SDForum Distinguished Speaker: Guido van Rossum, Creator of Python February 17, 2005

Software Development Forum (SDForum) presents:

SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series with Guido van Rossum, Creator of Python

Thu, Feb 17, 6:00pm-9:00pm, Palo Alto

MORE INFO: http://www.sdforum.org/dss

Python: Building an Open Source Project and Community

Speaker: Guido van Rossum, Creator of Python

In 1991, Guido van Rossum made his creation, the Python programming language, open source. Today, Python is one of the three "P-languages" which enjoy massive popularity among developers as part of the open source LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python). In this retrospective, Guido looks back on the early days of the Python community, describes its development into maturity, and explains why he is still having a good time after 13 years of herding cats.

Bio:

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the major free scripting languages. He created Python in the early 1990s at CWI in Amsterdam, and is still actively involved in the development of the language.

In 1995 he moved to the US; first to work for CNRI in Reston, VA as a researcher, then for Zope Corporation as Director of PythonLabs, and since 2003, after a move to the SF bay area, for Elemental Security.

His home on the web is http://www.python.org/~guido/.

DATE & TIME:
Thursday, February 17
6:00pm-9:00pm

LOCATION:
PARC - George E. Pake Auditorium
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA, 94304
http://www.parc.com/about/directions.html

COST & REGISTRATION:
$15 SDForum and Co-Hosting Organizations/$25 Non-Members. At the door add $5 to member and non-member prices.
http://www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=1547

MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.sdforum.org/dss
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Phone: 408-494-8378

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