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Minutes of Meeting in ChennaiPy meet ( 23 / 10 / 2010 )

raji — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:41:45 +0000

Attendees:

1. Arun R
2. Ramachandran A V
3. Praveen Kumar K
4. Vikram S
5. Seshachalam M
6. Parikshith
7. Prabakaran
8. Kishore Kumar J
9. Yuvaraj Pandian
10. Gowthama Raj V
11. Jatin C S
12. Rohith
13. Varun
14. Jai Sathish Kumar A
15. Vijay Kumar B
16. Kausikram
17. Rajeswari S

Minutes:

The meeting started by 3:20 p.m.

Mr. Vijay Kumar from Zilogic System started the session

He talked about ODF and Python

Before diving into the scripts he gave an introduction to

i. XML (since ODF is a XML-based file format)

ii.XML uses

iii.Namespaces

iv. SAX parser handler

He explained the code line by line for

a. How to extract the MIME type for the document ?

b. How to extract the headings of a .odt document ?

c. How to extract the spreadsheet (.ods) contents ?

We had another surprise talk by Mr.Kausikram from Silver Stripe Software

He talked about itertools module

He started with the importance of an iterator

He gave examples for the following itertools functions

a. chain ()
b. permutations()
c. combinations()
d. count ()

Our talk sessions came to an end

Then we discussed regarding Pycon 2011

The attendees got a printed copy of checklist for holding Pycon India 2011

We discussed with the following factors

1. Active Volunteers

2. Venue:

Following venues are considered

a. Anna University
b. MIT
c. IIT
d. Rajalakshmi Enginnering College
e. Crescent Engineering College
f. Jaya Engineering College
g. SRM City / Main Campus

Most of them didnt opt for Government Institutions

Among the seven we shortlisted to approach

a. Rajalakshmi Engineering College
b. Jaya Engineering College
c. SRM City / Main campus

We decided to fix the venue within December with the help of volunteers

3. Number of Days

Most of the attendees opted for a two day event

A question was raised What about the beginners track ? ( Day one if it’s a three day event )

Then we came up with an idea to conduct a workshop (for newbies) in Colleges around Chennai

We fixed a target to conduct a workshop in 10 colleges (atleast) in next 10 months

4. Sponsorship

5. Food

6. Video Recording of talks

7. Scheduling of talks

Atlast all the attendees are asked to join inpycon mailing list ( to discuss Pycon India 2011 )

Please share your thoughts in inpycon mailing list

Thanks to all the participants

ChennaiPy Meet Schedule for October Month

raji — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:39:02 +0000

Time : 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Place : Room No: 106 , 1st Floor
Institute of Remote Sensing, ( Adjacent to Examination Center )
College of Engineering, Guindy
Anna University, Chennai.

Talks :

1. Topic : ODF and Python

Speaker : Vijay Kumar, Zilogic Systems

General Discussion:

Regarding Pycon 2011 Venue

Attendees:

1. Rajeswari S

2. Kausikram
3. Arulalan.T
4. Vijay Kumar B.
5. Jai Sathish Kumar . A

6. Ranjith Kumar K

7. Selvamani. S
8.Sai Sridhar.M.R

9. Parikshith

Minutes of meeting in Chennaipy meet (24 / 07 / 2010)

raji — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:02:13 +0000

Dear all,

We ( the attendees) are lucky to attend yesterday’s Chennaipy meet

Yes, we had a special speaker named Mr. Vijay Kumar from Zilogic Systems

Date : 24 / 07 / 2010

Time : 3 p.m to 6 p.m.

Place : MIT, Chromepet

No of People : 10

Topics Discussed :

1. Text processing using Python by Rajeswari

2. GUI programming using Jython by Vijay Kumar

Attendees :

Akilan, Arulalan, Nandha, Ahamed, Praveen, Rajeswari(myself), Elango, Selvamani, Vijay Kumar, Arulappan

I started the session with an introduction to Text Processing

Discussed a few functions present in the modules os, os.path

Shown a simple python script of how to search for a particular file.

Followed by Mr. Vijay Kumar told us the basics of Jython

He talked about advantages of GUI programming using Jython when compared to other GUI’s ( Tkinter, PyGTK, PyQt ).

He continued with how to use Swing libraries with Jython ?

Shown examples from helloworld program to a form creation.

Explained the basics of callbacks.

We raised many questions towards Mr. Vijay Kumar ( general python questions too )

We had discussions related to Glade, GTKBuilder, libglade.

He also displayed how to create a simple setup.py file

Mr. Vijay Kumar told us to give more talks in future

Then Arulalan, who is doing real time project in Indian Meterological Department using Python showed a real time
application of using Text processing

Also, he showed his final output.

Further discussions involved to come forward to give talks in PyCon India 2010, how to bring more people to Chennaipy meet , conducting python workshop for newbies.

On the whole, the session was very useful

Thanks to all

Regards

Rajeswari

June Month ChennaiPy Meeting Schedule

arulalant — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:11:38 +0000

Dear All,

Greetings !

Tomorrow [26.06.2010] ChennaiPy Meeting Schedule :

Topic : How To Create Deb File Format From Python Application File

Talker: Mr.Rajkumar , KanchiLug Member

Duration : 30 min

Ref Link : http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=linuxJensMakingDeb&fromSeriesID=37

Topic : Basic String Handlings

Talker : Mr.Selvamani, KanchiLug Member

Duration : 20 min

Topic : How to Stack over [horizontally/vertically] merge the SVG
files via Python code

Talker : Mr.Arulalan, KanchiLug Member

Duration : 15 min

Topic : Basic List Handling

Talker : Mr.Suresh, KanchiLug Member

Duration : 20 min

Any volunteers may come forward to take session , and fill up your topics . . .

Topic :

Talker :

We welcome to chennaipy meeting those who are all newbie to python !

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Place :
Opposite to Production Department & WiFi Tower,
Grass Ground,
MIT, Chrompet, Chennai.

Time :
3pm to 5 pm

Date:
26.06.2010 Saturday
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Regards,

Arulalan.T

ChennaiPy May Month Meet (22 -05 – 2010)

chennaipy — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:18:30 +0000

Date : 22 – 05 – 2010

Time : 3 pm to 5 pm

Venue : AU-KBC Research Center, MIT, Chromepet.

Attendees : Arulalan, Balakrishnan, Jai Sathishkumar, Malathi, Ramachandran, Rajeswari (myself), Santhosh, Selvam, Shyamshankar, Suresh, Vatsala Dorairajan

Talk Details:

Talk 1 : Introduction to Python by Balakrishnan

Talk 2 : ncurses in Python by Arulalan

Talk 3 : Introduction to SciPy by Jai Sathishkumar

Talk 4 : PyGtk Introduction by Rajeswari

Balakrishnan started the session. He taught fundamentals of Python language. Also he gave an intro about bpython.

Arulalan demonstrated how programming is done using ncurses. He shown live examples.

Jai Sathish gave an intro of SciPy and NumPy.

Rajeswari(myself) gave an intro to PyGTK programming. I taught two basic programs with an introduction to signals and callback functions.

At the end of the sessions we received feedbacks.

Also, we planned to conduct this meet for twice a month.

Regards

Rajeswari

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