[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[Kushal Das]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Bibhas <me at bibhas.in> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think a development sprint is a great way to get people started
> programming and contributing and networking. Like it's done in most PyCons,
> after the conf is over, they take 2-5 days and organize dev sprints that's
> open for everybody. I know we might not have budget for that many extra
> days, but we have a whole floor(if we go for NIMHANS again) lying unused for
> 3 whole days. We can throw in some tables, chairs, mattresses and it could
> make a great dev sprint spot. This will make the conference more engaging
> for the participants. It'd have been perfect if we could get an extra day
> and experiment for a year. But _if_ that's not possible, can we do it within
> the conf days?

I am the co-ordinator for the development sprint days in PyCon US. The
biggest problem for doing similar level of sprints is the lack of
upstream project/developers in the conference. We need more developers
from upstream projects to participate for this and I do know we have a
few of them in the conference.

Kushal
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CPython Core Developer
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