Python projects in Google Summer of Code 2008

A small overview of the Python-projects presented in Google Summer of Code 2008 . Among other things, the ideas submitted to GSoC demonstrate the direction of development of these projects. For example, the Zope community has high hopes for Grok; in Mercurial, you need to add new things, and in Django, you need to add old ones.

• Django - the most popular of Python web frameworks - ideas
• Mercurial - distributed version control system, written in Python - ideas
• MoinMoin - wiki engine - ideas
• Plone - CMS based on Zope application server - ideas
• Python / core - the actual Python core itself - ideas
• TurboGears - a web framework written in Python - ideas
• wxPython - one of the three mainstream GUI libraries - ideas
• Zope — application server, uses component architecture, is web-oriented.

Briefly, the ideas of these projects in Russian are voiced on the pyobject blog .