When

• Saturday and Sunday, from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. EST time

Where 

• on IRC #distutils / freenode
• at the PloneConf Sprint center at the ACC - see here for the precise location: http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone-conference-2008-dc/sprint
  

About

distutils and setuptools need to evolve to a better packaging system that better fits the needs of packagers.

Distribute is a project that tries to define a better solution, to a series of PEPs.

Potential Topics

Start to work on PEP definitions

• latest threads in distutils-SIG
  
• http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distribute
• http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distribute/Functionality

Do some experiments, maybe sprint on distutils and setuptools patches, or proof of concepts

Who

• Tarek Ziadé
• Ian Bicking (maybe split with theming -- though at this point I'll admit I am more involved in packaging than I'd like, and I don't really want to add projects if I can help it) 
• Andrew Kuchling
• Kevin Teague (my knowledge of the code bases of these projects is still somewhat limited but would like to help at least w/ documentation and editing)