Event Report for April,2017 Python Pune Meetup

Author: rabajaj0509

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+title: April Python Pune Meetup 2017
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+The [April PythonPune Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/PythonPune/events/239079298/) was held on 30th April at [Red Hat, Pune](http://www.redhat.com/en).
+The meetup was scheduled at 10:30 am and by the time it was 11 am it was house full! and
+ about 70 attendees were present at the meetup.
+
+### The Agenda of the meetup was:
+
+ * All about virtualenv - by [Poruri Sai Rahul](https://github.com/rahulporuri)
+ * Deep Learning using Keras - by [Prakash Anand](https://www.meetup.com/PythonPune/members/222517572/)
+ * Game Theory and Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma - by [Sourav Sing](https://twitter.com/MrSouravSingh)
+ * Introduction to Ansible - by [Abhijeet Kasurde](https://github.com/Akasurde)
+
+### The first talk of the meetup was presented by [Poruri Sai Rahul](https://github.com/rahulporuri) and he spoke about:
+
+ - What is a virtual environment?
+ - How to set up a virtual environment using Python virtualenv?
+ - What is the importance of virtualenv?
+ - How important is the placement of the virtualenv folder?
+
+The talk was an **interactive one** and many questions were asked like :
+
+ - What is the difference between a stand-alone program and a virtual environment?
+ - Is Docker a substitute for virtual environments?
+
+The slides to [Poruri Sai Rahul](https://github.com/rahulporuri) talk are present [here](https://github.com/rahulporuri/talks/blob/master/virtualenvs_runtimes.pdf).
+
+### The second talk of the meetup was presented by [Prakash Anand](https://www.meetup.com/PythonPune/members/222517572/) and he spoke about:
+
+ - What is deep learning?
+ - The importance of deep learning.
+ - What is the difference between deep Learning and machine learning?
+ - Basics of Keras.
+ - Deep learning using Keras.
+
+### The third talk of the meetup was presented by [Sourav Sing](https://twitter.com/MrSouravSingh) and he spoke about:
+
+ - What is game theory?
+ - What is Prisoner's Dilemma?
+ - What is payoff matrix?
+ - Also, he gave a demo session in which many graphs were simulated using IPD in Python.
+
+The slides to [Sourav Sing's](https://twitter.com/MrSouravSingh) talk are present [here](https://gitpitch.com/souravsingh/IPD-presentation/master).
+
+### The last talk of the meetup was presented by [Abhijeet Kasurde](https://github.com/Akasurde) and he spoke about:
+
+ - Introduction to Devops.
+ - Introduction to Ansible.
+ - Why is Ansible better than other configuration management tools?
+ - He spoke extensively about provisioning, configuration management and application continuous delivery.
+
+The meetup was very informative and interactive. Not to forget we were served with tasty food also.
+I would like to thank the organizers of the meetup for arranging such events where we always get to learn something new.