2016

The PyLadies Pune February Meetup was held on 6th Feb at reserved-bit. Kushal took a session on MicroPython on the MicroBit boards. Thanks to @ntoll for sending over the MicroBits for workshops. I reached down to the venue a bit late. On reaching the venue, Kushal told me that he forgot the boards at home and I went to his place to pick the MicroBits. Most of the participants were regular participants for the meetup so Kushal took a quick course on Python. After lunch, they started referring the documentation for the MicroBit - MicroPython and played around with the device by displaying their name, using the button to simulate actions. ...

I have been nominated for the Trek Photographer of the Month. I am grateful to the judges for nominating me. Appreciate if you vote for me. I’m up against some really tough competition :)

Fedora Pune Meetup for the month of August 2016 happened today at our usual location. We had in total 12 people turning out for the meetup. The event started with introductions and we had two new comers joining us this time, Trishna and Prathamesh. This time the event was mostly foccused around re-writing the GNU C Library Manual using reStructuredText and Sphinx. This task was decided during the release event that we had last month. We did create a Etherpad link to maintain the status of the task1. ...

I left early for the venue as haseeb had the first talk of the day and I was volunteering for the Python track. The day started off with a talk by Stephanie Taylor on Introduction to GSoC, and GCI. She talked about the programs Google Summer of Code and Google Code In. She shared some statistics from the past years. The students of GCI last year completed more than 4k tasks, among them 1k+ was done by the students under FOSSASIA organization. ...

FOSSASIA 2016, Asia’s premier conference on Free and Open Software was held at Science Center, Singapore. I arrived Singapore 18th morning, the same day the event was starting. Due to track issues, the metro was running late and I reached the venue around 1100 local time. I directly went to the auditorium where the event was happening. I had already missed the morning talks. It was Tea break when I reached. ...