Hi, Paris City and Paris Regional Governments are financing a grant for someone to do a PhD or a post-doc related to ZODB. The scientific topic is related to transaction management in ZODB and distributed environments, following the works of Adya's thesis. http://www.python.org/~jeremy/weblog/030514.html There will also be some potential applications to ERP5 and Plone. This grant is open for any nationality and is only based on scientific skills and motivations. If you are interested, please contact Jean-Paul Smets <jp@nexedi.com>. Regards, -- Vincent Pelletier