From ewa at python.org Thu Aug 21 14:18:02 2014 From: ewa at python.org (Ewa Jodlowska) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:18:02 +0200 Subject: [Psf-supporting-members] PSF Supporting Member Information and Voting Rights In-Reply-To: <53f5e351.2166b40a.5e07.7a69SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> References: <53f5e351.2166b40a.5e07.7a69SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> Message-ID: Where does this response go? On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:17 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > Earlier this year, the Python Software Foundation made some changes to how > we recognize and value membership in the Foundation. As part of these > changes, your associate membership in the Foundation has been upgraded. You > are not only a member of the Foundation, but you are a Supporting Member > with elevated privileges, including eligibility to vote. > > There are more details below, but in short we wanted to recognize you for > your contribution to the community. We hope that you will continue to help > support us and build the worldwide Python community. > > -- > > These changes are part of a full rework of the membership model of the > Foundation. We wanted to make the Foundation more open and more > representative of the whole Python community. At a high level, the changes > are simple: > > - Anyone who wishes to become a member of the foundation can do so by > going to python.org, signing up as a member, and agreeing to the code of > conduct. > > - Those who contribute more to the community, whether in terms of time > (organizing conferences, meetups, teaching, etc), in terms of work (code, > docs, tests, etc), or in terms of money (like you!) are recognized through > an elevated class of membership. > > - Those who have an elevated class of membership (again, like you!) are > also eligible to vote. If you want to exercise your right to vote, you will > need to fill out the form at . > > If you want the full legalese, you can see the new bylaws on python.org > at . > > Again, thank you for what you do and for helping us all make this a great > community. > > Best, > Van > > _____________________________ > Van Lindberg > Chairman of the Board > Python Software Foundation > van at python.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: