<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Kushal Das </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial"><<a href="mailto:kushaldas@gmail.com" target="_blank">kushaldas@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Bibhas <<a href="mailto:me@bibhas.in">me@bibhas.in</a>> wrote:<br></span>I am the co-ordinator for the development sprint days in PyCon US. The<br>
biggest problem for doing similar level of sprints is the lack of<br>
upstream project/developers in the conference. We need more developers<br>
from upstream projects to participate for this and I do know we have a<br>
few of them in the conference.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">What if we ran a sprint to take up a few projects where some of us are close to, or are already local contributors/maintainers and ran a short sprint? Kushal - you have Retask yourself. Anand has web.py or broadgauge (pythonexpress). There are some of us involved in Flask related third party projects.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This is a good opportunity to get people involved in understanding what it really takes to become an upstream contributor by being working side by side with us.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I like this idea, and would be willing to volunteer to help make it happen. My only caveat is that we should separate this from the conference days since they are already packed with way too much going on.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">-A</div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>