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Tech Events this Week: Heroku, Django, Ruby, Devops, Cocoa, Chef

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Pune Heroku Meetup: Getting Started with Heroku

  • Date: Fri, 8 Aug 6:45pm – 7:45pm
  • Location: Vrindawan, 2nd floor, C building, Pune IT park, Bhau Patil Marg

This session will mainly focus on

  • Why Heroku?
  • Heroku Architecture Overview (Web Dyno, Worker Dyno etc)
  • Heroku Add-ons & how to use them in applications.
  • Deploy python-django application on Heroku (Needs internet for this)

About Pune Heroku Meetup

Connect with developers who are using Heroku platform for cloud deployment in Pune and around. Please note this is the platform to meet and share knowledge, and please keep it that way. Please refrain posting any jobs on this meetup.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Venue has limited seating so registration is important. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-Heroku-Meetup/events/192985402/

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Pune Django Meetup: Introductions

  • Date: Sat, 9 Aug 10:00am – 12:01pm
  • Location: McDonalds, near Chandni Chowk, Paud Road

Hey guys! Let’s meet on a weekend some day and get introduced to each other – what we do, what we would like to do, and also the possibility of collaborating for project.

About Pune Django Meetup

This is a group where Python/Django developers will meet, compare notes and work on projects.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Django-Enthusiasts/events/198135092/

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Pune Ruby Users Group: August Meetup

  • Date: Sat, 9 Aug 10:00am – 12:30pm
  • Location: Josh Software, Sunflower Commercial, Baner Road

Monthly meetup for July

About Pune Ruby Users Group

The purpose of this group is to spread awareness of Ruby Pune.

PRUG wishes to engage with students interested in learning Ruby and Ruby related frameworks like Rails, Sinatra, Rhodes, RubyMotion and any others!

PRUG is a group of Professionals working in Ruby, sharing experiences, solving problems, giving demos and presentations.

Students and people new to Ruby are more than welcome!

Freebies and promotional activities are encouraged.

PRUG on the web:

  • Website: http://www.punerb.org/
  • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/punerailsmeet…
  • Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/punerb
  • Google Group: http://groups.google.com/puneruby
  • Job Offers on the mailing to be tagged with [JOBS]

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/events/197285972/

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August Devops Meetup: Chef, Docker, Kitchen

  • Date: Sat, 9 Aug 10:30am – 12:30pm
  • Location: SpotZot Office, 301 Pride House, University Circle

Agenda

  • Chef Fundamentals : Sanju Burkule, OpexSoftware (30 min)
  • Docker Chef Integration : Roshan Nagekar, Spotzot (45 min)
  • Test Driven Development with Kitchen : Gourav Shah, Initcron

Inviting more speakers: Please comment here if you are interested in giving a talk or interested in a particular topic being covered.

About DevOps Pune

Devops is a emerging practice which is blurring the boundaries between developers(devs) and operations(ops) professionals by increasing communication, collaboration and integration between the two. This group is been created to form a community of devops professional and enthusiasts with focus on the following areas, – Cloud Computing – Infrastructure as code / Infrastructure Automation – Opscode Chef – Puppet – Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery – High Scalability – Release Engineering – AWS Public Cloud – Monitoring – Emerging Tools and Technologies

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Pune/events/197471412/

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Pune Cocoa Meetup: Understanding Bonjour and Peer-to-Peer networking

  • Date: Sat, 9 Aug 3:00pm – 5:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip (3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud, Pune)

Apple’s Bonjour is a “zero configuration network” (Zeroconf) multicast Domain Naming System (mDNS) protocol used by Apple devices to enable the automatic and easy discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour (like other multicast services like Avahi and Microsoft’s UPnP) uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers. The elegance of this approach is that it brings simplicity and ease-of- use to the users of network devices and services. Eliminating the need to set up services such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, DNS, and DNS Service Directory, Bonjour enables each device to continuously publish and discover services. By broadcasting Bonjour service messages, printers, servers, and other shared devices can advertise the services they offer. Client devices then monitor Bonjour advertisements and connect to the appropriate servers, as with any other service. The protocol also allows for a device to request services (Service Discovery) on the network as well as respond to incoming requests, which in some cases means a single device can be both a client and a server at the same time. The automatic discovery makes it easy for clients like iPads and Macbooks to easily use a printer using AirPrint or mirror a display to a projector using AirPlay

About Pune Cocoa Meetup Group

This is a group for Cocoa Developers for Mac OS X, iOS; who eat and drink Objective-C and are passionate about Apple Technologies. I started this group as a place where Apple Fanboys can share thoughts and enjoy. It’ll be restricted for hands on iOS, Mac OS X Developers/QA initially, let’s come together & share.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneCocoa/events/189208702/

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(Paid) 2-Day Workshop: Chef Fundamentals (IT Automation)

  • Date: 12-13 Aug
  • Location: Vatika Business Centre, Level 5, C Wing, Techpark One, Airport Road

Chef ?Fundamentals ?is ?a ?2-day ?comprehensive ?instructor-taught ?course ?covering ?the ?basic ?architecture ?of ?Chef ?and ?its ?associated ?tools. ?This ?course ?will ?be ?delivered ?by ?our ?authorized ?Chef ?Training ?Partner, ?Opex ?Software, ?and ?contains ?the ?same ?content ?and ?materials ?as ?our ?standard ?classes ?in ?the ?United ?States. ?This ?course ?aims ?to ?prepare ?key ?development, ?engineering, ?and ?operations ?staff ?to ?use ?Chef ?to ?write ?infrastructure. ?Each ?of ?the ?core ?units ?in ?the ?course ?has ?hands ?on ?exercises ?to ?reinforce ?the ?material. ?You ?will ?learn ?Chef ?by ?using ?it. ?At ?the ?end ?of ?the ?class, ?students ?will ?have ?a ?code ?repository ?that ?can ?be ?used ?and ?modified ?to ?solve ?real ?business ?problems.

Two day course agenda:

  • Overview of Chef
  • Workstation Setup
  • Test Node Setup
  • Dissecting your first Chef run
  • Introducing the Node object
  • Writing an Apache cookbook
  • Writing an MOTD cookbook
  • Refactoring the Apache Cookbook
  • Writing a Users Cookbook
  • Write Your First Roles
  • Write and Use Environments
  • Use Community Cookbooks Effectively

Workstation Requirements:

Attendees should bring a wifi-enabled laptop to the workshop. The following operating systems have been tested as workstation systems with the hands on exercises:

  • Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04
  • Mac OS X 10.7.3+
  • Windows 7

Other platforms and platform versions may work without modification. Due to time constraints we will not be able to troubleshoot issues with unlisted platforms. Attendees should install non-Chef required software before the workshop starts.

  • SSH/SCP (OpenSSH, puTTY/WinSCP or equivalent)
  • Programer’s text editor (Vi/Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text 2 or equivalent)

Additionally, all attendees should install the Chef Client (>= 11.4.0) using the following option:

  • Install Chef Client using Opscode’s Chef Installer

Student Requirements:

It’s best that students of this class have some familiarity and comfort with the following:

  • Writing code (of just about any flavor) in a text editor
  • Working on the command line
  • Basic system administration – installing packages, configuring those package- s, starting service

Fees and Registration

This event is open for anybody to attend and costs $749. Please register here: https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1576883

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(Paid) NASSCOM Product Forum Masterclass: Leveraging the Power of Stories

  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 10:00am – 5:00pm
  • Location: 5th Floor, A-Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

NASSCOM Product Form presents a Masterclass on Leveraging the Power of Stories by Ameen, Founder of The Storywallahs.

Abstract

Stories shape the world and business is no different, but we don’t understand enough about it and don’t know how to use it. NASSCOM in partnership with Institute of Product Leadership is organising a session on “Leveraging The Power Of Stories” on the 12th August in Pune. The session focuses on how Leaders and organizations can use and harness the power of stories.

