January Meetup

= Schedule

• Code for Change (20 min)
• Porting Python applications to support Python 2 and Python 3 (20 min)
• Networking Tea Break (30 min)
• Uncharted territories in Medical Python Coding (20 min)
• Lightning Talks

= Code for Change
Speaker: Makesh Gopalakrishnan

We all know tech is shaping every bit of our life experience. While the technocrats are busy building stuff, we still stare at huge problems around us every single day.

An ambulance struck at the traffic signal, people desperately searching for a blood donor, deserving people looking for someone to change their lives.

We talk about problems but seldom do we aspire to take a step towards solving them. There are various NGOs who still fight for causes but with great pain and little support.

Have we wondered as technocrats what if we started coding for change? A line of code might end up saving a life or making someone's life better.

Would you like to listen to how we spent over 5000 hours on creating impact? Do you think it might be the trigger point to be a change?

= Porting Python applications to support Python 2 and Python 3.
Speaker: Poruri Sai Rahul

I can discuss the major changes that one needs to keep in mind when updating a code base to work with Python 2 and 3, tools which will make it easier to update the code base and strategies for fast delivery while reducing the chances of breaking things.

This topic is especially relevant this year as 2020 is End of Life for Python 2.7 and a number of python packages will stop adding features on Python 2.7 this year.

= Uncharted territories in Medical Python Coding
Speaker: Akilesh

I read the description and was intrigued the concept of "Coding for change". I thought this will be the right platform to share my thoughts.

I intend to expose uncharted areas or less explored arenas of medical python coding.

I am a maxillofacial surgeon.(fix broken jaws, operate for cleft lip or operate to align crooked jaws etc;)

I have an ardent interest in healthcare IT and about ways to innovate for the end-user healthcare person (doctors and patients), in ways beyond "data processing" or "record management".

But there is an innovation to implementation gap which some of you may be able to bridge. Most academic exercises do not go beyond the framework stage. Would you code to change that ?

= Talk at Chennaipy

If you would like to do talk (20 min), please add a comment with your talk title and talk description.