Friday, March 21, 2008

PostgreSQL Summer of Code 2008

PostgreSQL has been invited by Google to be part of Google's Summer of Code
2008. They are calling all students, professors and potential mentors to
participate.

For Summer of Code, Google will be paying for student internships to work
on PostgreSQL features and applications. They've put up a list of ideas,
including guidelines for submissions and more. Applications for students
open March 25th, and close March 31, so urge any students you know to get
your applications prepared right away!

-- Ideas and Guidelines:
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode

-- Summer of Code FAQ:
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Guido van Rossum posted the slides of his PyCon 2008 keynote on python.org

Guido van Rossum posted the slides of his PyCon 2008 keynote on python.org

There's both a PowerPoint and a PDF file.

PS. The Python 3.0 final release is now scheduled for September 3, 2008. See PEP 361.