[KRUG/Kochi] Meetup on 15 June

[Nithin Bekal]

Hey everyone!

We'll be hosting this month's meetup on 15 June from 2-5pm at the WowMakers office in Startup Village, Kalamassery.

We will have a quick Intro to Ruby session if we have anyone at the meetup who is new to Ruby. So bring along your non-Rubyist friends too. ;)

Would anyone like to present a talk?

Date: June 15, 2014 - 2-5pm

Venue:

WowMakers,
5K Building, Startup Village,
Kinfra Hi-Tech Park, Opp. Cochin Medical College,
Kalamassery, Kochi

Agenda:

• Introductions
• Intro to Ruby (beginner level talk)
• Talks (to be announced)
  

KRUG blog: http://krug.github.io/posts/jun-2014-meetup/

Please do spread the word! :)

PS. If your company would like to host the July meetup, please let us know here.

[Nithin Bekal]

Is anybody here interested in a talk about Tmux? I've been experimenting with using Tmux and Vim for a mouse-free workflow when working on Rails projects. I'd love to do a talk around the workflow. (Full disclosure: I've only been using this setup for a short while now, so I probably don't know half of what I'm talking about.) ;-)


Another thing: Usually I do the beginner level "Intro to Ruby" talk if there are any newcomers at the meetup. But if I'm doing another talk, it would be nice to have someone else take this up, so folks don't have to put up with me doing two talks at the same meetup. Any volunteers? :)

[Revath S Kumar]

I can give a talk on Presenters in Rails. I already wrote a blog post on this, you can take a look at it so you will get a brief idea about the talk.

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[deepak kumar]

Here is the G+ event link https://plus.google.com/events/chla89lm2d0e88290hkhoas497k. RSVP here  :-)

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[Nithin Bekal]

We have another talk lined up!

Anoop Thomas Mathew will be speaking about How to Use Machine Learning in Web Apps. He is the CTO of Profoundis Labs and recently published the book, Code Explorer’s Guide to the Open Source Jungle.

Take a look at the updated agenda here: http://krug.github.io/posts/jun-2014-meetup/

A talk on Go a few months ago by Deepak had spawned a lot of interesting discussions. So we've been looking to add a more polyglot flavor to the Ruby meetups and have invited some Pythonistas (including Anoop) to join us. Hopefully, the non-Ruby talks will also add a lot more value to the meetups. :)

[Revath S Kumar]

Please update the agenda in in Google events https://plus.google.com/events/chla89lm2d0e88290hkhoas497k

[deepak kumar]

Updated

[Noufal Ibrahim]

I'm not a Ruby person at all. I mostly do Python and C but have some topics that might interest people. If someone is interested in any of these, please let me know and I'll try to whip something up.

1. gevent. This is a libev based library for Python that allows you to have something like green threads inside a Python interpreter with a very high degree of concurrency. Sort of like async without all the callbacks. We use it at our current company and it's an interesting idea. Works around some of the problems of the multi process and multi thread approaches.
2. cpslib - This is a library I'm working on that provides system information like CPU counts, CPU timings, disk utilisation etc. It's written in C and the final plan is to make one cross platform way of accessing all this information that multiple dynamic languages can write bindings for. I spoke about this briefly at the last BRUG meetup in Bangalore.
3. I have a git training that's quite popular so if people are interested, I can talk a little about the git innards which might be useful when you're working with git on serious projects.
4. Shell tricks. I did a couple of sessions earlier where I analyse the contents of a book without reading it using shell scripts and make a summary. It's not very profound but an interesting application. It was well received and people might like it here too.
5. Emacs, of course. Never miss a chance to evangelise it. You can look at emacsmovies.org to see what I've put up.

If anyone is interested in any of these topics, please let me know. I'm not really a "web" guy so that area is closed.

[Nithin Bekal]

Wow, that's a lot of great options!

I will be talking about Vim for a significant chunk of my talk, so I'm slightly biased in favor of the Emacs talk. ;) But frankly, hearing about any of those topics would be fascinating.

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[Harisankar P S]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not a Ruby person at all. I mostly do Python and C but have some topics that might interest people. If someone is interested in any of these, please let me know and I'll try to whip something up.

