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])

• 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])

• Marcus von Appen ([http://www.pygame.org PyGame])