Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-08-01 Thread vijay kumar
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:53 PM, vijay kumar wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Anand Reddy Pandikunta < > anand21na...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Any thoughts about Python job board? >> >> I have plan to work on it . > Let me know if you can join http://python.org.in/jobs/ > > I will star

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-21 Thread vijay kumar
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Anand Reddy Pandikunta < anand21na...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any thoughts about Python job board? > > I have plan to work on it . Let me know if you can join http://python.org.in/jobs/ Right now it's static page so we need to plan to see how to make it dynamic. __

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-21 Thread Anand Reddy Pandikunta
Any thoughts about Python job board? Regards, Anand Reddy Pandikunta (@ChillarAnand) www.avilpage.com On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 4:44 PM, kracekumar ramaraju < kracethekingma...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > > > Once in a while - for other meetups like the Android user group hosted at > > Thought

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-21 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
[...] > > Once in a while - for other meetups like the Android user group hosted at > ThoughtWorks- some other company has even sponsored Pizzas. In return, they > were given a 10 minute slot to talk about their product. No one in the > audience ever felt that they were the product or felt offended

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread Noufal Ibrahim KV
I still think it's a worthwhile experiment and should be tried. If things go awry, it can be cancelled. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread Balkrishnan V
Very well put Ram! I too share the same view that shutting the doors is not a solution. The dynamics of any committee-activities will be known only later and we need to fine-tune the proceedings when a need arises. We simply have to take small steps with the positive goal with which this discussi

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Folks: I'm an employee from one of the companies - ThoughtWorks - who have helped make space available for meetups. I'm not around in Bangalore now-a-days, so I ask one or the other colleague to help provide space. Noufal has described at ThoughtWorks position on such meetups. I've been chaperon

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
Thanks everyone for pitching in with suggestions. Every point is worth. At this point we will focus what we're currently doing and pause this initiative. Thanks once again! On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:27 PM, sayantan bhattacharya wrote: > Exactly. So, in case the organizers are looking for sponso

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread sayantan bhattacharya
Exactly. So, in case the organizers are looking for sponsors for the next meetup, the search time reduces too. On Jul 20, 2015 3:03 PM, "Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे" wrote: > > > > But in case Company B wishes to present too, they > > will have to get prior permission from Company A along with the >

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
> > But in case Company B wishes to present too, they > will have to get prior permission from Company A along with the organizers > of the meet-up. > Or Company B can just sponsor next meetup ;) -Mandar ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread sayantan bhattacharya
Going through the mails, I think it would be better for us to maintain a job posting site/place separately. Personally, I like the meet-ups for the information they provide as well as chatting with other programmers. Allowing companies/startups to present their content would not fit the actual purp

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 20 July 2015 at 13:42, Nitin Kumar wrote: > So in such case isn't it our responsibility to give a chance (to speak > about opportunity) to the company hosting the workshop. > Even I feel some of the audience would be quite interested in them (after > having a look to their infra, teams) > No,

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread Nitin Kumar
> > Many companies have sponsored space and snacks without expecting any thing in return. So in such case isn't it our responsibility to give a chance (to speak about opportunity) to the company hosting the workshop. Even I feel some of the audience would be quite interested in them (after having

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
> > > > Imagine a scenario where startup X is hosting a BangPypers meetup. > Assume an employee of startup Y is pitching for his company at the end > of the meetup. Let us say Startup Y happens to be a direct competitor > of startup X. > > How do you think that will work ? > Yes, this can get nast

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
On Jul 20, 2015 11:49 AM, "vijay kumar" wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah > wrote: > > > On 20 July 2015 at 11:39, Noufal Ibrahim KV > > wrote: > > > > > > We expect companies to be alteast be active in community in share > > > knowledge > > > > rather than just

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: > > On 20 July 2015 at 11:51, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे > wrote: > >> How about "A company that sponsors a meetup, formally gets 10 minutes at >> the end" ? >> This alleviates the above concern, also more companies may come forward >>

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Anand B Pillai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 July 2015 11:43 AM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: > > This is not correct. Many companies have sponsored space and snacks > without expecting any thing in return. If a company offers space to > you to conduct meeting and competing compan

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread satyaakam goswami
> > > > Thoughts ? Any other ways to facilitate this ? > > [1]: https://meetup.com/bangpypers ​i think we are thinking too much into something which has been not an non issue and the whole thread has construed into something which it was never the intent of OP :-) this is how we handle these scen

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim KV
On Mon, Jul 20 2015, vijay kumar wrote: [...] > Am one among them hence i want to see it continue to be what it is > today. [...] That's great and I'm sure it'll get better. My comments were just my own thoughts. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in ___

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 20 July 2015 at 11:51, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे wrote: > How about "A company that sponsors a meetup, formally gets 10 minutes at > the end" ? > This alleviates the above concern, also more companies may come forward to > sponsor > Why will volunteer speakers go and talk in a venue to enable h

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
> > This is not correct. Many companies have sponsored space and snacks without > expecting any thing in return. If a company offers space to you to conduct > meeting and competing companies go there to make 10 minute presentation of > job offers, then companies will have a second thought to offer

