How can I get involved

[Prateek]

Hey everyone...

Thanks a million for the warm welcome. Not sure WHY I haven't posted
before (although I have been lurking for a few weeks). I guess I've
been learning via practice and other random documentation online.

In case anyone is interested, the url of my organization is
http://www.brainwavelive.com
There isn't too much technical documentation there yet, but more is
coming soon - I promise. Let me know if anyone wants to participate.

There are a couple of sub-projects which we're open sourcing which
we'll put up soon. In the meantime, I had an interesting project I
thought some of you may be interested in...

I've been checking out Jython and I've been kinda disappointed to see
nothing released in a while (so I'm eager to see what comes next).

In the meantime, I need a way to access my database server (written in
Python) from Java. Since the server process uses Pyro for IPC and I
don't want to switch to XML (purely because of the overhead), I thought
it might be fun to write something in Java.

So I've started work on an Unpickler in Java. I'll post again soon with
the URL (haven't uploaded it yet). If anyone is interested, email me.

Prateek

Paul Boddie wrote:
> I find it interesting that you've been using Python for so long and yet
> haven't posted to this group before. Have you been participating in
> other forums or groups? I suppose this shows how big the community is,
> and that comp.lang.python is just the tip of the iceberg.
>
> Anyway, welcome! :-)
>
> > Key points:
> > 1) It comes with a non-relational schema-free database we designed
> > 2) The application server is based on CherryPy
> > 3) The UI engine is XSLT based (but it also supports Cheetah and
> > Clearsilver via plugins - out of the box)
>
> I get along fairly well with XSLT, so this sounds rather interesting.
>
> > Basically, I really love the language and I'm looking for ways to get
> > involved in the community and contribute.
>
> There are so many things you can do that it's hard to describe them
> all. If you're free to contribute to open source projects, you might
> choose some that interest you, or which might benefit the work you do
> in your day job, and contribute some effort to those projects.
> Alternatively, you could start your own interesting projects and share
> them with us. Perhaps you want to help other people to understand
> Python or its libraries, and you could decide to write some
> documentation or some "how to" documents or guides. If you're really
> enthusiastic, you could help the core developers with developing
> CPython, but if you're more of a Java person then perhaps the
> developers of Jython might appreciate the help a bit more.
>
> > My past (pre-Python) experience has been mainly in web-technologies -
> > Java, PHP, ASP and a little bit of C.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> The python.org Wiki gives a few starting points, based on what I've
> written above:
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontPage
>
> It's a bit of a mess, unfortunately, despite some of us trying to keep
> some areas reasonably tidy, but if you dive in and look around you'll
> probably find something to inspire you. If not, just tell us and we'll
> try and suggest something. ;-)
> 
> Paul