[pygtk] Python 3 and introspection hackfest

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 22:22, Zachary Goldberg <zgold550 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:16 PM, John Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> ----- "Tomeu Vizoso" <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> there's interest in having a hackfest sponsored by the GNOME
>>> Foundation that would give a push to some issues that are important
>>> to
>>> the Pygtk community: support for Python 3.x and
>>> gobject-introspection.
>>>
>>> How does it sound?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tomeu
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I'm adding a couple of more people directly who have worked with Python 2 to 3 module conversions to this mail and who might be interested in helping.
>>
>> The way a GNOME Foundation hackfest works is we need to figure out the best location to hold it and get estimates on how much it will cost to get people to that location.  We can then ask the Foundation board for the money to cover costs.  I've already got a query into the board so they know this is coming.
>>
>> The first step is finding out how many people are interested in this and what their locations are.  Because of the costs involved the location of the hackfest should be based on where we can get a room big enough to hold everyone and its proximity to the majority of the core contributors.
>>
>> --
>> John (J5) Palmieri
>> Software Engineer
>> Red Hat, Inc.
>>
>
> This sounds awesome, I would love to attend.   I'm currently in the
> USA, sometimes in Philadelphia sometimes in new York City.

Great, can you please add yourself to the wiki page?

http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Python2010

I guess you will work on callbacks, any other task that you would suggest?

Thanks,

Tomeu

> -Zach Goldberg
>