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Jorj X. McKie

2019-05-18T11:00:00+01:00

Self-Introduction Jorj McKie

Hello everyone,

I am Jorj X. McKie (this is not my real name!) and I am an enthusiastic supporter of Nuitka. For the time being, my focus area within this package is standalone compilation and maintenance of the plugin feature.

Apart from extending Nuitka’s support to virtually all Python packages living out there, my driving motivation in this respect is keeping up and improving the usability of Nuitka.

You may want to look into the Nuitka Utilities repository, which contains many things I am working on.

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Short Biography

Born 1951 as Harald Lieder near the city of Leipzig
Studied Mathematics and Physics at the Frankfurt/M Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University from 10/1970 through 06/1976 (Diploma in Mathematics)
Professional career overview
- insurance company (4 years): application and systems programming (IBM mainframe, Cobol, Assembler), data center lead
- book wholesaler (5 years): systems programming and data center lead (IBM mainframe)
- consulting company (until 2009): leading of or participating in numerous large and very large projects mostly around banking applications, banking mergers, data center optimization and quality assurance.
- since 2009: retirement, living on Isla Margarita, Venezuela. Enjoying my beautiful house, pursuing my hobbies: mathematics, science theory, biological evolution theory, science fiction (my pseudonym comes from novels by one of my favorite authors Frank Herbert) and of course programming (maintainer of PyMuPDF, and Nuitka).

Images from Isla Margarita

House Frontview with Guardians

In favorite Pizzeria with my Wife

Seaview from my Terrace

Sunrise view from House

Tommy’s Google Summer of Code Intro

2019-05-15T10:00:00+01:00

Hi all! :)

My name is Taofeng Li and I go by the nickname of Tommy, github handle tommyli3318. I’m a Computer Science major at the University of California, Irvine in the United States. I am very excited to announce that I’ll be contributing to Nuitka this summer under the Google Summer of Code program!

My project is “Nuitka support for PyPI top 50”, it ensures Nuitka’s compatibility with the 50 most popular PyPI packages by setting up automated testing for each package. These automated tests will serve to be very important tools for the development of Nuitka, as they will be used to assure Nuitka’s compatibility with the most used Python packages every time Nuitka receives a new update.

My mentors will be Vaibhav Tulsyan, Kamran Ghanaat, and Kay Hayen. My project abstract can be seen here and the full details of my project can be found here.

I am greatly looking forward to the many things that I’ll learn this summer!

Batakrishna Sahu

2019-05-14T08:31:00+01:00

Hello everyone!

My name is Batakrishna Sahu and I am from India. I’m very grateful to be one of the 2 selected students who will work with Nuitka during Google Summer of Code 2019. My project is on “Optimizing Python 2 and Python 3 built-ins for Nuitka” mentored by Vaibhav Tulsyan, Kamran Ghanaat, Kay Hayen.

So far, there are a total of 69 built-ins in Python 3 and 76 built-in in Python 2 out of which 27 built-ins are yet to be optimized in Nuitka. My aim is to optimize those missing built-ins in Nuitka. This will make Nuitka a lot faster while working with built-ins.

I’m really excited to gain new experience while working on this project this summer.

Yours,

Batakrishna