ - A system to manage simple adhoc-ly written
 SQL queries within an organization
In-Reply-To: <CAO5c=mkm3XxxiOgmHFysthkn1JEG8vOFAnUcxocS3LFVAnzQgg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEkH89PeHdzxzxR=Ct0Sq4xhBcBLZfx+7Y6QSjRaeK8464r74g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN4jVs9Lt1jdLNPXhF8YcSgnawXXxQ6SBi4Y5=jBuV_a0w@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAEkH89Owc34Z1Xz=DKM+YD3gOgqVzNmpPgfPFE9vZB5T+9kSSA@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN6EQ6DgwvLkNhDvNR=y6MddvxV6MvOHUUi5f1u7BaXRTQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAEkH89MzjE2+HT7wvMDUH2re4OdAy5COTsk=DNU-9fCJBNDWag@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAO5c=mkm3XxxiOgmHFysthkn1JEG8vOFAnUcxocS3LFVAnzQgg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAEkH89MjrQaD=kG2FF9zQgRW4KkaKtUyK9+8u3kqQV_8H8obGQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:17 PM, kracekumar ramaraju
<kracethekingmaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably, they found it as irony. Mongodb to store SQL queries!

Haha didn't think of it that way :D Good catch!

From me at kirang.in  Fri Apr 10 19:15:22 2015
From: me at kirang.in (Kiran Gangadharan)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:45:22 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Minutes of Meeting - March 2015
Message-ID: <1428686122.2289649.251806841.4DE5B6EF@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Date: 2015-03-29 Sun

* Bitten by Python
  - Speaker: Vijay Kumar B

Vijay recollects how he came across Python while he was still in
college. He had started playing with the language by writing small,
simple
scripts. He talked about how he wrote a Python script for parsing a
log file for debugging an issue on his first day at work. He grieved
about
how indentation came to bite him at the wrong time. He showed a few
code snippets to highlight the mistakes that he had committed. These
mistakes made him rethink as to whether or not Python was "the"
language he wanted to work with.

He highlighted the importance of unit testing and how it helps uncover
all sorts of bugs in code. He also discussed a few unit testing tools
and their possible use cases.

* My Python-BCI Journey
  - Speaker: Kannan

Kannan had attended the meetup for the first time in February. He
mentioned how he was able to easily pickup Python and that being the
reason why he loves the language a lot. He started off by
introducing the concept of BCI and EEG. He showed a clip from NGO's
Brain Games series. He also demonstrated a simple brainwave reading
using
an external kit and the OpenVibe Designer in Windows.

* Python Scripting with SL4A
  - Speaker: Sivasubramanyam

Siva talked about writing simple python scripts on an android device
using the SL4A scripting layer. He talked about how a script he wrote
could potentially replace a timelapse photography app. He gave a short
demo where he was able to listen to an event on a website and trigger
an action on his android device using SL4A.

* How emacs and orgmode replaced a few apps in my workflow
  - Speaker: Kiran Gangadharan

Kiran talked about how he valued privacy and keeping his data to
himself instead of delegating all of it to third party apps like
Evernote and Trello. He demonstrated how he built a workflow to
replace apps like Evernote, Trello, iCal using the famed org-mode in
Emacs.

* Up and Running with Apache Spark
  - Speaker: Krishna Sangeeth

Krishna started out by talking about Big Data and Hadoop and how
Hadoop wasn't the best solution to every problem. He talked about how
inefficient it is to abstract every problem with a mapper and
reducer. He provided a performance benchmark of Hadoop and Spark which
clearly showed how Spark was way more efficient for handling big
data. He also talked about the history of Spark and gave a brief
introduction about it's architecture. At the end, he also provided a
quick demo of using a Spark client in Python for Log Analysis.

* Sentiment Analysis in Simple Steps
  - Speaker: Sharmila G Sivakumar

Sharmila talked about the ease of exploring the NLP capabilities of
Python with a few simple examples of sentiment analysis. She
demonstrated how one could analyse movie reviews and infer whether or
not the movie was worth watching. The examples included how a sentence
could be tokenized, have their terms extracted, filtered to ignore
stopwords(all, just, along, because etc.), analysed to infer the root
word(Lemmatization) and classified into positive and negative reviews
with Naive Bayes Classifier, using the nltk toolkit.

* How to use Slack effectively
  - Speaker: Gaurav Sehrawat

Gaurav gave a quick talk about how Slack based communication is the
future and it's potential benefits over communication via mailing
list. He reminded the audience about the ChennaiPy group on slack and
provided the necessary instructions for obtaining a slack invite.

* Closing Notes

Vijay thanked the speakers, Prof Amritanshu Prasad and the
sponsors. He also talked a bit about the ongoing logo

We had a small discussion about having our meetups on
Sundays, to which there were some mixed reactions. Perhaps, this
could be experimented with, in the future.

Finally, Vijay also suggested an idea of combining a meetup with the
ruby group, and having general talks rather than language-specific
ones. Nothing was finalised in the end.


Cheers,
-- 
Kiran Gangadharan
http://kirang.in

From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Sat Apr 11 18:59:08 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 22:29:08 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
Message-ID: <552952DC.5010105@bravegnu.org>

Hi Everyone,
The next meetup will be on 25th April, the 4th Saturday of this
month. For the uninitiated, Chennaipy meetup is the platform of
choice for Pythonistas to share their ideas, hacks and
projects, through lightning talks.

Lightning talks are short 10 min talks. What can you say in 10
minutes? Share with us your Python story! You can tell us about

   * how Python and Python packages have simplified your work
   * how you use Python in your domain of work
   * how you hacked Python to get your job done
   * how Python tripped you, and how you got over it

For more information and ideas, see
http://www.bravegnu.org/blog/lightning-talks.html If you are
interested, send in a talk title and a short description.

Regards,
Vijay

From 77minds at gmail.com  Sun Apr 12 17:30:50 2015
From: 77minds at gmail.com (Karthikeyan A K)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:00:50 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Fwd: [Ilugc] Support for Internet Neutrality in India
In-Reply-To: <CAFHFDAnXNtBJwi2LrZ9gMZNGrq9UpjxBvoFwxQPC6JMSN_2Leg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFHFDAnXNtBJwi2LrZ9gMZNGrq9UpjxBvoFwxQPC6JMSN_2Leg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAJR+9kaANUA0PqPOVkwJrtYLgxa-n190k3h9FY1LoXRfQfBkiQ@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Balasubramaniam Natarajan <bala150985 at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:17 PM
Subject: [Ilugc] Support for Internet Neutrality in India
To: ILUG-C <ilugc at ae.iitm.ac.in>


Hi

What is your take on this ?

Support for Internet Neutrality in India
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfY1NKrzqi0>

--
Regards,
Balasubramaniam Natarajan
http://blog.etutorshop.com
_______________________________________________
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From vijaykumar at zilogic.com  Tue Apr 14 10:32:55 2015
From: vijaykumar at zilogic.com (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:02:55 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Python Projects: libcipher
Message-ID: <552CD0B7.4070208@zilogic.com>

Hi Everyone,
A skeleton project has been created for libcipher
https://github.com/Chennaipy/libcipher -- a library of cipher
functions, derived from the book "Hacking Secret Ciphers with
Python". For the uninitiated, the idea behind the exercise is to learn
the best practices in writing Python code. And along the way create a
a well written Python package.

Starting this week, we will be creating issues on GitHub, that people
can take up, and work on. Please go through the guidelines below to
get started.

   1. If you would like to participate in this activity, the first
      thing to do would be to add yourself to the watch list of the
      project. That way, you will get notifications when new issues are
      created.

