Python Sprint at the Spotify

I'm very happy to announce that Spotify will be hosting a one day Python sprint at our HQ in Stockholm on February 23rd!

What's a Python sprint?

In a nutshell a Python sprint is a hackathon where people team up to fix the Python itself. We will be focusing on the most popular Python implementation, the CPython (the one available from http://python.org ).

To help us hacking, a CPython core developer Petri Lehtinen (@akhern) (http://twitter.com/akhern) from Finland will be at the sprint in person. He'll give an introduction to contributing to CPython and will try to answer all the questions you possibly can have about the sprint :)

If you want to find out more about contributing to CPython, the Python Developer's Guide (http://docs.python.org/devguide/) is a good start.

So, what does this require from me?

Nothing! Whether you're a proficient Python or C coder or not, it does not really matter. Key is that you want to hack with other people and contribute back to your favorite programming language!

Python has lot of bugs to fix, starting from easy ones aimed for
first timers and documentation fixes all the way to contributing
towards bigger features. Every hacker will probably find suitable
bugs to fix. In addition to Python bugs, the whole Python ecosystem (bug tracker, code review, documentation etc) are open source and you can even contribute to those!

All you need you to do is join the sprint and come there with your
laptop. Spotify will be offering snacks and beverages, so you don't
even need to care about those!

Meetup will start at 14:00 (2pm) and the goal is to hack to the late
night fixing as much as possible in Python.