Some of the topics that would be covered under this session would be:

  • How to harness the power of stories to shape business outcomes
  • How to structure narrative for maximum impact.
  • How to use stories and where to find them.

About NASSCOM Product Forum

NASSCOM Product Forum is NASSCOM’s Industry Forum focused on Product Companies. See NASSCOM Product website for more details.

Fees and Registration

This event costs Rs. 1000 for NASSCOM members and Rs. 1500 for others. Seating is limited, so early registration is requested. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1op4Dr6Qf9mJvxm8LFEqa4Bgsox93pz9JyqVPv7cZxOI/viewform?edit_requested=true

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Tech Events this Week: Machine Learning, Ruby, Arduino, Google IO, WebGL

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(Paid) Basic English Workshop for Tech Professionals/Entrepreneurs

  • Date: 1-31 Jul
  • Location: Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road

Learn : Learn Spoken English with Basics of Grammar

  • English Grammar
  • Formation of Sentences
  • Communication Skills
  • Role Play
  • Public Speaking
  • Voice & Modulation guidance

Fun Interactive programs. Practical Application of course contents.

For Whom

  • Entrepreneurs, Start-ups, Professionals, Corporates, Home makers, Students and interested Individuals of Semi-English mediums

  • Duration : 5 weeks | Starts on 1st July – Ends on 31st July 2014

  • Timings : 3pm -5pm
  • Classes : Mon -Fri
  • Course fees : Rs 2100/-

About the Trainer – Mrs. Lakshmi Srinath

The session will be conducted by : Mrs. Lakshmi Srinath, Founder-Director of Girijamba English Foundation (GEF), English Language Communication Skill Trainer, IELTS Trainer – British Council Certified.

14 + years of experience in training Corporates, Individuals, Home makers; Collegians | A Freelance Content writer | A blogger

A visiting faculty for Business English Communication at INIFD,MIT, ASOM, VIT

About Venture Center

Entrepreneurship Development Center (Venture Center) – a CSIR initiative – is a not-for-profit company hosted by the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. Venture Center strives to nucleate and nurture technology and knowledge-based enterprises by leveraging the scientific and engineering competencies of the institutions in the Pune region in India. The Venture Center is a technology business incubator specializing in technology enterprises offering products and services exploiting scientific expertise in the areas of materials, chemicals and biological sciences & engineering.

Fees and Registration

This course costs Rs. 2100, and open for anybody to attend.

For registration and payment, contact: Miss. Lipika Biswas, Venture Center, Phone: +91-20-20250934/64011024; Email: eventsdesk@venturecenter.co.in

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Pune Ruby Users Group “Open Source Friday” meetup

  • Date: Fri, 4 Jul 5:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Josh Software, Sunflower Commercial, Baner Road

Gautam Rege writes:

For the past few months, we have been having a lot of fun on Friday evening – we don’t work! We hack on some open-source gems, work on some internal ideas (gems, rails projects and techniques) and we found it to be very useful (and fun).

We decided that this could be a good idea for the community – so every Friday @ 5.30pm, anyone interested in Ruby and any Ruby related technologies is more than welcome to over.

Have an Idea?

If you have an idea and want to get the Ruby community to build it, you’re welcome here – you can propose your idea and if there is a quorum, we can work on it.

Love coding?

Come on over and code with others. Bring your own laptop and share your knowledge with others

What do you need to bring?

Yourself and your laptop if you want to code. We shall provide snacks and soft-drinks at our office.

Beer Sponsors…

Beer sponsors – always welcome! Contact gautam@joshsoftware.com if you want to show your appreciation.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/events/158881122/t/md2_rt

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Arduino / Raspberry Pi Meetup: Arduino for Kids

  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 10:30am – 1:00pm
  • Location: Doo, 402A, Town Square, Above Dorabjees, Airport Road, Viman Nagar

Logic Building with Arduino.

Slated for children aged 8 – 15

At the end of the session, children will be ready for their journey on “Intelligent Things”

About the Arduino / Raspberry Pi Meetup Group

This group is for people interested in Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Sensor Electronics and in general ‘The Internet of Things’. With the help of this group, we would like to help foster a DIY culture and engage with educational institutes to introduce arduino kits for fun learning.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/The-Internet-of-Things/events/187692892/

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The Fifth Elephant run-up event in Pune: Applications of Machine Learning

  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 10:45am – 4:15pm
  • Location: Thoughtworks Technologies (New Office), 6th Floor, Binarius Building, Yerwada

HasGeek has arranged a day-long set of talks on the Applications of Machine Learning on 5th July, in Pune.

Here are the details:

Grouping similar messages using Topic modeling

In machine learning and natural language processing, a topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering abstract “topics” that occur in a collection of documents. At Helpshift, we get a lot of customer support messages. We use topic modelling and more specifically the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), to classify similar message automatically based on messages. These grouped messages can be processed by the CS personnel making them more efficient.
This talk will cover Helpshift’s experience and the challenges in using LDA for grouping similar messages without any prior knowledge.

Speaker – Vinayak Hegde

Vinayak Hegde is VP of Engineering at Helpshift. In the past, he has worked at Inmobi, Akamai and Microsoft.

Twitter: @vinayakh

The Cookie as a Customer: An E-commerce Perspective

In the brick and mortar days, the shopkeeper interacted with a live human customer with appearance, expressions and behavioural traits. These attributes influenced the way the shopkeeper pitched his goods. Flip to the current e-commerce world where you are interacting with a cookie which was dropped when a customer visited your website. How does an e-commerce store know the appearance, expressions and behavioural traits of a customer? Based on those characteristics, how does the sales pitch change? Where do these conversations happen?
In this session, Rahul Kulkarni demonstrates with real-world examples how big data from cookies translates into appearance, expressions and behavioural traits of the customer, and most importantly how these are used to make a killer sales pitch for the customer.

Speaker – Rahul Kulkarni

Rahul Kulkarni is the CPO of Sokrati and has been ex-Googler. Linkedin

Application of Machine Learning for Financial Markets prediction

This session covers case studies which use some of the classical as well as cutting-edge machine learning algorithms. Due to ill-conditioning and noisy nature of financial data, there are some unique characteristics of this problem that we will focus on. Robustness of modelling methodology, averaging of models, identifying what is true improvement in prediction accuracy versus over-fitting become some of the serious issues people will need look into.

Speaker – Aniruddha Pant

Aniruddha Pant is the founder and CEO of AlgoAnalytics. LinkedIn

Machine Learning in Online Advertising Domain

In online advertising domain, there are various players which play a different role working on behalf of either publisher or advertiser, directly or indirectly. These players interact with each other in real-time to select the best advertisement optimizing their individual goals. Sreekanth Vempati will present key optimization and real-time impression allocation challenges solved using Machine Learning by different players in the advertising echo system.
As a part of this talk, he will present broadly about PubMatic’s work with Machine Learning and their applications. Specifically, Sreekanth will show some of the Machine Learning applications in online advertising domain, showcasing some of the problems that are being solved in PubMatic.

Speaker – Sreekanth Vempati

Sreekanth Vempati is the Team Lead of Machine Learning & Algorithms at PubMatic. LinkedIn

Text Analytics helping IT management get smarter

In this talk, Nilesh Phadke will discuss Text Analytics and how it can be used for better IT management. The talk will cover an Introduction to Text Analytics, going over the basics of what is meant by Text Analytics followed by some of the key techniques involved in Text Analytics and how these techniques can be used to improve IT management solutions.

