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This is a Content Management System built on Python & itools, among
other features ikaaro provides:

- content and document management (index&search, metadata, etc.)
- multilingual user interfaces and content
- high level modules: wiki, forum, tracker, etc.

• Read more: ikaaro 0.20.6 released

Dear Elisa Users,

The Elisa team is happy to announce the second official release of the
0.5 series of the Elisa Media Center, Elisa 0.5.2 ‘Good news everyone…’.

With this release Elisa takes another step towards its goal of being a
true cross-platform media center. It works under Windows Vista and XP,
as well as the main Linux distributions.

The main outlines of this release are:
- The integration of a media scanner that indexes one’s music collection
and allows one to browse it by Artists/Albums, with automatic albums’
covers and artists’ photos retrieval;

• Read more: Elisa Media Center 0.5.2 Release

We have uploaded our EuroPython 2008 presentations to our website.

Learn the concepts behind the Python DB-API and how to design
large-scale applications.

This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/EuroPython-2008-Presentations.html

• Read more: ANN: eGenix EuroPython 2008 Presentations & Videos

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the second beta releases of Python 2.6 and Python 3.0.

Please note that these are beta releases, and as such are not suitable for production environments.  We continue to strive for a high degree of quality, and these releases are intended to freeze the feature set for Python 2.6 and 3.0.

From now until the planned final releases in October 2008, we will be fixing known problems and stabilizing these new Python versions.  You can help by downloading and testing them, providing feedback and hopefully helping to fix bugs.  You can also use these releases to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact you.

• Read more: RELEASED Python 2.6b2 and 3.0b2

Registration is open for PyOhio, the daylong regional miniconference
on July 26 in Columbus, OH.

http://www.pyohio.org/reg/register/

Registration is free, but registering early guarantees your spot and
helps the organizers schedule talks to avoid conflicts.

See you on July 26 in Columbus, OH!

On behalf of the Jython development team, I’m pleased to announce that
Jython 2.5a0+ is available here
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jython/jython_installer-2.5a0.jar for
download. See http://jython.org/Project/installation.html for
installation instructions.

This is the first alpha release of Jython 2.5 and contains many new
features. In fact, because we have skipped 2.3 and 2.4, there are too
many to even summarize. A few of the features are:
* generator expressions
* with statement
* exceptions as new-style classes
* unicode support more in line with CPython
* decorators

Under the hood Jython 2.5 has a new parser based on ANTLR 3.1 and the
compiler has been refactored to use ASM.

There are so many more changes that I have missed more than I have
listed. This is an alpha release, so there are known and unknown
bugs, so be careful.
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list

Support the Python Software Foundation:
http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

Minutes of Regular Meetings of the Board of Directors of the Python
Software Foundation,

* May 12, 2008: http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2008-05-12

* June 16, 2008: http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2008-06-16

David Goodger, PSF Secretary
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list

Support the Python Software Foundation:
http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the first beta releases of Python 2.6 and Python 3.0.

Please note that these are beta releases, and as such are not suitable for production environments.  We continue to strive for a high degree of quality, and these releases are intended to freeze the feature set for Python 2.6 and 3.0.

From now until the planned final releases in September 2008, we will be fixing known problems and stabilizing these new Python versions.  You can help by downloading and testing them, providing feedback and hopefully helping to fix bugs.  You can also use these releases to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact you.  If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit bug reports at

http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python 2.6 website:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

See PEP 361 for release schedule details:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
barry@python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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Vilnius/Post EuroPython PyPy Sprint 10-12th of July
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The PyPy team is sprinting at EuroPython again and we invite
you to participate in our 3 day long sprint at the conference hotel
- Reval Hotel Lietuva.

If you plan to attend the sprint we recommend you to listen to the
PyPy
technical talks (`EuroPython schedule`_) during the
conference since it will give you a good overview of the status of
development.

• Read more: Vilnius/Post EuroPython PyPy Sprint 10-12th of July

At the Geek Ranch we recently made a decision to implement
some software in Python. Or, more accurately, I decided and there
was no disagreement. Then Python gets picked as the best scripting
language in the LJ Readers’ Choice survey. That inspired me to
write this article (and get ready for Perl and Ruby fans to start
yelling at me).

Read more at Linux Journal

I am pleased to announce Python courses in Germany this summer.

The courses will be in Leipzig, Germany from July 21 to 25, 2008.
(http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_summer_course.html)

(1) “Python for Programmers” introduces Python to programmers without
or with little knowledge of Python. This course will be given on
July 21 and 22, 2008. For course details see:
http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_course_programmers.html

(2) “Python for Scientists and Engineers” will be held from
July 23 — 25, 2008. A detailed course outline can be found here:
http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_course_scientists.html

Both courses can be booked individually or jointly.
Please register here:
http://www.python-academy.com/courses/dates.html

You can take advantage of being in Leipzig to attend the first
EuroSciPy conference on July 26 and 27, 2008. For more details see: http://www.scipy.org/EuroSciPy2008

Kind regards,
Mike Müller
(Course Instructor)

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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list

Support the Python Software Foundation:
http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

At last, registration for EuroPython 2008 (the European conference for the
communities around Python) is now open! Take a look at the registration page
on the EuroPython Web site for full details:

http://www.europython.org/Registration

The usual generous discount on fees is offered for registrations made up until
31st May. Don’t forget to check the calendar for other important deadlines:

http://www.europython.org/Calendar

Meanwhile, the deadline for talk and activity proposals is fast approaching.
If you have something to show off that might interest the Python community,
now is the time to start putting together a proposal for a talk. Remember
that you don’t need to have the talk ready now - just a reasonable idea of
what you’ll be presenting.

Take a look at the Call for Participation on the EuroPython Web site for
details:

http://www.europython.org/CallForParticipation

And remember that the EuroPython organisers and community are always ready to
answer any questions about talks and other matters on the mailing lists:

http://www.europython.org/Mailing_Lists

We look forward to seeing your proposals *and* seeing you in Vilnius!
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list

I’m pleased to announce the next minor version of Sphinx, the Python
documentation generation tool.

What is it?
===========

Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of
multiple reStructuredText source files).

Its website is at <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>.

• Read more: Sphinx 0.3 released

The Linux Journal readers apparently suffer the same ambiguity as the rest of us when it comes to defining what the difference between a scripting language and a programming language.

They do, however, clearly like Python, which they voted their scripting language of 2008. PHP, Bash and Perl came in reasonably close on Python’s heels, but 28.9% of those voting voted for Python.

See all the awards at

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065

regards
Steve

QOTW: “Posting to comp.lang.python is pair programming with the entire
internet ;-)” - Nick Craig-Wood

• Read more: Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 28)