My trip to PyCON 2010 brought about something unexpected. I've got a contract job with Geek.net (owner of SourceForge.net, Slashdot and few other sites). In short, I am helping SF team to build a better SourceForge, in Python.

Mixed feelings so far. We're a doing a major rewrite from scratch, feature set is way too big, we're using a lot of immature tools and the team is assembled anew. Everything I know about software development tells me that these kind of projects have only 1 chance in a 100 to succeed. But this is sourceforge, right? They must know what they are doing, aren't they? We'll see how this plays out.