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title: June Python Pune meetup 2015

category: meeting-notes

[June Python Pune Meetup 2015](http://www.meetup.com/PythonPune/events/223129113/) was organized at [HelpShift, Inc](https://www.helpshift.com/) (Pune), India on 20th June, 2015.

Around 20 people attended this meetup.

The meetup was started by 11:00 A.M. with a short introduction of attendees.

Then, [Kushal Das](http://kushaldas.in/) conducted workshop on Document your code.

Where he talked about:

- Why Documentation is Important for users and developers?

- Who should write documentation?

- communities having Good Documentation: Qt, Django etc.

- Good and Bad Documentation

- What needs to be documented for a project

- Introduction to reStrcutured Text

- Create a documentation using python-sphinx

- Hosting the generated docs on https://readthedocs.org/

Here is the Slides from Document your Code workshop:

- [Document Your Code](http://kushaldas.in/talks/documentyourcode/)

- [reStructuredText Primer](http://dgplug.org/irclogs/2012/rst-primer/)

[Vineet Naik](https://twitter.com/naiquevin) demoed his tool [sphinx-doc.el](https://github.com/naiquevin/sphinx-doc.el), it generates Sphinx friendly docstrings for Python functions in Emacs.

Thanks to HelpShift for providing the Venue and [Aditya Athalye](https://twitter.com/adityaathalye) in event hosting and and also to speakers and attendees for making the event successful.

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title: July Python Pune developers sprint 2015

category: meeting-notes

July [Python Pune](http://pune.python.org.in/meeting-notes/2015/06/04/may-python-pune-meetup_event_report.html) Developer's sprint, was conducted at RedHat Pune office on 25th July 2015. This was the second developer sprint of the Python Pune to encourage developers to contribute to upstream projects written in Python.

The projects selected for sprint were listed here on [gist](https://gist.github.com/chkumar246/771fc9f5a571d43c80bc).

Aim of the developer's sprint:

- Help people new to OSS, understand contribution process.

- Encourage new developers to contribute to OSS projects.

- Spark a start of new innovative python projects.

- Motivate more community interaction.

The sprint started at 10 a.m. with people starting to select the projects they like. Apart from the major projects [Chandan](https://twitter.com/ciypro) also suggested some projects to start from scratch, which are enlisted in this [gist](https://gist.github.com/chkumar246/771fc9f5a571d43c80bc) in ideas section.

[Tejas Sathe](https://twitter.com/sathetejas) presented his own Python project of creating a git like public repository for storing large data sets needed to do data analysis. And inception of his project happened over there. Those people who liked the idea contributed to project.

[I](http://twitter.com/surajssd009005) was mentoring on a project for the first time. Last developer's sprint [I](https://deshmukhsuraj.wordpress.com/) was a new to all this stuff. I was working on the project called [Scapy](https://bitbucket.org/secdev/scapy/wiki/Home) and was mentoring the same.

At noon 1.30 p.m. there was arrangement for delicious lunch. After that too people kept working on bugs. Folks kept working till 4.30 p.m. and finally we had a [group photo](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKwyLr7UcAAlEzA.jpg). Thanks Chandan and RedHat for conducting and hosting this sprint once again. Thanks a lot.

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title: August Python Pune Meetup 2015

category: meeting-notes

[PythonPune](http://www.meetup.com/PythonPune/) successfully completed 9th iteration of meetup on 29th August, since its reboot in December 2014. [August month meetup](http://www.meetup.com/PythonPune/events/224686182/) was held at [Amazatic Solutions, Pune](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Office+%23+712%2C+713+%26+716+Spot+18+Mall%2C+Jagtap+Dairy+Chowk%2C+Pimple+Saudagar+%2C+Pune%2C+in).

Meetup started with introduction of PythonPune community by [Chandan Kumar](https://twitter.com/ciypro/). Also he talked about upcoming events that are gonna happen in Python India community like upcoming [Pycon India 2015](https://in.pycon.org/2015/) is the next big event.

