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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?
Topics for #17
Interview w/ Armin Rigo.
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
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