Speaker – Nilesh Phadke

Nilesh Phadke is the Lead Product Developer at BMC Incubator Lab. He is working on using machine learning techniques for solving problems in the ITSM domain. Linkedin

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://fifthelephant.in/2014/machine-learning-pune

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Pune Google Developers Group: Google IO Extended

  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 11:00am – 2:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip (3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud, Pune)

Google IO: One of the biggest global tech conferences is going to take place in San Francisco on June 25-26, 2014.

GDG Pune will present screening of Keynote for the members.

Join us for new updates, learning, discussion and awesome food !!!

About Pune-GDG

Pune GDG is the place for developers to discuss google technologies. Pune Google Developer Group meets on the once every month. Our members are using or want to learn more about developing applications using Google technology, including: – Google Ajax APIs – maps, search, visualization, gadgets (JavaScript), Android – mobile development (Java) – Google App Engine – scalable cloud computing (Python and Java) – Google Web Toolkit – web development platform (Java) – Project Hosting.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-GDG/events/188428262/

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Pune Ruby Users Group: July Meetup

  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 3:00pm – 5:00pm
  • Location: Revealing Hour Creations, 402A Town Square, Above Dorabjees, Viman Nagar

Our monthly meetup for July

Akanksha and Sana who are participating in Rails Girls summer of code this year will talk about their progress so far. They are working improving output of heap dump generated by Rubinius.

Amit Thawait will give talk on “Integrating emails with Ruby application using mail gem & postfix”.

About Pune Ruby Users Group

The purpose of this group is to spread awareness of Ruby Pune.

PRUG wishes to engage with students interested in learning Ruby and Ruby related frameworks like Rails, Sinatra, Rhodes, RubyMotion and any others!

PRUG is a group of Professionals working in Ruby, sharing experiences, solving problems, giving demos and presentations.

Students and people new to Ruby are more than welcome!

Freebies and promotional activities are encouraged.

PRUG on the web:

  • Website: http://www.punerb.org/
  • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/punerailsmeet…
  • Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/punerb
  • Google Group: http://groups.google.com/puneruby
  • Job Offers on the mailing to be tagged with [JOBS]

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/events/192782212/

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EMB3D Meetup: Basics of WebGL – Presentation from Abhijit. Explore use cases

  • Date: Mon, 7 Jul 12:45pm – 4:45pm
  • Location: Autodesk Pune, 11F, 36/3-B, Business Plaza, Koregaon Park Annex

See http://www.meetup.com/EMB3D-Pune/events/188563862 for details.

About EMB3D

Exploring new technologies for creating, publishing and viewing 3D content and data on the web, for consumers.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/EMB3D-Pune/events/188563862

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(Nominal Fees) Breakfast with @TiEPune: How start-ups can partner with SAP to transform their business

  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 8:30am – 10:30am
  • Location: 5th Floor, A-Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

TiE Pune Breakfast session – on How start-ups can partner with SAP to transform their customer’s business & achieve breakthrough growth

IT software companies face the classical dilemma of make v/s buy – that is, engineer their entire products inhouse, or pick certain relevant portions from leading technology / platform vendors. Building inhouse entails long development cycles, and often the market has moved by the time the product is ready. By partnering with SAP, such companies can not only speed up their Go to market, but also leverage SAP’s brand and leading technologies in Big Data, Mobility, Analytics & Cloud to enter markets and rapidly build transformational solutions for their customers. This session will share some examples of the work SAP’s partners are doing with customers – large & small – across the world, and offer new routes to market for partnering with SAP.

About the Speaker – Siddharth Hosangadi

Siddharth Hosangadi is a Business Leader with over 15 years of experience spanning several industries, geographies and functions. He has been employed with SAP India since 2005 in various sales and leadership roles, and currently leads SAP’s Strategic Initiatives and New Routes to Market in the Global Partner Operations organization. Prior to joining SAP, Siddharth worked in the IT services industry in MNC’s like Satyam and Ness Global Services, where he sold consulting solutions and professional services to customers in India and Singapore. Siddharth started his career in ICI India, as a Regional Sales Manager for their Specialty Chemicals business.

Siddharth is an active community leader, and counsels groups of families on Life Skills and Bhakti yoga in his spare time. He has been a visiting speaker at various business schools, and counsels and mentors MBA students around topics like communication skills, career planning and stress management.

Siddharth received an MBA degree in 1997 from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute at Mumbai University (a top 10 business school in India), and he has taken formal training in Leadership, Strategic Selling & Effective Public Speaking. He received his B.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from UDCT (top Chem Engg institute in India) in 1995.

About TiE Pune

Pune chapter of TiE – A non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs.

Fees and Registration

Fees : 150/ members and 300/- non-members of TiE.

Register here: https://in.explara.com/e/tiepune10thjuly

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Call for Proposals: Deccan Ruby Conference July 2014

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The Deccan Ruby Conference, the first of its name, will be held in Pune on 19 July 2014, at the Hyatt Regency in Pune.

The call for talk proposals is now open, and will remain open until 5th June.

Submitting a talk proposal is the first step towards making this conference a big success, and in general making Pune’s active tech scene even more awesome.

If you have any question, write to the organizers at team@deccanrubyconf.org

About the Conference

Ruby is fun and this is our idea of having fun while organising a conference. A one-day, single-track conference that starts early and ends late! The conference boasts of workshops and talks for both beginners and experts, a lavish party at a local brewery and a potential Futsal tournament among conference attendees! (After all the World Cup finals would have been just a week earlier). For people staying on till Sunday, we plan to organise a trip to Sinhagad (a fort near Pune that has some pristine scenery and a rich history that will leave you speechless). A good easy 1 hour trek for those who want more than just some football.

“Hou De Karcha” (Let there be expense)

Ticket sales for those interested in just attending the conference are now open, and at the time this article is written, you can still get early bird prices:

  • Early bird tickets will go at Rs. 1,150
  • Standard tickets will be at Rs. 1,850.

“Hou De Shikshan” (Let there be education)

Pune being a student city (yes – there are about 150 colleges just inside the City!), in a very unique way, we are allowing Companies to sponsor students while getting access to hiring budding Rubyists. Read more about this in the Sponsorship Prospectus!

“Hou De Tota” (Let there be loss)

Welcome sponsors! More details in the Sponsorship Prospectus but here are the sponsor slabs:

  • Lai Bhari: Rs. 1,00,001
  • Bhari: Rs. 40,001
  • Abhari: Rs. 12,501

Note: Do not miss the 1 Re. “shagun” (good luck).

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Tech Events this Week: Intro to Python; DrupalCamp; Ruby Hackathon; Docker; WordPress

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BioPune Seminar: Commercializing Technology – Retrofittable Digital Radiography Systems

  • Date: Fri, 4 Apr 4:00pm – 5:30pm
  • Location: Training Room, Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road

BioPune Seminar Series Talk # 5

Taking technology ideas from concept to commercialization: The case of Retrofittable Digital Radiography Systems by Dr. Sreeram Dhurjaty, President, Dhurjaty Electronics Consulting LLC, and Co-founder, Jeevtronics Pvt. Ltd.

Abstract

During the last 10 years, retrofittable radiography systems have created a revolution in Radiography. These systems that are the thickness of screen films have allowed traditional “Analog rooms” to be converted to “Digital Rooms” easily and seamlessly.

This talk traces the development of the first ever digital radiography system, first developed by Eastman Kodak and now sold by Carestream Health. One of the primary inventors of this system is the Author of this talk.

The evolution of the concept will be discussed. This will be followed by the challenges in the various technologies that were needed to realize the product. These include mechanical challenges, power conversion, the scintillator and detector, automatic exposure detection, and wireless, to name a few. Other challenges include the effect of temperature differences on the image. Image processing and rendering techniques as well as image transmission will be discussed. The challenges of commercializing this technology from the research lab to a commercial system will be detailed. This system has been a trailblazer which has instantiated various companies into selling retrofittable radiography systems. Recent advances in this field will be detailed during the latter part of this presentation.

