On next Monday this cycle’s Ubuntu Application Developer Week classes will start.

The topic that kept me busy most in this cycle was Python gobject-introspection, and porting pygtk2 apps to PyGI (see my initial steps and my report from the PyGI hackfest.)

To spread the love, there will be two talks about this next week: On Monday 17:00 UTC the very Tomeu Vizoso himself will explain what gobject-introspection (“GI”) is, why we need it, and how library developers use it to ship a good and useful GI binding (“typelib”) for application developers. I will then follow up on Tuesday 16:00 UTC about the app developer side, in particular how to use the GI typelibs in Python, and how to port PyGTK2 applications to PyGI.

For the most part these sessions are distribution neutral (we don’t have any special sauce for this in Debian/Ubuntu, it all happened right upstream :-)); only a very small fraction of it (where I explain package names, etc.) will be specific to Debian/Ubuntu, but shouldn’t be hard to apply to other distributions as well.

So please feel invited to join, and bombard us with questions!