Hi folks, first some quick notes regarding upcoming PyPy sprints. After the EuroPython 2005 sprint we decided that we are going for a sprint that i am organizing at my living and working place, Trillke-Gut in Hildesheim, Germany. It is going to start 25th July and last until 31st July 2005. Especially already scheduled participants please look at http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?extradoc/sprintinfo/Hildesheim2-sprint.h... for some more information (and correct wrong dates!). The strong focus will be on getting a self-contained PyPy version working. Really. This time the sprint is only open for everybody who already knows PyPy. If you'd like to attend please send me a private mail. I am trying to find private accomodation for everyone. Please excuse the extremely short notice but the final decision was only taken end of last week and i have been somewhat busy. Most of the currently active developers knew about this coming for a longer time, though. For the end of August 2005 Carl Friedrich Bolz is organizing a sprint more open to new people. This is going to take place at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. More details will be announced soon. While we are at it: in the further away future, it's likely there will be a sprint in Paris around early October, organized by Logilab. And if you can imagine helping us to organize a PyPy sprint at your place, then please drop us a mail! For example, we haven't been to basically the whole of South Europe :-) For your information, we have started last thursday a practise of having all active pypy developers (and in particular those involved in the PyPy/EU project) meet on IRC for 30 minutes. This XP-style meeting is meant to synchronize our dev work better and give us a body to quickly decide about directions and issues. The first minutes of the pypy-sync meeting can be found here: http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?extradoc/minute/pypy-sync-07-14.html This "active developers" meeting will take place every thursday at 1pm (GMT+2/Berlin) for 30 minutes with a half-fixed agenda. It is not really open to spectators, i guess. Those have to wait for the minutes :-) If you have any questions or comments don't hesitate to share them here on the list. cheers, holger