Mailman 3 October 2015 - PSF-Community

Research on teaching Python vs. other languages?
by Ned Batchelder 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

A friend at a CS department is advocating to switch to Python as the teaching language rather than Java. Some of his peers would like some evidence (research?) that Python is better-suited as a first language. Anyone have links to such a thing? --Ned.

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PSF Board Meeting Minutes - 2015-09-24
by Diana Clarke 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Hi folks: The PSF board meeting minutes from September 24th, 2015 are now available online: https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2015-09-24/ The following grants (https://www.python.org/psf/grants/) were approved since the last meeting, totalling $15,699 USD. - Django Girls Budapest https://djangogirls.org/budapest/ Budapest, Hungary November 21-22, 2015 Amount: $567 USD - PyCon Poland http://pl.pycon.org/2015/index.html Ossa, Poland October 15-18, 2015 Amount: $3,000 USD - Astroplan, conference travel request http://dotastronomy.com/events/seven/ Sydney, Australia November 2015 Amount: $2,250 USD - PyConES http://2015.es.pycon.org/en/ Valencia, Spain November 20-22, 2015 Amount: $3,000 USD - Django Carrots France http://www.4ideas.fr/project/DjangoCarrots PyCon France October 18-20, 2015 Amount: $1,750 USD - PyCon CZ https://cz.pycon.org/2015/ Brno, Czech Republic November 14-15, 2015 Amount: $2,000 USD - PySS 2015 http://pyss15.pyss.org/en/ San Sebastian, Spain October 24-25, 2015 Amount: $1,000 USD - Django Girls Novi Sad https://djangogirls.org/novisad/ Novi Sad, Serbia October 24, 2015 Amount: $500 USD - Django Girls Mbale https://djangogirls.org/mbale/ Mbale, Uganda October 31, 2015 Amount: $750 USD - Django Girls at PyConES https://djangogirls.org/pycones2015/ Valencia, Spain November 20, 2015 Amount: $750 USD - Hong Kong Python User Group, Meetup.com Fee http://www.meetup.com/pythonhk/ Amount: $30 USD - Helsinki PyLadies, Meetup.com Fee http://www.meetup.com/Helsinki-PyLadies/ Amount: $12 USD - Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy), Meetup.com Fee http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/ Amount: $90 USD For more updates from the PSF, please visit our blog and follow us on Twitter. https://twitter.com/ThePSF https://pyfound.blogspot.com/ Here are a few of the more recent blog posts from the PSF: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2015/10/twisted-trial-ported-to-python-3.html http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2015/10/bbcs-microbit-project-open-sourced-toda… http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2015/10/python-in-cameroon-success.html Cheers, --diana

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Python based advanced XMPP client/social network looking for help !
by Goffi 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Hi there, even if I'm using python for years, I just applied to PSF and subscribed to this list, and this seems the right place to talk about our project. We are working on a free (AGPL v3+), decentralized, encrypted and feature-full communication tool (or “social network”) made in Python (technical details below). We are a non-profit association focusing on ethic (see http://salut-a-toi.org/social_contract.html), and the project is based on XMPP. But XMPP is not only about instant messaging, we also work a log on blogging/microblogging, file sharing, and this kind of stuff. We have just launched a small crowdfunding campaign to port our project to Android (and make a new desktop frontend at the same time) by using Kivy and its Python for Android/Buildozer tools: http://www.arizuka.com/en/projects/libervia . We are looking for help to: get some visibility (technical people know us in France because we attend a lot of free software events, but not elsewhere), get help for the code, and succeed the crowdfunding campaign. I hope I'm in the right place to talk about this. TECHNICAL DETAILS: We are on a backend/frontend architecture, the backend being based on Twisted, the frontends communicate using D-Bus (or potentially any IPC). We have a Web, CLI, and console frontend, we used to have a desktop one based on wxWidgets (wxPython) but we have deprecated it (we will replace it by the Kivy frontend). We are Python 2.7 because we use Twisted, but as you probably know there are progress in Twisted port to Python 3, so we hope to be able to port the project to Python 3 in 2016. Because we use D-Bus, each frontend can be made in any language, but we have made all of them in Python so far (except one draft Qt one in C++). The CLI frontend use argparse, and we are probably are on the way to have the most advanced XMPP CLI client. The console frontend is based on Urwid, and modal (inspired from vi/vim). The Web frontend is 100% python too because we are using Pyjamas for Python => JS transcompilation. But as you may known there have been some huge issues with Pyjamas, and the project is now dead (we have tried to revive it without success), so we are now thinking about porting it to Brython in 2016. We are pushing XMPP, and we are among the pioneer (with Movim and Jappix) in microblogging implementation with XMPP. We have written XEP (XEP-0355 and XEP-0356) to implement what we need, and we are working on other ones. We also work on the server side with a PubSub component, a directory, and this kind of things. The project is *very* large, well advanced (started in 2008), and we have overcame the major issues we had with XMPP, next release should start to be very useful (a full decentralized blogging engine). We have a lot of features an try to do experimentation (e.g.: http://www.goffi.org/post/2014/02/18/A-universal-remote-for-your-softwares ). This is a unique tool in Python world and in free software world in general. But we have really difficulties to get visibility or support, that's why I'm asking some help here. I hope this long message is a good introduction. Our website: http://salut-a-toi.org web frontend demo: http://www.libervia.org (beware: outdated version, and everything is empty at the beginning, you need to add some contacts to test) our campaign for desktop/Android frontend: http://www.arizuka.com/en/projects/libervia Thanks a lot! Jérôme Poisson aka Goffi

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Python based advanced XMPP client/social network looking for help !
by Goffi 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Hi there, even if I'm using python for years, I just applied to PSF and subscribed to this list, and this seems the right place to talk about our project. We are working on a free (AGPL v3+), decentralized, encrypted and feature-full communication tool (or “social network”) made in Python (technical details below). We are a non-profit association focusing on ethic (see http://salut-a-toi.org/social_contract.html), and the project is based on XMPP. But XMPP is not only about instant messaging, we also work a log on blogging/microblogging, file sharing, and this kind of stuff. We have just launched a small crowdfunding campaign to port our project to Android (and make a new desktop frontend at the same time) by using Kivy and its Python for Android/Buildozer tools: http://www.arizuka.com/en/projects/libervia . We are looking for help to: get some visibility (technical people know us in France because we attend a lot of free software events, but not elsewhere), get help for the code, and succeed the crowdfunding campaign. I hope I'm in the right place to talk about this. TECHNICAL DETAILS: We are on a backend/frontend architecture, the backend being based on Twisted, the frontends communicate using D-Bus (or potentially any IPC). We have a Web, CLI, and console frontend, we used to have a desktop one based on wxWidgets (wxPython) but we have deprecated it (we will replace it by the Kivy frontend). We are Python 2.7 because we use Twisted, but as you probably know there are progress in Twisted port to Python 3, so we hope to be able to port the project to Python 3 in 2016. Because we use D-Bus, each frontend can be made in any language, but we have made all of them in Python so far (except one draft Qt one in C++). The CLI frontend use argparse, and we are probably are on the way to have the most advanced XMPP CLI client. The console frontend is based on Urwid, and modal (inspired from vi/vim). The Web frontend is 100% python too because we are using Pyjamas for Python => JS transcompilation. But as you may known there have been some huge issues with Pyjamas, and the project is now dead (we have tried to revive it without success), so we are now thinking about porting it to Brython in 2016. We are pushing XMPP, and we are among the pioneer (with Movim and Jappix) in microblogging implementation with XMPP. We have written XEP (XEP-0355 and XEP-0356) to implement what we need, and we are working on other ones. We also work on the server side with a PubSub component, a directory, and this kind of things. The project is *very* large, well advanced (started in 2008), and we have overcame the major issues we had with XMPP, next release should start to be very useful (a full decentralized blogging engine). We have a lot of features an try to do experimentation (e.g.: http://www.goffi.org/post/2014/02/18/A-universal-remote-for-your-softwares ). This is a unique tool in Python world and in free software world in general. But we have really difficulties to get visibility or support, that's why I'm asking some help here. I hope this long message is a good introduction. Our website: http://salut-a-toi.org web frontend demo: http://www.libervia.org (beware: outdated version, and everything is empty at the beginning, you need to add some contacts to test) our campaign for desktop/Android frontend: http://www.arizuka.com/en/projects/libervia Thanks a lot! Jérôme Poisson aka Goffi

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Re: [PSF-Community] PyCaribbean Conference
by John Gill 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Hi Leonardo, This is a conference I would very much like to have some involvement in. I am based in Bermuda. Not technically in the Caribbean, but feel there is a lot we can be working on together. I am very interested attending, maybe giving a talk about what is going on here in Bermuda. Will see if any others here in Bermuda are interested too. Johnny Leonardo Jimenez <ljimenez(a)stancedata.com> writes: > Hi Guys, > > I’m one of the PyCaribbean organizers, an upcoming Python Conference that will be held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 20-21 of February 2016. We > would love to have you here. > > We're working on making this conference an incredible experience! > > We are receiving call for proposals until November 20th so if any of you would like to be an speaker is more than welcome. You can send your talk > proposal to proposals(a)pycaribbean.com also you can follow us at @pycaribbean > > For further information, you can contact the organizers leonardo(a)pycaribbean.com or vivian(a)pycaribbean.com > > Thanks, > Leonardo Jimenez > * > > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community(a)python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community

