From aman18216 at iiitd.ac.in  Thu Jul 11 10:08:45 2019
From: aman18216 at iiitd.ac.in (Aman Kumar)
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:38:45 +0530
Subject: [PyDelhi] Regarding tech talk
Message-ID: <CAJbxhfdX9cnCJAJN4m+5jf1zFVt=i4SqJo92kWhouS0OnNn1pw@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings!
IIIT Delhi is holding its annual tech fest, Esya on 23rd and 24th August
2019. As part of
Esya, we are organising an Open Source Meetup and we are excited to invite
<PyDelhi>  to be part of the same.
Our goal is to bring together the members of various open source
communities to give
talks that are on a wide range of subjects, to foster learning, inspiration
? and promote
the open source culture.
The meetup will be a full-day event and will be held in one of the seminar
halls in our
college. The entry to the meetup would be free for all. The basic structure
of the meetup
would consist of talks by all the participating communities followed by
sessions about
opportunities for students like GSoC, Outreachy, among other internships.
We will put a
call for proposals for talks among the participating organisations. The
proposals would
be reviewed by a group of admins of these organisations and the chosen ones
would be
presented on the day of the meetup.
The meetup is tentatively scheduled for 24th August 2019. We believe that
the
participation of <PyDelhi> would be a great addition to the meetup. Please
let us know if <PyDelhi> would be interested in being a part of it. We look
forward to hearing from you soon.
Best,
Samiya Caur
On behalf of the Organising Committee, Esya?19
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From akshayaurora at gmail.com  Tue Jul 16 00:00:53 2019
From: akshayaurora at gmail.com (qua non)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:30:53 +0530
Subject: [PyDelhi] Proposal for Next Meetup
Message-ID: <CAPztPCfoJZfDc15oeQwFc0HjAAXdFXEwNnN59jRX9=W3PTZtDQ@mail.gmail.com>

Proposal for next Meetup for PyDelhi
------------------------------------------
(This is a proposal feel free to add to it)
We will finalize based on inputs within next few days.

We would love to get a expert talk; guide us through this:: We invite any
experts on the subject to join in . If you know any expert on the subject
around you then please contact them to be guide us through this meet up.


Topic of meetup: Implementing Quantum Randum Number Generators
Possible date for meetup: 26th July
Possible venue: South Campus Bamboo hut,  Propose more venues here.


This will be a discussion and collaborative meetup to try and implement a
algorithm to generate Quantum randum numbers.


- What is QRNG a explanation
- How do we test if a number is quantum random or not?

Implementation
============
- Implementing the tests first.
- Checking/testing existing Random number generators in existing languages
and running numbers generated through them in this test.
- Implementing our Quantum Random number generator Algorithm/s.
- Running numbers from QRNG through the test to check if the numbers are
Quantum Random or not!


Prizes

-  First person/team, to implement the test correctly get's a/1 PyCon India
2017 Travel Bag from Wild Craft. (Max 3 per team)
-  First person/team to get their random numbers consistently passing
through the test suit will get 1 Travel bags  + 1 Pen Drive + 1 T-shirt
each. (Max 4 per team)

A paper would be written and published through PyDelhi mentioning the
result and explanation around their algorithm.


Reading material for you to prepare for QRNGS::


https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/quantum-random-number-generator-created-using-a-smartphone-camera-602f88552b64
https://blog.red-badger.com/2018/9/24/generate-true-random-numbers-with-a-quantum-computer
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From vipulgupta2048 at gmail.com  Tue Jul 16 04:57:22 2019
From: vipulgupta2048 at gmail.com (Vipul Gupta)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:27:22 +0530
Subject: [PyDelhi] Ncr-Python.in Digest, Vol 101, Issue 1
In-Reply-To: <mailman.34.1562860803.15502.ncr-python.in@python.org>
References: <mailman.34.1562860803.15502.ncr-python.in@python.org>
Message-ID: <CALRDm=vjby0QJ-KL5N3d0dOuN-Y9xA21_iuaGzC=nQM0hkwkJQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Samiya,
Thank you for your interest in inviting PyDelhi to IIIT's Techfest
ESYA, PyDelhi was a community partner last year in the tech-fest. The
experience of our fellow members and us was below par and several
concerns have been raised regarding this year's iteration. This email
serves as an official transcript of the Telegram chat that we had. We
like this to be the official response of the community as well as
continuing the discussion with other members who are subscribed to the
mailing list if they like to add more to it. To answer your question,

> let us know if <PyDelhi> would be interested in being a part of it.
No, PyDelhi wouldn't be a part of this year's fest.

Concerns/Feedbacks/Observations from last year

1. (Edited) Vipul Gupta mentions his experience of the hackathon as
one of his worst "My team and I participated in the hackathon along
with members of several other sister communities. And long story
short, we won the hackathon. After the event, the ESYA team took about
5 months to release the prizes that were promised, after hundreds of
emails from all teams and a significant decrease in cash prize that
was stated."
I would also like to add that this thread was concluded by the ESYA
Team by finally releasing the prizes to the 3 winning teams, by
deducting 2000 rupees from it for reasons that I like to term as
extremely foolish and deceiving.
2. Vipul Gupta also adds on about the experience at the community
event that was held last year "- - I was there at the Community event
as well in ESYA 2018, the event started 2 hours late, none or very
poor management of the entire event, the team wasn't even interested
in hosting the event. The entire plan was actually made by us and not
ESYA mgmt. just a week from the actual date. @cocoa1231 @rajudev
@realslimshanky and @hellozee can add more to that."
3. To the OP's message, Satyakaam observed that "Looking at the OP's
messaging and communications so far he  looks inexperienced in dealing
with community , confused and does not know how to ask for things
?With the kind of conversations so far from OP looks like you have
set the expectations and they are expecting the same this year as
well. "
4. Not even ours but we have been seeing a trend of IIIT Delhi of
canceling community meetups at the last moment showing disregard and
lack of action as the community organizers add "IIIT Delhi itself has
canceled our and other communities meetups, just a day before when
they were supposed to happen. These are not just one event, it has
become a trend when it comes to IIIT Delhi."

