Mailman 3 September 2013 - pydotorg-www

Fwd: Suggestions for changes to the edu-sig list
by Andre Roberge May 23, 2014

May 23, 2014

I hope this is the right mailing list... I can no longer maintain the edu-sig page; could someone take care of this please? (and also remove my name at the bottom of the page) André ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joanne Daudier <joanne(a)learnstreet.com> Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:27 AM Subject: Suggestions for changes to the edu-sig list To: andre.roberge(a)gmail.com Hi Andre: My name is Joanne Daudier, and I'm with LearnStreet, an online platform for computer programming education. We are creating a new tool <http://www.learnstreet.com/teacher> to help computer science teachers teach Python with ease . The tool includes a teacher dashboard, an autograder, practice exercises, projects, and lessons on programming languages and computer science topics. We believe that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code, so we've created these free resources for educators around the world. *Could you help us with our mission by adding LearnStreet's teacher pilot program to the edu-sig list?* Thank you! [image: Inline image 1] *Joanne Daudier** Community Manager / Growth Hacker* LearnStreet | Mobile: (858) 243-9052 www.learnstreet.com Testimonials: http://sfy.co/bBJb [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/learnstreet> [image: Twitter]<http://www.twitter.com/learnstreet> [image: Google Maps]<https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1121+San+Anton…> Contact me: [image: Skype] joanne.daudier Latest post: Cool Tools are a Must-Have for Web Designers | via @designmodo http://t.co/wlx15OQd3W Cool Tools are a Must-Have for Web Designers <http://t.co/wlx15OQd3W> Like<http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=320273958029000&story_fbid=5215884…>· Comment<http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=320273958029000&story_fbid=5215884…>· Share<http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.facebook.com%25…> Get this email app! <http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/facebookpage?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=…>

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PyPI Wordpress iframe/Widget
by Dustin Oprea Oct. 1, 2013

Oct. 1, 2013

I'd like to throw-together a little website widget that displays how many downloads one or more PyPI projects are getting. I'd then like to wrap it in a modest WordPress plugin. I could do it in Javascript that directly scrapes the requested PyPI page(s), but then it's be scraping PyPI from every page it's used, on every pageload. It be costly to PyPI, and have a delay on the webpage. If I write a small service endpoint, I could cache all of the information and lower the traffic burden, and decrease the load time. I'll only do this if I can I host the service endpoint on python.org, though. Would I be able to? Dustin Oprea (http://dustinoprea.com/)

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Wiki moin logs are now rotated monthly
by M.-A. Lemburg Sept. 23, 2013

Sept. 23, 2013

Since the wiki VM is rather tight on disk space, I've enabled monthly rotation of the moin event logs for all wikis. A side effect of this change is that the page visits count in moin will appear to be cleared once a month. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 03 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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Fix a link to source code
by anatoly techtonik Sept. 16, 2013

Sept. 16, 2013

http://www.python.org/getit/source/ Searching "python source" gives this page. Would be nice to see link to repository browser here until new site is ready. -- anatoly t.

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Vulnerability Alert – OpenID 2.0 Implementations Vulnerabilities found in some OPs | OpenID
by M.-A. Lemburg Sept. 13, 2013

Sept. 13, 2013

Not sure whether this is relevant for the python.org infrastructure, but since we're using OpenID for some parts, it may be worth a look: http://openid.net/2013/08/15/vulnerability-alert-openid-2-0-implementations… AFAIK, PyPI can be used as OP, but it's not implementing OpenID 2.0. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 13 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-09-11: Released eGenix PyRun 1.3.0 ... http://egenix.com/go49 2013-09-04: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13.2 ... http://egenix.com/go48 2013-09-20: PyCon UK 2013, Coventry, UK ... 7 days to go eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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Re: [pydotorg-www] [psf-trademarks] Python Shirts
by David Mertz Sept. 9, 2013

Sept. 9, 2013

Hi Web Folks, The PSF Trademarks Committee has set a policy to start including blurbs for authorized merchants who use our trademark. FWIW, part of this agreement is for them to make donations if their sales exceed $1000 on said merchandise. Please add Python Gear to http://www.python.org/community/merchandise/ including the blurb Austin provides and his logo attached here. Yours, David Mertz Chair, PSF TC Director of the PSF etc. > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Austin Gabel <agabel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for clearing that up for me. I think that arrangement is more >> than fair. Here is what I would like to put on the merchandise page. >> >> "Look your best and show off your Python pride with T-Shirts and other >> merchandise from PythonGear.com. Located in Kansas, and ready to ship your >> new threads anywhere in the US." >> >> And please add my logo along with it. >> [image: Inline image 1] >> >> Thank you very much >> Austin Gabel >> > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.

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Removed wiki attack banners
by M.-A. Lemburg Sept. 8, 2013

Sept. 8, 2013

Since the HTTPS redirect are now mostly working (there are still some details to be worked out), I've removed the wiki banners about the attack and instead added a section to the front pages of the Python and Jython wikis. It's a good idea to change the passwords on the wikis now, since clear text passwords are just too easy to sniff at conferences. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 03 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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Conference to add
by Leah Silen Sept. 6, 2013

Sept. 6, 2013

Can you please add PyData to the conference list? http://pydata.org/ Thanks!!

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Wiki Spam and Maintenance
by Paul Boddie Sept. 3, 2013

Sept. 3, 2013

Hello, I'm not sure whether anyone noticed, but for most of August I wasn't doing any Python Wiki maintenance, so I'd like to thank those people who stepped in and tried to keep the wiki free of spam. As those unfortunate people realised, removing spam can take up considerable amounts of time that could be spent on other things. Spam prevention can be a difficult trick to pull off: the MoinMoin Wiki manages to do just fine, as does the Debian Wiki, it would seem. Meanwhile, other Moin wikis struggle to deal with the deluge of Internet spam, and this presumably frustrates both users and admins alike. Consequently, I have made an attempt at elementary advice on the matter: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31345030 (I have also given advice for specific wikis in the past [*], but I have no idea whether this advice has been followed, especially given the current difficulties of such sites.) I do not feel that the right balance is being maintained between the freedom to edit the Python Wiki and the need to demand that contributors be sufficiently trustworthy and knowledgeable in order to make edits. Since the threshold to make edits once one has registered an account remains too low, spammers are able to take advantage of our generosity of spirit. It is unfortunate, then, that wiki maintainers do not enjoy the same level of accommodation enjoyed by spammers along with hypothetical wiki editors who would supposedly go to the trouble of creating a wiki account and making edits without being able to answer even the most elementary question about the nature of Python or its community. Although textcha support is enabled, we seem to be asking such casual contributors the wrong questions, and the cost of this is being borne by the wiki maintainers. I would much rather be doing other things than clean up spam that probably could have been prevented through more effective use of the available mechanisms. My time and the time of others is being wasted so that other random people can merely avoid inconvenience. I do not regard this situation as a sustainable one, nor do I regard it as an acceptable way of treating those who have taken on such responsibility voluntarily. Please can we review our anti-spam measures and implement a policy that does not take advantage of those volunteers who feel responsible for maintaining this resource? I appreciate the work done to revive and run this resource, but I feel that the patience of those maintaining it will eventually expire if something is not done about this. Thanks, Paul [*] http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2010-May/032464.html

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