diff --git a/news.txt b/news.txt index 52be226a1ca713e38db0932dce1ff79ee1be9adf_bmV3cy50eHQ=..89c1f4e6f627460ed25fae538657003bdf4d20ba_bmV3cy50eHQ= 100644 --- a/news.txt +++ b/news.txt @@ -1,3 +1,57 @@ +PyPy at University of Limerick: sprint and workshop 21-28th of August 2006 +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +PyPy will sprint at the University of Limerick in Ireland, hosted by partners in our +sister project Calibre. During the first day of the sprint, the 21st, we will +arrange a workshop with tutorials, talks and discussions on both technical (JIT, VM) +and methodological topics (F/OSS/Agile, Distributed). See sprint announcement +http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/ireland-2006/announce.html + +Summer of PyPy - calls for proposals +------------------------------------- +PyPy is implementing it´s own model (inspired by Google´s Summer of Code) +for reimbursing travel and accommodation for sprint participation as well as +mentoring on various subjects related to PyPy. The call for proposal is out - +see more on http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/summer-of-pypy.html. + +PyPy at Agile 2006 24-28th of July 2006 +---------------------------------------- +PyPy published an experience report at Agile 2006 conference in +Minneapolis, USA titled: "Trouble in Paradise: the Open Source Project PyPy, +EU-funding and Agile Practices". The talk was presented by Beatrice Düring. +Together with Arlo Belshee an Open Space session was arranged on the +topic "What can Agile learn from Open Source?", attended by 11 people. +See http://www.agile2006.org/. + +PyPy at Europython 2006 +------------------------- +PyPy arranged four talks at EuroPython 2006 - this year hosted by +CERN in Geneva, Switzerland as well as arranging "lightning talks" +and demoing features from the 0.9 release. After the conference the team +hosted a sprint with 24 participants (!). Thanks to everyone +participating and contributing during the sprint. +See http://www.europython.org/. + +PyPy releases videodocumentation! +----------------------------------- +At http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/video-index.html (bittorrent) +you can download video documentation covering sprints, talks, tutorials, +design discussions and interviews on PyPy. + +PyPy releases 0.9! +------------------- +The fourth public release of the project covers stackless +implementations in PyPy, extension compiler and many other +features - see the release announcement: +http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/release-0.9.0.html. + + +PyPy at XP 2006 17-22nd of June 2006 +--------------------------------------- +PyPy published an experience report, +"Sprint Driven Development, Agile Methodologies in a Distributed +Open Source Project (PyPy)" and presented the results at the XP +2006 conference in Oulu, Finland. + PyPy sprint in Tokyo 23rd-29th of April, 2006 ----------------------------------------------- The PyPy team has been invited by FSIJ (Free Software Initiative Japan)