      To start watching now click on
      https://github.com/Chennaipy/libcipher/subscription

   2. Even if you do not have time to write code, you can add yourself
      to the watch list, and read through the changes being
      submitted. You can learn a lot from changes and the discussions.

   3. Each issue after being created, will be available for people to
      contribute for a period of 2 weeks. Please indicate your interest
      on the issue, by commenting on it. If there are no takers within
      this period, the issue will be fixed by the mentor itself. This
      is being done to maintain the tempo of the activity. The current
      set of issues will be available for period of 2 weeks from today.

   4. Before starting to work on a issue, please read the contributor
      guidelines available at
      http://libcipher.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#contributing-guidelines

Regards,
Vijay

From shrayasr at gmail.com  Tue Apr 14 21:48:45 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 01:18:45 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Python Projects: libcipher
In-Reply-To: <552CD0B7.4070208@zilogic.com>
References: <552CD0B7.4070208@zilogic.com>
Message-ID: <CAEkH89MWyyvCxbNNDigO52bYr65-BNWSH+YSd+e7-+etjnxqFQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at zilogic.com> wrote:
> A skeleton project has been created for libcipher
> https://github.com/Chennaipy/libcipher -- a library of cipher
> functions, derived from the book "Hacking Secret Ciphers with
> Python".

Awesome! :) Excited for this. Thanks for getting this started.

From 77minds at gmail.com  Wed Apr 15 10:31:19 2015
From: 77minds at gmail.com (Karthikeyan A K)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:01:19 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Try attending selenium meetup
Message-ID: <CAJR+9kbZsjTyLCK1AjKqTYBzhp3PXVMAiDuwbxN42ikZKh18XA@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.meetup.com/Chennai-Selenium-Meetup/events/220987750/

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From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Wed Apr 15 23:26:47 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:26:47 -0500
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
In-Reply-To: <552952DC.5010105@bravegnu.org>
References: <552952DC.5010105@bravegnu.org>
Message-ID: <138d2d8b01485fcffbaaf6357c8d1e97.squirrel@gator3315.hostgator.com>

On Sat, April 11, 2015 11:59 am, Vijay Kumar wrote:
> For more information and ideas, see
> http://www.bravegnu.org/blog/lightning-talks.html If you are
> interested, send in a talk title and a short description.

Talk Title: Managing Desktops with Ansible
Description: Desktop administration is generally done manually. This is
painful, especially when then are large no. of systems that are
geographically distributed. This talk will show how configuration
management tools, like Ansible can be used in pull mode, for desktop
administration

Regards,
Vijay

From vijaykumar at zilogic.com  Wed Apr 15 23:34:12 2015
From: vijaykumar at zilogic.com (vijaykumar at zilogic.com)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 03:04:12 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [Chennaipy] Logo Contest Preparing for Poll
Message-ID: <53359.198.58.112.207.1429133652.squirrel@pike.zilogic.com>

Hi Everyone,
All the logo contest entries have been aggregated at
https://github.com/Chennaipy/logo-contest

Please let me know if I have missed anything. If you would like to add
some description to your logo, send in a pull request.

Regards,
Vijay


From 77minds at gmail.com  Thu Apr 16 08:47:54 2015
From: 77minds at gmail.com (Karthikeyan A K)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:17:54 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Logo Contest Preparing for Poll
In-Reply-To: <53359.198.58.112.207.1429133652.squirrel@pike.zilogic.com>
References: <53359.198.58.112.207.1429133652.squirrel@pike.zilogic.com>
Message-ID: <CAJR+9kYqiR_RD46L=5TQB2m8cs3XXc9cKun3serArpx-epN9vA@mail.gmail.com>

This is cool 4 me
https://github.com/Chennaipy/logo-contest/raw/master/ranjith1.png

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:04 AM, <vijaykumar at zilogic.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> All the logo contest entries have been aggregated at
> https://github.com/Chennaipy/logo-contest
>
> Please let me know if I have missed anything. If you would like to add
> some description to your logo, send in a pull request.
>
> Regards,
> Vijay
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chennaipy mailing list
> Chennaipy at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
>
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From vijaykumar at zilogic.com  Thu Apr 16 08:50:04 2015
From: vijaykumar at zilogic.com (Vijay Kumar B.)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:20:04 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Logo Contest Preparing for Poll
In-Reply-To: <CAJR+9kYqiR_RD46L=5TQB2m8cs3XXc9cKun3serArpx-epN9vA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <53359.198.58.112.207.1429133652.squirrel@pike.zilogic.com>
 <CAJR+9kYqiR_RD46L=5TQB2m8cs3XXc9cKun3serArpx-epN9vA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <552F5B9C.4040706@zilogic.com>

On Thursday 16 April 2015 12:17 PM, Karthikeyan A K wrote:
> This is cool 4 me 
> https://github.com/Chennaipy/logo-contest/raw/master/ranjith1.png
>
The poll is not on yet. Will create the poll on meetup, shortly.

Regards,
Vijay

From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Thu Apr 16 17:45:51 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:15:51 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
In-Reply-To: <138d2d8b01485fcffbaaf6357c8d1e97.squirrel@gator3315.hostgator.com>
References: <552952DC.5010105@bravegnu.org>
 <138d2d8b01485fcffbaaf6357c8d1e97.squirrel@gator3315.hostgator.com>
Message-ID: <CAC2qNN68sx_YHO7hCO3bNsyQ85xsS6NdZsvtwR0AHY0k5H4VvA@mail.gmail.com>

Nice. Enterprise edition talk.



On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, April 11, 2015 11:59 am, Vijay Kumar wrote:
> > For more information and ideas, see
> > http://www.bravegnu.org/blog/lightning-talks.html If you are
> > interested, send in a talk title and a short description.
>
> Talk Title: Managing Desktops with Ansible
> Description: Desktop administration is generally done manually. This is
> painful, especially when then are large no. of systems that are
> geographically distributed. This talk will show how configuration
> management tools, like Ansible can be used in pull mode, for desktop
> administration
>
> Regards,
> Vijay
> _______________________________________________
> Chennaipy mailing list
> Chennaipy at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
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From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Thu Apr 16 20:14:26 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:44:26 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
In-Reply-To: <CAC2qNN68sx_YHO7hCO3bNsyQ85xsS6NdZsvtwR0AHY0k5H4VvA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <552952DC.5010105@bravegnu.org>
 <138d2d8b01485fcffbaaf6357c8d1e97.squirrel@gator3315.hostgator.com>
 <CAC2qNN68sx_YHO7hCO3bNsyQ85xsS6NdZsvtwR0AHY0k5H4VvA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAC2qNN6dOGam8VS5zXgz6b7GxdZ4HWtD+bwh_n5KyM2Z1kz98g@mail.gmail.com>

hey Vijay,
Here is what i am thinking,

*Talk Title: *Leveraging python development with virtual environment
*Description:* Virtualenv simplify process of managing version of packages
in python . Developing isolated application with virtualenv is bliss. It
address problem of dependencies, version and incorrect permission.

