Comments on: In search of projects

By: has

has — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:31:09 +0000

py2app could use a bit of TLC. Great tool for for anyone writing OS X apps in Python, but its .egg support needs work.

By: Alex Martelli

Alex Martelli — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:24:22 +0000

Over at sandysback.{appspot,googlecode,blogspot}.com we’re trying to put together a team to redo “I Want Sandy” — soon to be closed due to Rael Dornfest moving to Twitter — as an open source project, ideally one that can be hosted on Google App Engine so as to need no funding or monetization until and unless it’s very successful — which is one reason of interest for Python of course — though I’ve also bought the domain sandysback.com and we can point that to whatever host if we decide that another deployment solution works better [man I'd LOVE to do this with Twisted if hosting could be kept cheap enough or funded! -- and of course that'd be Python too;-)]. Anyway, we’re barely getting started but we’re definitely looking for Python-savvy volunteers!-)

Alex

By: Frank Niessink

Frank Niessink — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:11:33 +0000

If you want to work on an end-user application may I humbly suggest Task Coach (http://www.taskcoach.org)? It’s a cross-platform (including Mac OS X) task manager that supports hierarchical tasks, categories, effort tracking and more. Task Coach is developed in Python, using wxPython for the GUI.

By: Orestis Markou

Orestis Markou — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:07:01 +0000

Make fellow developers happy every time they use their editor by helping with PySmell!

By: Matthew Wilkes

Matthew Wilkes — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:03:24 +0000

It’s not as sexy as PyPy, but Melange needs doing.

http://code.google.com/p/soc/

It’s a webapp for GAE that will power Google Highly Open Participation contest (http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/) and Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/) from now on.

It’s also the first piece of code that google have produced that has been open-source since day 1.

Getting this out of the door will help literally thousands of people get involved in open source.

By: Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:13 +0000

Hang out in #python and help novices. After a while, maybe write a few blog posts that explain stuff that novices keep tripping up on, then submit your blog posts as documentation for python.

Or write some posts on how to use WSGI middleware.

By: André Roberge

André Roberge — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:54:13 +0000

What do you think of Crunchy?

By: est

est — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:01:46 +0000

Try Nodebox or Shoebot

By: Michael Foord

Michael Foord — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:44:13 +0000

If I had spare time I’d be working on PyPy…

By: Travis Bradshaw

Travis Bradshaw — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:29:50 +0000

I would recommend TurboGears. It’s a project with fantastic potential, a bit unrealized.