On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Nikhil Ketkar <nik...@indix.com> wrote:
[...] > Also, I noticed (on meetup) that the group is looking for a venue for the > next session. The startup I work for (Indix, http://www.indix.com) would > love to host a meetup. We are a small startup but our office at Ramanujan IT > Park can host up to 50 people on a weekend quite easily. Let me know and I > can get the ball rolling on this. Nikhil, This is amazing of you to offer. Like Shrikant mentioned, our venue requirements (for now) is met by IMSc where we regularly have our meetups (Many thanks to IMSc and Prof. Amritanshu for this). But we're always looking for places to host our workshops when they happen. The folks at Adaptavant were really awesome to host us last time. We will definitely reach out to Indix when the next workshop is in the works. @Vijay: Thoughts? On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Shrikant Giridhar <shrikantgirid...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > One of the great things about a user group audience is that there is no > specific 'crowd'. At Chennaipy alone, we have a mix of people using Python > for NLP, Big Data processing, embedded systems, configuration management > and a lot more. The sheer diversity of the user group is amazing! > As a speaker, this provides a great platform to present, simply because > you don't have to optimize your talk for a particular niche audience - > you just walk up there and talk about what you like! There is a good > chance that you will always find someone who shares your interests. +1 totally agree to this. I've found this to be one of the greatest things about Chennaipy. Such a varied audience. Its wonderful to talk in front of this crowd, really. [...] On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Sharmila Gopirajan <sharmila.gopira...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > Also it helps if you try presenting it to someone > first. Trust me, that made a huge difference ;) . Can't agree enough with this. Presenting it to someone / rehearsing it in front of a mirror or to yourself helps by leaps and bounds. As a thumb rule, for a n minute presentation, i try to rehearse at least n times. > If there are more ideas > for you to present, you can always follow it up with more presentations ;) > Probably make it a series. +1. Good idea :) > Also a link shared by Shrayas has been quite helpful. So I'm just sharing > it again. http://speaking.io/ http://zachholman.com/talks is also a great place to see how Zach puts those things into action _______________________________________________ Chennaipy mailing list Chennaipy@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
