[pypy-dev] PyPy/Squeak Sprint Announcement

[Bengt Richter]

At 09:18 2007-09-22 +0200, Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote:
>Bern Squeak/PyPy sprint October 22 - October 26 2007
>=====================================================
>
>We are proud to announce the first Squeak-PyPy-collaboration-sprint.
>The plan is to bring people from the Squeak/Smalltalk and the
>PyPy/Python communities together to learn about each others projects and
>to think about collaboration possibilies.  The sprint will be hosted by
>the Software Composition Group of the University of Bern from the 22nd
>to the 26th of October 2007.
>
>
>Topics and goals
>----------------
>
>The general technical goal of the sprint is to explore implementing the
>bytecode interpreter as well as the primitives of Squeak in RPython.
>This should make it eventually possible to auto-generate a JIT for
>Squeak with the help of PyPy technologies.
>
>The other important goal of the sprint is to teach the
>first-time-sprinters the sprint-driven-development methodology.
>
>The first day of the sprint will be a tutorial day, were talks about
>PyPy, Squeak and sprint-driven-development will be given. The further
>days will be sprinting days.
>
>Of course the most important goal of the sprint is to get to know each
>other and have some fun :-).
>
>Topics of the sprint:
>
>- learning about:
>
>   - PyPy
>   - the internals of Squeaks VM
>   - sprint-driven-development
>
>- exploring ways to implement Squeaks bytecode-interpreter and the
>   primitives in Python
>
>- or (maybe alternatively) implement a Squeak-backend for PyPy
>
>- think about how to load and store of images in PyPy
>
>
>Location
>--------
>
>The sprint will take place in a seminar room at the University of Bern.
>Further details of how to get there will be announced before the sprint.
>
>
>Registration
>------------
>
>If you'd like to come, please subscribe to the `pypy-sprint mailing list`_
>and drop a note about your interests and post any questions.  More
>organisational information will be send to that list.  We'll keep a list
>of `people`_ which we'll update (which you can do so yourself if you
>have codespeak commit rights).  If you have no clue where to stay in
>Bern ask around on the list, maybe we can help you find something or
>find some other solution.
>
>.. _`pypy-sprint mailing list`: 
>http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-sprint
>.. _`people`: 
>http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/bern2007/people.html
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Hello. This sounds interesting!

If a video or sound track plus slides wound up on video.google.com
or youtube.com I would certainly watch it. Hint, hint ;-)

Perhaps others would agree, and have the influence and/or
ability/interest/energy to make it happen?

(Perhaps the University of Bern has an audio/visual dept with
someone who would be willing to come in and set up good sound
recording etc for the event? Or maybe someone is in a music group
that has a good sound-recordist? I emphasize sound because I think
good/bad sound makes/breaks a video more than visual quality,
especially when the speaker gets past reading bullet points (also
helpful) and is interacting and explaining and musing.)

Regards,
Bengt Richter
Still lurking now and then ;-)