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.

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.