[Python-3000] Python 3000 and the Google Summer of Code

[Jay Parlar]

On Apr 16, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Some of the coding projects I've recently been proposing as challenges
> to certain wild feature proposals might make good topics for the
> Google Summer of Code (see http://code.google.com/soc/ ).
>
> We'd need someone to volunteer as a mentor, and a student to do the
> work over the summer; the student would get $4500 and the mentor $500
> (or a donation to the PSF worth that much).
>
> (I can't volunteer to be a mentor myself; I already have a project I'd
> like to mentor and an intern residing at Google.)
>

Well, I have zero experience hacking the Python internals, but I've 
been an active Python coder for about 6 years now (with a *lot* of C 
experience in various industry roles, in that time).

I'm also now a grad student, working towards a Masters in Software 
Engineering.

The SOC is something I've been looking forward to since last year. 
Haven't been able to think up any ideas on my own yet, but I'm 
definitely interested in something Python related. So if any Py3K ideas 
come up that I'll be able to have a good run at, I'll definitely apply.

Jay P.