[melbourne-pug] Melbourne Python User's Letters

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

Hi all,

Myself and some others from this list have been working on a 
publication, to be called the "Melbourne Python User's Letters," based 
on the name of this user group. I have set up a blog for this 
publication at http://mpul.blogspot.com/ to serve for marketing, 
pre-releases, announcements, comment and feedback.

The intention is that the publication will be a mixture of responses by 
developers to letters from python users -- such as perhaps many on this 
list, and peer-reviewed articles. We have a dedicated editorial board, 
and are keen to go the distance in making this publication high quality 
in terms of content, appeal and presentation.

We will be nominating the publication for recognition as an academic 
journal, and it is hoped that the mixture of accessible articles (code 
and application reviews, announcements etc) and formal articles will 
encourage a wide takeup.

I think this is a genuinely exciting project to be involved with, and 
that we could use this as a vehicle for giving something back to the 
Python community. It would be fantastic to have the active involvement 
of this list in helping to spread the work, provide feedback and 
comment, plus requests for articles etc.

At this stage we are hoping to have the first issue published by 1 
September, and to immediately start preparations for a second issue. We 
look forward to your involvement.

Cheers,
-T (Editor, MPUL)