Palma de Mallorca PyPy Sprint II: 23rd - 29th January 2006 ============================================================
The next PyPy sprint is scheduled to be in January 2006 in Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Isles, Spain. We'll give newcomer-friendly introductions. Its focus will mainly be on the current JIT work, garbage collection, alternative threading models, logic programming and on improving the interface with external functions. To learn more about the new PyPy Python-in-Python implementation look here: http://codespeak.net/pypy Goals and topics of the sprint ------------------------------ In Gothenburg we have made some first forays into the interesting topics of phase 2 of the PyPy project. In Mallorca we will continue the work that we started there. The currently scheduled main topics are: - Further work/experimentation with the Abstract Interpreter that was started in Gothenburg. - Integrating our garbage collection toolkit with the backends and the code generation. - Heading into the direction of adding logic programming to PyPy. - Optimization work: our threading implementation is still incredibly slow, we need to work on that. Furthermore there are still quite some slow places in the interpreter that could be improved. - If someone feels like it: although vastly improved our socket module is still far from complete - In general we need to improve the way we interface with external functions. Location & Accomodation ------------------------ The sprint will be held at the Palma University (UIB - Universitat de les Illes Balears), in their GNU/Linux lab (http://mnm.uib.es/phpwiki/AulaLinux). We are hosted by the Computer Science department and Ricardo Galli is our contact person there, helping with arranging facilities. The University is located 7 km away from the central Palma. Busses to the University departs from "Plaza de España" (which is a very central location in Palma). Take bus 19 to the UIB campus. A ticket for one urban trip costs 1 euro. You can also buy a card that is valid for 10 trips and costs 7.51 euros. Information about bus timetables and routes can be found on: http://www.a-palma.es. A map over the UIB campus are can be found on: http://www.uib.es/imagenes/planoCampus.html The actual address is: 3r pis de l'Anselm Turmeda which can be found on the UIB Campus map. At "Plaza de España" there is a hostel (Hostal Residencia Terminus) which has been recommended to us. It's cheap (ca 50 euros/double room with bathroom). Some more links to accomodations (flats, student homes and hotels): http://www.lodging-in-spain.com/hotel/town/Islas_Baleares,Mallorca,Palma_de_Mallorca,1/ http://www.uib.es/fuguib/residencia/english/index.html http://www.homelidays.com/EN-Holidays-Rental/110_Search/SearchList.asp?DESTINATION=Palma%20de%20Mallorca&ADR_PAYS=ES&ADR_ LOCALISATION=ES%20ISLASBALEARES%20MALLORCA If you want to find a given street, you can search here: http://www.callejeando.com/Pueblos/pueblo7_1.htm To get to Palma De Mallorca almost all low fare airlines and travel agencies have cheap tickets to get there. Information about Mallorca and Palma (maps, tourist information, local transports, recommended air lines, ferries and much more) can be found on: http://www.palmademallorca.es/portalPalma/home.jsp Comments on the weather: In January it is cold and wet on Mallorca Average temperature: 8,4 degrees Celsius Lowest temperature: 2 degrees Celsius Highest temperature: 14,5 degrees Celsius Average humidity rate: 77,6 % So more time for coding and less time for sunbathing and beaches ;-) Exact times ----------- The public PyPy sprint is held Monday 23rd - Sunday 29th January 2006. Hours will be from 10:00 until people have had enough. It's a good idea to arrive a day before the sprint starts and leave a day later. In the middle of the sprint there usually is a break day and it's usually ok to take half-days off if you feel like it. For this particular break day, Thursday, we are invited to the studio of Ginés Quiñonero, a local artist and painter. Ginés have also been the person helping us getting connections to UIB and providing much appreciated help regarding accommodation and other logistical information. For those of you interested - here is his website where there also are paintings showing his studio: http://www.hermetex4.com/damnans/ For those interested in playing collectable card games, this will also be an opportunity to get aquainted with V:TES which will be demoed by Ginés and Beatrice and Sten Düring. For more information on this cardgame - see: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/index.php. (The Mallorca sprint was organized through contacts within the V:TES community). Network, Food, currency ------------------------ Currency is Euro. Food is available in the UIB Campus area as well as cheap restaurants in Palma. You normally need a wireless network card to access the network, but we can provide a wireless/ethernet bridge. 230V AC plugs are used in Mallorca. Registration etc.pp. -------------------- Please subscribe to the `PyPy sprint mailing list`_, introduce yourself and post a note that you want to come. Feel free to ask any questions there! There also is a separate `Mallorca people`_ page tracking who is already thought to come. If you have commit rights on codespeak then you can modify yourself a checkout of http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/mallorca-2006/people.txt .. _`PyPy sprint mailing list`: http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-sprint .. _`Mallorca people`: http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/mallorca-2006/people.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list