== Python Mentors ==

Here is the current list of mentors for the Python Software Foundation and what projects they're interested in seeing.

Mentors are listed in alphabetical order.

 * JimBaker ([[http://wiki.python.org/jython/SummerOfCode|Jython]])
 * Facundo Batista (Python standard library)
 * JeffBauer ([[http://www.djangoproject.com|Django]])
 * Matt Boersma ([[http://wiki.python.org/jython/SummerOfCode|Jython]])
 * Buddha Buck ([[http://www.pysoy.org|PySoy]])
 * Carl Friedrich Bolz ([[http://codespeak.net/pypy|PyPy]])
 * Titus Brown and Grig Gheorghiu (automatic patch verification system for Python core and PyPI packages, based on a buildbot farm running on VMware machines, with ideas from [[http://pybots.org|Pybots]] and [[http://pycheesecake.org|Cheesecake]])
 * Jean-Paul Calderone, Glyph Lefkowitz, James Knight, and Christopher Armstrong ([[http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/SummerOfCode|Twisted]])
 * Jennifer Campbell (PyGraphics)
 * Brett Cannon (Python core and standard library)
 * Ondrej Certik ([[http://code.google.com/p/sympy/|sympy]]), project [[http://code.google.com/p/sympy/wiki/SummerOfCode|ideas]]
 * Fabian Seoane ([[http://code.google.com/p/sympy/|sympy]]), project [[http://code.google.com/p/sympy/wiki/SummerOfCode|ideas]]
 * Antonio Cuni ([[http://codespeak.net/pypy|PyPy]])
 * BrianDorsey ([[http://codespeak.net/py/|py-lib]] - See the future section of [[http://codespeak.net/svn/py/trunk/py/doc/test.txt|test.txt]] and [[http://codespeak.net/svn/py/trunk/py/doc/future.txt|future.txt]] for some py-lib project ideas)
 * Ilya Etingof (willing to help out, esp. in networking areas)
 * David Goodger ([[http://docutils.sf.net|Docutils]])
 * Will Guaraldi ([[http://pyblosxom.sf.net|PyBlosxom]]  -  [[http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/blog/static/soc2007.html|project ideas]])
 * Peter Hansen ([[http://www.drproject.org|DrProject]])
 * Alan Isaac ([[http://scipy.org|SciPy]], optimization, esp. as co-mentor)
 * Max Ischenko (testing tools development, TurboGears/Pylons and web-related projects)
 * Jim Jewett (client-side web projects, particularly plucker http://www.plkr.org/) or backup mentor.
 * Holger Krekel ([[http://codespeak.net/py/|py-lib]], [[http://codespeak.net/pypy|PyPy]])
 * AndrewKuchling (Python standard library, extension modules, possibly Jython)
 * Tennessee Leeuwenburg (Just happy to help -- of http://pythonpapers.org/ thinking of project ideas still)
 * Martin v. Löwis (Python standard library, core)
 * Zach Miller ([[http://pySoy.org/|pySoy]])
 * Jarrod Millman ([[http://scipy.org|SciPy]])
 * SkipMontanaro ([[http://www.spambayes.org|SpamBayes]])
 * Victor Ng ([[http://www.drproject.org|DrProject]])
 * Travis Oliphant (NumPy, Extended buffer interface in Python)
 * CarloOliveira (UFRJ,[[http://labase.nce.ufrj.br/projects/pyndorama|Pyndorama]], Educational tools for Web and OLPC)
 * Armin Rigo ([[http://codespeak.net/pypy|PyPy]])
 * Arc Riley ([[http://www.pysoy.org|PySoy]])
 * André Roberge ([[http://code.google.com/p/crunchy|Crunchy]])  [[http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas|project ideas]]
 * JustinRyan ([[http://www.openplans.org/projects/pu]], bridging interface implementations with {IronP,cP,J}ython to enable cross-pollination of communities and adoption with existing legacy apps, also Mono/Twisted reactor convergence possibilities, PyPy, distutils on Jython / javaos.py]
 * DavidStanek ([[http://www.turbogears.org|TurboGears]], projects involving web applications or web application development)
 * Aaron Swartz ([[http://webpy.infogami.com/ideas|web.py ideas]])
 * JamesTauber ([[http://pyjamas.pyworks.org|Pyjamas]])
 * MikeTaylor ([[http://wiki.python.org/jython/SummerOfCode|Jython]])
 * AlexandreVassalotti (Python standard library, core)
 * FrankWierzbicki ([[http://wiki.python.org/jython/SummerOfCode|Jython]])
 * Greg Wilson ([[http://www.drproject.org|DrProject]])
 * Blake Winton ([[http://www.drproject.org/|DrProject]], [[http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/|PyBlosxom]])
 * Johannes Woolard ([[http://code.google.com/p/crunchy|Crunchy]]) [[http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas|project ideas]]
 * Maciej Fijalkowski ([[http://codespeak.net/py/|py-lib]], [[http://codespeak.net/pypy|PyPy]])
 * Toby Donaldson ([[http://code.google.com/p/crunchy|Crunchy]])
 * Richard Tew ([[http://www.stackless.com|Stackless Python]])
 * Satya Kiran (Python core,Python standard library)
 * Paul Gries ([[http://code.google.com/p/pygraphics|PyGraphics]])
 * Rene Dudfield ([[http://www.pygame.org|PyGame]], [[http://pyopengl.sf.net|PyOpenGL]])
 * Marcus von Appen ([[http://www.pygame.org|PyGame]])
 * Phil Hassey ([[http://www.pygame.org|PyGame]], TinyPy)