[Systers-dev] Hi everyone

[Jennifer Redman]

Hi Gloria!

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Gloria W <strangest at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi, I'm Gloria. I am a Python geek from NYC, with about 9 or so years
> experience in Python. I hold an apprenticeship group in NYC, and I give
> tutorials whenever I can. My next one is in PyArkansas, if everything goes
> as planned.
>

Do you happen to have your tutorials online? And would you possibly be
interested in running a virtual Python tutorial for women sometime in the
future?


>
> Andrea twisted my arm to be here :) She said you needed Python help, and I
> have some free time now. So feel free to use me as a part-time resource
> (about 5 to 8 hours a week or so).
>

Thanks Andrea! ;>

We definitely can use some Python help.  I just got back into town so I'm
trying to catch up on a few things, but I would encourage everyone else to
pummel Gloria with questions. :-)

We have one bug that we have been trying to solve that is preventing a
roll-out of updated software -- developed by our GSoC students.  Anne Gunn
came up with some ideas of why the bug is occurring during the code sprint
and updated the bug-report.

The bug is here:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/systers/+bug/426849

Kanika Vats and Anna Granudd can provide you with some additional
information  (K and A - let's keep all of our debugging/development
conversations on the dev list now that we have more people that can help!!)


>
> I really wanted to make your GHC code sprint, but I could not do it this
> year. I plan on attending the entire conference next year, so I should be at
> any code sprints you may host.
>
> I am also a trying to organize a women-friendly code sprint for PyCon, in
> Atlanta, USA, February of 2010. If it would help, I could continue the
> sprint from wherever the project happens to be at that moment. Let me know
> if you wish for such a thing, and I can make it happen.
>

This would be great!!  Let's definitely figure out some additional
logistics.  I know Terri Oda and it sounds like a growing group of Systers
are starting to work on a solution for searchable archives for Mailman - I
expect to see a thread coming over the next few weeks.  The PyCon
code-sprint would also be a great time to continue work on the sql
membership adaptor for MM that Malveeka Tewari (one of our GSoC students)
developed.  Our ultimate goal is to develop a single-sign-on method that
uses the existing Systers membership authentication to authenticate against
additional applications -- Mediawiki and potentially a future web-framework
most likely using OpenID.

Thanks,
Jen