James Gosling, Vice President and Sun Fellow announced today as part of his keynote at Sun Tech Days in Sydney that Ted Leung, author, Apache Software Foundation (ASF) member and long-time Python developer at the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF), and Frank Wierzbicki, lead implementor of the Jython project (Python on the Java VM), will become Sun employees this month. They’ll be working full-time on Jython and in particular paying attention to developer tools.

The Google Summer of Code is an annual program first held during the summer of 2005. It’s a program that helps student developers to create new open source programs.

The goal of this program is to get university students familiar with open-source software development by working on a summer-long coding project. Participants not only have an opportunity to work on a challenging project, but also receive a stipend of $4500!

Ted Leung recently shared his thoughts on open source with PythonThreads.com. Ted is an open source veteran and has been involved in open source initially via the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and now the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF). He is the author of the book Professional XML Development with Apache Tools.
As a follow up to this interview, do have a look at Henri Yandell’s interview “Open-Source keeps me ‘coding fit’”

Ted Leung has been working in the IT industry for more than two decades. He is the author of the book “XML Development with Apache Tools” also he has been actively involved with Apache Software Foundation and Open Source Applications Foundation. In this interview, he tells us about his projects, his views on Open Source and Python-XML combination.

Robin Dunn is the creator of wxPython and the author of “wxPython in Action”. wxPython is an Open Source, cross-platform GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. Robin has been working in the IT industry for almost 2 decades. In this interview he talks about wxPython as well as his other Python projects. He also tells us about his role at the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) and shares his views on Zope, Python and other open source languages like Ruby.

In this article, Uche Ogbuji writes about python and XML , the two popular and powerful technologies. Uche Ogbuji is a consultant and co-founder of Fourthought. Fourthought is a consulting firm specializing in XML solutions for enterprise knowledge management applications also develops 4Suite, the open source platform for XML middleware.