About the speaker – Dr. Sreeram Dhurjaty

Ram held senior positions in engineering and research, in medical systems, at Eastman Kodak Company, Analogic, and Bose Corporation before embarking on a career of full time consulting. He was educated at IIT Bombay and Yale University and has degrees in Civil Engineering, Fluid mechanics, Electronic Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering, and Control System Theory. Over his career he has designed medical systems such as Patient Monitors, Defibrillators, CT scanners, Fetal Monitoring systems, Digital and Computed Radiography, Telemedicine, Telerehabilitaion and precision analog circuitry for medical systems.

He has 15 issued patents in areas of medical devices and systems. He is passionate about affordable medical devices and is working on a hand-cranked defibrillator. He works closely with the Engineering World Health Organization (EWH.org) developing medical devices for undeveloped countries. He also consults on, in addition to power supplies for medical systems, efficient power supplies, and converters for small wind turbines.

Ram is also one of the co-founders of Jeevtronics, Pvt Ltd., Pune and is developing an affordable hand-cranked defibrillator for low and middle income countries.

Fees and Registration

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Python Pune Meet: Python 101: Introduction to Python

  • Date: Fri, 4 Apr 6:00pm – 8:00pm
  • Location: BMC Software, Tower A, ICC Tech Park, SB Road

This month, we are conducting a Python 101 by Rudrasen Sitoleh

The tutorial will be conducted using Python 2.7, make sure you have python installed on your laptops, before you come for the tutorial.

To install python, you can follow the instructions given on python.org. Make sure you install the latest version available in the Python 2.7.x branch. Please do not install Python 3.x series for this tutorial.

Note:

  • Follow all instructions given by BMC staff
  • Kindly keep your laptop serial numbers handy, as you will be required to enter them at the BMC reception.
  • Please ensure that you are at BMC reception, a minimum 15 mins before the event starts.

About Python Pune Group

Python Pune is a group of people interested in Python development. You can join our mailing list for the discussions, and we have regular meetings. See the Python Pune Website for more information.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PythonPune/events/174633282/

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DrupalCamp Pune 2014: 5/6 April

  • Date: 5- 6 Apr
  • Location: SIMS (Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies), Range Hills, Pune

Drupal in Pune started back in February 2009 as Pune Drupal User Group (PDRUG), with an objective to strengthen the local Drupal community in Pune. The first meetup saw 3 Drupalers, in last year we have been able to engage Drupalers in monthly code sprints where focus is on on D8 core contributions. In addition to code sprints, Pune community has also organised global training days and specialized workshops for Pune colleges.

The first Drupal Camp Pune was organized back in 2009. In this first camp there were 300+ attendees. One of the fun highlights of the Drupal Camp Pune 2009 was the Drupal Song which featured in Dries’s blog :), we soon followed up Drupal Day/Hackathon in presence of Addison Berry (former documentation lead, Drupal). Between 2010 and 2014, Drupal community has been focusing on a lot of Drupal meet ups and now its time to have a bigger event: “Drupal Camp Pune 2014.”

What to expect?

In Drupal Camp Pune 2014 you will meet some of the earliest contributors to Drupal in India from around the country. For developers and students, the event presents opportunities for learning, getting involved in community contributions via code/ review/ QA for Drupal 8. One of the main objective of this camp is to engage students more personally in a ladder like workshop. For the business community there will be an opportunity for learning from sessions based on case studies of Drupal websites, meeting representatives of the leading Drupal companies in India, and some of the brightest individuals working on Drupal.

What should I bring in Pune Drupal Camp?

Just come with Open mind and laptop with Drupal 7 installation. You can follow instruction over here.

Keynote – Jacob Singh

Jacob is the country head for Acquia India where he manages all alliances, business development and services in the region. He is an experienced trainer, project manager, developer and scrum-master with 14 years of experience building great web experiences, seven with Drupal.

One of the early Acquians(2008), Jacob holds the distinction of working in the most departments. He has been an integral part of the Acquia Search and Drupal Gardens products, a recognized Drupal trainer and consultant and a solution architect.

Important dates:

  • Call for Papers starts on 12th March, 2014 and ends on 27th March, 2014
  • List of Accepted sessions to be announced on 29th March, 2014
  • Actual event is on 5th and 6th April

Call for papers

DrupalCamp would love to get your proposals for sessions to be delivered in Drupal Camp Pune. You may select any topic from the poolof development, design or anything interesting that you would like to share. Last date for submitting your proposal is 27th March, 2014.

Call for papers: http://camp2014.punedrupalgroup.com/session/add

Call for Sponsors

Not only does a platform like Drupal Camp make the community stronger, but it also contributes to grow economic ecosystem. By Sponsoring Drupal camp you show your commitment to Drupal and the community at large.

Become a sponsor: http://camp2014.punedrupalgroup.com/sponsor-camp

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://camp2014.punedrupalgroup.com/user/register

Event website: http://camp2014.punedrupalgroup.com/

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(Paid) Pune Ruby Users Group Meetup: One day offsite at Lonavala

  • Date: Sat, 5 Apr 10:00am – 6:00pm
  • Location: Velvet country resort Lonawala, Vikas Valley, S. V. Road, Near P.W.D. Resort House, Khandala

Talks

  • 10am – 12.30pm: Hackathon on Brails http://brails.org
  • 12.30pm – 1.30pm: Lunch
  • 1.30pm – 4pm: Hackaton on Brails.
  • 4pm onwards: party time & networking. maybe go for a swim, play cricket etc.

About Pune Ruby Users Group

Pune Ruby Users Group is a Meetup Group for all developers interested in Ruby (not necessarily Rails). For more information see the meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/

Fees and Registration

Expenses : Rs. 800 per person excluding travel charges. Please pay the organisers when you arrive there.

This event is open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/events/173779012/

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SEAP Book Club: New Age Leadership – by @MaheshBaxi

  • Date: Sat, 5 Apr 10:00am – 11:30am
  • Location: Hall 5, A Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

Software Exporters Association of Pune (SEAP) has a Book Club that meets on the first Saturday of most months, where one of the senior executives from the Software Industry in Pune gives a presentation based on a popular book.

This month, Mahesh Baxi, (CEO and Founder of PurpleGear Software, previously, MD of Thoughtworks India), will talk about his own book “New Age Leadership”.

About SEAP – Software Exporters Association of Pune

The Software Exporters Association of Pune (SEAP) is an organization that consists of large to small software export companies in Pune. SEAP acts as a single body representative for the software companies and puts forth its proposals and demands for larger IT related issues with the concerned authorities. SEAP also provides an umbrella under which various technical and marketing issues can also be discussed along with a learning opportunity provided within the member companies. SEAP promotes itself and its activities to the outside world (both within and outside the country) in order to boost the software business from within the Pune region. SEAP publishes and distributes material necessary for the promotion of its existence and objectives. Finally SEAP also endeavors to increase employee interaction within the member companies by organizing various sports events, cultural and extra curricular activities whereby a healthy competition between the various companies can be maintained.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Register by sending a mail to rsvp@softexpune.org.

