Adding PyPastry/Telegram event

Author: Marc Garcia

_posts/2019-09-18-pypastry-telegram.md

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+---
+category: "london"
+title: "PyPastry and Telegram bot"
+level: "All levels"
+time: "18:00"
+rsvp_link: https://www.meetup.com/Python-Sprints/events/264752369/
+project: none
+sponsor: iwoca
+---
+
+In this event we will host two sprints:
+
+- [PyPastry](https://github.com/datapastry/pypastry/), a machine learning framework
+- A [Telegram](https://telegram.org/) bot, for our new [channel](https://t.me/py_sprints)
+
+The **PyPastry** sprint will be lead by Doug, its author, and we will work on different issues:
+
+- Add new features
+- Improve the test suite
+- Add typing
+- Create packages
+- Set up the CI
+- Improve the documentation
+- ...
+
+For the **Telegram bot**, we will create a bot to help us with our new channel. Any idea is welcome,
+but some of the things we can work on are:
+
+- Implement a `/next-event` command, to get the link to the next scheduled event
+- Implement a `/next-event-location` to get the geolocation of the event
+- Implement a NLP system able to identify spam, rude or abusive messages, commercial messages like job postings...
+  and automatically block people in the channel posting those
+- ...
+
+Agenda
+
+- 6pm: Networking, drinks and food
+- 6:30pm: Sponsor presentation, project presentations and team creation
+- 6:45pm: Coding
+- 9pm: Group presentations
+- 9:30pm: End of the event, or pub
+
+Requirements
+
+- Bring a laptop with Python and git installed
+
+**Gitter channel:** [https://gitter.im/py-sprints/telegram](https://gitter.im/py-sprints/telegram)

_sponsors/iwoca.md

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+---
+obj_id: iwoca
+name: "iwoca"
+logo: static/images/sponsors/iwoca.png
+link: https://www.iwoca.co.uk/careers/
+address: "247 Tottenham Court Rd, Bloomsbury, London W1T 7QX"
+lat: 51.5180404
+lng: -0.1316623
+---
+iwoca offers finance custom-built for small businesses.
+iwoca provides loans up to £200,000 through their website,
+partner integrations and Lending API; wherever and whenever small businesses need funding.
+Their award-winning technology means they can provide faster,
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+