Michael McLay
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The Second Python Workshop
Workshop Announcement
The Second Python Workshop is scheduled for May 22, 23, 24, and
25. It will be held in Menlo Park, CA at the U.S.G.S. facility.
(Thanks go to Jim Fulton for making arrangements for the facility.)
A map to the site is available
(http://www.eeel.nist.gov/python/workshop2/USGS_map.gif) . Also,
hotel information is also available
(http://www.cminds.com/python/misc/workshop2.hotels.html).
Call for Papers and for Volunteers
Like the last workshop, we would like to have facilitators assigned
to the different topic areas and position papers or white papers
written prior to the meeting. As we did at the last workshop, all the
proceedings will be put on the WWW. Please send papers to
mclay@eeel.nist.gov to have them included in the proceedings. You
do not have to attend the workshop to submit a paper and you don't
have to submit a paper to attend the workshop. DEADLINES: It's
the Web so there is no deadline. Please send in a title and abstract
as soon as you can. We can always change them at a later date.
Papers can also be sent in at any time.
Workshop Fee
This second workshop will not have a fee. Donations to cover the
cost of a refreshments may be collected at the meeting.
We are fortunate in that this second meeting will be another
freebee. In the future we expect it will be necessary to charge a fee
for the workshops. Based on the typical IETF meeting charge, it
will probably be between $100 and $150.
Signing up for the Workshop
To sign up to attend send an email to mclay@eeel.nist.gov. If you
are planning on volunteering to lead a session, please indicate what
sessions you would be interested in leading.
Workshop Location
U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Road, Building 7
Menlo Park, California 94025-3591
(about 15-minutes south of the San Francisco airport)
The Workshop Agenda
The Workshop dates will not change, but just about everything else on the
schedule is still under discussion. A final schedule will be release after
April 15th.
May 22
PSA Steering Committee Meeting
The Python Software Association Steering Committee will meet at 6:00
PM on May 22 to discuss the formation of the PSA. If you are not on the
Steering Committee and would like more information contact
paul@cminds.com.
May 23, 24, and 25
Workshop Sessions
The sessions will run from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM all three days. Donuts,
Spam, and coffee will be available starting at 8:30. A detailed agenda will
be posted sometime after April 15th.
We will need volunteers to chair each of the major topic areas. Facilitators
will also be needed for each of the sub topic areas. Please don't be shy
about volunteering.
Administrative Topics and Introductions
Moderator - Paul Everitt
Welcome and introductions. (Michael McLay)
Discussion of meeting agenda. (??)
Python organizational issues.
Python Software Association status. - Report on the
steering committee meeting. (Paul Everitt)
Business use of Python - Don't read too much into this.
Python will remain freely available over the net. (Paul
Everitt)
Participant presentations
Position papers - published on web page, brief 5 minute
presentations the first morning. (Michael McLay)
Works in progress - sequence of compact sessions, 10 to 20
minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions, to give people
chance to present interesting works-in-progress. (Michael
McLay)
Distributed Computing
Moderator - ??
Panel on Distributed Object Systems
ILU (Bill Janssen, or someone like him)
OpenDoc (Jed Harris, or someone like him)
CORBA (Mark Linton, or someone like him)
OLE (?? volunteers)
Objects on the net - pickle, shelf, remote import, safe Python
(Guido?)
Extension Modules and Basic Applications
Moderator - ??
This is session is open. If you have an interesting extension or application
you'd like to discuss, please speak up!
Python and the web - (Paul Everitt)
Network security - authentication and cryptography (??)
Develop a core extension list (GUI, persistence, etc.)? (??)
User contributed
Graphical User Interfaces
Moderator - ??
Plurality of options - MFC wrapper, Fresco, wxPython, MacApp,
etc. (??)
Tkinter - status of Tk 4.0. (??)
Microsoft Foundation Classes. (Mark Hammond and Sam
Rushing)
Pesto. (Mark Linton, or someone like him)
Visual Python. (??)
A standard API and functional portability. (??)
Python Core
Moderator - ??
What's new in 1.2. (??)
Safe python. (??)
The python object/C/C++ API developments. (??)
Abstract objects layer. (Jim Fulton)
Overall framework - multiple layers - discussion of Guido /
Mark Lutz / Jim Fulton's proposals. (??)
Extensible compound statements. (Jim Fulton)
Optimizations project. (??)
What's next.
Plans for releases 1.3, and 2.0. (??)
Wish list and futurism.
Proposal for a generic object API. (Jim Fulton)
Ideas on calling Python from an embedding
environment. (??)
Proposals for optimizing function calls. (Jim Roskind)
Ideas on explicit preservation and context-style
swapping of global interpreter state as a mechanism
for maintaining multiple interpreters. (Gudio)
Software Management
Moderator - ??
Developments out of last workshop - docstrings, import. (??)
Where next - object discovery, environment browsers, what's
most needed, and who's working on what? (??)
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