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Docker Pune Meetup: Intro to Docker; Docker Remove Client API

  • Date: Sat, 5 Apr 10:30am – 12:45pm
  • Location: Red Hat Software Services (RHSS), Level-1 Tower-10, Cyber City, Magarpatta City, Hadapsar
  1. Introduction to Docker – by Navid Shaikh (@SwordPhilic)
    • This session is aimed for folks joining meetup for first time or new to Docker.
    • This session will cover, introduction, hands on CLI for Docker,Docker Index, working with Docker Index, building an image from Dockerfile.
  2. Docker Remote API Client Libraries (python) – by Navid Shaikh

About Docker Pune Meetup Group

Meet developers and ops engineers using Docker in Pune. Docker is an open-source engine for building and deploying cloud applications as standalone containers which can run on any server – from the VM on your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance, and everything in between. Docker is a great building block for deploying web apps, database services, service-oriented architectures, and so on. Learn more about Docker at http://www.docker.io

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Pune/events/173706202/

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WordPress User Group Pune Meetup

  • Date: Sat, 5 Apr 5:00pm – 7:00pm
  • Location: Cafe Coffee Day, Ground Floor, Gold Big Cinemas, Kalyani Nagar

Let’s discuss our love for WordPress and how we can contribute back to community

About the Pune WordPress User Group

This group is for anyone interested in discussing WordPress, be it users, developers, bloggers or beginners. We intend to meet every month, one of the item in every meetup would be to decide the agenda for next meet up .

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-WordPress-User-Group/events/167954292/

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Tech Events this Week: CloudStack, Agile, Wildfly (JBoss), Ruby, Chef and more

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(Paid) Pune Google Developers Group: Workshop in Product Development in Tech Business

  • Date: 26-27 Feb
  • Location: VIT Pune

We are arranging a two day workshop for – “How to build successful apps and turning that into business viable tech startup companies.”. This workshop will be held by Vishwakarma Institute of Technology ,Pune along with Pune GDG.

If you are a student and enthusiast to build apps, this workshop is very use full to you.

Why and what will you learn?

There is a Global Process of product development in technology. That is followed in biggest tech product companies like Google as well as tech startups. So this process ensures Products (Apps) that are built never fail. So every app that gets built following this process has a huge business viability. It avoids developers end up wasting time and resources on something that customer is never going to use.

What will you get?

A certificate for attending the workshop. A Google-developer t-shirt (Design will be out soon.)

Fees

700rs per person. Contact +Shreyash 8793361469 shreyash.ssn@gmail.com +Jayesh 9271200217 jayesh_vb@yahoo.co.in to register.

About Pune-GDG

Pune GDG is the place for developers to discuss google technologies. Pune Google Developer Group meets on the once every month. Our members are using or want to learn more about developing applications using Google technology, including: – Google Ajax APIs – maps, search, visualization, gadgets (JavaScript), Android – mobile development (Java) – Google App Engine – scalable cloud computing (Python and Java) – Google Web Toolkit – web development platform (Java) – Project Hosting.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-GDG/events/167280532/

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NASSCOM Event: Building Future Leaders (for Senior Leadership in IT/ITES Industry)

  • Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1:30pm – 6:00pm
  • Location: EON IT Park, Cluster B Auditorium, Kharadi, Pune

NASSCOM presents a Four part “Leadership Development Series”, focused and tailored exclusively for Senior leadership from the IT / ITES Industry. This event’s topic is: ” Multi-generation / GenY Workforce Management” and “Creating Next Generation Technical Leaders”

Details

Over the years, NASSCOM GICs have played a stellar role in making India the global leader in the IT-BPO outsourcing landscape. GICs have played a key role in creating brand India as a global sourcing destination, and establishing proof of concept. The WR GIC Forum was established 2 1/2 years back to provide a platform to foster best practice sharing and create opportunities for GIC leaders to collaborate on areas in need of collective action and in the long term raise the overall competitiveness of India as a location for this industry.

In a survey launched earlier this year most firms in the GIC forum, identified their future leaders readiness to respond to the rapidly changing IT-ITES operating environment as a key development priority. To address the above need a group comprising of Senior Leaders from various GIC organizations created a leadership development initiative based on inputs from CEO’s and other global leaders. The leadership development initiative “BUILDING FUTURE LEADERS” will provide exposure and learning opportunities to Senior leadership talent within GIC’s specifically those on the anvil of assuming Business Leadership roles. As a part of the above initiative, the GIC forum is pleased to launch a Four part “Leadership Development Series”, focused and tailored exclusively for Senior leadership from the IT / ITES Industry.

The broad agenda for the meeting is as below:

  • 1:30 – 2.00 – Registration and Networking
  • 2.00 – 2.05 – Introduction and Context setting
  • 2.05 – 2.30 – Key note address on “Multi-generation / GenY Workforce Management” by Dr Ganesh Natarajan , Vice Chairman and CEO Zensar Technologies and Past Chairman NASSCOM.
  • 2.30 – 4.00 – Panel Discussion on “Multi-generation / GenY Workforce Management, with:
    • Dr Ganesh Natarajan , Global CEO of Zensar Technologies and Past Chairman NASSCOM
    • Anshoo Gaur – President and Head, Amdocs India
    • Mohit Gundecha, CEO & Co-founder ,JOMBAY
    • Prakash Iyer, MD, Kimberley- Clark Lever Pvt Ltd
  • 4.00 – 5.30 – Panel Discussion on “Creating Next Generation Technical Leaders” with:
    • Nitin Deshpande, President AllScripts India
    • Narayanan Ramaswamy , Executive Director ,Otis
    • Kesavan Srinivasan, Senior Director and CTO, SEARS India
    • Priya Damle, HR Head, Otis
  • 5.30 to 6.00 – Networking Tea / Coffee

Who Should Attend?

  • CEO’s / COO’s / CIO’s
  • Senior Leaders / VP’s / HR Heads
  • Dress Code – Formals

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18jDB8-8Kpw0j_LEIfKVUgZNaUM27LBir3vS5IkFbV7A/viewform

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(Paid) Advanced Excel 2010

  • Date: Fri, 28 Feb 9:00am – 5:00pm
  • Location: Will be SMSed to paid participants

Course costs Rs. 2500. See http://gacademy.in for more details, including course contents and profile of the trainer.

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Visit GMRT (Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope) on Science Day at Junnar

  • Date: Fri, 28 Feb 9:00am – 5:00pm
  • Location: Khodad, Junnar, Pune

http://gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/~sciday/sciday/scienceday.htm

February 28th is celebrated as National Science Day all over the country, commemorating the discovery of the Raman Effect by C.V. Raman, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.

Each year, Science Day is celebrated at the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observatory at Khodad. The GMRT, which is the world’s most powerful telescope operating at low radio frequencies, was built and is being operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). ‘

The “Doo Things Meetup Group” is planning to go there as a group on 28th Feb.

About Doo Things Meetup Group

Let’s get together for doo-ing lots of activities related to Computers, Arts, History, Education, Open Hardware, Software, Robotics.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Doo-Things/events/166312532/

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Pune CloudStack Meetup: CloudStack Architecture; Marvin Test Suite

  • Date: Fri, 28 Feb 4:30pm – 6:30pm
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

This event is the meet-up for Apache CloudStack enthusiasts, developers, users and whoever is interested in IaaS, Virtualization and Apache CloudStack.

Agenda:

  • 4:30pm – 4:45 pm : Introductions, Setting the agenda
  • 4:45pm – 5:30 pm : CloudStack Architecture Deep Dive-Part 1: Mani
  • 5:30pm – 6:15 pm : CloudStack Marvin Test Suite-Umesh
  • 6.15pm – 6.30 pm: Networking, Tea and Snacks

About Pune Cloudstack Meetup

This group is for CloudStack enthusiasts – Developers, IT Admins, Open Source Contributors to learn and share knowledge about this popular Cloud platform. This group is interested in Open Source, Cloud Computing, IaaS, Virtualization, Building private cloud with CloudStack, Customizing CloudStack

### Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/CloudStack-Pune-Meetup/events/166114302/

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(Paid) Weekend Ventures Pune: 54 hours startup launch event

  • Date: 28 Feb to 2 Mar
  • Location: Thoughtworks Pune, Panchashil Tech Park, Yerwada

Weekend Ventures and NASSCOMs 10000 Startups initiative present a weekend idea-to-prototype event.