Let me know if more details are needed.
Thanks


On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat <igauravsehrawat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nice. Enterprise edition talk.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, April 11, 2015 11:59 am, Vijay Kumar wrote:
>> > For more information and ideas, see
>> > http://www.bravegnu.org/blog/lightning-talks.html If you are
>> > interested, send in a talk title and a short description.
>>
>> Talk Title: Managing Desktops with Ansible
>> Description: Desktop administration is generally done manually. This is
>> painful, especially when then are large no. of systems that are
>> geographically distributed. This talk will show how configuration
>> management tools, like Ansible can be used in pull mode, for desktop
>> administration
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vijay
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chennaipy mailing list
>> Chennaipy at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
>>
>
>
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From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Thu Apr 16 20:18:30 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:48:30 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
In-Reply-To: <CAC2qNN6dOGam8VS5zXgz6b7GxdZ4HWtD+bwh_n5KyM2Z1kz98g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <552952DC.5010105@bravegnu.org>
 <138d2d8b01485fcffbaaf6357c8d1e97.squirrel@gator3315.hostgator.com>
 <CAC2qNN68sx_YHO7hCO3bNsyQ85xsS6NdZsvtwR0AHY0k5H4VvA@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN6dOGam8VS5zXgz6b7GxdZ4HWtD+bwh_n5KyM2Z1kz98g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <552FFCF6.3020609@bravegnu.org>

On Thursday 16 April 2015 11:44 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat wrote:
> hey Vijay,
> Here is what i am thinking,
>
> *Talk Title: *Leveraging python development with virtual environment
> *Description:* Virtualenv simplify process of managing version of
> packages in python . Developing isolated application with virtualenv is
> bliss. It address problem of dependencies, version and incorrect permission.

Hi Gaurav, your talk has been added.

Regards,
Vijay

From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Fri Apr 17 03:47:56 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 07:17:56 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Logo Contest Preparing for Poll
In-Reply-To: <53359.198.58.112.207.1429133652.squirrel@pike.zilogic.com>
References: <53359.198.58.112.207.1429133652.squirrel@pike.zilogic.com>
Message-ID: <5530664C.9050902@bravegnu.org>

On Thursday 16 April 2015 03:04 AM, vijaykumar at zilogic.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> All the logo contest entries have been aggregated at
> https://github.com/Chennaipy/logo-contest
>
> Please let me know if I have missed anything. If you would like to add
> some description to your logo, send in a pull request.
>

Had missed out Manoj Kumar's submission, thanks to Vengatesh for
pointing that out.

Regards,
Vijay

From me at kirang.in  Fri Apr 17 10:35:50 2015
From: me at kirang.in (Kiran Gangadharan)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:05:50 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Try attending selenium meetup
In-Reply-To: <CAJR+9kbZsjTyLCK1AjKqTYBzhp3PXVMAiDuwbxN42ikZKh18XA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJR+9kbZsjTyLCK1AjKqTYBzhp3PXVMAiDuwbxN42ikZKh18XA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1429259750.1767336.254985161.2F042E3E@webmail.messagingengine.com>

This is considered off-topic when taking this group into context and
should be tagged as such. Kindly read the mailing list etiquette before
sending your next email[0].

There are lots of meetups that would be interesting to attend, but this
is not the place for discussing them. You could try posting them to our
Slack channel instead.

------
[]
http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015, at 02:01 PM, Karthikeyan A K wrote:
> http://www.meetup.com/Chennai-Selenium-Meetup/events/220987750/
>
> -------
>
> Karthikeyan A K
> _________________________________________________
> Chennaipy mailing list Chennaipy at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy

--
Kiran Gangadharan http://kirang.in

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From krthkv26 at gmail.com  Fri Apr 17 13:48:05 2015
From: krthkv26 at gmail.com (Karthik Viswanathan)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:18:05 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [videos] Need Slides from march meetup
Message-ID: <CAEsRYzQss7bCSfQh1Z5vZ__gzGTxasoUM=Y6OmjbJcF_=OVMEg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I'm working on the videos for the march meetup and I'll need the
slides for these talks:

1. My Python-BCI journey by Kannan
2. Sentiment Analysis in Simple Steps by Sharmila Gopirajan

Thanks
-- Karthik

From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Sat Apr 18 04:32:07 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:02:07 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Logo Contest: Cast Your Vote
Message-ID: <5531C227.8020401@bravegnu.org>

Hi Everyone,
A poll has been created in Meetup, http://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/polls/1200328/ Each logo design is identified by a poll code. The poll code to logo design mapping is available at https://github.com/chennaipy/logo-contest/

The poll will close on April 24.

Regards,
Vijay


From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Sat Apr 18 06:58:58 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:28:58 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [videos] Need Slides from march meetup
In-Reply-To: <CAEsRYzQss7bCSfQh1Z5vZ__gzGTxasoUM=Y6OmjbJcF_=OVMEg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEsRYzQss7bCSfQh1Z5vZ__gzGTxasoUM=Y6OmjbJcF_=OVMEg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAC2qNN7RBWQzysHXBDi1sFNGevXs4AhHFPQ1nsjUoMWFzibs_g@mail.gmail.com>

>
>
> 2. Sentiment Analysis in Simple Steps by Sharmila Gopirajan
>

I found one http://www.minvolai.com/files/sentiment_analysis.pdf from
http://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/events/220917867/ .

But isn't the video and audio already available, why you need slides ?
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From vijaykumar at zilogic.com  Sat Apr 18 07:02:03 2015
From: vijaykumar at zilogic.com (Vijay Kumar B.)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:32:03 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [videos] Need Slides from march meetup
In-Reply-To: <CAEsRYzQss7bCSfQh1Z5vZ__gzGTxasoUM=Y6OmjbJcF_=OVMEg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEsRYzQss7bCSfQh1Z5vZ__gzGTxasoUM=Y6OmjbJcF_=OVMEg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5531E54B.9050402@zilogic.com>

On Friday 17 April 2015 05:18 PM, Karthik Viswanathan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on the videos for the march meetup and I'll need the
> slides for these talks:
>
> 1. My Python-BCI journey by Kannan
> 2. Sentiment Analysis in Simple Steps by Sharmila Gopirajan
The latest revision of the slides for the second talk is available at 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xp0kwcbgi0gvfd1/sentiment%20analysis%20v2.pdf?dl=0

Regards,
Vijay


From vengat.lnx at gmail.com  Sat Apr 18 08:13:04 2015
From: vengat.lnx at gmail.com (Vengat)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:43:04 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next Meetup
Message-ID: <5531F5F0.1050107@gmail.com>

Hi Everyone,
     I would like to give a talk on

Topic: Building a development environment using Vagrant

Description: Vagrant is a tool for creating, configuring and managing a 
complete
development environment which can run on local virtualized platforms
such as VirtualBox or VMware, in the cloud via AWS or OpenStack, or
in containers such as with Docker or raw LXC.

From krthkv26 at gmail.com  Sat Apr 18 15:42:07 2015
From: krthkv26 at gmail.com (Karthik Viswanathan)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:12:07 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [videos] Need Slides from march meetup
In-Reply-To: <5531E54B.9050402@zilogic.com>
References: <CAEsRYzQss7bCSfQh1Z5vZ__gzGTxasoUM=Y6OmjbJcF_=OVMEg@mail.gmail.com>
 <5531E54B.9050402@zilogic.com>
Message-ID: <CAEsRYzSCULiTBsqWZ64qmtT-RUDXyysGGqaMyymqdERNmDCK3Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 18 April 2015 at 10:32, Vijay Kumar B. <vijaykumar at zilogic.com> wrote:
> The latest revision of the slides for the second talk is available at
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/xp0kwcbgi0gvfd1/sentiment%20analysis%20v2.pdf?dl=0

Great, thanks.

