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A number of initiatives were discussed during the meetings.
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### Schedule :
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It was decided regular meetups should be done third thursday of every month. The challenge of course was to ensure that there is reasonable content that could be presented to make it worthy of interest of people to attend the regular meetups. Ideas were elicited about what could be the nature of content people could present. Satyajit (and ???) were appointed the primary coordinators for the meetup scheduling and deciding on the content
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### Content
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<table>
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<tr><td>Presenter</td><td>Content</td></tr>
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<td>Navin Kabra</td>
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<td>Half an hours talk on various topics of interest discussed in python blogosphere, mailing lists, reddit etc. Perhaps 5 mins each on 5 posts</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Jaidev Deshpande</td>
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<td>Various topics related to numpy/scipy etc. </td>
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<td>Dhananjay Nene</td>
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<td>Volunteered to conduct talks every few meetups. When asked for candidate talks mentioned, metaprogramming and celery as possible topics </td>
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### Additional activities
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In addition we decided to kick off some additional activities as follows
<td>Work towards creating a day long event perhaps in March</td>
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</table>
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### Group project
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The group decided to start a project that various people could collectively work upon. Navin suggested creating a Pune Startups directory which was agreed upon as the first project to work on.
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### Mailing List
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It was decided to continue with the current [pythonpune google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pythonpune). There was some discussion on the current posting policy and we decided to continue with the existing policy. ie. some specific relevance to python was required. Also to not allow job postings or posting about other non python related events etc.
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The December 7th meetup was attended by a healthy crowd of 20+ member and students of SICSR.
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### Topics Of Discussion:
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Although Dec 7th meetup was the 3rd meetup of it’s kind held by the pune python
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group, it was held after a long period of absence. The meetup started off
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with a general round of introduction and pleasantries.
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The First question was raised by Navin Kabra. <br>
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Ques: In a programming language based group’s(like pune-python) meetup what actually
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is done and how to sustain a group like this?
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Saager Mhatre, an active member of Pune java group - said meetups are mainly for
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knowledge gathering and knowledge sharing purpose, a meetup is a place where like minded
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people come together and have talks and discussions.<br>
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Saager Mhatre pointed out that meeting people is easy but convincing them to give a talk
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is the challenge. To sustain a group like this and to have it happy and
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successful, members would have to share the burden of being mediators and coordinators.
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Based on this, a general motion was raised to decide
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* What things can be done to make the group more vibrant?
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* Which member(s) shall take responsibility for which task(s)?
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#### 1. Activities the group would organize:
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* Python related talks and tutorials:<br>
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The talks will be of two types: Beginner level and Advance level.
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Talks decided upon are:
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<table>
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<tr>
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<td><strong>Presenter</strong></td>
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<td><strong>Content</strong></td>
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<td><strong>Type</strong></td>
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</tr>
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<td>Haridas N, Munjusha, Ramkey Despande, Kushal Das (any other
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members are always welcome to join the list)</td>
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<td>Python introduction and tutorials: These are a series of
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Python tutorials and introductory talk for the python
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beginners and fresher </td>
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<td>Beginner</td>
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<td>Navin Kabra</td>
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<td>Half an hours talk on various topics of interest discussed
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in python blogosphere, mailing lists, reddit etc.
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Perhaps 5 mins each on 5 posts</td>
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<td>Advance</td>
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<td>Jaidev Deshpande</td>
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<td>Various topics related to numpy/scipy etc.</td>
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<td>Advance</td>
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<td>Dhananjay Nene</td>
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<td>Volunteered to conduct talks every few meetups.
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When asked for candidate talks mentioned, metaprogramming and
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celery as possible topics</td>
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<td>Advance</td>
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<td>_No volunteers yet_</td>
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<td>Test Driven Development(TDD). </td>
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<td>Advance</td>
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* Hackathons:<br>
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Hackathons can be of 3 types.
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+ _Fixed goals_: The objective of this hackathon will be to collaborate and
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complete one mini project at the end of the day
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+ _Free project_: Small groups of two to four would pick topics of their
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choice to work on. The venue would be organized by the user group.
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+ _Bug bash_: Take a open source project or library and solve as many
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bugs as possible
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Date, time and infrastructure will be discussed in the mailing list.
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Dhananjay Nene and Saager Mhatre have volunteered to try and organise at least one
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* A One day meetup in March
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Dhananjay Nene raised a motion to have a one whole day Python bash in the month of March.
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The motion was accepted by the group present and further discussions would be carried out on an email thread.
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* Mentorship and Internship for Students/Python freshers
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Satyajit Ranjeev raised a motion to provide mentorship to the needing students.
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The whole group are requested to volunteer for this.
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Shezad Aibara raised a motion to provide internship to the final year students.
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The motion is kept open and left for further discussion on the mailing list.
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* Github/Git based group projects
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Shezad Aibara raised a motion to have major Github/Git based projects
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under the banner of Python startup. The motion was accepted by
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the group present and two projects were also suggested
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+ Pune Python website: lead by Dhananjay Nene and Palak Mathur
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+ Online Directory of major-minor start-up companies lead by Navin Kabra
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By vote of Popularity :) **Satyajit Ranjeev** was
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appointed as the coordinator of meetup for the Pune Python group.
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#### 2. Job Posting and Moderations on the google group:
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Dhananjay Nene raised a motion to block job postings in the group. After
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much discussion it was decided that no job postings will be tolerated on
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the google group.
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Further moderation rule was also added. No post other than Python related
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shall be posted on the group
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For convenience in moderation it was decided that, if a signed document
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is given to any of the moderators than that member will be exempted from
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moderation. The Nature of the document and process of submission
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is still open for discussion on the mailing list.
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As requested by Dhananjay Nene the number of moderator have been increased, from
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now onwards **Sushrut Bidwai, Mandar Vaze** and **Aditya Laghate** are the
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new moderators of the Group.
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####3. Regularity and next date of meetup
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A general motion was raised stating how often and the next time the group
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should meet? <br>
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It was decided that the group will meet every month and the meetup up will happen
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tentatively on a thursday in the third week of the month. This is still open for
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discussion on the mailing list as there are members who prefer weekends.
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####4. Mailing List or Google Group.
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Satyajit Ranjeev had raised a motion to convert the google group to simply
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a mailing list, citing fears of a possible shutdown of google groups by
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Google Inc. The motion was rejected by the group or say indefinitely postponed
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stating we’ll cross this bridge when we get there. we will continue with the
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current [pythonpune google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pythonpune).
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####5. Separate student stream.
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A general motion was raised to have a separate stream of events for students
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and freshers. The motion was accepted by the group. Events and talks for students
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will be held on the same day but one hour prior to the appointed times.
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####6. Meetup.com Sponsership
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If anyone is willing to sponsor membership of meetup.com for
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the pune-python group please contact Satyajit Ranjeev
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###Conclusion:
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All in all the Dec-7 meetup was a great success. The response was
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overwhelming and enthusiasm shown by the community, for the community was
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immense. Hope this continues. lets make the pune python group one of the
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