After a vibrant response from the participants at the first Python Pune meetup, we planned for the second chapter on January 31, 2015 at Red Hat, Pune. This time the meetup was scheduled differently as compared to the previous time as we had call for papers days before the meetup which invited speakers from outside to speak on different topics. As usual, the RSVP on the meetup page was flooding and we had a huge waiting list of people who wanted to join us at the meetup.
The day started at 10:00 am and the first hour of the day was took over by Chandan Kumar where he included a quick revision of the basic python concepts he covered in the first meetup. Next, followed the workshop on Django by Tejas Sathe. It was great to see a University student volunteering to a take a workshop. It was a hand-on workshop where people could learn the basics and create some views for their website. He managed to complete his workshop in nearly 2 hours and then we had a small break for 15 minutes. During the break, some of the girls (who were present at PyLadies last week) walked up to me and shared their experience a bit, mentioned that they were interested in attending in some of the advanced level workshops too. Also, Tejas walked up to me to say a ‘hello’, he mentioned that he could not speak to me at PyCon India, 2014.
After the break and little of interactions, there was a talk by Jaidev on Categorical Data Analysis. This talk included some insights on Data Analysis using Python. The talk was nice though. It was followed by a couple of questions from the audience which proved that the participants were receptive enough to his content. The last was a short 10 minnutes talk by Rohan Kanade on oslo. We wrapped up the event by 2:00 pm giving them some additional information about the next meetup planning and coming up FUDCon 2015, a group picture and distribution of Fedora 21 DVDs. Few people interacted well even while they were heading downstairs which was good to see.
We look forward to another meetup this month to be held on February 21, 2015.
Anisha Narang 