Hi all,<div><br></div><div>As I'm sure you're all aware, the PyCon sprints are going on right now and will run for two more days. As a result, you may have noticed an increased number of patches over the last few days -- many of these were from first-time contributors. The turnout for the CPython sprint has been huge and I wanted to introduce and th<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ank a number of people for coming out.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div style="background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scott Wilson</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Denver Coneybeare</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jeff Ramnani</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alicia Arlen</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael Henry</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Natalia Bidart</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Matias Bordese</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Robbie Clemons</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Evan Dandrea</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jonathan Hartley</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Piotr Kaspyrzyk</span></font></div>
</div><div style="background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Brandon Craig Rhodes</font></span></div>
<div style="background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There were a few others from which I didn't get their name, but thanks to everyone for your contributions!</font></span></div>
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</font></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/Pycon2011Sprint">http://wiki.python.org/moin/Pycon2011Sprint</a> has a listing of what the new contributors have been working on, including the issues that have been submitted.</font></span></div>
<div style="background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Additionally, I did a small write-up (with a picture!) of what everyone has been up to: </font></span><a href="http://blog.briancurtin.com/2011/03/16/pycon-2011-cpython-sprint-newcomers/">http://blog.briancurtin.com/2011/03/16/pycon-2011-cpython-sprint-newcomers/</a></div>