Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

Last Friday (13th August) I conducted a Python training at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai (REC) . I got the invitation few weeks back from Jayakumari, a faculty member of computer applications department. Initially we planned for 2 day workshop with hands on sessions. But later it changed to 1 day training program. I started my journey from Bangalore on Thursday afternoon in a KSRTC bus. I reached in Poonamallee , Chennai around 9 pm. Two students - Gurubaran & his friend Rajaram was waiting for me. They got me into a bus going to Thandalam where the college is located. The campus looked very nice and it was very calm and quiet. They had arranged my stay in their hostel guest room. It was a very nice stay and the Tamil style dinner was very good. This was the second time I going to Chennai. Previously I came for US Visa interview at US consulate . The training session started around 9.30 am. There was around 60 participants including some faculty members. The com...

So, did you submitted your talk proposal for PyCON India 2010 ? You have 10 more days to do it. But why you need to wait till the last date? :) There are a good number of talks submitted already. Yes, I also submitted a talk proposal, this time about BlueBream . This is for the first time I am going to speak about BlueBream project. Last year, my talk was about Buildout .

PyCON India is coming again ! Two days back official announcement about CFP was out. The conference will be hosted for the second time in Bangalore. Make sure you are submitting the talk proposal on time. Looking forward to see you all there.

Dear Lazyweb, I am looking for suggestions for building a healthy community around one of my FOSS project.  Recently I initiated re-launching of  Zope 3 project with a new name: BlueBream . You may know from my old posts that I am very interested in Zope 3 and Zope Component Architecture (ZCA).  I have written an entire book about  ZCA in 2006. You can read more about the new project in the BlueBream project blog .  I am looking for your suggestions.  You can send mail to me: baiju.m.mail AT gmail.com or add comment here . Well, I will continue with my past experience with FOSS. This is my second largest FOSS project, the first project which I started in 2001 ( SMC ) is still very active.  However, for the past few years, I am not active in that project. I still watch that project growing (of course, I help them whenever possible ). There are more than 500 members in the group itself.  The developers regulary meet at various events.  They o...

Now there are more than 175 Buildout recipes available in PyPI ! Some of the recipes are updated in Buildout site . If you have some which is not listed there, please ping me or add a comment here. If you are adding a recipe to PyPI, please use the Framework :: Buildout trove classifier, so that it will be automatically listed in the PyPI list .

After 14 years, Zope community has created a website for ZODB ! I hope this will increase the adoption of ZODB along with the NOSQL trend . Congrats to Christian Thueni (gocept.com) for working on the site.

First PyCon Asia Pacific 2010 is going to happen this year at Singapore. Deadline for Manuscript Submissions is on 1st February.

Oh. that was very disastrous. Today I send linkedin invitation using my Gmail contacts. I don't know where and all it went. Some went to bug trackers where there is email supported like Launchpad. Some went to my mailing lists I subscribed, some went to some people who send me mail occasionally. I am so sorry that it happened like that. I apologize for the inconvenience caused.