-- Karthik

From krthkv26 at gmail.com  Sat Apr 18 15:44:39 2015
From: krthkv26 at gmail.com (Karthik Viswanathan)
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:14:39 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [videos] Need Slides from march meetup
In-Reply-To: <CAC2qNN7RBWQzysHXBDi1sFNGevXs4AhHFPQ1nsjUoMWFzibs_g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEsRYzQss7bCSfQh1Z5vZ__gzGTxasoUM=Y6OmjbJcF_=OVMEg@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN7RBWQzysHXBDi1sFNGevXs4AhHFPQ1nsjUoMWFzibs_g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAEsRYzSxRzFbswo-Sg4N8yEZELjX-owpRrnWgE+WwS3rWhgodA@mail.gmail.com>

On 18 April 2015 at 10:28, Gaurav Sehrawat <igauravsehrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found one http://www.minvolai.com/files/sentiment_analysis.pdf from
> http://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/events/220917867/ .

the slides on the meetup page are different from the one used at the
talk, few ones moved here and there, but sync goes off.

> But isn't the video and audio already available, why you need slides ?

the videos are not of that high quality for us to use directly. we are
still going ahead with the slide+audio way.

-- Karthik

From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Sun Apr 19 17:33:48 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:03:48 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] April Meetup (RSVP Required)
Message-ID: <5533CADC.4030005@bravegnu.org>

# April Meetup

## Date & Time

   * 25th April (Saturday)
   * 3:00pm to 5:30pm

## Venue

Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc,
C.I.T Campus,
4th Cross Street,
Tharamani,
Chennai.

Location map: http://www.google.com/maps?q=12.994337,80.247170

## Schedule

   * Lightning Talks (40 min)
   * Networking Tea sponsored by Zilogic Systems (30 min)
   * Lightning Talks (40 min)
   * Discussions (20 min)

## Talks

   * Managing Desktops with Ansible
     by Vijay Kumar
   * Leveraging Python Development with Virtualenv
      by Gaurav Sherawat
   * Building commandline interfaces with ArgParse
     by Shanmuga
   * Building a development environment using Vagrant
     by Vengatesh
   * for i in "Iterable"
     by Shrikant Giridhar

Only the talk titles are included here, for the sake of brevity. For
details about the talks and the speakers, please visit
http://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/events/221774493/

## RSVP

Please RSVP on our Meetup page
http://www.meetup.com/Chennaipy/events/221774493/

## New to Python?

If you are new to Python, you can make best use of the meetup, if you
go through any of the following resources, before attending the
meetup.

   * Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, Chapters 1 - 9
     http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/

   * Google's Python Course (with Lecture Videos)
     https://developers.google.com/edu/python/

   * How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Chapters 1 - 12
     http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/

From shrayasr at gmail.com  Sun Apr 19 18:08:34 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:38:34 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] April Meetup (RSVP Required)
In-Reply-To: <5533CADC.4030005@bravegnu.org>
References: <5533CADC.4030005@bravegnu.org>
Message-ID: <CAEkH89Pdc124rGWZmzfORfKVanTnzqC1yZeXk+Zz=3MsZ6s=_A@mail.gmail.com>

>   * for i in "Iterable"
>     by Shrikant Giridhar

Love that name :D classy!
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From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Sun Apr 19 18:33:08 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:03:08 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] April Meetup (RSVP Required)
In-Reply-To: <CAEkH89Pdc124rGWZmzfORfKVanTnzqC1yZeXk+Zz=3MsZ6s=_A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5533CADC.4030005@bravegnu.org>
 <CAEkH89Pdc124rGWZmzfORfKVanTnzqC1yZeXk+Zz=3MsZ6s=_A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAC2qNN4Gtwb8jAJSNSu1U4rOJ8xXk6YHoV=aFV1hvE4VZNi5vg@mail.gmail.com>

Let's tweet(twitter) and post(g+,fb) about the event. Let's get some
traction.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> >   * for i in "Iterable"
> >     by Shrikant Giridhar
>
> Love that name :D classy!
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chennaipy mailing list
> Chennaipy at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
>
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Sun Apr 19 18:48:22 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:18:22 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] April Meetup (RSVP Required)
In-Reply-To: <CAC2qNN4Gtwb8jAJSNSu1U4rOJ8xXk6YHoV=aFV1hvE4VZNi5vg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5533CADC.4030005@bravegnu.org>
 <CAEkH89Pdc124rGWZmzfORfKVanTnzqC1yZeXk+Zz=3MsZ6s=_A@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAC2qNN4Gtwb8jAJSNSu1U4rOJ8xXk6YHoV=aFV1hvE4VZNi5vg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAEkH89MhPUvMtsMLN6zcT_d22hy6_TM8mt_5KGV16fQUMSp59Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Apr 19, 2015 10:03 PM, "Gaurav Sehrawat" <igauravsehrawat at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Let's tweet(twitter) and post(g+,fb) about the event. Let's get some
traction.

I'll put out a tweet now
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From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Mon Apr 20 18:52:13 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:22:13 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] April Meetup (RSVP Required)
In-Reply-To: <5533CADC.4030005@bravegnu.org>
References: <5533CADC.4030005@bravegnu.org>
Message-ID: <55352EBD.5010202@bravegnu.org>

Hi Everyone,
The meetup poster is available from https://www.dropbox.com/s/j6s1poleqj7ypin/apr-2015-meetup.pdf?dl=0 You can help spread the word about the meetup, by posting it to the notice board, at your college / workplace.

Regards,
Vijay

From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Mon Apr 20 19:23:13 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:53:13 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] April Meetup (RSVP Required)
In-Reply-To: <55352EBD.5010202@bravegnu.org>
References: <5533CADC.4030005@bravegnu.org>
	<55352EBD.5010202@bravegnu.org>
Message-ID: <CAC2qNN6-Mo4mV+vyx7XGF7d443tWU+_OoeiBmG3JMyBN2BfiCg@mail.gmail.com>

saw the banner, got a reminder to vote on the logos. If anyone missing, do
it !

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> The meetup poster is available from
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/j6s1poleqj7ypin/apr-2015-meetup.pdf?dl=0 You
> can help spread the word about the meetup, by posting it to the notice
> board, at your college / workplace.
>
> Regards,
> Vijay
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chennaipy mailing list
> Chennaipy at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
>
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Tue Apr 21 18:21:12 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:51:12 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
In-Reply-To: <552952DC.5010105@bravegnu.org>
References: <552952DC.5010105@bravegnu.org>
Message-ID: <CAEkH89MHj18OSubfq8=to0kMbtVvsbJLY5LZ+zu2q4T79e-vNA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org> wrote:
> If you are
> interested, send in a talk title and a short description.

If it isn't too late, i'd like to propose the following talk:

# Python, Gmail & the IMAP protocol
Quick talk on how you can access your Gmail account (and any other
account too actually) via the IMAP protocol using python's imaplib
library

Regards,
Shrayas

From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Tue Apr 21 18:29:51 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:59:51 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
In-Reply-To: <CAEkH89MHj18OSubfq8=to0kMbtVvsbJLY5LZ+zu2q4T79e-vNA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <552952DC.5010105@bravegnu.org>
 <CAEkH89MHj18OSubfq8=to0kMbtVvsbJLY5LZ+zu2q4T79e-vNA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <55367AFF.5020505@bravegnu.org>

On Tuesday 21 April 2015 09:51 PM, Shrayas rajagopal wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Vijay Kumar<vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>  wrote:
>> If you are
>> interested, send in a talk title and a short description.
>
> If it isn't too late, i'd like to propose the following talk:
>
> # Python, Gmail&  the IMAP protocol
> Quick talk on how you can access your Gmail account (and any other
> account too actually) via the IMAP protocol using python's imaplib
> library

Your talk has been added. Sure you are late. Without you on the
speaker list, the RSVPs had taken a nosedive. ;-) Hope things will
be looking up now.

