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Officers, Directors, and Members of the Python Software Foundation
Officers
- Guido van Rossum, President
- Van Lindberg, Chairman
- Pat Campbell, Secretary
- Kurt Kaiser, Treasurer
- Jesse Noller, PyCon Chair
- Brian Curtin, Communications
- Ewa Jodlowska, Event Coordinator
Board of Directors
- Brian Curtin
- Steve Holden
- Andrew Kuchling
- Marc-André Lemburg
- Van Lindberg
- Martin von Löwis
- Jessica McKellar
- David Mertz
- Douglas Napoleone
- Jesse Noller
- Tim Peters
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- emeritus members are no longer active in the PSF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
- 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 Barry Warsaw
- 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 Peter Wang
- Exoweb, since July 2010, represented by Bjorn Stabell
- Google, since April 2004, represented by Dan Bentley
- Hitmeister GmbH, since January 2008 (as HitFlip, Inc.), represented by Gerald Schoenbucher
- IronPort Systems, since March 2004, represented by Mark Peek
- KNMP, since July 2008, represented by Mark Dufour
- Lucasfilm, since April 2008, represented by Lori Gianino (originally elected as Industrial Light & Magic in 2004)
- Lincoln Loop, since April 2012, represented by Peter Baumgartner
- 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 Jimmy Schementi
- Online Degree Reviews, since April 2011, represented by Steve Rawlinson
- Open End AB (formely AB Strakt), since July 2002, represented by Laura Creighton
- OpenEye Scientific Software, since October 2008, represented by Brian Cole
- Opsware, since January 2004, represented by Ray Suorsa
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., since April 2002, represented by Laurel Ackerman
- PropertySold.ca, since April 2008, represented by Michael B. Lawrence
- Rogue Wave Software, since March 2010, represented by Steve Lang
- SEO Moves, Inc., since March 2010, represented by Jen Thames
- Sun Microsystems, since March 2008, represented by Ted Leung
- Tabblo, since April 2006, represented by Antonio Rodriguez
- Uniblue Systems Ltd, since April 2011, represented by Raffaele Bianco
- ZeOmega, since January 2004, represented by Sam Rangaswamy
- Zimbio, since April 2011, represented by Bruce Martin
- Zope Corporation (founding member), since March 2001 (as Digital Creations, Inc.), represented by Stacey Peterson
For information about becoming a sponsor member, please see the Sponsorship page.
Nominated Members
The year the member was elected is in parentheses.
- Aahz (2002)
- Kevin Altis (2003)
- Christopher Armstrong (2009)
- David Ascher (2001)
- Martin Aspelli (2012)
- Tim Ansell (2012)
- Giovanni Bajo (2011)
- Jim Baker (2009)
- Ben Bangert (2009)
- Henrique Bastos (2012)
- Ned Batchelder (2011)
- Facundo Batista (2005)
- Anthony Baxter (2002)
- Michael Bayer (2010)
- Donald Beaudry (2002)
- David M. Beazley (2002)
- James Bennett (2009)
- Steven Bethard (2007)
- Ian Bicking (2010)
- Finn Bock (2001)
- Paul Boddie (2010)
- Carl Friedrich Bolz (2010)
- Georg Brandl (2006)
- C. Titus Brown (2008)
- Jean-Paul Calderone (2009)
- Brett Cannon (2003)
- Vern Ceder (2011)
- Hye-Shik Chang (2004)
- Nicolas Chauvat (2010)
- Benoit Chesneau (2012)
- Wesley Chun (2010)
- Nick Coghlan (2007)
- Rick Copeland (2011)
- Tim Couper (2010)
- Matthew Dixon Cowles (2003)
- Laura Creighton (2007)
- Brian Curtin (2011)
- Andrew Dalke (2004)
- Steven d’Aprano (2010)
- Stephan Deibel (2003)
- Catherine Devlin (2007)
- Mark Dickinson (2008)
- Jack Diederich (2010)
- Massimo DiPierro (2011)
- Walter Dörwald (2003)
- Fred L. Drake, Jr. (2001)
- Mike Driscoll (2011)
- Graham Dumpleton (2009)
- Robin Dunn (2002)
- Jeff Elkner (2004)
- Paul Everitt (2006)
- Greg Ewing (2002)
- Martijn Faassen (2009)
- Maciej Fijalkowski (2011)
- Mike Fletcher (2009)
- Michael Foord (2009)
- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (2008)
- Jim Fulton (2001)
- Alex Gaynor (2011)
