On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hey guys/gals >> >> Summer of Code is ramping up. Every year the common complaint is that not >> enough Python core projects get proposed by students, and of course a big >> reason for that is often the only encouragement we offer prospective >> students is a link to the PEP index. >> >> So let's make this year different. >> >> Accepted students are paid a total of $4500 to work for roughly 30 hours a >> week, 12 weeks, on their proposed project. >> >> The challenge is finding project ideas for them that could reasonably occupy >> them for the entire Summer and which the results of their work can be >> demonstrated. They're being paid for specific projects so "Spend the Summer >> fixing bugs on the tracker" is a no-go, and Google has outlined that Summer >> of Code is about code, not documentation. >> >> I've seen and heard that a lot of work is still needed on >> http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk both during the 3.1 release cycle, >> optimization possible all over the place. It'd be great if those of you >> working closely with this can shout out some ideas, brainstorm a bit. >> >> PSF was announced as one of the mentoring orgs today, this week before >> student applications are open is for students to talk to their prospective >> mentors and iron out the wrinkles in their plans, so there's not much time >> to get core project ideas together. > > How about porting PIL to 3.0? > There were many such requests on python-list and image-sig (including mine :)) >
I have ported it to the stage where its tests passes (which are far from covering all the code) and some of my own tests, there is a git repo on the image-sig that points to it. I wasn't really careful with some of the things (and I would even consider redoing some of them), but only one or two people got a copy of it so apparently people don't want/need it on python 3.0 just yet (not it alone at least). > Cheers, > Daniel > > > -- > Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ggpolo%40gmail.com > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
