[pypy-dev] Leysin sprint (11-19 January 2014)

[Armin Rigo]

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         PyPy Leysin Winter Sprint (11-19st January 2014)
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The next PyPy sprint will be in Leysin, Switzerland, for the ninth time.
This is a fully public sprint: newcomers and topics other than those
proposed below are welcome.

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Goals and topics of the sprint
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* Py3k: work towards supporting Python 3 in PyPy

* NumPyPy: work towards supporting the numpy module in PyPy

* STM: work towards supporting Software Transactional Memory

* And as usual, the main side goal is to have fun in winter sports :-)
  We can take a day off for ski.

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Exact times
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For a change, and as an attempt to simplify things, I specified the
dates as 11-19 January 2014, where 11 and 19 are travel days.  We will
work full days between the 12 and the 18.  You are of course allowed to
show up for a part of that time only, too.

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Location & Accomodation
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Leysin, Switzerland, "same place as before".  Let me refresh your
memory: both the sprint venue and the lodging will be in a very spacious
pair of chalets built specifically for bed & breakfast:
http://www.ermina.ch/.  The place has a good ADSL Internet connexion
with wireless installed.  You can of course arrange your own lodging
anywhere (as long as you are in Leysin, you cannot be more than a 15
minutes walk away from the sprint venue), but I definitely recommend
lodging there too -- you won't find a better view anywhere else (though
you probably won't get much worse ones easily, either :-)

Please *confirm* that you are coming so that we can adjust the
reservations as appropriate.  The rate so far has been around 60 CHF a
night all included in 2-person rooms, with breakfast.  There are larger
rooms too (less expensive per person) and maybe the possibility to get a
single room if you really want to.

Please register by Mercurial::

  https://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/
  https://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/raw/extradoc/sprintinfo/leysin-winter-2014

or on the pypy-dev mailing list if you do not yet have check-in rights:

  http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev

You need a Swiss-to-(insert country here) power adapter.  There will be
some Swiss-to-EU adapters around -- bring a EU-format power strip if you
have one.

Armin Rigo