1. gevent. This is a libev based library for Python that allows you to have something like green threads inside a Python interpreter with a very high degree of concurrency. Sort of like async without all the callbacks. We use it at our current company and it's an interesting idea. Works around some of the problems of the multi process and multi thread approaches.
2. cpslib - This is a library I'm working on that provides system information like CPU counts, CPU timings, disk utilisation etc. It's written in C and the final plan is to make one cross platform way of accessing all this information that multiple dynamic languages can write bindings for. I spoke about this briefly at the last BRUG meetup in Bangalore.
3. I have a git training that's quite popular so if people are interested, I can talk a little about the git innards which might be useful when you're working with git on serious projects.
4. Shell tricks. I did a couple of sessions earlier where I analyse the contents of a book without reading it using shell scripts and make a summary. It's not very profound but an interesting application. It was well received and people might like it here too.
5. Emacs, of course. Never miss a chance to evangelise it. You can look at emacsmovies.org to see what I've put up.

​​My vote if for topics 2 and 4. :) ​

[deepak kumar]

+1 I am in for gevent 

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[deepak kumar]

We love polyglot approach :-)

[Noufal Ibrahim]

We'll figure something out when I'm there then.

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[Nithin Bekal]

Reminder that the meetup is tomorrow at 2pm. See you all there! :)

For those who haven't come here for the past meetups: The venue is the WowMakers office in the 5K building, and not the main Startup Village building near the Kinfra entrance. If you have trouble finding the place, call me on 952-604-7771.

[Shameer C]

Many peoples (including those who use it everyday) don't know what is Git and how it works. The main problem is we don't know what we don't know about git. So IMO, it'll be a good idea to plan a session on Git in one of our meetup. 

Cheers

-Shameer

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Nithin Bekal <nithi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Reminder that the meetup is tomorrow at 2pm. See you all there! :)

For those who haven't come here for the past meetups: The venue is the WowMakers office in the 5K building, and not the main Startup Village building near the Kinfra entrance. If you have trouble finding the place, call me on 952-604-7771.

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[deepak kumar]

Good topic suggestion, can somebody experienced in git take up this for next meetup?

[Shameer C]

@Deepk,

I just picked it from the Noufal's suggestions. I prefer this topic as - most of us are using it, but we don't know what exactly we are doing :)

I feel it's worth prioritizing this topic over others. Let's see what others think. 

Cheers

Shameer

[Nithin Bekal]

We never expected such a great turnout! We saw a bigger crowd than ever before at one of these meetups. Almost half the people traveled 4-5 hours from Calicut or Trivandrum to attend.

Noufal, Anoop and Revath: Thanks for the great talks! It was refreshing to have such a wide variety of topics discussed at the meetup. Hopefully we'll be able to maintain the polyglot nature in these meetups in the coming months. :)

We ran out of time so I couldn't actually do the live demo part of my talk. Maybe I can do that at the next meetup. Btw, here's some of the stuff I mentioned in the truncated version of my talk. Hopefully, it will inspire some of you will to try Tmux and Vim. ;)

My vimrc: https://github.com/nithinbekal/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc

My tmux bookmarks: http://nithinbekal.com/notes/tmux/
Vim bookmarks: http://nithinbekal.com/notes/vim/

Cheers!

[Abijith Kp]

Hi all,

It was my first time in attending a similar meet up. I had a good time.

Thank you all.

Regards,

Abijith

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[Nithin Bekal]

I was asked about the slides for my talks on Twitter. Here they are:

Ruby 101: http://slides.nithinbekal.com/ruby-101/

Tmux and Vim: slides.nithinbekal.com/tmux-vim/

Anoop, Revath: Could you share the slides for your talks too?

[Noufal Ibrahim]

On Sun, Jun 15 2014, Shameer C wrote:

> Many peoples (including those who use it everyday) don't know what is
> Git and how it works. The main problem is we don't know what we don't
> know about git. So IMO, it'll be a good idea to plan a session on Git
> in one of our meetup.

[...]

I think so too. github has destroyed git in many ways and most of my
trainings try to remedy that. Let's see. I've written a little text
based multi player game using gevent on the train. So, maybe I'll demo
that. :)