Hello Jessica, While I am waiting for some more projects to listed here, I thought of sharing with you the Social Impact Projects that my friends in ThoughtWorks has undertaken in India.
About the project Built using For more info Vikalpsangam is a platform that showcases and shares stories of Alternatives to current model from Ecology, Environment, Schooling, Transport, Settlements, Politics, and so on. A collective of NGOs supporting more environment friendly practices. Mezzanine (CMS), Python, Django http://www.vikalpsangam.org/ Rural IndiaOnline is an archive and living journal of oral and visual history of Rural India. Most of it is in Django http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/ Renovating the Website ArvindGupaToys.com Mezzanine (CMS), Django arvindguptatoys.com Best regards, Venu --- *“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.... ― Aristotle* On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 3:30 PM, <bangpypers-requ...@python.org> wrote: > Send BangPypers mailing list submissions to > bangpypers@python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > bangpypers-requ...@python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > bangpypers-ow...@python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of BangPypers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Python in India, for India (Jessica McKellar) > 2. Re: Python in India, for India (Bibhas Ch Debnath) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 09:19:19 -0700 > From: Jessica McKellar <jessica.mckel...@gmail.com> > To: bangpypers@python.org > Subject: [BangPypers] Python in India, for India > Message-ID: > <CAKDZRcj=VF2shHeqUea_GQrgNz8pWe=ttEL0RKhmDXMQZqX= > q...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi folks, > > Some of you may know me as a Director for the Python Software Foundation or > from PyCon North America. > > I'm gathering examples of Python being used to do great, uniquely > *regional* work. > Do you have suggestions for cool, impactful projects that use Python in > India, for India? They might, for example, be related to local > conservation, culture, science, education, sports, or politics. > > Regards, > Jessica > > -- > Jessica McKellar > http://jesstess.com > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 23:23:24 +0530 > From: Bibhas Ch Debnath <m...@bibhas.in> > To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers@python.org> > Subject: Re: [BangPypers] Python in India, for India > Message-ID: > < > cag1zuwdqzdjrf3nwpgf5hhqu3agxkc4i1ss_ttwn0cq12cp...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi Jessica, > > It's nice to see you here. I think this topic is the perfect place to talk > about what me and my friends do. > > We are a small non-profit called Karnataka Learning Partnership( > http://klp.org.in/) with the target of better education for all children > in > Karnataka. We gather data from (almost) *all* the primary schools in the > Karnataka state from various sources including govt provided data and the > open data available out there. These data are usually unstructured. So we > put efforts to clean them up, connect unrelated data(with both automated > softwares and manual efforts), and derive useful information out of them. > We then publish those information in two ways. 1. Reports in printable > format and 2. through API. We send the printed reports back to the Member > of Parliaments and other govt officials who needs these data to make better > decisions and we open the API to the public. > > And we do *all* of this using Python. We've been doing this for years. For > our webapps, we have used web.py for a long time. Now mostly using Django. > All our data migrations tools, automation scripts, web apps etc are built > with Python. You can see it all at https://github.com/klpdotorg > > Any feedback is welcome. :) > > > ---- > Thanks, > Bibhas Debnath > http://bibhas.in > > > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Jessica McKellar < > jessica.mckel...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > Some of you may know me as a Director for the Python Software Foundation > or > > from PyCon North America. > > > > I'm gathering examples of Python being used to do great, uniquely > > *regional* work. > > Do you have suggestions for cool, impactful projects that use Python in > > India, for India? They might, for example, be related to local > > conservation, culture, science, education, sports, or politics. > > > > Regards, > > Jessica > > > > -- > > Jessica McKellar > > http://jesstess.com > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > ------------------------------ > > End of BangPypers Digest, Vol 81, Issue 11 > ****************************************** > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
