IT & ITeS

Tremendous progress has been made in area of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). However, as per a study, only 11% of open source participants are women. Another study of GitHub developers from 2015 found that only around 6% were women. While we do not have data specific to India, we do know that Indians are making a great impact in the world of FOSS. Jigyasa Grover, an engineering student of Delhi Technological University, has made it to the top 5 finalists across the globe for the Red Hat 2017 Women in Open Source award in the Academic category for her contribution to the world of FOSS.

UXness, an online social collaboration platform for UX, recently organised their first design event on Gamification in Enterprise Software at UX Gupshup, Pune. This event was conducted to spread awareness about Gamification and how it can be effectively used in Enterprise Software. In this event, team UXness discussed about basics of gamification, game mechanics, and enterprise software & why there is need to gamify enterprise software.

Pune Mobile Developers is the one of the biggest and most active meetup group in Pune for knowledge exchange on mobile technologies. With 2800+ members, the group focuses on various areas of mobile development in different platforms including Android and iOS. Recently, they organized a meetup on 25th Jun focused on Android N (Nougat) as part of their monthly meetups. Zoheb Syed, Suyash Gupta and Kaushal Dhruw from Talentica Software were the Subject Matter Experts for the session.

Pune Mobile Developers is the one of the biggest and most active meetup group in Pune for knowledge exchange on mobile technologies. With 2800+ members, the group focuses on various areas of mobile development in different platforms including Android and iOS. Recently, they organized a meetup on 14th May focused on Android Best Practices as part of their monthly meetups. Suyash Gupta, Senior Android Developer, Talentica Softwares, was the Subject Matter Expert for the session.

Python Pune Group, a community of passionate Python Programmers predominantly from Pune, organized a technical workshop on 28th May at Amazatic Solutions, Pimple Saudagar, Pune, on Data Analysis using Python pandas as part of Data Science series in their May Monthly Meetup. Sudarshan Gadhave, was the Subject Matter Expert for this workshop.