Count me in for volunteering. On 18-Feb-2016 10:24 AM, "Prasanna Venkadesh" <prasmai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I am from Central University of Pondicherry (http://pondiuni.edu.in/). We > are inaugurating a club / community of students, professors & technicians > inside the University to promote Freedom of Knowledge (Free Software, Open > Access, etc.,). We also have mobilized people from various schools of > Engineering & Sciences who were interested with this. > > We are looking for a someone who could introduce Python to a crowd of 150+ > (comprised of Students, Teachers & Technicians). I have been part of > Chennaipy for more than a year till now. I also gave a talk at one of > Chennaipy's meetup (end of 2014, I remember). We wanted to invite people > from outside to deliver a talk / hands-on session, I can assist the speaker > with technical needs during the session. > > We have also sent out invitation to Dr. Ajith Kumar, Scientist(H) at IUAC ( > http://www.iuac.res.in/) which he accepted. > > For the past several years he has been involved in promoting Free Software > tools in Education and leading a project for developing open hardware > laboratory equipment for teaching science, that uses Python for data > analysis and visualization. Has been pursuing academic community to include > Python in their syllabus and has written a book on Python. Some of the > details are on the website expeyes.in > > Here is our agenda in brief. It's a 2 Day workshop. > > Day 1 - Common to people from all Schools & Departments. Getting Started > with Python. We are looking for resource person for Day 1 (the reason for > writing this mail). > > Day 2 - Two Parallel Sessions > 1. Python for Physicists, Mathematicians, & Scientists (Dr. Ajith Kumar) > 2. Advance Python for Computer based Streams, Multimedia, etc., (We also > need speaker for this). > > We couldn't confirm the date yet. But we are trying our best to organize > this within 2 weeks. If someone could reply here or can contact me off the > list that would be better. > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Prasanna Venkadesh. > > > _______________________________________________ > Chennaipy mailing list > Chennaipy@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy > >
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