[Inpycon] Minutes of the Python Month meeting

[Anand Chitipothu]

Hello everyone,

We had a meeting in Bangalore on Saturday (July 27) to discuss about Python
Month and there were about 15 people have attended it.

Minutes:

* There was a discussion that we should put our efforts to increase the
impart of workshops than the number of workshops that we conduct. Couple of
suggestions that came out were:
- coding contest
- why stop at this month, why not continue doing this in long term
- engage students for longer term
- instead of doing just intro to Python workshops, build practical systems
as part of workshops. Couple of suggestions were:
    - simple recommendation system like amazon
    - GUI systems
    - blog engine
    - web scrapping
    - games
    - sudoku solver
- engage non-cs students by teaching scipy and other tools.
- While it is hard to find scipy and other tools for other non-cs students,
it'll have to be done by each instructor. The suggestion was to have
volunteers to suggest content that speakers can use.
    - Srinivas, Ashish and Kamal (? did he?) expressed interest to
volunteer for this

* One suggestion to sign up more colleges is to ask people to go back to
the college where they have studied and do a python workshop.

* One important thing  that we should be careful about is that the colleges
are not charging the students for this workshop. It'll be nice to mention
that when we start taking to the college.

* For each speaker to reuse, we need the following:
- Intro to Python Slides. Elvis volunteered. Anand to provide bullet points.
- links for further reading. Elvis volunteered
- a blot post about how to configure x (put your favorite here) editor for
Python. Ravi volunteered. List of editors:
    - IDLE
    - Notepad++
    - Sublime text
    - edit+
    - pywin
    - gvim (anand to provide config)
    - emacs (will ask noufal for help)

* Ashish and Prashanth volunteered to expore how good IPython is on windows
and if we can suggest all speakers to use that.

* Vijay suggested that it'll be useful to have a volunteer to support the
speaker at each workshop.

* For each workshop, we should make it clear that the following are
prerequisites.
- Install Python 2.7
- Setup your editor (will share a link once it is ready)

* Suggested things to cover in one-day workshop.

- 5 Minute introduction to Python slides
- Hello world (in interpreter and as script)
- numbers, strings and assignments
- conditional statements
- functions & methods
- Lists
- For loop
- List operations

[Approximate break for lunch]

- List comprehensions
- String Operations
- Working with Files
- Modules
    - time
    - os, sys
    - urllib
- dictionaries
- resources for further reading

-- 
Anand
http://anandology.com/
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