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ChennaiPy December Monthly Meet

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ChennaiPy December Monthly Meet Announcement

== Date & Time

24 Dec 3:00pm to 5:00pm

=== Venue

Zilogic Systems,
Fourth Main Road,
Kamaraj Nagar,
Thiruvanmiyur,
Chennai

Location map: http://www.zilogic.com/contact.html

Agenda

1. Lightning Talks - 60 min.

- Closures - Vijay Kumar
- Python & MySQL - Abdul
- String Handling - Rengaraj
- Python & WxWidgets - Bala

If you would like to give a lightning talk, just come prepared,
we will be able to accommodate you.

2. PyCon 2011 Video: Hidden Treasures in the Standard Library
by Doug Hellmann - 30 min.

Doug Hellmann is the man behind the Python Module of the Week
(PyMOTW). http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/ This presentation
by Doug Hellman covers features of the standard library not
widely known or used. Each feature is presented with a short
demonstration program and explanation.

 

Entry Free.

Open to all.

Django/Python Engineer

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Immediate requirement for an experienced Django/Python developer for a profitable and growing startup. Beevolve (http://www.beevolve.com) is a software product company that develops SaaS based products to help companies make sense of
large-scale data.

Requirements:
• Python
• Django
• JQuery, Raphaeljs/ProtoVis, Javascript
• Flex/Actionscript
• HTML and CSS
• Shell Scripting
• Comfortable with *nix platforms

Links to web applications you have worked on, blog, or open-source code
contributions are all a plus.

What Beevolve offers:

• Informal and entrepreneurial environment
• Flexible working hours
• Market Salaries

If this seems like an interesting oppurtunity to you, please apply here: https://beevolve.recruiterbox.com/jobs/5881

Company: 
Beevolve
City: 
Bangalore
State: 
Karnataka
Expires: 
6 January, 2012
Category: 
Full-Time

Linux System Software Developer

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Userful is looking for experienced Linux C/C++ software developers to work on cutting edge, system level technologies. The successful candidate will work in our Chennai office with a mixed India and Canadian team, and have the opportunity to be a part of every stage of the software release cycle; from initial requirements and research to prototyping, beta/demos, full implementation, quality assurance and release. Depending on business and technical need, any given day you may participate in:
- Rolling out products with compatibility and packaging for multiple operating systems and distributions to a diverse, internationalized customer base
- Maintaining and adding features to existing software
- UI development, system design and architecture
- Low-level networking or driver/system-level programming
- The creation and elaboration of automated test frameworks

The candidate must have:
- Minimum 2 years experience in Linux system-level software development
- University degree in computer science or related field
- Professional experience with C/C++, Python and shell scripting

Nice to have:
- Perl, AWK, Scheme
- Experience developing for multitasking operating systems: context switching, memory management, process isolation and scheduling algorithms
- Windows APIs: WDM, KMDF, PNP configuration manager, threading and events
- Sockets, pipes, shared memory and other IPC

Highly desirable:
- Experience in X Window System programming (especially X11/X.Org Server related work)
- Experience with the Linux kernel, video drivers, and device management
- Familiarity with x86 assembly

Benefits
- Small team of very talented engineers working on core technologies
- Day shift with flexible work arrangements
- Competitive salary

To apply, email your resume to chennai-jobs(at)userful.com

Company: 
Userful Corporation
City: 
Chennai
State: 
Tamil Nadu
Expires: 
31 July, 2011
Category: 
Full-Time

ILUGC Monthly Meet (July 9 th)

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ILUGC Monthly Meet (July 9 th):-
==============================

    Time : Sat July 9 , 2011 (3.00 - 5.30 PM)
    Venue: Classroom No 8,
    Areo Space Engineering,
    Near Gajendra Circle,
    IIT Madras.

Link for the Map: http://bit.ly/iit-aero

==============================

1.
Topic: Intro to Google App Engine with python sdk

Description :
An Introduction on how to get started and build a basic web application
with Google app engine and Python sdk .

Duration : 50 min

Speaker : Gautam [ gautham5678 AT gmail DOT com ]

About the speaker :

The speaker is a 4th Year Computer Engg student from Vels University, Chennai
with an interest in Web Application development , and FOSS development .

Links :
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview.html

http://www.slideshare.net/gautham56781/google-app-engine-8475296

==============================

2.

Topic : Getting started: Android - Primer and discussion

Description :
Everything to get ourselves started in android. A bit about the Android SDK,
command line tools, etc. Very basic stuff. I'm a novice so let's learn together.

Duration : 40 min

================================

3.

Lightning Talk :

Topic : Bitcoin - concepts and theory

Description:

What bitcoins are, why use them, features, etc.

Links:

http://www.bitcoin.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

2 & 3 by

Speaker : Yogesh [ yogeshg1987 AT gmail DOT com ]

About Speaker :

Yogesh works for CSS Corp and is part of the open source services team.
He is involved in some open source community work and evangelism.
He co-authored the Eucalyptus beginner's guide.
http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/eucalyptus-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide-%E2%80%93-uec%C2%A0edition/ 

==============================

4.

Topic: Introduction to Wikipedia

Description:

Wikipedia, is a is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project
supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 19 million articles (over 3.6 million in English)
have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles
can be edited by anyone with access to the site. As of May 2011, there were editions of Wikipedia in
281 languages. IT has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,
ranking around seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365 million readers.

Let us discuss about wikipedia and how to contribute to wikipedia.

Duration: 30 mins

Speaker
: Surya Prakash [ suryasalem2010 AT gmail DOT com ]

About Speaker :

Surya Prakash, is a second year, Mechanical Engineering student at Anna University.
He contributes to Tamil wikipedia and wikimedia community.

http://tawp.in/r/1nmq

5.

