PythonLabs Team Moves to Digital Creations

[Armin Steinhoff]

In article <mailman.972693760.7272.python-list at python.org>, Guido says...
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BTW ... the URL of Digital Creations is http://www.digicool.com ;-)

Armin


>To all Python users and developers:
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>Less than half a year ago, I moved with my team to BeOpen.com, in the
>hope of finding a new permanent home for Python development.  At
>BeOpen, we've done several good things for Python, such as moving the
>Python and Jython development process to SourceForge, and the
>successful release of Python 2.0.
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>Unfortunately, BeOpen.com's original plans for PythonLabs didn't work
>out as hoped, and we weren't able to reach mutual agreement on
>workable alternative plans -- despite trying for months.
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>I am proud to have found a new home for my entire team: starting
>today, Tim Peters, Barry Warsaw, Jeremy Hylton, Fred Drake and myself
>are working for Digital Creations.  We will be spending part of our
>time on core Python development (including Jython and Mailman) and
>part of our time on Python infrastructure improvements that also
>benefit Zope.
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>Python will remain Open Source; Digital Creations has no desire to
>monetize or brand the Python language or specific Python
>distributions.  All future work we do on Python as Digital Creations
>employees will be owned by a non-profit organization yet to be
>created.  We think of this new organization as the Python Software
>Foundation.  In the meantime (while the PSF is under construction) I
>will own such copyrights personally.
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>We're excited to be working for Digital Creations: they are one of the
>oldest companies active in the Python community, one of the companies
>most committed to Python, and they have a great product!  Plus, we
>know they have deep financial backing.  We trust that Digital
>Creations will provide a stable home for Python for many years.
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>Digital Creations has also offered to take over hosting of the
>python.org and starship sites.  On behalf of the Python community,
>we're grateful for this support of the two prime community sites for
>Python, and we expect to be implementing the transitions shortly.
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>These are exciting times for the PythonLabs team -- and also for
>Python and its community.  Mainstream successes for Python are showing
>up everywhere, and we're proud to be a part of such a smart and
>friendly community.  A great year lies ahead!
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>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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