OTC CatchUp #10 Summary

General introductions

A Blockchain based startup called Crypto Code School.

@sirus gave us an update on his PR to the Flutter repo.

@Mihika Gaonkar and @AYUSH BHOSLE talked about Image Classification and TensorFlow Lite.

@Harsh Kapadia asked @Kartik Soneji about the importance of HTML outlines. Kartik said that an outline is to show focus on an element like a button or input field (thus improving accessibility) and if one removes the default outline, there should be something that shows focus.

@Harsh Kapadia advised everyone to join #SastaClubhouse meetups for a lot of insightful conversations!

@Harsh Kapadia talked about ethics vs Capitalism in already profitable companies, who use unethical and exploitative means to maximize their profits. Some of the unfair activities that we talked about:

@Harsh Kapadia also talked about how he doesn’t appreciate closed and elitist communities. Everyone in the meet believed that open communities is the way to go, as they help out a lot of people. Yes, open communities come with their own sets of problems, but they will have to be managed.

We discussed privacy issues caused by smart speakers.

Bitcoinrate, which shows the live Bitcoin rate.

@Manan Gouhari showed us his project called Nuggets, which creates a summary for any selected text. Really nice project!

@Tushar Nankani showed us his practice project called Sleek Parallax, which is a work in progress.

@sirus gave us an update on his poem-writing Flutter app called Heartry, which is a work in progress. It’s coming along well!

@AYUSH BHOSLE showed us his Image Classification model for which he created a dataset of 4000+ images manually! He also integrated the model into a Flutter app!