[pypy-sprint] Draft announcement -- Leysin sprint

[holger krekel]

Hi Armin, 

i updated the wiki-pages accordingly, only you and me are
listed right now, though.  Please whoever knows already that she/he
comes list yourself under 

   http://codespeak.net/moin/pypy/moin.cgi/LeysinSprintAttendants

so that when we actually send out the announcement it will 
not look empty :-) 

And now some remarks about the announcement itself (which is 
quite nice and sounds promising) ... 

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 15:32 +0000, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Below, a draft of the next PyPy sprint's announcement.  We need to set up the
> LeysinSprintAttendants wiki page before we send this one out.  Comments
> welcome!  In addition to what's in the announcement, the wiki page should list
> the available room sizes, which I'll collect below in the meantime:
> 
>   room sizes: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 beds, or 1 double bed
>   10 rooms in total.
>   All rooms free for us, except 1 already booked from the 28th and 2 more from 
>     the 29th.

can you transfer this information to the wiki together with concrete address, 
phone number and at best "how to get there" information? 

There is the LeysinSprint wiki page now (linked from above). 

> The next sprint for PyPy, the Python-in-Python interpreter, will take 
> place in Leysin, in the lower mountains of Switzerland,
> 
>     22nd - 29th January 2005.

i take it those days are both inclusive with at least one day of winter
sports, right? 
 
> Please subscribe at
> 
>     http://codespeak.net/moin/pypy/moin.cgi/LeysinSprintAttendants
> 
> and mention if you would like to participate in the group reservation, and 
> which size of room you would prefer.

> If you wish, you can extend your 
> stay for some days after the 29th of January -- please mention that if you 
> want to book with the group (but you cannot arrive there earier than the 
> 22nd: fully booked).

We need a deadline for the initial group booking.  What about 10th 
of January, or is that too late? 
 
> If you have any question don't hesitate to contact 
> pypy-sprint at codespeak.net or one of us personally.

> Here are some goals that are quite reachable without in-depth prior 
> knowledge of PyPy:

i'd add "systematically applying CPython's tests to PyPy" and accordingly 
fixing stuff as another possible task ...  
 
> In addition to the above examples, there are a number of more involved 
> tasks that nevertheless don't require a complete grasp of PyPy -- whose 
> parts are relatively independent from each other.  The "hard" work 
> currently going on in PyPy is on the translation part, which is needed to 
> make PyPy run faster and/or in other environments.  This work is however 
> mostly independent.  People are welcome to suggest and attack some new 
> cross-language tasks: e.g. writing the basics of an interpreter for 
> another language (e.g. Ruby, Java, Lisp, Prolog, whatever); generating 
> code for another target language (currently there is C, Lisp, Pyrex and 
> Java) or differently (Stackless-style).

Did i mention that i think it might be interesting to go for a javascript 
frontend?  :-)  We never talked about this much but i begin to think
that having PyPy (with a js-frontend) integrated into Mozilla and other
browsers might be pretty thrilling although this is certainly a 
more long term goal ... (comments welcome but maybe reply to pypy-dev 
for this ...) 

Oh and you talked about the "EU developers funding" issues and i think 
you should offer that people interested contact you so that we 
know how much interest there is. (or someone else, but it may 
make sense to reduce communication overhead and you will be 
the person making final reservations and all ...) 

cheers, 

    holger