Community's decision

PyDelhi took a decision to have an anonymous poll to let the community
decide the action that needs to be taken as we go ahead.

Question: Should PyDelhi be a community partner at this year's IIIT's
Techfest ESYA?

Out of 53 votes, we had 49% as No, 28% as yes and 23% as ones who
would need more information.

Replies
Aman, OP for the event responded that he would be addressing the
issues soon enough.

Conclusion and action that needs to be taken - Akshay suggested "IIITD
management has been constantly saying, "no" to any attempts by PyDelhi
to hold a meetup in that organization. Let's put it this way,
personally due to the track record of ESYA and IIITD. I do not think
it makes any sense for PyDelhi to grace their event, this would
degrade PyDelhi's Brand. If in the future they want to interact with
us, the first step would be to allow PyDelhi to hold meetups in IIITD,
We will see how things work out and then maybe in next years event
PyDelhi can take part"


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> Greetings!
> IIIT Delhi is holding its annual tech fest, Esya on 23rd and 24th August
> 2019. As part of
> Esya, we are organising an Open Source Meetup and we are excited to invite
> <PyDelhi>  to be part of the same.
> Our goal is to bring together the members of various open source
> communities to give
> talks that are on a wide range of subjects, to foster learning, inspiration
> ? and promote
> the open source culture.
> The meetup will be a full-day event and will be held in one of the seminar
> halls in our
> college. The entry to the meetup would be free for all. The basic structure
> of the meetup
> would consist of talks by all the participating communities followed by
> sessions about
> opportunities for students like GSoC, Outreachy, among other internships.
> We will put a
> call for proposals for talks among the participating organisations. The
> proposals would
> be reviewed by a group of admins of these organisations and the chosen ones
> would be
> presented on the day of the meetup.
> The meetup is tentatively scheduled for 24th August 2019. We believe that
> the
> participation of <PyDelhi> would be a great addition to the meetup. Please
> let us know if <PyDelhi> would be interested in being a part of it. We look
> forward to hearing from you soon.
> Best,
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Best,
Vipul Gupta
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From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Mon Jul 22 23:36:10 2019
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:06:10 +0530
Subject: [PyDelhi] Present a Poster at PyCon India
Message-ID: <ebaef7cb-9c94-6214-27f4-d60e2ddcfc6d@bravegnu.org>

Hi Everyone,

As announced earlier, the posters are yet another way of participating 
in PyCon India 2019, which is happening on Oct 12-15, at Chennai. There 
are two different poster types:

 1. Technical Posters - for presenting projects and insights on various
    topics
 2. Community Posters - for user groups / meetup groups to promote their
    work

Here are few good reasons to present a poster:

 1.

    Posters offer the opportunity to *engage with attendees* interested
    in the same subject and application as yourself. You might strike up
    a conversation with someone about your poster that may lead to
    future collaborations or even a job offer!

 2.

    If you are new to conferences, or if you are intimidated about doing
    a talk in front of huge audience, posters are for you. Posters are a
    *great way to test the waters*, and can be stepping stone for your
    next talk at a conference.

 3.

    The *entire conference attendees is available* during the poster
    session, as there are no other tracks scheduled in parallel. This
    makes it better than the talk sessions, where there are multiple
    concurrent tracks, and attendees can only attend one of them.

 4.

    A poster presentation is a good way to disseminate your work,
    particularly if your *topic or project falls within a narrow field
    of specialization*. It also gives you the opportunity to actively
    engage with others during the conference in a way that networking
    alone does not, since by its very nature the poster defines the
    topic of conversation.

 5.

    Another good reason to present a poster is that you can expect to
    receive compliments on your work and critiques that can help you in
    the future. An insightful, *impartial discussion of your work by a
    peer* can often provide ideas for improving your work downstream.

In short, poster presentations provide value, both for attendees who 
discuss your poster content with you, and for yourself because of the 
opportunities highlighted above. If this has got you interested, head to 
https://in.pycon.org/cfp/posters-2019/proposals/ for more details and to 
submit a poster proposal.

For more details about PyCon India, visit https://in.pycon.org/

Regards,
Vijay Kumar
PyCon India 2019 Team

Credits: Partly based on 
https://people.clas.ufl.edu/oppenhe/2014/06/09/7-reasons-why-you-should-present-posters-at-a-conference/


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From vijaykumar at bravegnu.org  Wed Jul 24 23:58:10 2019
From: vijaykumar at bravegnu.org (Vijay Kumar)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:28:10 +0530
Subject: [PyDelhi] PyCon India Devsprint CFP is Open!
Message-ID: <80e02689-c355-f506-dc45-c92c1b4d113d@bravegnu.org>

Hi Everyone,
CFP for Devsprints is now open!

If you are a contributor or have been involved in maintenance of any 
Open source project, please come forward and add a project. This project 
can be any interesting Open source project which is based on Python. 
Ideally, you should have a history with the project through previous 
code commits. Your responsibility will be to help your team set up their 
development environment, list out beginner friendly bugs, and guide them 
on any problems they face during the event.

Fore more details and to submit your proposal, visit 
https://in.pycon.org/cfp/devsprint-2019/proposals/

Regards,
Vijay Kumar
PyCon India 2019 Team