[Chicago] PSF Sprints - Call For Applications

[Phil Robare]

What happened to the PIL to Py3 sprint that was talked about at the
November meeting.  Was it, like the December meeting, the victim of
the holiday season? <insert graphic of scary santa>

On 1/27/11, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello ChiPy!
>
> On behalf of the Python Software Foundation’s sponsored sprint group, I
> wanted to drop your group a quick note introducing us. If you’re already
> familiar with our sponsored sprints, you’ll be happy to know we made a few
> changes to help both sprint groups and Python even more.
>
> The PSF recently set aside funding to be distributed to groups who spend
> time contributing to the Python ecosystem, often in the form of development
> sprints. Our goal is to help you help Python, so whether it’s buying meals
> or renting meeting space for your all-day hackathon, we have a budget set
> aside to reimburse your expenses up to $300 (up from $250).
> If your goal is to make the Python world a better place, and you work on the
> problems facing Python today, we want to help you. We’re looking for groups
> of hackers that spend their time fixing and expanding the wide variety of
> Python interpreters, libraries, tools, and anything else affecting the
> community.We’re also looking for groups who want to help and get started but
> don’t have the resources to get together. Whether your group is separated by
> a train ride or lacking a shared space, we want to help you. On-boarding new
> contributors to open source Python projects is an especially important area
> that we’d like to work with.This means if you have a Python project and you
> want to sprint -- we want to help you.Some sprints we’ve sponsored include
> the porting of Genshi to Python 3, improvements to packaging
> (Distribute/distutils), and most recently, the PyPy winter sprint in
> Switzerland.
>
> If your group is interested in hosting a sprint, check out the full details
> of our call for applications at http://www.pythonsprints.com/cfa/ and
> contact us at sprints at python.org.
>
> Thanks for your time, and happy sprinting!
>
> Brian Curtin
> Jesse Noller
> http://www.pythonsprints.com/ <http://pythonsprints.com/>
>