[Dev] Pycon Wrap up

[Brian Kirsch]

As Jeffrey and others have pointed out, Pycon was a major success.
The strong OSAF presence and Chandler demo got a lot of people
excited about our upcoming releases.

As the OSAF representative to the Twisted community here are some
of the results of our meetings during Pycon:

1. Twisted 2.0, which was released during Pycon, has been tested with
    .5 and runs with no Chandler code modifications.

2. Glyph and JP from Twisted and Divmod where impressed with our 
Chandler demo
    and the work we put in to integrating Twisted in to the core 
framework. Twisted and
    Divmod had previously planned to work on Client software but now are 
convinced that
    Chandler is going to fill that space and wanting to form a closer 
relationship. Glyph mention
     bi-weekly talks. They are hoping that Twisted and OSAF can work 
together to
     build a robust Client (OSAF) and Server (Twisted) framework.

3. Glyph expressed the hope that OSAF would look to leverage Twisted 
more internally. In particular
    the subject of WEBDAV came up. Divmod is going to start work soon on 
a WEBDAV server and
    would like to see OSAF work on improving Twisted's WEBDAV client.

4. Brian Warner (Twisted) has agreed to come to the OSAF offices and 
give a tutorial on using
    the Twisted Framework. This talk is intended for OSAF programmers 
who have not yet developed with
    Twisted and want to learn how to leverage it in Chandler.
   
Of most benefit was getting to meet all the developers who are the major 
contributers to Twisted. I was
surprised to learn the average age of the Twisted team is 20 - 23. They 
are young and energetic.

The conference also served to draw attention to useful software 
developed in Twisted including:

1. Yarn (http://www.fettig.net/projects/yarn/)
2. Hep (http://www.fettig.net/projects/hep/)
3. Flumotion  (http://www.flumotion.net/)


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