Weekend Ventures is a platform for developers, designers & aspiring entrepreneurs to come together, share ideas, form teams, build prototypes & launch startups over a weekend in 54hrs!

It provides the networking, mentoring, resources, and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch.

Every attendee is interested in working with a like-minded, motivated and skilled team to develop a product or business over a weekend. If this sounds like you, this is the event for you!

Pitch Idea

Whether you are looking for feedback on an idea, mentorship from experts, a co-founder, specific skill sets, or a team to help you execute, Weekend Ventures is the perfect environment in which to pitch your idea and give it a kick-start to launch your startup.

Form Team

Meet motivated, like-minded, aspiring entrepreneurs, developers & designers during the event. Pitch idea to them, get major votes & form a kickass team to build startup! Learn from mentors, investors & industry experts during mentorship round for your team. Walk away with new friends.

  • See more at: http://pune.weekendventures.org/

Fees and Registration

This event costs Rs. 2000. Please register here: http://pune.weekendventures.org/register

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(Paid) @CSIPune Workshop: Agile Skills

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 9:00am – 6:00pm
  • Location: Persistent Systems, Phase 1, Hinjewadi

Agile is widely becoming popular amongst professionals unlike any other software methodology industry has known. The demand of competent professionals is also growing exponentially as organizations are trying to make end customer successful! The purpose of this workshop is to provide agile practitioners a hands-on-experience on some of the key agile-scrum practices. The workshop is designed and conducted by agile experts who have successfully established agile capabilities for their organizations. CSI and SPIN invite agile developers, testers, scrum masters, leads, and project managers to get the benefit of this specially designed event. This workshop will help them build right skill which will ultimately help address challenges in real life. Prior awareness of agile-scrum fundamentals is essential as workshop will assume basic awareness.

Target Participants & Pre-Requisites

All Scrum practitioners including Developers, Testers, Team Leads, Project Managers and Business Analysts

Fees

  • Rs. 500/- for CSI members, students, and academics
  • Rs. 800/- for others

Registration Fees:

  • Mode of Payment: Direct deposit in SBI at your nearest branch by Cash/cheque /DD in favor of “Computer Society of India, Pune Chapter” Payable at Pune or through Net banking/(NEFT/RTGS).
    • Bank Account details for deposit of Fees.
    • Name of the Account: COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA, PUNE CHAPTER
    • Name of the Bank: State Bank of India: Address of the Bank: Erandawane, Karve Road Branch, Pune 411004 India.
    • Type of Bank Account: Savings Account. : Bank Account No.: 11138216071
    • NEFT / RTGS / IFSC Code: SBIN0004618 :SWIFT CODE: SBININBB218 MICR Code: 411002010

Registration Process (For Individuals):

  • Pay the Fees in SBI by any one of the modes given.
  • After completing the payment, please send email to events.csipune@gmail.com giving your name, email, cell number and the payment details like the cheque No. /Confirmation (UTR) number of the transaction for the payment.
  • On verifying the payment from our Bank, we will confirm the participation

Registration Process (For Corporates):

  • Please send us an email to events.csipune@gmail.com with the following details: Name of the delegate, Phone number, Email. You can send the cheque for delegates at the workshop venue.

Contact

For any additional info – Email: info.csipune@gmail.com, Phone: +919423007948

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What’s new in WildFly (formerly JBoss Application Server)

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 10:00am – 12:00pm
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

WildFly 8 (nee JBoss Application Server) is Red Hat’s open source Java EE 7 compliant application server. It contains robust implementations of WebSocket, Batch, JSON, Concurrency, JMS2, JAX-RS 2, CDI 1.1, and all Java EE 7 technologies. Undertow is the new cutting-edge web server in WildFly 8 and is designed for maximum throughput and scalability, including environments with over a million connections. The number of ports is reduced used by multiplexing protocols over HTTP using HTTP Upgrade. Role Based Access Control support organizations with separated management responsibilities and restrictions. Roles represent different sets of permissions such as runtime operation execution, configuration areas that can read or written, and the ability to audit changes and manage users. In addition a new restricted audit log can be enabled including the ability to offload to a secure syslog server. WildFly also provides a “core” distribution that is ideal for framework authors that want to build their own application runtime using the powerful WildFly 8 architecture. NetBeans, IntelliJ, and Eclipse allow WildFly to be used for development, deployment, and debugging.

This session will provide an overview of all these features using several live demos. Format: 30 mins overview of WildFly 8 + 30 mins deep dive on some specific topic(s)

Speaker: Arun Gupta is Director of Developer Advocacy at Red Hat and focuses on JBoss Middleware. As a founding member of the Java EE team at Sun Microsystems, he spread the love for technology all around the world. At Oracle, he led a cross-functional team to drive the global launch of the Java EE 7 platform through strategy, planning, and execution of content, marketing campaigns, and program.

About Pune Java Meetup Group

This is a group of Java enthusiasts in Pune who meet regularly. The events are free and anyone can attend. See http://www.meetup.com/PuneJUG/ for more.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneJUG/events/162596062/

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Pune Ruby Users Group Meetup: SOLID principles in Ruby

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 10:30am – 12:30pm
  • Location: Revealing Hour Creations, 402A Town Square, Above Dorabjees, Viman Nagar

Talks

  1. SOLID Design Principles in Ruby – Anil Wadghule (@anildigital)
  2. Open slot
  3. Coding session

About Pune Ruby Users Group

Pune Ruby Users Group is a Meetup Group for all developers interested in Ruby (not necessarily Rails). For more information see the meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/PuneRailsMeetup/

Fees and Registration

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TechNext Event: Using Chef

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 4:00pm – 6:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip Softech Recreational Area, 3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, Above Big Bazaar, Kothrud

Topics to be discussed

  • Chef Introduction
    • What is chef?
    • When to use & Why?
  • Chef Architecture
    • Chef Client – Chef Server (open source)
    • Chef Client – Chef Server (enterprise)
    • Chef solo
  • Chef anatomy
    • receipe
    • cookbook
    • run-list
    • role
    • environments
    • attributes
    • databags
    • node
    • worstation
    • knife
  • Example using Chef client/Server
  • Using Vagrant
  • Q & A

About Tech Next

Tech Next is a group which meets twice in a month in Pune, once for expert speakers and once for unconference at Synerzip’s recreation area. This group discuss topics pertaining to IT world from Developer centric technologies, QA centric practices and technology and Agile practitioners experiences.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/TechNext/events/151656962/

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Pune Open Coffee Club Meet: How to Benefit from Improving the Business Communication

  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 4:00pm – 7:00pm
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

Communication is omnipresent in every business – be it small or large. Naturally, an improvement in communication has a positive impact on the business. A lot is said and done about the improving the Communication Skills. However, the area of improving Communication Systems or the Communication Process remains vastly ignored by most organizations. There are sustainable benefits, both tangible and intangible, that can be achieved by improving the business communication system. Some organizations have realized impressive numbers such as 100%+ improvement in operational efficiency and 50%+ improvement in sales. The topic of the talk will cover the “how” part.

This topic would be of interest to companies of all sizes — small and large — that make a good use of digital communication (chiefly email). For startups it helps to keep their communications in order from early days, and for larger businesses it opens up avenues to achieve better collaboration and save productive time. Kindly invite your friends from all such companies to this talk.

Speaker:

The speaker is Ashish Belagali, who is our very own POCC leader. Ashish is an IITan with around 20 years of experience. He runs a software organization. He got interested in the business communication systems area purely our of the needs of his own organization, and has developed a tool in this space. Over the last year, Ashish has researched this space and been interacting with professionals and international experts. The talk is mainly based on the findings of this exploration and interactions.

About Pune Open Coffee Club

With over 10000 members, the Pune Open Coffee Club is the largest forum for startups and entrepreneurs in Pune. It is an open forum, and anyone can join for free. See the PoCC website for more details.

