P.S.S If not already done so, we should start also enlist in GSoCs / PyLadies / etc projects to maybe get some attention there as well.
-Sivan On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Sivan Greenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Florian & List > > If help is needed in taking care of filling the forms and submitting this > with instructions from project leads, I would be interested. Even though I > did not manage to attend the sprint, I remained excited in furthering > pytest's goals and the surrounding 'ecosystem' (e.g. tox and friends). > > Since I'm now free of my last project, I'd love to help the coding as > well, if project lead think I can be of that help. Ideally I feel that we > should start attracting student or fresh graduates as 'interns' and enlarge > the contributors list. > > P.S. Has anybody documented the sprint in a free form documentation or > were they only closed bugs in the issue tracker and new commits made? :) I > would love to read some summary of the sprint achievements and it's story > as I really feel I missed. Do we have the similar to peps? > > Thanks! (for pytest as well), > > -Sivan > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Florian Bruhin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> via [1] (German) I just stumbled upon Mozilla's MOSS program[2]. >> >> They have a track[3] where they found generic OSS projects furthering >> their mission, and another one[4] (probably more relevant to us) where >> they fund projects they use themselves. From what I've seen via >> Dave Hunt, Mozilla is quite a heavy pytest user with various plugins >> they wrote. >> >> The grants are between $10k and $250k. If time permits, this could >> e.g. be used by Merlinux (i.e., Holger's company) to allow someone to >> work on pytest (or possibly, tox/devpi - not sure if those are used at >> Mozilla too?) full-time for a while. >> >> It seems for the next round of founding, we'd have to apply until the >> end of August. >> >> I haven't really thought much about it yet, just thought I'd throw it >> out here - thoughts? >> >> Florian >> >> [1] http://www.heise.de/developer/meldung/Mozilla-nimmt-PyPy-in- >> Foerderprogramm-auf-3289656.html >> [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS >> [3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Mission_Partners >> [4] https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Foundational_Technology >> >> -- >> http://www.the-compiler.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) >> GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc >> I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pytest-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev >> >> > > > -- > Sivan Greenberg > Co founder & CTO > Vitakka Consulting > -- Sivan Greenberg Co founder & CTO Vitakka Consulting
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