Regards,
Vijay

From shrayasr at gmail.com  Tue Apr 21 18:40:43 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:10:43 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org> wrote:

[..]

> Without you on the
> speaker list, the RSVPs had taken a nosedive. ;-) Hope things will
> be looking up now.

Hahaha.

From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Tue Apr 21 18:58:31 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:28:31 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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*Suggestion:* May be we are just skimming over the talks by having
lightning talks. I suggest to have atleast one in-depth in python domain.


On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>
> wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > Without you on the
> > speaker list, the RSVPs had taken a nosedive. ;-) Hope things will
> > be looking up now.
>
> Hahaha.
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Tue Apr 21 19:04:28 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:34:28 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
<igauravsehrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Suggestion: May be we are just skimming over the talks by having lightning
> talks. I suggest to have atleast one in-depth in python domain.

+1 to this. I think 1 full length talk would be good.

From sakthirengaraj at gmail.com  Tue Apr 21 19:08:23 2015
From: sakthirengaraj at gmail.com (Rengaraj D)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:38:23 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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There is a python workshop on the same day and same venue between 9:30am to
3:00pm
http://valuefromdata.net/event-registration/
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Tue Apr 21 19:10:33 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:40:33 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Rengaraj D <sakthirengaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a python workshop on the same day and same venue between 9:30am to
> 3:00pm
> http://valuefromdata.net/event-registration/

Thats a good thing to bring up.

@vijay: is our venue confirmed?

From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Wed Apr 22 05:30:44 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:00:44 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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On Tuesday 21 April 2015 10:34 PM, Shrayas rajagopal wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
> <igauravsehrawat at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Suggestion: May be we are just skimming over the talks by having lightning
>> talks. I suggest to have atleast one in-depth in python domain.
>
> +1 to this. I think 1 full length talk would be good.

I am not sure of this. If we want to get down to the details, let's do it
as a workshop. For me, "full length" talks are half cooked. Here are
the problems:

   1. With a large audience, not everybody might be interested in the topic.
   2. Not everybody might have the required background to understand the
      talk.
   3. Not all speakers are proficient, and not many can keep the audience
      attentive throughout.
   4. In general, the attention span of the human brain is only 10-15 min.
      So anything after that is just a waste of time and energy.

With workshops most of these problems are negated.

   1. Only people with interested and the required background attend.
   2. Since workshop will be hands-on and interactive, speaker proficiency
      will be secondary.
   3. The attention span problem will not hit workshops, since it is going
      be hands-on and interactive.

Please feel free to refute.

Regards,
Vijay
      

Regards,
Vijay

From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Wed Apr 22 05:35:38 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:05:38 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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On Tuesday 21 April 2015 10:40 PM, Shrayas rajagopal wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Rengaraj D<sakthirengaraj at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> There is a python workshop on the same day and same venue between 9:30am to
>> 3:00pm
>> http://valuefromdata.net/event-registration/

Just noticed that one of the speakers is Dorai Thodla. He used to
be regular at the meetups.

>
> Thats a good thing to bring up.
>
> @vijay: is our venue confirmed?

Yes.

Regards,
Vijay

From shrayasr at gmail.com  Wed Apr 22 17:18:33 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:48:33 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org> wrote:
> I am not sure of this. If we want to get down to the details, let's do it
> as a workshop. For me, "full length" talks are half cooked. Here are
> the problems:
>
>   1. With a large audience, not everybody might be interested in the topic.
>   2. Not everybody might have the required background to understand the
>      talk.
>   3. Not all speakers are proficient, and not many can keep the audience
>      attentive throughout.

You put forth some rather irrefutable points :)

But my argument here is that this could be used as an opportunity to
learn the exact things that you are talking about. A meetup, as
opposed to a conference is a much smaller affair and might just be the
right stage and environment for people to experiment with this sort of
talking. Instead of expecting everyone to inherently be good at
conveying a message or catching attention of all the people, some of
us who are more experienced than the others could help them out in
this.

>   4. In general, the attention span of the human brain is only 10-15 min.
>      So anything after that is just a waste of time and energy.

I disagree with this.I think if the topic is (made) interesting
enough, most people cling on to it and be interested. The meetup is a
python meetup and there is a lot to learn from every domain where
python is used. Even though I don't use it for scientific programming
or for embedded systems (for eg.), I find the concepts put forth very
interesting from a language point of view itself.

> With workshops most of these problems are negated.
>
>   1. Only people with interested and the required background attend.
>   2. Since workshop will be hands-on and interactive, speaker proficiency
>      will be secondary.
>   3. The attention span problem will not hit workshops, since it is going
>      be hands-on and interactive.

Not everything needs to / can be a workshop. Because of the following reasons:

1. The person speaking at a workshop is expected to know quite a good
sum about that topic and that might not actually be the case
everytime. The person might have just used it for a while but be
proficient in those parts alone
2. Workshops are meant for teaching, the person might not want to
teach it (because of say, point #1) but just share the idea and see
how people think about it.
3. I think it takes a LOT more practice to do a workshop as opposed to
a 10 minute talk. The focus is more on you during the workshop than
during the talk and that requires a lot more self confidence.

---

One talk per meetup would be a good balance in my opinion. We could
either start with this talk or end with this. It can also be done on
public opinion - What do people want as a deep dive session (maybe a
poll in the previous meetup by show of hands) and see who is ready to
do this.

We can also provide mentoring to people who think that they are
nervous or not able to put out their points while engaging the
audience. This is completely time dependent. I understand that this
can take up a LOT of our time but I hope that other people would
volunteer in this effort too. Its just an idea i'm winging out to see
if it catches fire.

---

@others?

From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Wed Apr 22 17:53:47 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:23:47 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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*My thoughts:* Meetup group has evolved over the period of time in the
sense people are no more newbies as compared to meetings 6 months ago. We
are seeing regular faces now with little newbies at meetups. People have
reached the threshold of python. They want some practical knowledge and
implementation.

Kudos to IMSc for being awesome venue, we can mix handons with full length
talk. For this we want people to come forward a little bit, slack is there,
mailing list is there, just open up a little bit if you are attending or
want to. Ideas never dies, they just multiply.Humble request to other
members.

Execution is what mattters, we will definitely need involvement from
people.

*Idea :* After one week of meetup, we can have a live meeting on slack to
brainstorm on talks. From there we can pick a talk which will qualify to be
a full length talk. This live meeting on slack will be *only once in a
month *say 2-3 hours to brainstorm and off we go. Take it as a productivity
tool rather than time waste.