Then [I](https://twitter.com/surajssd009005) conducted workshop on **[Scapy](https://bitbucket.org/secdev/scapy/wiki/Home)**. I started with what [Scapy](http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/doc/index.html) is and how its flexible relative to other networking tools. And then it was a hands on session.

<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11913976_1179849228699314_926789091768421608_n.jpg?oh=119064421485a4b133c552e8c8291662&oe=56602F28&__gda__=1449918786_484209e2889e7fcfb55695ea734d3153" width="700"

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The basic commands of Scapy, how to craft a packet, how to send them & get responses, ping & traceroute using Scapy, sniff networking card, etc was covered. Here is the [ipython notebook](https://github.com/surajssd/blog_post/blob/master/talks/Scapy_20150829_python_pune.ipynb) of the presentation and following is the presentation

<iframe src="https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/format/slides/github/surajssd/blog_post/blob/master/talks/Scapy_20150829_python_pune.ipynb#/" width="700" height="500" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"

style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px"

allowfullscreen="true"> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/format/slides/github/surajssd/blog_post/blob/master/talks/Scapy_20150829_python_pune.ipynb#/" title="Scapy" target="_blank">Scapy</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://deshmukhsuraj.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Suraj Deshmukh</a></strong> </div>

Next was a talk from [Dhriti Shikhar](https://twitter.com/DhritiShikhar) on **How I started contributing to Fedora-infra**. She talked about the Fedora-infrastructural project called [Pagure](https://pagure.io/pagure).

<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/11951959_1179849172032653_2382701153490299240_n.jpg?oh=d135b906711ef5ee2a1938054eb027f1&oe=566E3C14&__gda__=1450142908_3d2d29d8d640ebd6a72b7926ca2a83b5" width="700" height="400" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px">

She started with the explanation of the project, what it is, how it is being implemented, similarities between Pagure and Github. Then she explained how one can get started with Fedora-infra projects. After that she shown how one can contribute to Pagure by doing a demonstration of solving a bug and sending a pull request. Following is her presentation

<iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/sjFA2L6b64awhM" width="700" height="500" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//www.slideshare.net/DhritiShikhar/getting-started-with-fedora-infra-52205148" title="Getting started with fedora infra" target="_blank">Getting started with fedora infra</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="//www.slideshare.net/DhritiShikhar" target="_blank">Dhriti Shikhar</a></strong> </div>

Finally was a talk from [Anshul Behl](https://twitter.com/anshul_behl) on **Creating your own test libraries for robot framework**. He took a simple Flask webapp and shown how test cases are written using RobotFramework. Further in the demo he shown how easy it is for someone who knows your project but not to technical level to write test cases for your app.

<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11222289_1179849105365993_822716523242892483_n.jpg?oh=30ec0ac1dc56ad049d3e7aea1aed106e&oe=56823562&__gda__=1450587070_28b6f26417c79f04d90abcf7a2600d80" width="700"

height="400" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px">

And how its so human readable, that you type simple English format to write test cases in Robot. Also generating test reports in a nice web dashboard. Here is the link to the [git repo](https://github.com/anshulbehl/pune_python_meetup) he used.

At last was a general discussion about upcoming meetup and what all improvements could be made to the meetup the way it is held. Then there was announcement from Chandan about the upcoming meetup which is gonna be a mix of Workshop and Developer's sprint, so it involves how to get involved in project like [Kuma](https://github.com/mozilla/kuma), which powers [Mozilla Developer Network](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/). Date is yet to be announced so stay tuned to the [PythonPune Mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pythonpune).

<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11889664_1179849198699317_67793453791153942_n.jpg?oh=3cb76a7a990848ec91a333817b154131&oe=56773E03&__gda__=1450050242_57040a139475ea99801e4adabbb5e1c5" width="700"

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So finally thank you Amazatic solutions for hosting this meetup at your place, it was amazing. Thanks Chandan for maintaining this zeal in the community and driving it forward, thanks [Aman](http://www.amanjain.com/) and other folks from Amazatic you were so helpful. Thanks all the guys for attending this meetup.