From chandankumar.093047 at gmail.com Thu Mar 3 02:10:17 2016 From: chandankumar.093047 at gmail.com (chandan kumar) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 12:40:17 +0530 Subject: [Django-india] [X-POST] I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 2016 Message-ID: Hi, Do you want to see your name next time you install GNU/Linux in your friend's computer? If yes, then go ahead and read ... We are happy to announce "I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 2016",[1] a free (as in freedom), online (IRC-based) [2] training sessions for new comers to Free/Libre/Open Source Software at #dgplug on irc.freenode.net [3]. This is the 9th year of this training. If you are a mentor, or trainer, or prospective enthusiast who would like to participate in this years' sessions please go through last years' IRC logs: http://www.dgplug.org/irclogs/ We will have a review or Q&A session on last years' sessions before we proceed into new topics, this year. The session timings are mostly varying, usually after 1800 IST every day. To participate you need a good internet connection and any latest Linux installed (Fedora 22/23 preferably ). Anyone can participate. What we teach? =============== Through this training we build contributors. Upon completing this training you will be able to successfully contribute to upstream projects, you will know the tools used by different upstream projects and yes, we will teach you how to solve real life problem using Python programming language. Guest sessions ============= Through out the training we organize special sessions from well known upstream contributors. They share their own stories, and take in-depth sessions on various subjects. To know more ============= [4] is an interview on opensource.com came out last year about this training. [5] is the talk we had in PyCon 2014 on the same topic. How to participate? ==================== If you are interested in participating, please confirm your participation by filling up this [6] form. Home page: http://dgplug.org/ Planet: http://planet.dgplug.org/ Wiki: http://dgplug.org/start.html Mailing list group (for queries, discussions) : http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org [1] http://dgplug.org/summertraining16.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo [4] http://opensource.com/life/14/6/enroll-now-free-online-open-source-programming-classes [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YV5KzIbOc [6] http://goo.gl/forms/F7ahKvJJb9 Thanks, Chandan Kumar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sanyam.khurana01 at gmail.com Thu Mar 31 14:20:54 2016 From: sanyam.khurana01 at gmail.com (Sanyam Khurana) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 23:50:54 +0530 Subject: [Django-india] Sponsorship Prospectus for PyCon India 2016 Message-ID: Hi fellow Python aficionados, We hope you've received the mail regarding call for proposals for PyCon India 2016. This time, we want your help to get more sponsors for the event! Sponsors are what make PyCon India successful , and sponsorship offers great value to the generous organizations who support the conference. For more details check out: https://in.pycon.org/2016/sponsorship.html Contact sponsorship at in.pycon.org with any sponsorship inquiries. By sponsoring the conference, your organization would be better connected to the Python community. Your sponsorship helps us keep PyCon India affordable and accessible to the widest possible audience. This year, PyCon India 2016 will be taking place from September 23 - September 25, 2016 in New Delhi. Check out our site at: http://in.pycon.org/2016 Keep an eye out for news on our blog at http://in.pycon.org/blog/ and follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/pyconindia and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PyConIndia Please forward this mail to other related groups, organizations, companies and individuals Join us in making PyCon India a success Thanks Sanyam Khurana On behalf of Team PyCon India -- www.SanyamKhurana.com Github: CuriousLearner