Hi Holger, Sure thing. =)
On 1/16/06, holger krekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Matt, > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:42 -0500, Matt Revelle wrote: > > Hi Holger, > > It might be better to see if a second Summer of Code is going to occur > > and to be one of the listed projects. I'm curious about how many > > students would be interested in and capable of writing code for PyPy. > > The program sounds like fun, though. > > The thing with summer-of-code is: we could not easily fund > the sprint attendances and also we might not be able > to push 6-10 proposals through although they could be > interesting ... > > cheers, > > holger > > P.S.: are you ok with cross-posting our conversation > to pypy-dev? I think it's interesting for > everyone ... i have heard this comment a number > of times before :) > > > > On 1/16/06, holger krekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey again, > > > > > > so right after this mail was sent out there was a > > > codespeak downtime lasting 12 hours. > > > > > > Anyway, let me clarify that this mail was not addressed > > > to the core PyPy developers (who endorse the idea already) > > > but to everybody else so please speak up if you are interested > > > or have comments regarding the idea. Hum, or should we > > > post to comp.lang.python? > > > > > > you can of course also mail me privately - it doesn't mean > > > that you have to guarantee to propose something later. > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > holger > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 21:31 +0100, holger krekel wrote: > > > > while many of us are gearing up for the EU review end next > > > > week (we should sent our last reports in, puh!) > > > > there is an idea where i'd enjoy your feedback on. > > > > > > > > We'd like to propose to the EU that we can fund > > > > a Summer of PyPy (modelled after Google's Summer of Code > > > > last year) which would roughly work like this: > > > > > > > > - all students can send in proposals for roughly two-months > > > > projects that leverage PyPy in some way - e.g. in areas like > > > > new backends or frontends, optimisations, new fun > > > > tools, security, distributed systems, logical programming, > > > > whatever. > > > > > > > > - 6-10 people get accepted from a board of experts > > > > and everyone gets a personal mentor > > > > > > > > - you would be invited to the PyPy Post-EuroPython sprint > > > > which serves as a kickoff meeting > > > > > > > > - two months implementation time > > > > > > > > - participants are invited to another closing-off sprint > > > > > > > > - results get reviewed if they achieved the goals > > > > if so: a sum of 3000-4000 euro is payed flat > > > > > > > > This is the rough idea - no guarantee it will work this > > > > exact way or any way at all :) > > > > > > > > So what do you think about this whole idea? > > > > > > > > And would you personally consider wanting to participate? > > > > Are you not a student and would like to participate anyway? > > > > > > > > Summer of PyPy would involve a noticeable organisational > > > > effort on our side so it's good to have an idea how much > > > > interest there might be. > > > > > > > > thanks & cheers, > > > > > > > > holger > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > [email protected] > > > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