General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.
All are welcome. Entry Free

Senior Cross-Platform Software Engineer

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We are looking for hardened software engineers in India. We need people who have the courage to imagine and create, with the skills needed to solve challenging technical problems. If you have a track record of solid product development, we are looking for you!

We have openings for senior developers comfortable with:
• Programming advanced driver-binding infrastructures and low-level device communication between multiple operating systems.

• Writing fault-tolerant low-level system and kernelspace routines in a Windows environment.

• Extending legacy 32-bit code to work in 64-bit Windows at the application layer or directly-interfacing with Windows APIs and kernel code.

• Debugging low-level assembly context switches between two 32-bit applications, and extending the code to function when switching in a 64-bit environment.

• Developing error-checking frameworks to ensure that userspace to kernelspace passing of C structs works correctly between different operating systems in 32- and 64-bit modes.

You should have (most of) these skills:
• Full fluency with C and C++, bash, and Python; bonus for AWK, Perl, Java, C#.

• Multitasking operating systems - context switching, memory management, process isolation, scheduling algorithms, file-system implementation, etc.

• Understanding of porting issues between 32 and 64-bit programs under both Linux and Windows - and of porting issues between the operating systems themselves.

• Linux kernel hacking (drivers, core infrastructure, or both).

• Windows APIs; WDM, KMDF, Services, PNP configuration manager, threading, events, etc..

• Familiarity with x86 assembly and differences between x86 and amd64 (x86-64) ISAs. Sockets, pipes, shared memory, and/or other interprocess communications.

• Limitless self-motivation and creativity.

Conditions
• This is a day-shift position.

• Salary commensurate with experience.

Apply to jobs@userful.com

Company: 
Userful Corporation
City: 
Chennai
State: 
Tamil Nadu
Expires: 
15 July, 2011
Category: 
Full-Time

ChennaiPy - June Meet

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June Monthly Meet Announcement
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Date & Time
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25 June  3:00pm to 5:00pm

Venue
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Zilogic Systems,
No.15 (Old No. 11), Ground Floor,
Saroja Apartments,
Fourth Main Road,
Kamaraj Nagar,
Thiruvanmiyur,
Chennai - 600 041.

+91 44 45018795

Location:

Agenda
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 1. Fun with Python's Newer Tools by Raymond Hettinger (PyCon 2011 Video)

    Video Summary: Raymond Hettinger spends ten minutes each learning
    to work with Counters, named tuples, new string formatting, and
    the LRU cache. Learn the basic API, see how it works under the
    hood, enjoy a simple example, and then have fun pushing it to the
    limit in interesting ways.

 2. Scripting Android with Python by Vijay Kumar

    Summary: The talk will cover the following topics
      * Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) Architecture
      * Writing simple GUI applications
      * SL4A server and Remote Control

All are welcome. Entry Free

http://groups.google.com/group/chennaipy

Programmers & Technical Operations Support

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Rapid Care is currently seeking the experienced Technical Support Operations and Software Development personnel and looks forward to offering you an interesting and challenging career here in Chennai. Personal interviews begin Saturday. Contact sam@rapidcare.net

Job Description: Ubuntu/RedHat/CentOS Technical Operations Expert
3 years experience
- Ubuntu/Redhat/CentOS experience
- Expert in Apache
- Expert in either Postgres administration or MySql Administration
- Deep understanding of website technical operations
- Bonus points for Amazon EC2 & EBS experience

Advantageous but not essential technical experience:
* Experience in one of the scripting languages (sh/ksh/bash, perl, csh).
* Knowledge about Enterprise level storage systems like EMC storage arrays.
* Knowledge of software development using the 'C coding language.
* Knowledge about content filtering tools or devices.
* Knowledge in the areas of load balancing and security policies.

Stream: Programming Expert
Programmers: 3 years experience
- Strong background in mathematical algorithms
- Graph theory &/or optimization theory
- Ruby or Python experience
- Understanding of Rails, C / C++, and relational db

Thank you for your application and interest in Rapid Care.

Company: 
Rapid Care
City: 
Chennai
State: 
TamilNadu
Expires: 
9 April, 2010
Category: 
Full-Time

SciPy India conference 09

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Greetings,

The first "Scientific Computing with Python" conference in India (http://scipy.in) will be held from December 12th to 17th, 2009 at the Technopark in Trivandrum, Kerala, India (http://www.technopark.org/).

The theme of the conference will be "Scientific Python in Action" with respect to application and teaching. We are pleased to have Travis Oliphant, the creator and lead developer of numpy (http://numpy.scipy.org) as the keynote speaker.

Here is a rough schedule of the conference:

Sat. Dec. 12 (conference)
Sun. Dec. 13 (conference)
Mon. Dec. 14 (tutorials)
Tues. Dec. 15 (tutorials)
Wed. Dec. 16 (sprint)
Thu. Dec. 17 (sprint)

The tutorial sessions will have two tracks, one specifically for teachers and one for the general public.

There are no registration fees.

Please register at:

http://scipy.in

The call for papers will be announced soon.

This conference is organized by the FOSSEE project (http://fossee.in) funded by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development's National Mission on Education (NME) through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) jointly with SPACE-Kerala (http://www.space-kerala.org).

Regards,
Kadambari Devarajan via ILUGC Mailing List

Event Date: 
12 Dec 2009 (All day) - 17 Dec 2009 (All day)
Event Place: 
Technopark in Trivandrum, Kerala (http://www.technopark.org/howtoreach.htm)
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