Officers, Directors, and Members of the Python Software Foundation
Officers
- Guido van Rossum, President
- Steve Holden, Chairman
- David Goodger, Secretary & PyCon Chair
- Kurt Kaiser, Treasurer
- Raymond Hettinger, Assistant Treasurer
Board of Directors
- Brett Cannon
- Stephan Deibel
- David Goodger
- Raymond Hettinger
- Steve Holden
- Martin von Löwis
- Tim Peters
- James Tauber
Also see: Duties & Responsibilities of Directors and History of PSF Officers & Directors.
Members
Below are the PSF Members. The PSF recognizes three categories of members:
- sponsor members are elected after paying a sponsorship fee
- nominated members are elected on merit
- emeritus members are no longer active in the PSF
See the membership FAQ for more information.
Sponsor Members
22 sponsor members:
- ActiveState (founding member), sponsor since March 2001, represented by Trent Mick
- Advanced Simulation Technology Inc. (ASTi), since January 2002, represented by Patrick Gaffney
- Array BioPharma, since October 2003, represented by Daniel Weaver
- BizRate.com, since January 2004, represented by Henri Asseily
- Canonical, since January 2007, represented by Steve Alexander
- CCP Games, since September 2005, represented by Kristján Valur Jónsson
- cPacket Networks, since June 2006, represented by Rony Kay
- EarnMyDegree.com, since August 2007, represented by Nik Papic
- Enthought, since January 2004, represented by Travis Vaught
- Google, since April 2004, represented by Chris DiBona
- HitFlip Inc., since January 2008, represented by Andre Alper
- IronPort Systems, since March 2004, represented by Mark Peek
- Madison Tyler LLC, since July 2006, represented by John Benediktsson
- Merfin LLC, since July 2002, represented by Reggie Dugard
- Microsoft, since August 2006, represented by Jim Hugunin
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., since April 2002, represented by Betsy Waliszewski
- Opsware, since January 2004, represented by Ray Suorsa
- Strakt Holdings, Inc., since July 2002, represented by Laura Creighton
- Sun Microsystems, since March 2008, represented by Ted Leung
- Tabblo, since April 2006, represented by Antonio Rodriguez
- ZeOmega, since January 2004, represented by Sam Rangaswamy
- Zope Corporation (founding member), since March 2001 (as Digital Creations, Inc.), represented by Jim Fulton
For information about becoming a sponsor member, please see the Sponsorship page.
Nominated Members
There are 87 active nominated members. The year the member was elected is in parentheses.
- Aahz (2002)
- Kevin Altis (2003)
- David Ascher (2001)
- Facundo Batista (2005)
- Anthony Baxter (2002)
- Donald Beaudry (2002)
- David M. Beazley (2002)
- Steven Bethard (2007)
- Finn Bock (2001)
- Georg Brandl (2006)
- Titus Brown (2008)
- Brett Cannon (2003)
- Hye-Shik Chang (2004)
- Nick Coghlan (2007)
- Matthew Dixon Cowles (2003)
- Laura Creighton (2007)
- Andrew Dalke (2004)
- Stephan Deibel (2003)
- Catherine Devlin (2007)
- Mark Dickinson (2008)
- Walter Dörwald (2003)
- Fred L. Drake, Jr. (2001)
- Robin Dunn (2002)
- Jeff Elkner (2004)
- Paul Everitt (2006)
- Greg Ewing (2002)
- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (2008)
- Jim Fulton (2001)
- David Goodger (2003)
- Mark Hammond (2001)
- Christian Heimes (2008)
- Thomas Heller (2001)
- Raymond Hettinger (2003)
- Neil Hodgson (2002)
- Steve Holden (2003)
- Michael Hudson (2002)
- Jim Hugunin (2006)
- Jeremy Hylton (2001)
- Jack Jansen (2001)
- Eric Jones (2002)
- Richard Jones (2003)
- Kurt B. Kaiser (2004)
- Andrew Kuchling (2003)
- Cameron Laird (2002)
- Marc-André Lemburg (2001)
- Van Lindberg (2008)
- Martin von Löwis (2001)
- Fredrik Lundh (2001)
- Mark Lutz (2002)
- Ken Manheimer (2001)
- Alex Martelli (2002)
- Anna Martelli Ravenscroft (2006)
- Mike McLay (2002)
- David Mertz (2008)
- Trent Mick (2001)
- Sjoerd Mullender (2001)
- Gustavo Niemeyer (2004)
- Doug Napoleone (2007)
- Neal Norwitz (2002)
- Uche Ogbuji (2002)
- Travis Oliphant (2006)
- Mike Olson (2002)
- George Paci (2006)
- Samuele Pedroni (2001)
- Tim Peters (2001)
- John Pinner (2008)
- Paul Prescod (2001)
- Eric S. Raymond (2001)
- Sean Reifschneider (2007)
- Armin Rigo (2004)
- Guido van Rossum (2001)
- Just van Rossum (2002)
- Jeff Rush (2007)
- Vinay Sajip (2003)
- Neil Schemenauer (2001)
- Peter Schneider-Kamp (2001)
- Greg Stein (2001)
- James Tauber (2008)
- Jason Tishler (2003)
- Christian Tismer (2001)
- Trevor Toenjes (2004)
- Greg Ward (2001)
- Barry Warsaw (2001)
- Thomas Wouters (2001)
- Ka-Ping Yee (2001)
- Moshe Zadka (2001)
- Brian Zimmer (2005)
Emeritus Members
There are 7 emeritus nominated members (year of election / year of emeritus conversion):
David Abrahams (2002/2008)
Paul F. Dubois (2002/2008)
Paul Dubois was an original contributor to Numerical Python, and its coordinator for five years. Paul also hosted the Fourth International Python Conference in 1996.
Lars Marius Garshol (2001/2005)
Skip Montanaro (2001/2008)
Sam Rushing (2002/2008)
Charles G. Waldman (2001/2005)
Danny Yoo (2004/2008)
There are 4 emeritus sponsor members (year of election / year of emeritus conversion):
- Archaeopteryx Software, Inc. (2002/2003)
- Industrial Light & Magic (2004/2004)
- Open Source Applications Foundation (2003/2008)
- Space Telescope Science Institute (2002/2003)
Former Members
These are former PSF members that are no longer members (member type / year of election / year membership ended):
- ActiveGrid (sponsor/2005/2008).
- Hostway Corporation (sponsor/2002/2008).