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Bruce Perens has raised concerns that the Open Source Initiative, which he co-founded, is increasing becoming dominated by vendor representatives. Bruce has started a campaign to join the OSI board, and needs community support to be successful.

His campaign page explains why he feels this is necessary. Please visit that page, and consider supporting Bruce in his efforts to keep Open Source open.

This is good timing for Bruce’s campaign – the Open Source Business Conference is being held next week in San Francisco, and I’ll be at the Microsoft Open Source ISV Forum on Monday. The OSI will likely be a topic of discussion at both events.

Tobias, on behalf of the Jython team:
Last night at PyCon, at the Jython dinner (thanks goes to Sun for feeding us), we followed up a discussion from earlier during the day about Python and concurrency. We realized that CPython is far ahead of us in this area, and that we are lacking in compatibility. After [...]

Bruce Eckel via comp.lang.python

What was supremely frustrating was discovering that the people wanting to give REAL lightning talks had been pushed off the end of the list by this guarantee to vendors. We didn’t get to see the good stuff, the real stuff, because that time had been sold.

As one of those whose lightning talk [...]

PyCon 2008 is in full swing here in Chicago , with over 1000 attendees. My thoughs and notes from day 1 are below.
Chris Hagner of White Oak Technologies gave an interesting talk on “Why Python Sucks (but works great for us).” I liked the Python as a competetive advantage angle – once White [...]

It’s hard to believe it, but PyCon 2008 is almost upon us.
The biggest challenge attending any conference packed with goodies is how to divide up your time. I’m planning out my schedule using the conference planner on the PyCon site. A handful of click’s and the schedule is in iCal, and [...]