Thanks
Cheers

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>
> wrote:
> > I am not sure of this. If we want to get down to the details, let's do it
> > as a workshop. For me, "full length" talks are half cooked. Here are
> > the problems:
> >
> >   1. With a large audience, not everybody might be interested in the
> topic.
> >   2. Not everybody might have the required background to understand the
> >      talk.
> >   3. Not all speakers are proficient, and not many can keep the audience
> >      attentive throughout.
>
> You put forth some rather irrefutable points :)
>
> But my argument here is that this could be used as an opportunity to
> learn the exact things that you are talking about. A meetup, as
> opposed to a conference is a much smaller affair and might just be the
> right stage and environment for people to experiment with this sort of
> talking. Instead of expecting everyone to inherently be good at
> conveying a message or catching attention of all the people, some of
> us who are more experienced than the others could help them out in
> this.
>
> >   4. In general, the attention span of the human brain is only 10-15 min.
> >      So anything after that is just a waste of time and energy.
>
> I disagree with this.I think if the topic is (made) interesting
> enough, most people cling on to it and be interested. The meetup is a
> python meetup and there is a lot to learn from every domain where
> python is used. Even though I don't use it for scientific programming
> or for embedded systems (for eg.), I find the concepts put forth very
> interesting from a language point of view itself.
>
> > With workshops most of these problems are negated.
> >
> >   1. Only people with interested and the required background attend.
> >   2. Since workshop will be hands-on and interactive, speaker proficiency
> >      will be secondary.
> >   3. The attention span problem will not hit workshops, since it is going
> >      be hands-on and interactive.
>
> Not everything needs to / can be a workshop. Because of the following
> reasons:
>
> 1. The person speaking at a workshop is expected to know quite a good
> sum about that topic and that might not actually be the case
> everytime. The person might have just used it for a while but be
> proficient in those parts alone
> 2. Workshops are meant for teaching, the person might not want to
> teach it (because of say, point #1) but just share the idea and see
> how people think about it.
> 3. I think it takes a LOT more practice to do a workshop as opposed to
> a 10 minute talk. The focus is more on you during the workshop than
> during the talk and that requires a lot more self confidence.
>
> ---
>
> One talk per meetup would be a good balance in my opinion. We could
> either start with this talk or end with this. It can also be done on
> public opinion - What do people want as a deep dive session (maybe a
> poll in the previous meetup by show of hands) and see who is ready to
> do this.
>
> We can also provide mentoring to people who think that they are
> nervous or not able to put out their points while engaging the
> audience. This is completely time dependent. I understand that this
> can take up a LOT of our time but I hope that other people would
> volunteer in this effort too. Its just an idea i'm winging out to see
> if it catches fire.
>
> ---
>
> @others?
> _______________________________________________
> Chennaipy mailing list
> Chennaipy at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Wed Apr 22 18:30:33 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:00:33 +0530
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
<igauravsehrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> My thoughts: Meetup group has evolved over the period of time in the sense
> people are no more newbies as compared to meetings 6 months ago. We are
> seeing regular faces now with little newbies at meetups. People have reached
> the threshold of python. They want some practical knowledge and
> implementation.

Not sure I completely agree with this. The meetup group should not
take any such things as an assumption. So this might be a bad premise
to base the decision of full length talks on. Regulars are great to
see and are definitely required but then we wouldn't be what we are
without people trying to see whats in our meetup. Lightning talks
definitely throw the point out much sooner than full length ones.

> Kudos to IMSc for being awesome venue, we can mix handons with full length
> talk.

Vijay and I have already discussed about this when talking about the
venue for the previous workshop and the problem is that it is hard to
navigate between rows to help people out with hands on activities.
Thats why we looked around and the awesome Adaptvant came forward :)

Also full length talks do not include hands on. Workshops however, do.

> For this we want people to come forward a little bit, slack is there,
> mailing list is there, just open up a little bit if you are attending or
> want to. Ideas never dies, they just multiply.Humble request to other
> members.
>
> Execution is what mattters, we will definitely need involvement from people.

+1

> Idea : After one week of meetup, we can have a live meeting on slack to
> brainstorm on talks. From there we can pick a talk which will qualify to be
> a full length talk. This live meeting on slack will be only once in a month
> say 2-3 hours to brainstorm and off we go. Take it as a productivity tool
> rather than time waste.

I like this idea. +1 from me on this!

From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Wed Apr 22 19:06:53 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:36:53 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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What I intended in my previous mail is to have meetups with lightning
talks, and do in-depth talks at workshops.

On Wednesday 22 April 2015 08:48 PM, Shrayas rajagopal wrote:
> But my argument here is that this could be used as an opportunity to
> learn the exact things that you are talking about. A meetup, as
> opposed to a conference is a much smaller affair and might just be the

The primary goal of a meetup is for like minded people to come
together, share their knowledge and experiences. That, speaking at a
meetup helps you to talk at a conference is a useful side effect.

> right stage and environment for people to experiment with this sort of
> talking. Instead of expecting everyone to inherently be good at
> conveying a message or catching attention of all the people, some of
> us who are more experienced than the others could help them out in
> this.

We need to strike a balance between making a meetup, speaker centric
and audience centric. What you are suggesting makes things more
speaker centric.

>>    4. In general, the attention span of the human brain is only 10-15 min.
>>       So anything after that is just a waste of time and energy.
>
> I disagree with this.I think if the topic is (made) interesting
> enough, most people cling on to it and be interested. The meetup is a

I am not saying it cannot be made interesting. You need to be an
expert speaker to do that. And we want to accommodate speakers with
different skill levels.

> python meetup and there is a lot to learn from every domain where
> python is used. Even though I don't use it for scientific programming
> or for embedded systems (for eg.), I find the concepts put forth very
> interesting from a language point of view itself.

And that works for a lightning talk. Not everybody would want to sit
through a 45 min talk on scientific computing with Python. I know it,
because I have seen it happen at meetups.

As a meetup organizer, my role is to get a great audience for the
speakers, and to get great talks for the audience. And I want to do it
without ever saying no to a single speaker. I just can't see that
happening with "full" length talks.

Regards,
Vijay

From shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com  Wed Apr 22 19:13:01 2015
From: shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com (Shrikant Giridhar)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:43:01 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 09:00:44AM +0530, Vijay Kumar wrote:
> I am not sure of this. If we want to get down to the details, let's do it
> as a workshop. For me, "full length" talks are half cooked. Here are
> the problems:

I believe the effectiveness of a full-length talk depends, in no small
part, on how the talk is spread out. As long as the content-duration
ratio is optimum and the paced well, full-length talks are as
entertaining and informative, if not more, than lightning talks.

>   1. With a large audience, not everybody might be interested in the topic.

This is generally true.

However, provided we restrict the talk topics to a carefully chosen subset,
this shouldn't be too big of a problem. It would not be too unreasonable,
for example, to assume that someone attending a Python User Group meetup
is interested in learning something about unicode support in Python 3, even
if they do not have to regularly deal with the troubles of handling multiple
languages.

>   2. Not everybody might have the required background to understand the
>      talk.

This is an issue primarily with lightning talks. By their very nature,
lightning talks assume that you are up to speed in the topic the speaker
intends to talk about. There is little to no time for review or to
build up to the main issue the speaker wants to highlight.

The only consolation for the befuddled members of the audience in such
cases might be in the knowledge that the talk will end in 10 minutes. :-)

I think this should count as a point *for* fuller talks and not against them.

>   3. Not all speakers are proficient, and not many can keep the audience
>      attentive throughout.

This. Delivering a proper talk is difficult, to understate it. There are
too many variables to get right and even the best speakers make horrible
mistakes. Not many are capable of handling the stage well for a longer
duration of time and it will dissuade a large group of people from
attempting this.

On the other hand, this is exactly where lightning talks shine. The
shorter format is perfect for polishing your presentation skills and
experimentation with the style and content of the talks. I feel novice
speakers can make use of the shorter format to hone their skills and
then 'graduate' to the longer ones when they're comfortable enough.

>   4. In general, the attention span of the human brain is only 10-15 min.
>      So anything after that is just a waste of time and energy.

This doesn't sound a strong enough reason against the longer format.

Plus, this largely depends on how you define 'full length' talks. A talk
lasting 20-25 minutes is not that longer than a 10-15 minute talk and
they seem very effective (TED Talks are 18 minutes in duration but they
abstract away all the technical details).

I agree, however, that full length talks demand more conscious attention
than the 10 minute ones we have now. But I tend to see that as a good
thing. I don't know how many agree. :-)

> > With workshops most of these problems are negated.

Workshops have their place but in my opinion, they are not a substitute
for meetup talks.

>   1. Only people with interested and the required background attend.

