Now Hiring!
BeeWare is now hiring!
The position is a full time, Mid- to Senior position. You will be working full time in the Open Source group at Anaconda, on the BeeWare suite of tools. Full details of the position can be found on Greenhouse.
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April 2022 Status Update
One of the benefits of having the support of an organization like Anaconda is that we now have the time to perform little housekeeping tasks like publishing community updates. As a result, this is the first (of hopefully many) monthly updates letting you know what progress has been made in the BeeWare suite.
Exciting news for the future of BeeWare
The biggest challenge for any Open Source project is finding the resources needed to support development - and the BeeWare project is no exception.
To date, BeeWare has been primarily driven by the efforts of volunteers. We've been able to achieve amazing things with those volunteer efforts, demonstrating that Python is a viable language for GUI development on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android, as well as providing a proof-of-concept demonstration on Web. However, there are still lots of features that we'd like to add, and lots of ongoing maintenance that needs to be done as operating systems and hardware platforms evolve.
Some new ways to discuss BeeWare
Today, the BeeWare project is making 2 changes to the way we organize our community.
Firstly, we're going to move our real-time chat community from Gitter to Discord.
Release the Android Bees!
9 months ago, we announced that the BeeWare Project was the recipient of a PSF Education Grant. In late 2019, we choose
Python on Android: Its alive!
For the last couple of months, we've had a contractor (
I've incredibly happy to announce that we've just hit our first major milestone: a working pure-Python application, running on an Android device!
We have a contractor for our Android contract!
A couple of months ago, we announced that the BeeWare project had received a grant from the PSF to improve our support for Android. At that time, we issued a call for contractors to help us complete this work.
We're very happy to announce that we've now selected a contractor:
BeeWare Project Awarded a PSF Education Grant
The BeeWare Project wants to make it possible for all Python developers to write native apps for desktop and mobile platforms. We have solid support for most desktop operating systems and iOS, but we know our Android support is lacking. The BeeWare core team knows what needs to be done to address the problem - what we’ve been missing are time and resources.
2018 Google Summer of Code - VOC Optimization
Google Summer of Code is coming to an end. I've spent the summer working on optimizing the VOC compiler, and I’m super excited to share the results.
2018 Google Summer of Code - Implement asyncio support in VOC
In the blink of an eye, Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2018 has come to an end. During the three months long coding period, I have contributed several patches in VOC repository of BeeWare, all working towards the ultimate end goal of running asyncio module in VOC. In this blog post (which is my first actual blog post by the way 😄), I will document what I have done so far, why I couldn't make it to the end goal (yea, unfortunately I couldn't get asyncio to work at the end of GSoC 2018), and what's left that needs to be done in order to achieve the end goal (or at least make part of asyncio work).