Differences between revisions 25 and 84 (spanning 59 versions)
Revision 25 as of 2010-02-06 19:22:13
Size: 2473
Comment:
Revision 84 as of 2011-04-15 23:51:14
Size: 2816
Comment:
Deletions are marked like this. Additions are marked like this.
Line 2: Line 2:

Next episode: episode #18.

== Topics for #18 ==

Python 3.2 released.

Unladen Swallow declared dead.

PyCon wrap-up? Discussion of recommended talks. Any interviews?
Line 5: Line 15:
Python 2.7alpha3 released. [[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/|PEP 373]] Time management for free software developers
Line 7: Line 17:
Python 2.6.5: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/110556 rc1 March 1st, 2.6.5 final on March 15. Python's Innards: Yaniv Aknin's series of weblog posts on Python internals
http://tech.blog.aknin.name/tag/guidos-python/
Line 9: Line 20:
Victor Stinner on fuzzing Python: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/110134 mock beta release (1300 downloads)
Line 11: Line 22:
Forking and threading: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/110401 PSF: Funding for sprints
Line 13: Line 24:
[[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/|PEP 345]]: Metadata 1.2 Before the last podcast Steve raised the issue of how people become Python committers and how good (or otherwise) the core team are at handling bug reports and patches on the tracker. We could discuss that in the CPython segment. (Python Mentor program?)
Line 15: Line 26:
[[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0391/|PEP 391]]: Dictionary-Based Configuration For Logging (Jesse?)
 
[[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/|New PEP: 3146]]: Unladen Swallow merge

[[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3147/|New PEP: 3147]]: PYC repository directories

New GIL work in Python 3.2.

New Jython podcast: Jythonpodcast.com
-----
Line 26: Line 29:

To be published 2-3 weeks before PyCon: how to enjoy/benefit from PyCon
Line 33: Line 34:
Python's history: Skype interview with Andrew S. Tanenbaum of ABC?

== Regular Features ==

=== Python for newbies ===

Installing on Windows

Installing on MacOS

IDEs

Brett: writing a __del__ method
Line 34: Line 49:
Line 39: Line 53:

Changes to python.org web site content?
Line 74: Line 86:
Participants introduce themselves: "I'm <so-and-so>." (Optional: "In <location>.")

Conclusions:

Thank you for listening. We'll be back with another episode soon.
Line 78: Line 96:
This has been a Little Bit of Python, episode X,featuring Steve Holden, etc. This has been a Little Bit of Python, episode X, with <person 1>, <person 2>, and
myself, <person 3>
.
Line 83: Line 102:

== Contributors ==

(in alphabetical order by last name)

 * Brett Cannon
 * Michael Foord
 * Steve Holden
 * Andrew Kuchling
 * Jesse Noller
 
 

Today's Topics

Next episode: episode #18.

Topics for #18

Python 3.2 released.

Unladen Swallow declared dead.

PyCon wrap-up? Discussion of recommended talks. Any interviews?

Specific topics

Time management for free software developers

Python's Innards: Yaniv Aknin's series of weblog posts on Python internals http://tech.blog.aknin.name/tag/guidos-python/

mock beta release (1300 downloads)

PSF: Funding for sprints

Before the last podcast Steve raised the issue of how people become Python committers and how good (or otherwise) the core team are at handling bug reports and patches on the tracker. We could discuss that in the CPython segment. (Python Mentor program?)


Interview Jeff Rush about the PSF's meetup funding.

PSF: new sponsor membership levels

Let's talk about Distribute, setuptools, pip sometime.

Python's history: Skype interview with Andrew S. Tanenbaum of ABC?

Regular Features

Python for newbies

Installing on Windows

Installing on MacOS

IDEs

Brett: writing a del method

General Topic Ideas

New checkins

Lengthy threads on python-dev, python-ideas or other SIGs

Interviews

PSF-related stuff

PyCon

Creation of "Python Secret Underground" (the 'Cabal')

User groups, events and community happenings (training sessions for example)

Shameless plugs for Holden Web events!

Python diversity

Major project news (Django, Twisted, TurboGears, Zope, etc)

New books, new projects, tracking the Planet Python blogs for interesting new stuff (we could even 'review' interesting Python related blogs)

Possible format: short news summary, interview, mad ramblings

Standard Format

Intro:

Welcome to a Little Bit of Python, episode X, with <person 1>, <person 2>, and myself, <person 3>.

Intro music (fade down after 8 sec, over 2sec duration).

Bumpers: slice of theme track (fade up over 7sec, full volume for 6sec, fade down over 4sec)

Participants introduce themselves: "I'm <so-and-so>." (Optional: "In <location>.")

Conclusions:

Thank you for listening. We'll be back with another episode soon.

Outro:

Music: fade up theme over 1/2 sec, play for 7sec, lower level beneath the outro text, return to normal level, play for 5 sec, then fade out over 8sec).

This has been a Little Bit of Python, episode X, with <person 1>, <person 2>, and myself, <person 3>.

Please send your comments and suggestions to the e-mail address all@bitofpython.com.

Our theme is track 11 from The Headroom Project's album Haifa, available on the Magnatune label.

Contributors

(in alphabetical order by last name)

  • Brett Cannon
  • Michael Foord
  • Steve Holden
  • Andrew Kuchling
  • Jesse Noller

Podcast/EpisodePlanning (last edited 2012-01-30 02:25:46 by AndrewKuchling)

Unable to edit the page? See the FrontPage for instructions.