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    PyPy sprint in Louvain-La-Neuve 6-10th of March, 2006
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    The PyPy team sprinted at Département d'Ingénierie Informatique 
    at UCL in Belgium. During the sprint a workshop regarding the 
    funcionalities of PyPy/Python and the OZ language was discussed
    with people from both communities. Many thanks to our hosts at 
    UCL, among them Grégoire Dooms for making this sprint possible.
    
    
    PyPy at PyCon 24th-26th February, 2006
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    The PyPy team visited Addison/Dallas in Texas and participated
    in PyCon. The PyPy team presented three talks about the status, a
    architecture and methodology of the project. After the conference
    ca 20 people participated in the PyPy sprint that went on for four
    days.
    
    PyPy in Ireland 6-7th February, 2006
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    PyPy visited IONA Technologies for an experience workshop, sharing experiences
    with agile and distributed software development. PyPy held two talks at
    the University College Dublin for students and researchers in computer 
    science. Many thanks to Niall Donnely at IONA and Dr Joseph Kiniry at UCD 
    for hosting these events!
    
    
    PyPy at the Open Source World Conference, Málaga -- February 15-17, 2006
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    PyPy is presenting at the stand of the European Commission and giving
    a talk on on Thursday, 14:00-15:00.
     
    
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    PyPy sprint in Mallorca 23-29th of January, 2006
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    PyPy kickstarted the second year of the project with a sprint in
    the GNU/Linux lab at the University of Balearic Isles on Mallorca.
    The PyPy team held an architectural talk for students at the 
    University and met up with the local OSS group Bulma.
    Many thanks to Ricardo Galli at UIB for being a gracious host!
    
    PyPy at CCC conference 27-30th of December 2005
    
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    PyPy presented two different talks at the 22C3 conference in Berlin,
    "PyPy - the new Python implementation on the block" and "OSS, EUfunding 
    and agile business". For more information about this conference:
    http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/overview.en.html.
    The talks can be found on http://codespeak.net/pypy.
    
    PyPy sprint in Gothenburg and seminar in Brussels
    
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    PyPy sprinted in Gothenburg during the first week of December - work
    with the JIT compiler was a primary target. This work will continue during
    the spring of 2006.
    
    In parallell with the PyPy sprint, some PyPy teammembers visited 
    the Commission in Brussels and participated in an internal EC seminar 
    regarding OSS, distributed and agile development on the 8th of December. 
    This was done in cooperation with the Calibre project, by invitation from the 
    PyPy Project Officer Mr Dirk Van Royy.
    The talk can be found on http://codespeak.net/pypy.
    
    
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    PyPy at PyCon
    
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    PyPy has three talks accepted at PyCon, which will be held in Dallas, USA
    24-26th of February. For more information about the conference and the pypy
    talks: http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/HomePage.
    
    PyPy at the CCC conference December 2005
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    PyPy will present talks at the CCC conference in Berlin 27th-29th of December.
    For more information:www.ccc.de
    
    PyPy in Gothenburg December 2005
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    The upcoming sprint in Gothenburg (7th-11th of December) has been announced.
    
    PyPy in Paris October 2005
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    The team met up in Paris in the office of Logilab. Several newcomers 
    participated in the sprint, in total 18 people attended.Work was focused
    on aspects of phase II of the project: translation, continuation-passing 
    style (stackless) and JIT (Just in Time compilation).
    
    PyPy at the 2 International Calibre conference, Limerick, September 2005
    
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    Beatrice Düring from the PyPy team participated in the second International 
    
    Calibre conference at the University of Limerick (9th of September). Calibre is a coordination action 
    project, focused on OSS - business models, agile and distributed development.
    Beatrice presented a talk about the sprint methodology in use in the PyPy project.
    
    
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    Lots of useful contacts where made and there are rumours of a sprint 
    
    in Ireland next year, and maybe also in Japan. For more information about 
    Calibre: www.calibre.ie
    
    
    PyPy in Heidelberg August 2005
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    The team met up and sprinted in Heidelberg, in total 14 people.
    On the 28th of August the 0.7 version of PyPy - the first
    public release of a fully translatable self contained Python
    implementation was launched.This work concluded the phase 1 of the project.
    
    
    PyPy sprint in Hildesheim July 2005
    
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    The team met up at Trillke Gut and worked on the upcoming phase 1
    deliverables. The result was PyPy - selfcontained!
    
    
    PyPy at Europython in Gothenburg June/July 2005
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    The Pypy team was busy sprinting 4 days before Europython and 6 days
    afterwards.  There where also several PyPy talks at the conference, a
    joint talk by Holger Krekel, Armin Rigo, Carl Friedrich Bolz about
    translation aspects of PyPy, Holger Krekel about py.test and
    
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    Beatrice Düring about sprint driven development.  This sprint had 20
    
    participants which is a PyPy record.
    
    PyPy at ACCU April 2005
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    Armin Rigo and Jacob Hallén held 2 talks at the ACCU conference,about PyPy and sprint driven
    
    development.  
    
    PyPy at PyCon in Washington March 2005
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    The Pypy team sprinted at PyCon - 13 developers worked on getting Pypy
    compliant with the CPython regression test. Armin Rigo and Holger Krekel
    also did talks about type inference and the py lib/py.test. 
    
    PyPy at the Calibre conference in Paris March 2005
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    Beatrice Düring from the PyPy team participated in the Calibre workshop
    
    "Libre software - which business model?".
    
    Sprint in Leysin, Switzerland January 2005
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    The PyPy team met up for the first sprint after the official start of
    the EU funded project.  13 people participated and worked together for 7
    days.  The team succeded in importing and running CPython test on PyPy.
    
    PyPy at Chaos Communication Conference 2004 
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    Holger Krekel gave a talk about the process and status 
    of an open-source project receiving EU funding and 
    the particular situation with PyPy.  
    
    
    Contract signed  - PyPy is flying December 2004
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    The PyPy team recieved contract confirmation 1 December 2004 form the
    Commission The team kicked of the work with a Consortium meeting i
    Saarbruecken.