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My talk about Buildout got accepted for FOSS.IN/2009 . Hope to meet more Pythonistas there. This time the event is happening very near to my house in Bangalore :) My first FOSS.IN was in 2007, I remember going to IISc every day morning by catching two buses from Banasankari to Majestic then from there to Malleswaram 18th cross. BTW, I felt every news appearing in foss.in site has something to scare speakers,delegates or workouts, I mean so many negative wordings :)

Today is my wedding anniversary :)

Noufal Ibrahim , the main organizer or PyCON India 2009 received Python Software Foundation 's Community Service award along with Barry Warsaw (Creator of Mailman). My hearty congratulation to Noufal Ibrahim and Barry Warsaw.

Today Andreas Jung, release manager of Zope 2, announced Zope 2.12 release . Also he announced new Zope 2 website . This is not just yet another release, there are many interesting things.  It looks like Zope 2 is trying to become a good citizen in Python web framweorks, whatever that means.

These photos are taken by my colleague Ponnusamy.  Thanks to Ponnusamy for allowing me share these photos.

I just reached home from IISc where PyCON India 2009 is going on.  It was a wonderful day.  There was attendees from all over India, I met people from Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kerala etc.  It looks like more 300 people came today (I don't know the exact number).  The session was started with the keynote by Prabhu Ramachandran .   I couldn't attend his full keynote, because my Buildout talk was the next, which was scheduled in the second room. I got some feedback about my talk, if you have any comment, please write here !  Those who using Python, only very few use Buildout now.  I think Buildout should have some more love & marketing to attract developers.   After my talk, I attended few other talks.  I also got a chance to walk in the beautiful campus during lunch time with my new colleagues (trainees) in ZeOmega.  They are very new Python, I hope they are enjoying the sessions. I liked the talk "Test Drive...

The first PyCON India is 10 days away.  The talk schedule is already out.  The statistics of PyCON India is very interesting. It looks like, so far 555 delegates are already registered.  People can come without registration also, they have some spot registration (fee is just Rs. 300/-) Mayavi fame Prabhu Ramachandran is giving the keynote talk.  And there are many other interesting talks.  I have one talk about Buildout . More than all these, this is a great opportunity for Python programmers to meet.  I hope PyCON India will become a great success.

I just reached in Bangalore after conducting a two day Python workshop at NIT Calicut . I was very excited to return to my college again.  Students from almost all departments attended the workshop.  There was more than 50 participants. The program was organized by FOSSCell@NITC . Thanks to FOSS Cell @ NITC team & NITC for inviting me to conduct this workshop. Here are few photos: 1. The beginning 2. Hmm... what is this Python ?! 3. Okay..so printing "Hello World" is just one line ! 4. Time to learn more... 5. Oh. we can do all these things in Python ! 6. Any questions ? 7. Beginning of second day. 8. Errors should never pass silently.

Python community in India is organizing PyCON India 2009. This year PyCON India will be conducted in Bangalore. Next year it will be in some other city. Website: http://in.pycon.org/2009/ Blog post: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2009/07/pycon-india-2009.html BangPypers wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BangPypers

Now I am in Frankfurt airport waiting for a flight going to Dubai. I was supposed to be in another flight going to Bangalore. Well, I am not complaining anything. I guess this kind of things will happen. When we started our flight from Dallas Fort Worth airport, the climate suddenly changed. Until I reach airport it was fine. It was heavily raining and very cloudy. Then our flight delayed for 2 and 1/2 hours. When I reached here, the connection flight's boarding was completed. Anyway, they arranged another flight for me which goes through Duabi and then Bangalore. I will be reaching 9 am morning on Friday in Bangalore. I hope my luggage also will reach there. Update from Dubai: I reached in Dubai two and half hours before, I need to wait 2 more hours here. Here Internet is free unlike Frankfurt and US. In Bangalore airport also, internet is free, but we need to register using a mobile. I statrted 12.00 pm CDT from Dallas, so my total travel time will be more than 35 hou...

I was looking to improve the web presence of Buildout by updating some content in http://www.buildout.org . I got the motivation to look into it again after reading Jacob Kaplan-Moss 's latest blog series about Buildout . I have added links to his blog from buildout.org now. I also added his quote: "Buildout is an exceedingly civilized way to develop an app." into the main page itself ! I think, from marketing point of view, some good quotes will help. So, if you find any good quotes about buildout, please let me know. BTW, I have already collected few quotes there . P.S: Next week I am returning to India :) Here in Dallas, it looks like summer is approaching. I attended Dallas Python user group meetings two times with Brad and Jeff Rush, they are very active.

Check it out here: http://www.buildout.org Thanks to Jim Fulton for developing this great tool. Thanks to all contributors to the site . Please send your suggestions and comments to me .

I reached here in Chicago day before yesterday evening. Yesterday we visited field museum , shedd aquarium and walked a lot in Downtown. Now attending some tutorials. I will be here till 2nd April and planning to attend Zope and friends sprint Today morning I attended Working with Excel Files in Python by Chris Withers. Now attending Eggs and Buildout Development by Jeff Rush (now break time).