- Noah Gift (2010)
- Yannick Gingras (2011)
- Ralph Green (2010)
- Zeth Green (2010)
- Daniel Greenfeld (2011)
- Tim Golden (2010)
- David Goodger (2003)
- Jacob Hallén (2010)
- Mark Hammond (2001)
- Jonathan Hartley (2011)
- Jan Ulrich Hasecke (2012)
- Larry Hastings (2012)
- Stephen Hawkes (2012)
- Christian Heimes (2008)
- Doug Hellmann (2009)
- Raymond Hettinger (2003)
- Steve Holden (2003)
- Adrian Holovaty (2009)
- Laurens Van Houtven (2010)
- Michael Hudson (2002)
- Jim Hugunin (2006)
- Jeremy Hylton (2001)
- Gloria W. Jacobs (2010)
- Jack Jansen (2001)
- Philip Jenvey (2011)
- Ewa Jodlowska (2012)
- Eric Jones (2002)
- Brian K. Jones (2011)
- Richard Jones (2003)
- Andreas Jung (2012)
- Kurt B. Kaiser (2004)
- Noah Kantrowitz (2012)
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss (2009)
- Carl F. Karsten (2010)
- Robert Kern (2010)
- Matthias Klose (2009)
- Holger Krekel (2010)
- Peter Kropf (2012)
- Andrew Kuchling (2003)
- Jonathan LaCour (2011)
- Cameron Laird (2002)
- Asheesh Laroia (2011)
- Glyph Lefkowitz (2009)
- Jannis Leidel (2012)
- 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)
- Harald Armin Massa (2010)
- Duncan McGreggor (2009)
- Jessica McKellar (2011)
- Mike McLay (2002)
- Paul McMillan (2012)
- David Mertz (2008)
- Carl Meyer (2012)
- Trent Mick (2001)
- Tetsuya Morimoto (2011)
- Sjoerd Mullender (2001)
- Mike Müller (2010)
- R. David Murray (2010)
- Gustavo Niemeyer (2004)
- Doug Napoleone (2007)
- Jesse Noller (2009)
- Neal Norwitz (2002)
- Paulo Nuin (2011)
- Uche Ogbuji (2002)
- Travis Oliphant (2006)
- Mike Olson (2002)
- Mike Orr (2011)
- Ronald Oussoren (2011)
- George Paci (2006)
- Samuele Pedroni (2001)
- Terry Peppers (2010)
- Fernando Perez (2010)
- Tim Peters (2001)
- Benjamin Peterson (2009)
- Anand Pillai (2010)
- John Pinner (2008)
- Antoine Pitrou (2010)
- Fabio Pliger (2011)
- Ted Pollari (2009)
- Paul Prescod (2001)
- Vasudev Ram (2010)
- Prabhu Ramachandran (2010)
- Luciano Ramalho (2012)
- Mark Ramm (2009)
- Allison Randal (2010)
- Eric S. Raymond (2001)
- Terry Reedy (2010)
- Kenneth Reitz (2012)
- Lennart Regebro (2011)
- Sean Reifschneider (2007)
- Brandon Rhodes (2010)
- Arc Riley (2010)
- André Roberge (2010)
- Armin Ronacher (2012)
- Guido van Rossum (2001)
- Just van Rossum (2002)
- Michelle Rowley (2012)
- Audrey Roy (2011)
- Gavin M. Roy (2011)
- Jeff Rush (2007)
- Vinay Sajip (2003)
- Neil Schemenauer (2001)
- Hanno Schlichting (2012)
- Peter Schneider-Kamp (2001)
- Christian Scholz (2010)
- Tres Seaver (2012)
- Eric V. Smith (2010)
- Gregory Smith (2011)
- Michael Sparks (2010)
- Greg Stein (2001)
- Victor Stinner (2010)
- Armin Stroß-Radschinski (2012)
- James Tauber (2008)
- Richard Taylor (2011)
- Christian Theune (2012)
- Giles Thomas (2012)
- Phil Thompson (2009)
- Stephen Thorne (2010)
- Jason Tishler (2003)
- Christian Tismer (2001)
- Trevor Toenjes (2004)
- Nicholas H. Tollervey (2012)
- Malcolm Tredinnick (2009)
- Kirby Urner (2009)
- Wilfredo Sanchez Vega (2012)
- Dino Viehland (2009)
- Thomas Waldmann (2009)
- Barry Warsaw (2001)
- Frank Wierzbicki (2009)
- Simon Willison (2009)
- Alex Willmer (2010)
- Greg Wilson (2010)
- Chris Withers (2012)
- Thomas Wouters (2001)
- Quentin Wright (2010)
- Ka-Ping Yee (2001)
- Moshe Zadka (2001)
- Tarek Ziadé (2010)
- Brian Zimmer (2005)
Emeritus Members
There are 10 emeritus 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)
Thomas Heller (2001/2009)
Skip Montanaro (2001/2008)
Armin Rigo (2004/2010)
Sam Rushing (2002/2008)
Charles G. Waldman (2001/2005)
Greg Ward (2001/2008)
Danny Yoo (2004/2008)
Former Members
The following have withdrawn from membership (member type / year of election / year membership ended):
- ActiveGrid (sponsor/2005/2008)
- Archaeopteryx Software, Inc. (sponsor/2002/2003)
- Neil Hodgson (nominated/2002/2009)
- Hostway Corporation (sponsor/2002/2008)
- Open Source Applications Foundation (sponsor/2003/2008)
- Space Telescope Science Institute (sponsor/2002/2003)