Fees

This event is free and open to all. Please register here: http://punestartups.org/events/event/show?id=1988582%3AEvent%3A312884

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NASSCOM Product Conclave Pune #NPC2014

  • Date: Wed, 5 Mar 9:00am – 5:30pm
  • Location: Westin, Pune

NASSCOM Product Conclave is a day long conference focusing on Indian Software Product companies happening on 5th March. However, those interested should keep in mind that the early bird discount on registration ends on 21st Feb (tomorrow).

Here’s a description of the event from NASSCOM’s website:

It’s a great time to be a Product Entrepreneur in India with the buzz in domestic markets, increased interest in Indian start-ups by overseas investors and withmany fold improvement in infrastructure, India has become an attractive ground to breed start-ups. NASSCOM 10k Project is aimed at helping 10,000 start-ups to germinate & grow in India

NASSCOM Product Conclave 2013 at Bangalore, in October last year was a great success and a true show of strength by the Indian software products industry. The event spread over three days saw high voltage, adrenalin pumping, action filled activities involving more than 1400 software development practitioners interacting, learning and sharing. NPC2013 had 180+ speakers, many of them stars/super achievers in their own field including Nandan Nilekani, Rahul Sood, Rajan Anandanwho shared their experiences with an eager audience. It was a carnival of fresh thinking, innovation and match-making. After the huge success of NPC2013 and on the demand of the industry, NASSCOM is pleased to announce NPC West at Pune, a full day of excitement, knowledge share, networking and setting up agenda for the future of Indian product industry. NPC Pune is planned on March 05, 2014 and will be attended by star speakers from the Product Industry, VCs,Practicing Entrepreneurs, Consultants.

The focus of NPC Pune is to set a stage for Indian start-ups and emerging companies to access knowledge & support available in the ecosystem on building their markets, create performing teams and secure funding. People’ s Choice Awards showcasing Top 10 Products in the NASSCOM Emerge category will also be announced during NPC Pune. You can take advantage of workshops on Digital Marketing, B2B Sales planning and Product Design. NPC Pune will see a turnout of around 400 delegates and aline up of software Product industry, VC industry& Entrepreneur Speakers. We will also bring you the softer touch with an interesting speaker from outside the industry.This NASSCOM Product Conclave is being held in Pune, a strategic hub of Indian Product Start-ups. We wish to encourage all companies located in the region to participate and take advantage of interacting with some of the super achievers in the Indian Products arena.

Check out the NPC 2014 website for details on the speakers, agenda, venue.

Fees and Registration

This is a paid event, and the early bird fees are Rs 1500 for members, 2000 for non-members, and the full fees are Rs. 2000 and 2500 respectively. A special startup fee of Rs. 1000 only applies to companies with annual revenues of less than 1 crore, and which have existed for less than 3 years pay only Rs. 1000.

Please register here: http://www.nasscom.in/npc-pune/registration

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RailsGirls Pune – The Gold and the Beautiful

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(This event report of RailsGirls Pune – a one-day conference for women working on Ruby-on-Rails, first appeared on the Josh Software Blog, and is reproduced here with permission for the benefit of PuneTech readers.)

I was skeptical! Just from my experience of organizing RubyConf India and some local meetups, I was sure the turnout would be low and the event would be ‘casually boring’. If only I knew how crazily wrong I was!

A few days before the event, seeing about 250 registrations was itself a revelation. Then the turnout of over a 100 girls was exhilarating to say the least. I mean, how often does one get a chance to address a crowd at a techie event with ‘Hello Ladies!’. I am indeed lucky.

RailsGirlsJosh Software was one of the sponsors along with ThoughtWorks and CodeIgnition. It was great to see a LOT of mentors turn up for the event — which in my opinion was one of the success factors of Rails Girls Pune – EVERYONE got attention and there was never a case where someone was sitting idle or looking around for help.

The demographics of the crowd was varied – quite a few girls had come down to Pune for this event, some even travelling most of the night to get here!. There were a lot of girls with a prior technical background but none in Ruby. And there were 5 people who were entirely new to programming and they too managed to code, gleefully if I may add! It’s not often you get to hear an artist talk about controllers and methods. 🙂

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One good cultural change that stood out was the kids running around an event with their dad’s baby-sitting them while the mom’s coded!

Proceedings were kick-started off  by Gunjan from ThoughtWorks. She spoke about Women in Technology and Leadership and why such events are so important for everyone.

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After a brief introduction from other sponsors, all participants were divided among various tables and each table was assigned a mentor, though I saw at least 2 or 3 mentors at each table. Everyone was eager to help and answer questions.

RailsGirls3As the mentors were aware of the RailsGirls teaching process, it started of with getting familiar tryruby.org before moving on to other things like BentoBox and explaining basic concepts of Rails. Before long, everyone was busy working hard!

There were lot’s of discussions happening amidst kids running around, regular trips for getting more coffee or tea or some snacks. Before long, it was time for lunch and a breather.

chickendanceThoughtWorks organized an awesome lunch and after lunch, it required more than just Ruby to shake everyone up. What better than a ChikenDance for 5 minutes that started slow with a little bit of shyness among the audience but reached a crescendo with everyone joining in!

 

 

lighteningtalkThere were three Lightening Talks to get the crowd back into the coding groove. I spoke about why we love Ruby with the talk ”My Grandmother can read my code“.  Praveena  gave a talk on “Perks of being a Programmer” and Nishita gave a talk about “How the Internet works!”.

The afternoon was one busy session and everywhere you went, you heard only about Controllers, Scaffold, Bootstrap etc. – music to my ears!

Towards the end of the session, we had some participants showcase their work after uploading on Heroku. A few mentions of some really good work are  http://vast-mesa-2265.herokuapp.com/ideas and http://shrouded-cove-2185.herokuapp.com/

mentorsThe mentors did a wonderful job and got a lot of appreciation from all. Well, at the end of the day, a lot of people mad new friends. (Do not miss the “I <3 Matz” on the bottom right corner of the photo!)

Anup and Prathamesh wound up proceedings with introducing everyone to Pune Ruby User Group and after the prolonged networking that ensued, everyone called it a day and probably slept the night dreaming of instance variables!

A special thanks to Shilpa Nair and Hephzibah who did a wonderful job organizing RailsGirls. Hope to see more of these events soon. Do like the Rails Girls Facebook Page  and show your appreciation!

@RubyConfIndia 2013 Pune Event Report by @JonathanWallace

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(This event report of the recently concluded RubyConf 2013, which was held in Pune a couple of weekends back, by @JonathanWallace first appeared at the @BigNerdRanch blog. It is reproduced here with permission, for the benefit of PuneTech readers.)

In my professional career, I’ve never felt prouder than when I was accepted as a speaker at RubyConf India. I’ve spoken at numerous user groups, helped organize events, and even performed in front of huge crowds, but this was the first time I had been given the opportunity to speak at a conference.

My goal was to put together a quality presentation on debugging that would help the attendees in at least one small way. If each person, from advanced to beginner, were to walk away with at least one new insight or piece of information, then I would be happy.

I found myself achieving that much and more. I met so many friendly people at this conference, had a lot of good conversations and made a number of #rubyfriends—more than at any other conference I’ve attended. And while the accolades and interest in my talk were wonderful, discussing my work, good code and great co-workers at Big Nerd Ranch was the best part of all.
The Talks

There were many other excellent talks at the conference and I enjoyed all of the ones I attended, but I found myself most inspired by three talks in particular:

  1. Siddhant Chothet‘s talk on accessibility and Ruby illustrated how easily the Ruby community could improve accessibility for users and developers. This talk wowed us as Siddhant demonstrated the challenges and impressive capabilities of blind developers. I would be remiss if I didn’t note that though Siddhant did have slides, he did not read from them, as he is blind himself. Not only was this his first talk at a conference, Siddhant gave the whole presentation from memory! If you want to support his work, check out the brails project.