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread vijay kumar
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah wrote: > On 20 July 2015 at 11:39, Noufal Ibrahim KV > wrote: > > > > We expect companies to be alteast be active in community in share > > knowledge > > > rather than just coming for job posting announcement. > > > > Companies are not int

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread vijay kumar
> There is some place for commercial interests in a healthy > community. > It already there, i have seen where people give interviews instead of attending talks. Is that the purpose of meetup? The people working on bangpypers really deserve our > appreciation for bringing the whole thing upto t

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 20 July 2015 at 11:39, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote: > > We expect companies to be alteast be active in community in share > knowledge > > rather than just coming for job posting announcement. > > Companies are not interested in "sharing knowledge". They're interested > in hiring and making money a

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim KV
On Mon, Jul 20 2015, vijay kumar wrote: [...] > We expect companies to be alteast be active in community in share knowledge > rather than just coming for job posting announcement. Companies are not interested in "sharing knowledge". They're interested in hiring and making money as it should be.

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread vijay kumar
> > > We already have job page on python India website ( > > http://python.org.in/jobs/). We should plan to work on that page > instead. > > How often is that used to be a platform for opportunities within the > Python community? > As of today "no one use it" as the page was place holder for idea t

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 19 July 2015 at 13:16, vijay kumar wrote: > > > > > > There was a suggestion of having 10 minutes slot at the end of the meetup > > where companies can speak about them and openings for 2 minutes. > > > > -1 > Today lot of participants come as it's a place to gain and share knowledge. > We sho

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread sankarshan
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:16 PM, vijay kumar wrote: >> >> >> There was a suggestion of having 10 minutes slot at the end of the meetup >> where companies can speak about them and openings for 2 minutes. >> >> -1 > Today lot of participants come as it's a place to gain and share knowledge. > We sho

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Jagadesh Babu T
Hi Vijay, I can help you with that. Thanks Jagadesh Babu T 9066375854 On Jul 20, 2015 10:19 AM, "vijay kumar" wrote: > > > > > > We already have job page on python India website ( > > > http://python.org.in/jobs/). We should plan to work on that page > > instead. > > > Otherwise we can have Ban

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread vijay kumar
> > > We already have job page on python India website ( > > http://python.org.in/jobs/). We should plan to work on that page > instead. > > Otherwise we can have Bangpypers newsletter where we send meetup details > > along with job opportunities as well. > > > > +1 for job board and newsletter. I

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19 2015, Deep Sukhwani wrote: > > > One major concern of all is that people showing up on meetups ONLY > > with an agenda of getting a chance to speak with employers. > > True but I think this distinction between "community"

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:16 PM, vijay kumar wrote: > > > > > > There was a suggestion of having 10 minutes slot at the end of the meetup > > where companies can speak about them and openings for 2 minutes. > > > > -1 > Today lot of participants come as it's a place to gain and share knowledge. >

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
> > [...] > * We can have a simple job board site where companies can send pull > requests. > * We can have a separate meetup once in a while only for this. > > Logistics and operations is going to be hard. > > Regards, > > -- *Thanks & Regardskracekumar"Talk is cheap, show me the code" -- Lin

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim KV
On Sun, Jul 19 2015, Deep Sukhwani wrote: > One major concern of all is that people showing up on meetups ONLY > with an agenda of getting a chance to speak with employers. True but I think this distinction between "community" and "companies" is not as clear cut as it's made out to be. Companies

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Deep Sukhwani wrote: > One major concern of all is that people showing up on meetups ONLY > with an agenda of getting a chance to speak with employers. > IMHO, creating a venue for people to talk to potential employers is a good thing. As long as that doesn't tak

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Deep Sukhwani
One major concern of all is that people showing up on meetups ONLY with an agenda of getting a chance to speak with employers. That said, I agree with Noufal Ibrahim KV to at least experiment with it once before making a decision to stick with it or not. On Jul 19, 2015 8:54 PM, "Anand Chitipothu

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread anu sree
+1. It will be helpful for beginner like me to get job. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 2:04 AM, kracekumar ramaraju < kracethekingma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > We have come long way with BangPypers meetup [1]. In last two years, we > conducted regular workshops and talks. We have seen people travelling from > different cities to attend our meetups. 82 peo

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim KV
On Sun, Jul 19 2015, kracekumar ramaraju wrote: [...] > There was a suggestion of having 10 minutes slot at the end of the meetup > where companies can speak about them and openings for 2 minutes. +1 atleast as an experiment. Companies are part of the "community". [...] -- Cordially, Noufal h

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-19 Thread vijay kumar
> > > There was a suggestion of having 10 minutes slot at the end of the meetup > where companies can speak about them and openings for 2 minutes. > > -1 Today lot of participants come as it's a place to gain and share knowledge. We should not be changing the intention of meetup by providing space

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-18 Thread Anand Reddy Pandikunta
It is a good initiative & BangPypers should facilitate this. However it is better to keep it aside instead of bringing this into mainstream. * We can have a simple job board site where companies can send pull requests. * We can have a separate meetup once in a while only for this. Regards, Ana

[BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-18 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
Hi We have come long way with BangPypers meetup [1]. In last two years, we conducted regular workshops and talks. We have seen people travelling from different cities to attend our meetups. 82 people attended our last meetup! There are lot of companies use Python in Bangalore. Most of these comp