I was thinking about holding a Patch Review Party/Sprint, which would provide people unfamiliar with the Python dev process a way to contribute to the project and get familiar with running tests, applying patches and so forth. I have a list of easy-ish patches that I wanted to take a look at and I could expand that and use those as a starting for people who don't have any particular bug tracker issues in mind. 
I'm not a patch review guru by any means, though. Also not sure if this is a good idea or if this is just late night caffeine talking.
 

2016-04-28 20:07 GMT+01:00 Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>:
No one stepped forward to lead the sprints this year, so I will put myself as the sprint leader and lean on everyone else who appears to help. :)


On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 at 09:36 Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
The call has started to go out for sprint groups to list themselves online. Anyone want to specifically lead the core sprint this year? If no one specifically does then I will sign us up and do my usual thing of pointing people at the devguide and encourage people to ask questions but not do a lot of hand-holding (I'm expecting to be busy either working on GitHub migration stuff or doing other things that I have been neglecting due to my GitHub migration work).

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From: Ewa Jodlowska <ewa@python.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 at 07:14
Subject: [PSF-Community] Sprinting at PyCon US 2016
To: <psf-community@python.org>


Are you coming to PyCon US? Have you thought about sprinting?

The coding Sprints are the hidden gem of PyCon, up to 4 days (June 2-5) of coding with many Python projects and their maintainers. And if you're coming to PyCon, taking part in the Sprints is easy!

You don’t need to change your registration* to join the Sprints. There’s no additional registration fee, and you even get lunch. You do need to cover the additional lodging and other meals, but that’s it. If you’ve booked a room through the PyCon registration system, you'll need to contact the registration team at pycon2016@cteusa.com as soon as possible to request the extra nights. The sprinting itself (along with lunch every day) is free, so your only expenses are your room and other meals.

If you're interested in what projects will be sprinting, just keep an eye on the sprints page on the PyCon web site at https://us.pycon.org/2016/community/sprints/ Be sure to check back, as groups are being added all the time.

If you haven't sprinted before, or if you just need to brush up on sprinting tools and techniques, there will again be an 'Intro to Sprinting' session the evening of June 1, lead by Shauna Gordon-McKeon and other members of Python community. To grab a free ticket for this session, just visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-open-source-the-pycon-sprints-tickets-22435151141.

*Please note that conference registration is sold out, but you do not need a conference registration to come to the Sprints.

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