This marks the first beta release of Pydra, a distributed computing framework for python. While most core features are implemented, at least partially, there are many open tickets in the tracker for bugs and improved features. While this is not a stable release we felt the project was far enough along that there should be an installable package out there for people to experiment with. The coming months will bring more stability and features as we transition to a scheduled release cycle.
Many thanks to Jakub Gustak, Yin Qiu, and Almir Karic who have contributed code vital to this release.
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The Open Source Lab is organizing a Hackathon (code sprint) at the Open Source Bridge conference, June 17-19th at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. We’re bringing people together to help out Sunlight Lab’s Fifty States Project. If you’re interested in helping promote government openness and transparency, this is your chance.
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Google is going to pay students $4,500 to work on some of the coolest open source projects. The OSU OSL is a organization for Google Summer of Code 2009. After reviewing some great proposals we’ve made our selections. Here are the students and the projects they proposed.
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