PyLadies India embarked its journey 20th June 2020 marked a new beginning for PyLadies in India. We had our first meetup. I started my journey with PyLadies in 2016 as an organizer of PyLadies Pune [http://anweshadas.in/coming-out-of-hibernation-pyladies-pune-chapter/]. It began with a personal itch of the lawyer who wanted…
We, PyLadies, have started our journey for quite a sometime now. Every year since 2016, we are growing in numbers and chapters. Currently, we have eight active chapters and counting. The COVID pandemic has somehow stopped our course of having physical meetups. But on a brighter note, the situation has…
Today I woke up to great news. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICAAN, has rejected the .org sale proposal [https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21241946/icann-dot-org-isoc-ethos-capital-sale-rejected] . What is ICAAN? ICAAN [https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/ICANN-Internet-Corporation-for-Assigned-Names-and-Numbers] is a non-profit and American multi-stakeholder organisation. It is…
It was the time for “learning Python with harware” in February, 2020 with PyLadies in Pune. Coding in Python becomes fun when one can see the changes it makes in the hardware. Selecting a place for work is always a difficult task as any organizer. College Of Engineering Pune (COEP)…
The technology leads, and the law follows, or is it vice a versa? Both sides are trying to prove their superiority above the other. Thus the situation has lead to much distance between the two. Both these species use Language (legal and programming) to attain their vision. However, both of…
What is Rootconf? Rootconf is the conference on sysadmins, DevOps, SRE, Network engineers. Rootconf started its journey in 2012 in Bangalore, 2019 was the 7th edition of Rootconf [https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2018/]. In these years, through all the Rootconfs, there is a community that has developed around Rootconf. Now…
A week before Software Freedom Conservancy [https://sfconservancy.org/] had announced the CopyleftConf 2020 [https://2020.copyleftconf.org/]. The conference is going to take place on 3 February 2020, Monday, in Brussels, Belgium. The first edition of CopyleftConf took place in February 2019 [https://2019.copyleftconf.org/]. One can have…
Today, 5th February is the safer internet day [https://www.saferinternetday.org/]. The primary aim of this day is to advance the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. Moreover, it promotes the conversation over this issue. So let us discuss a few ideas.The…