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OTC CatchUp #75

Date: 16-04-2022

Duration: 4 hrs 45 mins

Topics Discussed

  • General introductions.

  • Karuna Tata, Aditya Oberai and Sreekaran Srinath talked about organizing meetups, dealing with large crowds and tips for sponsorships and food.

  • Sreekaran Srinath talked about MLH Fellowship, competitiveness and about his future visit to KubeCon EU at Valencia.

  • Aditya Oberai and Sreekaran Srinath talked about the MLH Coaches program, its requirements, who it’s tailored for.

  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

  • Aditya Oberai and Sreekaran Srinath also spoke about MLH Hackcon, traveling to NYC and delivering talks at Hackcon.

  • Hriday Keswani, Aditya Oberai, and Siddharth Bhatia spoke about developing Windows applications and why it’s so difficult.

  • We talked about OS choices, dual booting, Linux, etc.

  • Harsh Kapadia talked about his experience at the Hack This Fall Mumbai meetup.

  • Harsh Kapadia talked about his favourite part of meetups, which is networking with people and getting to learn from them.

  • We talked about the features of various mobile phone models such as OnePlus, iPhone, etc.

  • Harsh Kapadia asked a doubt about regarding passing variables through functions and bypassing the State variable. (Commit)

  • We talked about how some people in the Crypto community are not ready to accept the issues that exist. (Example)

  • Product Management/Product Manager (PM)

    • We talked about how PM is a multi-faceted role and how it can get split into multiple PM roles (Tech, Growth, etc.) as the project or company grows.

    • We also talked about the Net Promoter Score (NPS) which divides people into Promoters, Passives and Detractors of a product. PMs care a lot about this metric, as it implies how likely a product will experience growth.

    • Ishan Sharma and Kaustubh Khavnekar gave us quite an in-depth view into the SDLC of a product.

    • Ishan Sharma talked about how a product’s design is reviewed by a PM, a Product Designer, the Head of Design and the Head of Product before it is given to be developed.

  • We talked about Elon Musk buying a stake of Twitter.

Attendees

  1. Jay Kaku

  2. Mihika Gaonkar

  3. Harsh Kapadia

  4. Ashwin Kumar Uppala

  5. Sreekaran Srinath

  6. Jaden Furtado

  7. Hriday Keswani

  8. Aniket Chavan

  9. Ishan Sharma

  10. Anil Harwani

  11. Karuna Tata

  12. Aditya Oberai

  13. Himanshu Sharma

  14. Kaustubh Khavnekar

  15. Hardik Raheja

  16. Pranil Chitre

  17. Siddharth Bhatia

  18. Sahil Prasad

  19. Hiten Gerella

Meet Screenshot

Meet #75 screenshot
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