Not everyone, however interested, might have time to attend a longer
length workshop. Besides, some topics are not amenable to the workshop
format. Say a speaker wishes to discuss a the proposed language changes
in a new Python version. The talk would exceed the duration of a typical
lightning talk but naturally can't be extended into a full-blown
workshop.

>   2. Since workshop will be hands-on and interactive, speaker proficiency
>      will be secondary.

Workshops require a speaker with authoritative knowledge and far more
convincing power than a casual meetup speaker. Not everyone can walk
into a workshop, however familiar with the language, and start teaching.

This is especially true if the audience consists of people new to the
subject, which is usually the case in workshops.

I'll agree that full talks challenge the speaker too but that demands
they pose lasts for a shorter period and can be mitigated by being
comfortable with a narrow subset of the field that you're going to cover
in the talk.

>   3. The attention span problem will not hit workshops, since it is going
>      be hands-on and interactive.

This is an issue and one that we can work around by regulating the
duration of the talks. I think starting off with a middle ground of
20-25 minute talks which are carefully chosen could be a viable option.

One talk per meetup seems very reasonable to me. Perhaps prospective
speakers could put up their proposals and we could have a vote? Shrayas'
proposal seems doable. I think we can start there.

Just my 2 cents. Although, at almost a hundred lines this is starting to
look more like weighing in with a dollar. :-)


Shrikant Giridhar

From tshrinivasan at gmail.com  Thu Apr 23 01:41:30 2015
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From tshrinivasan at gmail.com  Thu Apr 23 18:15:10 2015
From: tshrinivasan at gmail.com (Shrinivasan T)
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Have you been sitting on the sidelines wanting to dip your toes into
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From shrayasr at gmail.com  Fri Apr 24 09:07:27 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:37:27 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Talks for the next meetup
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org> wrote:

> The primary goal of a meetup is for like minded people to come
> together, share their knowledge and experiences. That, speaking at a
> meetup helps you to talk at a conference is a useful side effect.

A nice side effect, if you may. Win Win TBH.

> We need to strike a balance between making a meetup, speaker centric
> and audience centric. What you are suggesting makes things more
> speaker centric.

Not sure I quite agree with this, I think it is helping both ways, A
good talk is enjoyed by both the speaker and by the audience. A tilt
towards being speaker centric bleeds into being audience centric.

> I am not saying it cannot be made interesting. You need to be an
> expert speaker to do that. And we want to accommodate speakers with
> different skill levels.

+1 about accommodating people with different skill levels. Thats why
suggesting that we have one full length talk and others as lighting
talks. No one is being forced into giving a full length talk. The
choice still exists to go with giving a lighting talk.

> And that works for a lightning talk. Not everybody would want to sit
> through a 45 min talk on scientific computing with Python. I know it,
> because I have seen it happen at meetups.

Agreed. I also think there might be a case where people can get
saturated with lighting talks. They might *want* deep dive sessions.
Full length talks are a good place for deep dives. Having more than 10
minutes allows one to take up more in depth topics and talk about
internals of something.

Also, why don't we let that be a choice. @Gaurav's idea of having a
slack meeting a week after a meetup to decide on the next full length
talk seems like a really nice idea to do that. We can't please
everyone, right? 80% is good enough.

> As a meetup organizer, my role is to get a great audience for the
> speakers, and to get great talks for the audience. And I want to do it
> without ever saying no to a single speaker. I just can't see that
> happening with "full" length talks.

Having *all* full length talks would cause this problem, agreed.
Having one, I quite honestly don't think so.

From shrayasr at gmail.com  Fri Apr 24 09:26:04 2015
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Shrikant Giridhar
<shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is an issue primarily with lightning talks. By their very nature,
> lightning talks assume that you are up to speed in the topic the speaker
> intends to talk about. There is little to no time for review or to
> build up to the main issue the speaker wants to highlight.

+1

[...]

> I feel novice
> speakers can make use of the shorter format to hone their skills and
> then 'graduate' to the longer ones when they're comfortable enough.

This is precisely what I was talking about well. For people who want
to graduate, having the _option_ of delivering a full length talk is a
good thing. The point here was not to abolish lightning talks in
favour of full length but to augment it.

> This doesn't sound a strong enough reason against the longer format.
>
> Plus, this largely depends on how you define 'full length' talks. A talk
> lasting 20-25 minutes is not that longer than a 10-15 minute talk and
> they seem very effective (TED Talks are 18 minutes in duration but they
> abstract away all the technical details).
>
> I agree, however, that full length talks demand more conscious attention
> than the 10 minute ones we have now. But I tend to see that as a good
> thing. I don't know how many agree. :-)

+1

[...]

> This is an issue and one that we can work around by regulating the
> duration of the talks. I think starting off with a middle ground of
> 20-25 minute talks which are carefully chosen could be a viable option.

Agree about the time length. 20-25 min talks are a good place to start
compared to the older 45 min talks. We're ideally sacrificing 1 more
lightning talk for a full length talk. Doable IMO

> One talk per meetup seems very reasonable to me. Perhaps prospective
> speakers could put up their proposals and we could have a vote? Shrayas'
> proposal seems doable. I think we can start there.

I vote for @gaurav's Slack meeting for finalizing the topic. Helps
with community building also.

> Just my 2 cents. Although, at almost a hundred lines this is starting to
> look more like weighing in with a dollar. :-)

HAHA. More than a dollar if you ask me. Great points I should say

From sureshvv at hotmail.com  Sun Apr 26 10:45:08 2015
From: sureshvv at hotmail.com (suresh vv)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 01:45:08 -0700
Subject: [Chennaipy] April 2015 Meetup Minutes
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Meetup of Apr 25 2015
==================
The meetup started about half hour late as there was another meeting of#ValueFromData which ran late. After a small delay to check the audio recordingsystem, the session started with 3 lightning talks

Talk 1: Leveraging Python Development with Virtual Environment
Speaker Gaurav Sherawat started the talk briskly but ran into technical problems,so talk was deferred.

Talk 2: Building commandline interfaces with ArgParse
Speaker Shanmuga presented the standard library module argparse and how it can usedto help process command line arguments including features such as automatic typeconversion, handling repeated arguments and help screen generation.
Argparse improves on optparse (which obsoleted getopt). Two similar package calleddocopts and click were suggested by Shrayas uses for the same purpose.

Talk 1: Continued
The problem was a badly named python script called virtualenv.py in the current directory.Both virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper were nicely explained and how they help managepython installations. Someone from the audience(sorry I did not get the name) 
cited occasions where virtualenv was not appropriate. This is when you need tomanually build C extensions and integrate with packages such as numpy, scipy etc.  

Talk 3: Python, Gmail & the IMAP protocol
Speaker Shrayas focused on IMAP, the imaplib in the python stdlib and specific Googleextensions that make gmail accessible using the imaplib api. These extensions allowfor searching using imaplib in a way similar to the search using gmail and using gmail labels
using the MAPI protocol. 

After a brief networking tea break the next 3 lightning talks.

Talk 4: for i in "Iterable" 
Speaker: Shrikant Giridhar's talk was based on a previous Ned Batchelder's talk called Looplike a native. Shrikant brought out the distinction between an iterable and an iterator whichare often not obvious in code since the same object can do both. This was a core pythontalk and was received very well by the audience.

Talk 5: Building a development environment using Vagrant 
Speaker: Vengatesh introduced Vagrant, a tool for creating and managing a developmentenvironment which can run on local virtualized platforms such as VirtualBox or VMware,

Talk 6: Managing Desktops with Ansible
Speaker Vijay Kumar's talk was an introduction to Ansible playbooks which are recipesto deploy software on servers using the ssh protocol. Both pull and pull form of deploymentis possible.

