Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-23 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 23 August 2011 05:21, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 05:59:37PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > > > > > > on several occasions we had 2 > > > > > > > > > > I dont call that a user group meeting. That is definitely > > > apathy though better than no meeting any day. >

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-22 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 05:59:37PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > > > > on several occasions we had 2 > > > > > > > I dont call that a user group meeting. That is definitely > > apathy though better than no meeting any day. > > it works And yes, that is what is required. So, regular sc

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-21 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Anand Chitipothu writes: > >>> Since Noufal is out this week-end, how about next Sat or Sun ? >>> We can all do a bit of reading up of PyPy this week-end, >>> discuss in the mailing list over next week, arrive (hopefully) >>> at a common p

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anand Chitipothu writes: >> Since Noufal is out this week-end, how about next Sat or Sun ? >> We can all do a bit of reading up of PyPy this week-end, >> discuss in the mailing list over next week, arrive (hopefully) >> at a common problem of interest to talk on or hack on next >> week-end. > > N

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Anand Chitipothu
> Since Noufal is out this week-end, how about next Sat or Sun ? > We can all do a bit of reading up of PyPy this week-end, > discuss in the mailing list over next week, arrive (hopefully) > at a common problem of interest to talk on or hack on next > week-end. Noufal is away until 3rd of Septembe

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
I am ready for next week end. We can try using PyPy and we can share our experience and share to rest of world through blogs. Then we will sort famous apps which don't run on PyPy to run on it. http://www.quora.com/Alex-Gaynor/Quora-product/Quora-is-now-running-on-PyPy.

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Anand Chitipothu writes: > > > [...] > > > +1. > > > > I think it is a good idea. I'm interested in working on PyPy or core > > Python bugs. > > +1 for PyPy. I know nothing about it but would love to dive in. If > there's a bunch of people

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Subramanian Olagappan
+1 . I am also interested to contribute. Regards, Subbu On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Anand Chitipothu writes: > > > [...] > > > +1. > > > > I think it is a good idea. I'm interested in working on PyPy or core > > Python bugs. > > +1 for PyPy. I know nothing about it

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anand Chitipothu writes: [...] > +1. > > I think it is a good idea. I'm interested in working on PyPy or core > Python bugs. +1 for PyPy. I know nothing about it but would love to dive in. If there's a bunch of people interested, it would be awesome. [...] -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Anand Chitipothu
2011/8/19 Anand Balachandran Pillai : > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > >> >> >> This is basically just dearth of topics. I don't know how to fix it but >> maybe we can give it some kind of stimulus with a day long hackathon? It >> would help us get into depth about *somet

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:31 +0530, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > > A fixed date without attendees does not a user group meeting > > > make. ChennaiPy has *some* people attending every month. > > > > on several occasions we had 2 > > > > I dont call that a user group meeting. That is defini

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > This is basically just dearth of topics. I don't know how to fix it but > maybe we can give it some kind of stimulus with a day long hackathon? It > would help us get into depth about *something* and make some headway. > It would be g

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anand Chitipothu writes: [...] > Why don't we meet this weekend and discuss this? [...] I'm out of town. :) -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in A little pain never hurt anyone. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.or

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Anand Chitipothu
2011/8/19 Anand Balachandran Pillai : > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 12:05 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> > > chennaipy meets on the 4th Saturday of every month, this is fixed. >> > > Attendance varies from 2 to 15. So the question is not 's

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anand Balachandran Pillai writes: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [...] >> on several occasions we had 2 >> > > I dont call that a user group meeting. That is definitely > apathy though better than no meeting any day. Exactly. It keeps it going which is something

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-19 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 12:05 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > chennaipy meets on the 4th Saturday of every month, this is fixed. > > > Attendance varies from 2 to 15. So the question is not 'shall we > > > meet?' but 'are you attending

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 12:05 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > chennaipy meets on the 4th Saturday of every month, this is fixed. > > Attendance varies from 2 to 15. So the question is not 'shall we > > meet?' but 'are you attending'. This has been going on since 2006 > > with some breaks now and th

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-18 Thread Sreekanth S Rameshaiah
On 19 August 2011 12:05, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves writes: > > > [...] > > > chennaipy meets on the 4th Saturday of every month, this is fixed. > > Attendance varies from 2 to 15. So the question is not 'shall we > > meet?' but 'are you attending'. This has been going on since 2

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-18 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Kenneth Gonsalves writes: [...] > chennaipy meets on the 4th Saturday of every month, this is fixed. > Attendance varies from 2 to 15. So the question is not 'shall we > meet?' but 'are you attending'. This has been going on since 2006 > with some breaks now and then. A fixed date without att

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 10:11 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Maybe we should have more hackdays. Something the IPSS > > should think about pretty soon. > > [...] > > I don't mind travelling any distance once a month. > > My main problem is the lack of interest. I mailed for a few months > (afte

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-18 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Anand Balachandran Pillai writes: [...] > We need to poll people here on top 2 pain points/issues that > prevent them from attending such meets. > > For me - it is mostly the distance to center of the city. > > Maybe we should have more hackdays. Something the IPSS > should think about pretty so

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-18 Thread Apurv Verma
For me it's the distance. -- thanks and regards, Apurv Verma B. Tech.(CSE) IIT- Ropar On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > kracekumar ramaraju writes: > > > > > Things you

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-18 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > kracekumar ramaraju writes: > > > Things you could do to improve diversity in the Python > > community. (Quoting without permission from a thoughtful post on the > > Python diversity list; s/Python/Your project/ to suit your taste.) > > [

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
kracekumar ramaraju writes: > Things you could do to improve diversity in the Python > community. (Quoting without permission from a thoughtful post on the > Python diversity list; s/Python/Your project/ to suit your taste.) [...] It would be nice to just have python user group meetings in Bang

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-12 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
Diverse person can be person from PHP, Java community newly entering Python Community or can be NON-Programming background. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 22:36 +0530, kracekumar ramaraju wrote: > Things you could do to improve diversity what is a diverse person? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ba

[BangPypers] Create Better Python community

2011-08-12 Thread kracekumar ramaraju
Things you could do to improve diversity in the Python community. (Quoting without permission from a thoughtful post on the Python diversity list; s/Python/Your project/ to suit your taste.) - At the next Python event you are at, make a point to talk to someone diverse or new. - Before going to y