  2. Sau Sheong Chang created beautiful music for us using pure Ruby, turning tweets into music. He shared just enough of the basics of music theory and the physics of music to walk us through his newly released muse gem. I love music and have played the piano for many years, and I look forward to creating music with one of my favorite tools, Ruby. Step one? Add a hubot script that makes use of muse in some fashion.

  3. Our own Andy Lindeman gave the closing keynote. In this talk, he revealed how much we all benefit from open-source software, thanks to the many developers who have given freely of their time and effort. I highly recommend that everyone in the Ruby community see the talk. While Andy’s talk focused only on the code written in Ruby libraries, I find myself flabbergasted at how much benefit we derive from open source, free technologies when considering the full stack of operating system, database server, web server, web browsers and client-side technologies!

Next year

But a summary of a few talks alone doesn’t do this conference justice. It’s definitely a should not miss, and I’m already planning a talk for next year. I hope to see you there.

(For another event report, see this post by student Vikas Yaligar.)

Ruby Conf is coming to Pune – Call for Speakers is now Open

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Ruby Conf, a big, 2-day technical conference of everybody interested
in the Ruby programming language is coming to Pune on 22/23 June, 2013.

The call for speakers is now open. If you have done any work in Ruby, or there is simply some technique, or library that you have used and find interesting, this is your chance to get your 15 minutes of fame amongst the Ruby community in India. This will be a big conference with international participation, so if you into Ruby, you should not miss this chance.

This will be the 4th RubyConf in India, and the second in Pune. Information about the previous ones can be found here. RubyConf India typically sees 500+ participants, and includes notable members of the local and international Ruby community.

Volunteering: If you’re interested in helping out with the conference, please join the PuneRuby mailing list.

For latest information on RubyConf, follow them on twitter.

And, submit a proposal now.

If you are a company that would like to sponsor, the call for sponsors is also open. Sponsorship can be in the form of a direct cash sponsorship, or you could do something else like after-parties, event pre-launch dinners etc.

Code + Beer + Enthusiasm = Pune Hackfest

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(Last weekend, the Pune Rails Meetup community organized a weekend-long Hackfest to build a Citizen Empowerment App. Gautam Rege, one of the organizers of this hackfest wrote this event report about the hackfest, which first appeared on the Josh Software blog, and is being re-published here with permission.)

Damn! Hackfests really work.

At the latest event of the Pune Rails Meetup – we organized a hackfest for the ‘second’ time (ahem – the first one ended before it started). This time however, we had a plan:

“Citizen Empowerment for Better Governance” – the aim was to complete the MVP for this in 2 days! We had a record attendance of 25-30 people on both days. I was skeptical of how much we could do, how much we can organize and if we can manage to keep everyone satisfied – it was make or break!

http://kipwiki.heroku.com — WE DID IT! This portal is almost complete (a few technical glitches but over all I would say it was success in more ways than one. The source code is hosted on github: https://github.com/punerb/kipwiki The hitch was that MongoHQ use v1.6 which does not support $nearSphere conditions for geo-spatial indexing — this causes our geo-location to go for a toss.

These are the lessons we learnt:

Pair Programming

This was not mandated but recommended (LoL — “mandatory pair-programing” — an oxymoron?). This photo says it all. Everyone paired with someone automagically — and it worked like a charm.

There were plenty of more modules build, tracked and tweaked. However, everyone was open to change, talking to everyone AND most importantly committed to “GETTING IT DONE”.

What we did

Initially,we had some mocks that we got confirmed – narrowed down the scope of work to 2 days, discussed with Peter at length what he wanted and then planned this hackfest. The first morning – we discussed the plan and with 1 hour we got down to business. This was our rails stack:

– Rails 3.0.7

– MongoDb (via Mongoid)

– Devise & omniauth for authentication

– mongoid-paperclip (with S3 as storage).

– Heroku and MongoHQ

– jQuery search result filtering

The Party continued into the night

Peter sponsored not just the lunches and dinners – but also ensured there was a steady flow of juices, snacks, fruits and beer! Shardul did not miss the chance to ‘showcase drink-fest’ 😉

Peter even bought a ‘Hackfest’ cake – what more could we ask for?

We worked on the first day till 11.30pm and then crashed to be ready for Day2. Day2 was very very productive and we were coding till 1.30am in the night to reach the finish.

Lots of beer, fun, ‘resolving conflicts’, ‘git blame’ games — and even doing something right like this one of Sergey! 😉

Coding, Designing and Testing

We were able to churn out a LOT of code indeed. But it did not start there. We had to design the web-portal with our designers, we had pivotal tracker to track stories and rspec to test the models. No we did not do ALL this. We used Pivotal tracker to check and evaluate stories and unfortunately we did not do Test Driven Development. Some of the things that we need to improve.

The excellent part of was that we had some rock-star programmers – who churned out a LOT of awesome code and we had some excellent designers who helped with designing.

“427 commits from 17 developers” and here is the impact:

We missed out on Test Driven Development!!

This is one thing that we need to do differently at the next hackfest. Its very important to see this work beautifully and always be ‘code green’.

All in all I think we are ready to be a part of RailsRumble later this year and I do intend to get Pune.rb on the RailsRumble map!

 

Rails Hackfest: Build a Citizen Empowerment webapp in a weekend – 11 June

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Gautam Rege writes:

Pune Rails Meetup announces Hackfest: Citizen Empowerment web app for better governance.

After the post-adrenalin Rush of RubyConfIndia, we are proposing a HackFest which will get us all together to build a web-app. We cannot accommodate more than 25 people for this – so be quick to decide!

Come and go as you please at your convenience — The Hackfest is on for 48 hours!

The Brief

This is a web app to empower citizen’s to create ‘projects’ for better governance in your locality or city. For example, ‘Anna Hazare’s Anti-corruption’ campaign or the ‘Proposed Metro in Pune’ or the ‘Failure of BRTS’ or the ‘Tree Plantation Drive in Baner’, “How to Save Ramnadi” etc.

Projects can be Issues in your locality that you want the Government to look into or new Ideas to improve the locality or city that the Government should undertake. Using Viral Social Media, we can involve various representatives (RTI activist, social workers and government representatives) to take this up to the next level.

Sponsorship

In true Aussie spirit, this Hackfest is being sponsored entirely by Peter Spiers. This project is his idea and he is keen to see how much the Pune Ruby community can deliver!

He will be providing for Beer, pizzas and soft-drinks throughout the duration of the Hackfest.

The Hackfest

The hackfest scope, stories have already been outlined and updated on Pivotal Tracker! Those interested can RSVP for this meetup. If you are interested in the pre-planning process (design, architecture, stories etc.) please send an email to Peter and he will add you to the project on Pivotal Tracker.

Tentatively, this is what we are looking at:

  • Rails 3.0.x and Ruby 1.9.2
  • MongoDB as the data store
  • Devise + Omniauth for authentication
  • Cancan for authorization
  • Mongoid-geo for geo-location.
  • HAML & Sass for templating.

If you are interested in learning or contributing, don’t miss this event.

When, where, how

This event will start at 10am, on Saturday June 11 (tomorrow), and will continue for 48 hours. It will be in the offices of Webonise Software, Mantri Lavendula, Survey No. 52/4/B/2 of Village Bavdhan Khurd Pune.

You can join at any time, and leave at any time. The event is free. It is also officially “closed”, but that shouldn’t really stop a passionate Rails hacker from being able to attend. Just contact the organizers Gautam Rege, Anthony Hsiao or venue sponsor Shardul Mohite and plead until they allow you in.

See the Pune Rails Meetup page for details.