Sprint Projects/Resources for PyCon 2008 Sprints

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Hi all,

We'll being doing an Activities sprint after PyCon2008, March 17th 
(evening) to the afternoon of the 20th.  We'll likely have 8-10 Python 
programmers of various skill levels available.  Given the compressed 
time-frame, we should be able to either complete very small projects or 
work on existing projects.  We've got a pretty good set of "small 
project" tasks outlined in the OLPC Austria wiki and the main OLPC wiki, 
but new programmers will likely be looking for projects they can join as 
well.

I'm intending to spend any coding time I have (when I'm not helping the 
teams) working on Productive and/or the OLPCGames wrapper it uses.  I 
can readily absorb about 3-4 programmers into those projects, but I 
expect there will be people would would rather work on something else, 
but who don't feel comfortable starting their own project or joining a 
"new" project.

So if you:

    * are a project lead for an Activity
          o something where you already have code and can make use of
            (junior) collaborators
    * will be available on IRC during the sprint time-frame to act as a
      mentor for new coders
          o particularly in the evening on Sunday the 17th and then
            Monday daytime to get people started
          o right through until Wednesday would be useful
    * have some set of tasks that you feel a new coder could work on as
      a starting point for joining your project
          o if you have reasonably self-contained tickets in the tracker
            that's probably the best approach

let me know so I can suggest your project to participants as a 
"mentored" introductory projects.  I'll try to familiarize myself with 
your code-base before the sprints so that I can help out if people get 
stuck.

Thanks all,
Mike