The next PyPy sprint will happen in the nice city of Limerick in Ireland from 21st till 27th August. (Most people intend to arrive 20th August).
The main focus of the sprint will be on JIT compiler works, various optimization works, porting extension modules, infrastructure works like a build tool for PyPy, or extended (distributed) testing.
It's also open to new topics. If you are a student consider to participate in Summer of PyPy in order get funding for your travels and accomodation.
The sprint is being hosted by University of Limerick (http://www.ul.ie/) - and is arranged in co-operation with people from our sister project Calibre (www.calibre.ie). Our contact at the University is Pär Ågerfalk and Eoin Oconchuir.
During the first day (21st of August) there will be in parallell to the sprint:
The workshop participants (mostly University of Limerick researchers) will observe the sprint during parts of the first day, film an take pictures as well.
During friday we will arrange a tutorial and technical introduction to the PyPy codebase, followed by a Q&A session. This session was originally planned for the first day but we moved it to friday afternoon in order to make it easier for people from the irish python group to participate. This tutorial session starts at 5pm. At 8pm we go for a nice dinner together.
This friday afternoon tutorial session and dinner is open for anyone interested, you do not have to be a sprint participant to join us for this event.
If you'd like to come, please subscribe to the pypy-sprint mailing list and drop a note about your interests and post any questions. More organisational information will be send to that list. We'll keep a list of people which we'll update (which you can do so yourself if you have codespeak commit rights).
A small disclaimer: There might be people visiting the sprint in order to do research on how open source communities work, organize and communicate. This research might be done via filming, observing or interviewing. But of course you will be able to opt-out of being filmed at the sprint.
NOTE: you need a UK style of power adapter (220V).
The sprint will be held in the Computer Science Building, room CSG-025, University of Limerick (no 7 on http://www.ul.ie/main/places/campus.shtml).
Bus 308 from Limerick city will take you to no 30 (approx.). See http://www.ul.ie/main/places/travel.shtml for more on how to get to UL.
We will have access to the sprint facilities from 09:00-19:00 every day (it might be even later than 19:00). Monday-Wednesday, Friday-Sunday are sprint days, Thursday is likely a break day.
Food on campus varies in price and quality ;-) : from ca 4 EUR to 7-8 EUR for a lunch. There are of course a lot more food alternatives in down town Limerick.
Shannon Airport (SNN) is the nearest airport (Ryanair flies there) - you may check out more information about flights to/from the airport at
http://www.shannonairport.com/index.html
There are busses from there to downtown Limerick, and busses from Limerick to the UL campus. Taxis are about 35 EUR.
There is a website address for campus accomodation at
http://www.ul.ie/conference/accommodation.htm.
The rate should be 49 euro for Bed and Breakfast. If you are interested in booking campus accommodation, please contact deborah.tudge at ul ie and make reference to the PyPy workshop and sprint. Please try to book as soon as possible.
As an off-campus accommodation alternative you can also try:
Castletroy Lodge and Castletroy Inn (Bed and Breakfast) Dublin Road (15 to 20 mins walk to UL) Tel: +353 61 338385 / +353 61 331167
Brookfield Hall, about 10 minutes walk from UNI. Could be booked at travellerspoint.com