After the talks there was a discussion of a possible extended talks in future meetups.20 minute talks could be considered for a more elaborate presentation with a demowhen required. There was a subsequent talk on Net Neutrality which devolved into afull scale free for all discussion.

A good time was had by all! Thank you to all the organizers. 
 		 	   		  
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From babuenir at gmail.com  Sun Apr 26 17:54:54 2015
From: babuenir at gmail.com (C.Babu Subash Chandar)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:24:54 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [ChennaiPy] Uploaded photos in meetup page - April
	meetup
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Hello everyone,

I have uploaded the photographs @ April ChennaiPy meetup page.

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From shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com  Sun Apr 26 17:57:24 2015
From: shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com (Shrikant Giridhar)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:27:24 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [ChennaiPy] Uploaded photos in meetup page - April
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 09:24:54PM +0530, C.Babu Subash Chandar wrote:

> I have uploaded the photographs @ April ChennaiPy meetup page.

The pictures look amazing. Thanks a lot for the effort!

Shrikant Giridhar

From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Sun Apr 26 18:07:31 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:37:31 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [ChennaiPy] Uploaded photos in meetup page - April
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Photography looks professional. Thanks to you.
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From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Sun Apr 26 18:11:20 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:41:20 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [ChennaiPy] Uploaded photos in meetup page - April
	meetup
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@all would watermarking the photos be a good idea ?

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat <igauravsehrawat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Photography looks professional. Thanks to you.
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From shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com  Sun Apr 26 18:46:54 2015
From: shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com (Shrikant Giridhar)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:16:54 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [ChennaiPy] Uploaded photos in meetup page - April
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 09:41:20PM +0530, Gaurav Sehrawat wrote:

> @all would watermarking the photos be a good idea ?

I'm not sure if it would be.

We don't use the pictures currently for any promotional purposes.
They're usually up only on the Meetup page. So, having a watermark
would be mostly redundant.

Besides, watermarks reduce the quality of pictures IMO and without a
good reason to do it, maybe we shouldn't.


Shrikant Giridhar

From shrayasr at gmail.com  Sun Apr 26 18:47:41 2015
From: shrayasr at gmail.com (Shrayas rajagopal)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:17:41 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [ChennaiPy] Uploaded photos in meetup page - April
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 9:24 PM, C.Babu Subash Chandar
<babuenir at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have uploaded the photographs @ April ChennaiPy meetup page.

They look wonderful! Thanks so much :)

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat
<igauravsehrawat at gmail.com> wrote:
> @all would watermarking the photos be a good idea ?

I'm personally against watermarking pictures. Feel that they spoil the
image a *lot* (even not intrusive ones). Unless you're a (or part of
a) brand, no necessary to watermark I feel :)

From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Mon Apr 27 04:16:56 2015
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 07:46:56 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] [ChennaiPy] Uploaded photos in meetup page - April
 meetup
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On Sunday 26 April 2015 09:41 PM, Gaurav Sehrawat wrote:
> @all would watermarking the photos be a good idea ?

The person who took the photograph owns the copyright, it is
up to him. But I would prefer that the photograph be
distributed under a Creative Commons license.

Regards,
Vijay

From shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 07:23:10 2015
From: shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com (Shrikant Giridhar)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:53:10 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] An Idea for Lightning talks
Message-ID: <CAFFQW-rEPy-=GsrxjZLy9+zxvYWzMVQsbykA80o0OEnek2pKcQ@mail.gmail.com>

I had an idea for a kind of talks we could encourage people to take up.

I was recently reading Peter Norvig's solution [1] for an interesting puzzle
from the NYT where he translates the problem from English to Python to
'solve
it with computer'. The solution was elegant and the way it brought out the
nuances of our 'common sense' was beautiful.

I've read Norvig's code for a Sudoku solver [2] before, which is similarly
beautiful and is (IMO) an exhibit on how to turn 'word problems' from
English to
Python.

With this context, I was wondering if it would be a good idea for
prospective
speakers to take up such small snippets of interesting (and suitably
licensed)
Python code and present a short walkthrough in one of the lightning talks?

Usually, I am not a fan of having large chunks of code on slides but I feel
this could work if handled well i.e. by usefully annotating the trickier
parts, adding other references and by not getting lost in the specific
nuances of implementation, rather focusing on the bigger ideas and how they
map to Pythonic idioms.

The best part IMO, is that such talks would require no specialized
knowledge.
All you need is time and a good Python reference (the docs are a good place
to
start) and you're ready to deliver a solid talk.

One stumbling block I can see at the moment is the lack of a metric to
judge what
code is worth presenting. People would (understandably) disagree on what
they
deem to be good code and without an objective metric, the whole idea would
be
useless.

Also, it requires a certain amount of experience and 'taste' to pick which
parts
of code are the ones with the cool stuff and what is just labor to get work
done.
This, obviously, demands much of the speaker and requires good judgment on
their
part to not lose sight of the forest for the trees.

Anyways, I am just throwing an idea into the pot. I'm interested in reading
what
others think of this!

[1] http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Cheryl.ipynb
[2] http://norvig.com/sudoku.html

Shrikant Giridhar
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From shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 07:25:30 2015
From: shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com (Shrikant Giridhar)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:55:30 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] An Idea for Lightning talks
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Sorry for the unreadable mess.

The Gmail mobile app really does screw up the line wrapping.

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From kskrishnasangeeth at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 12:28:35 2015
From: kskrishnasangeeth at gmail.com (Krishna Sangeeth KS)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:58:35 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Chennaipy Digest, Vol 20, Issue 23
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@Shrikant

Thumbs up for the idea. I feel like Peter Norvig's notes are truly sublime.

I was personally planning on submitting a talk with title :

"The curious case of Cheryl's age"

Like you I am also excited in seeing talks where we look at some great code.

PS: Prof Norvig is doing a Google hangout session today at 9:30 pm. Here is
the link to it
https://plus.google.com/events/cgavlg6pphrl4t83ludahgo0ah4

Thanks,
Krishna Sangeeth

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From chintukoshy at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 14:30:24 2015
From: chintukoshy at gmail.com (Chintu Philips Koshy)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:00:24 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] Chennaipy Digest, Vol 20, Issue 23
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Krishna Sangeeth KS
<kskrishnasangeeth at gmail.com> wrote:
> @Shrikant
>
> Thumbs up for the idea. I feel like Peter Norvig's notes are truly sublime.
>
> I was personally planning on submitting a talk with title :
>
> "The curious case of Cheryl's age"
>
> Like you I am also excited in seeing talks where we look at some great code.
>
> PS: Prof Norvig is doing a Google hangout session today at 9:30 pm. Here is
> the link to it
> https://plus.google.com/events/cgavlg6pphrl4t83ludahgo0ah4
>
> Thanks,
> Krishna Sangeeth
>
> (Sent via Phone. Apologies if the formatting looks terrible)

@Krishna Sangeeth

Formatting Looks good.
What doesnt look good is you replying to digest email without changing
the subject. Do edit the subject next time.

ch33rs,
Chintu

From igauravsehrawat at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 17:58:06 2015
From: igauravsehrawat at gmail.com (Gaurav Sehrawat)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:28:06 +0530
Subject: [Chennaipy] An Idea for Lightning talks
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+1 . Really liked the idea.

Thanks for sharing.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Shrikant Giridhar <
shrikantgiridhar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for the unreadable mess.
>
> The Gmail mobile app really does screw up the line wrapping.
>
> Shrikant Giridhar
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