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Re: [PSF-Community] PyCaribbean Conference
by John Gill 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Mary, I think I might need to go to this. How about going via Jamaica? J Leonardo Jimenez <ljimenez(a)stancedata.com> writes: > Hi Guys, > > I’m one of the PyCaribbean organizers, an upcoming Python Conference that will be held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 20-21 of February 2016. We > would love to have you here. > > We're working on making this conference an incredible experience! > > We are receiving call for proposals until November 20th so if any of you would like to be an speaker is more than welcome. You can send your talk > proposal to proposals(a)pycaribbean.com also you can follow us at @pycaribbean > > For further information, you can contact the organizers leonardo(a)pycaribbean.com or vivian(a)pycaribbean.com > > Thanks, > Leonardo Jimenez > * > > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community(a)python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community

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Opening MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit
by Nicholas H.Tollervey 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hi Folks, Many apologies for cross posting. Here's some good news - we've finally been given permission to open-source our work on the BBC micro:bit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/microbit) and be a bit more vocal and public about what we're doing. Put simply, around 1 million of these devices will be given to the UK's 11yo in the spring. They are all capable of running Python. If you think the following is of interest, please spread the word! It'd be great to see the wider Python community get involved in this. Damien George (creator of MicroPython) announced it here: http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1042 I've written up a "story so far" blog post, for those of you who need some context, here: http://ntoll.org/article/story-micropython-on-microbit The actual source code can be found here: https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython I'm more than happy to answer any questions you may have. Best wishes, Nicholas.

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Sponsored Tickets to PyConES 2015
by Betsy Waliszewski 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Hi all, The PSF has 5 free conference tickets to PyConES. The event is November 20-22 in Valencia at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) and will be organized by a joint effort between the local user group and Python España association. http://2015.es.pycon.org/en/ Please email me and let me know if you're interested and I'll provide the details. Cheers, Betsy -- Betsy Waliszewski Python Software Foundation Event Coordinator / Administrator @betswaliszewski

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Re: [PSF-Community] [Webmaster] Python meetup group in the island of Malta
by Laura Creighton 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

In a message of Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:52:56 +0200, Pavel Savshenko writes: >Hi Cherny, > >Thank you, yes it does help; I believe Laura Creighton mentioned it before >and it is a great resource. > >Unfortunately I have a few problems. > >First, I am not able to log into the wiki to add the new community: all >oAuth attempts fail, multi/single google login or launchpad; my username >PavelSavshenko seems to be used, and reset password does nothing. >Does anyone know who manages the wiki and how I could get help? There seems >to be an open issue for oAuth 2.0 on pypa/pypi ><https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/223/google-openid-20-going-away-plea…>, >but not sure if it's the same code reused on other *python.org ><http://python.org>* sites. > >Additionally I still have not managed to contact a bigger python audience >on the Maltese islands (1 person contacted so far). > >Perhaps someone, who started off a local community, care to comment how the >initial members contacted each other, their experience of organising a meet >up and the process of finding new members? > >That would be very very helpful. > >Best regards, >Pavel All the various login things on python.org do not in any way link with each other. It would be great if they did, but they each started being run by their own volunteers at a time when sharing such things (there was no oAuth or Open ID) was harder. To get into the wiki you need to make a wiki login. https://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontPage?action=login Sorry for the hassle, Laura Creighton

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PSF Board Meeting Minutes - 2015-08-24
by Diana Clarke 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

Hi folks: The PSF board meeting minutes from August 24th, 2015 are now available online: https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2015-08-24/ The following grants (https://www.python.org/psf/grants/) were approved since the last meeting, totalling $3,874 USD. - PyTexas 2015 https://pytexas.org/2015/ College Station, Texas September 25 - 27, 2015 Amount: $2,500 USD - PyLadies ATX Childcare http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-ATX/ Austin, Texas Amount: $450 USD - Django Girls Perth Australia Workshop https://djangogirls.org/perth/ Perth, Australia September 19, 2015 Amount: $750 USD - PyLadies Edinburgh, Meetup.com Fee http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesEdinburgh/ Amount: $69 USD - PyLadies ATX, Meetup.com Fee http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-ATX/ Amount: $45 USD - PyLadies Berlin, Meetup.com Fee http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesEdinburgh/ Amount: $60 USD The PSF also formally recognized the Grants Working Group with representatives based in based in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, South & Central America & Caribbean, and North America to help evaluate grant requests from around the world. More information about the working group can be found here: https://wiki.python.org/psf/GrantsWG/Charter https://wiki.python.org/psf/GrantsWG For more updates from the PSF, please visit our blog and follow us on Twitter. https://twitter.com/ThePSF https://pyfound.blogspot.com/ Cheers, --diana

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