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Date/time

• January 20, 2007 (Saturday), 9 AM - 6 PM

At this Sprint, summer interns from the CanDo project will present the work they have done during the last month, after which they will be setup of our upcoming Zope 3 training.

Future Date/times

• February 17, 2007 (Saturday), 9 AM - 6 PM
• March 17, 2007 (Saturday), 9 AM - 6 PM

Location

Arlington Career CenterBR 816 South Walter Reed DriveBR Arlington, VABR http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=816+South+Walter+Reed+Drive,+Arlington,+VA&om=1 Google Maps link]

[http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us/Graphics/ArlingtonMap.pdf Career center map and directions] (PDF)

The Career Center has a parking lot of its own; parking is free.

Only one of the automatic doors is operating on weekends; take the rightmost door.

The sprint is in the cafeteria; bear to the right on entering the building.

Bus lines (from http://www.wmata.com):

• [http://www.commuterpage.com/art/41main.htm ARLINGTON TRANSIT 41] towards DINWIDDIE & COLUMBIA PIKE, leaving from Court House Metro.

• 10B BUS towards HUNTING TOWERS, leaving from Ballston Metro.
• 23A BUS towards CRYSTAL CITY, leaving from Ballston Metro.

Thanks to Jeff Elkner and Dave Welsh for arranging the sprint space.

Projects

Please add what you'd like to work on to this section.

SchoolTool/CanDo

SchoolTool (http://schooltool.org) is a school information system written with Python and Zope3. CanDo is a student competency application built on SchoolTool.

Participants

Add your name here if you'll be attending the December sprint.

1. EldarOmuraliev (CanDo Developer)

2. AlanElkner (CanDo Developer)

Add your name here if you will be attending one of the workshops:

Intro to Python

1. JeffreyElkner (Intro to Python presenter)

2. KevinCole (Intro to Python co-presenter)

3. Chris Carey
4. Thomas Doggette
5. Brittney Nguyen
6. William Johnston
7. Bao Vuong
8. Matt Yeatman
9. Bao Vuong
10. Connor Tepel
11. Shitaye Mamo
12. Selamawit Mamo
13. Masood Malekghassemi
14. Preetam D'souza
15. Chris Beacham
16. Filip Sufitchi
17. Mounika Garlapati
18. Mary Linnell
19. Jama Mohamed
20. David Cooper
21. Ben Giobbi

Sprint Accomplishments: December 16, 2006

• 21 students from 3 area high schools participated in an all day intro to Python workshop. Their level of enthusiasm and stamina was truly inspiring, since even after learning all day from 9 am to 6 pm, several of the participants had to be kicked out of the lab at 6 pm.

Sprint Accomplishments: November 18, 2006

• Fixed the score system bugs and figured out the journal hashing problem that occured when Data.fs was transfered between different machines.

• AndrewKuchling worked on translating a [http://effbot.org/zone/pyzone-archive.htm PyZone archive] into a FAQ suitable for python.org, and on two bugfixes for Jython.

• David Muffley, Matthew Gallagher, and James Hancock got pacman

running under gasp (https://launchpad.net/products/gasp).

Sprint Accomplishments: October 21, 2006

• JeffreyElkner worked on [http://ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/python/english2e/html/index.html How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python], adding TkInter exercises.

Sprint Accomplishments: September 23, 2006

• AndrewKuchling worked on using a new templating system, [http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/ rest2web], for the python.org website. The result is still preliminary, but promising.

• FredDrake spent most of his time trying to figure out how to better deal with the documentation sections on www.python.org; there's more to be done, but the section for Python 2.5 now matches the style of the rest of the site.

• Fred and Andrew spent some time reviewing the issue trackers being considered to replace the trackers on SourceForge.

• FredDrake started going over the review comments Kevin Cole provided on the [http://docs.python.org/doc/doc.html Python Tutorial], most of which were produced at the previous Arlington sprint.

• JeffreyElkner worked on [http://ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/python/english2e/html/index.html How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python], fixing errors found by readers and adding exercises.

• David Muffley and George Paci worked on [http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/projects/gasp/ Gasp], adding unit tests and fixing bugs.

Sprint Accomplishments: July 28-30, 2006

• AndrewKuchling added many, many examples to the library reference.

• Kevin Cole started a detailed review of the Python Tutorial.

• FredDrake removed the xmlcore package, leaving only the xml package found in previous releases. Tests were added that check for some of the problems that provoked the removal. This resolves (at least) 1511497 and 1513611, and obsoletes 1504456.

• Fixed 1193966 (weakref documentation cleanup for extension types).

• Various minor documentation cleanups.

• Tom Hoffman and Alan Elkner refactored Tom's tinyzis project, removing redundant code and adding functional tests. ZIS (Zone Integration Server) is part of the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) with will eventually be used to allow SchoolTool to talk to moodle.

• Interns William, Will, Robbie, and Linda worked on the skilldriver package which allows the creations of assignments that utilise competencies.

• JeffreyElkner completed updating the 1st 9 chapters of the second edition of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python (http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/python/english2e/html).

• PaulCarduner and Eldar Omuraliev enhanced the journal package so each student can have a separate journal for each of their sections. A new CanDo skin was also made for overriding schooltool's actions menu layout. Work began on a more intuitive competencies editor with flexible tree layout.

• Competency Gradebook was enhanced with javascript cell navigation