Sal, On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 12:48 +0000, Fadhley, Salim wrote: > The company I work for (Bank of America) is looking to become a more > active member of the Python community. Those of you who attended this > month's Python Dojo at our Canary Wharf offices will have seen our > first efforts at giving-back to Python.
I think it is great that an for-profit organization that has Python at the centre of its computing strategy is willing and wanting to "give back" into the community of the FOSS platform it is using. I just wish some more of the for-profit organization using Python as a strategic resource took the same view. (OK banks other than BAML, I know who you are.) > A manager has asked me to report back with some ideas about other > things we might do, for example we might host meet-ups, help fund > Python Foundation initiatives, sponsor conferences or important > open-source projects. > > At the moment I'm just trying to generate some ideas that will be > presented to our management next week. There's no requirement other > than the project should be beneficial to or help grow the Python > community. > > All suggestions welcome! As ever, I pitch the PyPy Python 3 project as something well worthy of contributing cash or RPython programming time to, and also the PyPy STM project. Getting PyPy Python 3 compliant and removing its GIL are, for me, the joint Number 1 things in the Python universe to get support for. […] -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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