Pydelhi Meetup and My Learnings
I recently visited a meetup of Python developers and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It’s an excellent meetup for people who are willing to get started with programming. A must-attend event for students in their second-third year.The bi-weekly meetup’s on Saturdays format and other details are updated on PyDelhi’s meetup page. The programme is a combination of dev sprints for several open source projects like Oppia, Sympy, Mozilla etc. as well as lightning talks by participants.
Key takeaways
For those of you who wish to attend this meetup, there are several things that you can take home.
- If you follow what the organisers are talking about, one can definitely kickstart with his/her open source contributions.
- You’ll get to know about IRC and getting started with IRC clients.
- How to look for bugs and procedure for filing them on Bugzilla. Also, if you’re not aware of Bugzilla, volunteers readily explain what it’s all about. This video by Mozilla covers Bugzilla in detail.
- This meetup is an excellent place to showcase your Python skills and get hired.
My Takeaways
I was facing difficulties in building the mozilla-central code. The build failed for different reason every time I tried. I had to fiddle around a lot with configurations and compiler options. I went on to IRC to get help from core developers and eventually I could get my first nightly build. If you are facing difficulties in building the source code as well, ask in #introduction or #developers on irc.mozilla.org. I can’t tell you how happy I was then. Here’s a proof of it :D
Once you have your local nightly build ready, read more here to begin with.
Overall, it was worth my time and I highly recommend people to attend this meetup.
