Sprints

Almost all open source software collaboration takes place remotely and sometimes at a big distance: code sprints are an opportunity to work together in the same place.

Link to Sprint Projects

What happens at a sprint?

Developers work together on a given open source project. To name just a few possibilities of what this can look like it could be:

fixing bugs,
making improvements to documentation,
discussing problems faced by users,
making conceptual progress on a new feature.

What does someone need to contribute?

You can contribute to a project you have already contributed to: the code sprint presents an opportunity to meet people you have perhaps only ever spoken to online.

You can contribute to a project you use a lot: the code sprint presents an opportunity to have a discussion with a more experienced user of the project.

You can make your first ever open source software contribution: the code sprint is an excellent way to get involved with the open source community.

There is no specific need for anything apart from some interest. However having a laptop with Python as well as a basic knowledge of the version control system used is helpful but there’ll be people to help with that too.

Is leaving before the end of the sprint OK?

Yes: feel free to drop in and out.

If you are thinking of sprinting on a specific project at PyCon UK

Let us know. We will make a point to let everyone know what is happening at the sprints.

Is it OK to just drop in to take a look?

Yes :)

Sprint Projects

Community Projects

Black Python Devs - Black Python Devs is an online-first community for Python devlopers who identify as Black.
PyLadies - PyLadies is a global mentorship group focused on helping more marginalized genders become active participants & leads in the Python open-source community.

Web Development Projects

Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Django Debug Toolbar - Django Debug Toolbar is a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.
BeeWare - BeeWare makes it easy to build and distribute GUI applications using pure Python. It includes frontend, mobile and packaging.
Render Engine - Render Engine is a Python Static Site Generator built with flexibility prioritized.

Data Science / Scientific

pandas - Pandas is a flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more.
NumPy - NumPy is a fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
SymPy - SymPy is a computer algebra system written in pure Python.
Spyder - SPYDER(Scientific Python Development Environment) is an open-source cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for scientific programming in the Python language.
SciPy - SciPy is a free and open-source Python library used for scientific and technical computing. It provides utility functions for optimization, stats and signal processing.

Language / Core

CPython - The Python programming language.

Libraries

Pillow - Pillow is the friendly Python Imaging Library(PIL) fork that allows you to manipulate images and perform basic image processing tasks.

Sustainability

Sustainability Projects (University of Manchester). The key project will be the Research Software Quality Kit RSQKit is - part of the EVERSE project - which collects best practices for improving research software. We’ll focus on Green Software Sustainability content & tools, including recent work on Green MetaData. The sprint leader is Michael Sparks ( University Of Manchester , Physics & eScience Lab, exBBC R&D ). He created the original BBC micro:bit prototype (which was distributed to schools around the UK), founded the Kamaelia project, helped co-found PyconUK in 2007, and is passionate about mentoring, on-boarding, and knowledge sharing.