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Officers, Directors, and Members of the Python Software Foundation

Officers

  • Guido van Rossum, President
  • Steve Holden, Chairman
  • David Goodger, Secretary
  • Kurt Kaiser, Treasurer
  • Raymond Hettinger, Assistant Treasurer
  • Brett Cannon, Executive Vice President
  • Van Lindberg, PyCon Chair

Board of Directors

  • Brett Cannon
  • Raymond Hettinger
  • Steve Holden
  • Andrew Kuchling
  • Martin von Löwis
  • David Mertz
  • Tim Peters
  • Jeff Rush
  • 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  • emeritus members are no longer active in the PSF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.

Nominated Members

There are 111 active nominated members. The year the member was elected is in parentheses.

  • Aahz (2002)
  • Kevin Altis (2003)
  • Christopher Armstrong (2009)
  • David Ascher (2001)
  • Jim Baker (2009)
  • Ben Bangert (2009)
  • Facundo Batista (2005)
  • Anthony Baxter (2002)
  • Donald Beaudry (2002)
  • David M. Beazley (2002)
  • James Bennett (2009)
  • Steven Bethard (2007)
  • Finn Bock (2001)
  • Georg Brandl (2006)
  • Titus Brown (2008)
  • Jean-Paul Calderone (2009)
  • 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)
  • Graham Dumpleton (2009)
  • Robin Dunn (2002)
  • Jeff Elkner (2004)
  • Paul Everitt (2006)
  • Greg Ewing (2002)
  • Martijn Faassen (2009)
  • Mike Fletcher (2009)
  • Michael Foord (2009)
  • Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (2008)
  • Jim Fulton (2001)
  • David Goodger (2003)
  • Mark Hammond (2001)
  • Christian Heimes (2008)
  • Doug Hellmann (2009)
  • Raymond Hettinger (2003)
  • Neil Hodgson (2002)
  • Steve Holden (2003)
  • Adrian Holovaty (2009)
  • Michael Hudson (2002)
  • Jim Hugunin (2006)
  • Jeremy Hylton (2001)
  • Jack Jansen (2001)
  • Eric Jones (2002)
  • Richard Jones (2003)
  • Kurt B. Kaiser (2004)
  • Jacob Kaplan-Moss (2009)
  • Matthias Klose (2009)
  • Andrew Kuchling (2003)
  • Cameron Laird (2002)
  • Glyph Lefkowitz (2009)
  • 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)
  • Duncan McGreggor (2009)
  • Mike McLay (2002)
  • David Mertz (2008)
  • Trent Mick (2001)
  • Sjoerd Mullender (2001)
  • Gustavo Niemeyer (2004)
  • Doug Napoleone (2007)
  • Jesse Noller (2009)
  • Neal Norwitz (2002)
  • Uche Ogbuji (2002)
  • Travis Oliphant (2006)
  • Mike Olson (2002)
  • George Paci (2006)
  • Samuele Pedroni (2001)
  • Tim Peters (2001)
  • Benjamin Peterson (2009)
  • John Pinner (2008)
  • Ted Pollari (2009)
  • Paul Prescod (2001)
  • Mark Ramm (2009)
  • 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)
  • Phil Thompson (2009)
  • Jason Tishler (2003)
  • Christian Tismer (2001)
  • Trevor Toenjes (2004)
  • Malcolm Tredinnick (2009)
  • Kirby Urner (2009)
  • Dino Viehland (2009)
  • Thomas Waldmann (2009)
  • Barry Warsaw (2001)
  • Frank Wierzbicki (2009)
  • Simon Willison (2009)
  • Thomas Wouters (2001)
  • Ka-Ping Yee (2001)
  • Moshe Zadka (2001)
  • Brian Zimmer (2005)

Emeritus Members

There are 9 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)

  • 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):