hi Brian, On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Brian Curtin wrote:

As Jesus mentioned earlier today, it has been a while since http://blog.python.org/ was been updated, and even before that it wasn't updated all that often. I'd like to try and get others involved so we can get a more steady flow going and highlight more of the work everyone is doing.

The blog aims to keep people up-to-date on what's going on in the development of Python without having to follow every word of this mailing list, the bug tracker, IRC, etc. There are a number of topics that I think would be great for the blog, including but not limited to:

* Surveys - Raymond likes to poll people on twitter and has done a bunch of surveys over IRC, usually relating to ideas on APIs. I'd love to put some of these up on the blog and cast a wider net. * New features - Introducing a new module, such as Victor's faulthandler, makes for a great post. As we get closer to 3.3, everyone will be stuffing the commit stream with new features and introducing interesting ones on here would be great. * PEPs - As we all know, PEP discussions can sometimes result in weeks long debates with hundreds of 500 word responses. Summarizing a discussion down to a blog post would probably be helpful for a lot of people. I know I can't follow all of these PEPs all the time, but I'd like to know what's going on. * Problems you're solving - Antoine did a nice post about his changes to remove polling from a number of areas in the code and why he did them. More explanations like this would be great.

We run the blog out of a Mercurial repository on BitBucket and do the writing in reStructuredText, then publish via Blogger. There's also a great team of volunteer translators that can get your post out there in 10 languages (see the blog sidebar for the full list). We can also accept guest posts with zero process: you just write and we'll handle the back-end stuff and get your work published. I don't want to make people go through all kinds of hoops if they just want to make a one-time post about something they want to share.

If you have any topics - specific or general - that you'd like to see covered, respond here and we'll add them on the tracker. If you're interested in writing, contact me and I'll get you up and running

I think, if Python blog is regularly updated, it will be a great resource for every one :), Moreover personally I feel, if we have something like weekly (or b-weekly) interviews from core-python-developers it would be great for new comers like me, Also, I would love to share helping hands with you, just guide me where should I start from :) Regards Vikash Agrawal -- sent via HTC Sensation