Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

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.