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Bylaws Changes Proposed for 2009 PSF Members' Meeting Proposed Changes to the Bylaws of the Python Software Foundation For Consideration at the 2009 Members' Meeting March 27, 2009 Proposed new bylaws (text source) Copy of old bylaws, as they existed prior to the proposed changes (text source) Description of differences between old & new bylaws (unified diff & context diff) Current bylaws
Changes to PSF Bylaws for the March 2009 Members' Meeting The changes made in the proposed revisions can be summarized as follows: Explicitly allow for electronic meetings and electronic signing. Fix some procedural problems like needing officers for committees, and some notice requirements or requirements for holding next board or members meetings that were too short in time. Change sponsor members so they are voting members only optionally, if they designate a voting representative. Al...
Miscellaneous PSF Reports PSF participation in the 2007 Google Summer of Code
Volunteer The Python Software Foundation needs your help building infrastructure for the PSF and PyCon US, helping with fundraising and advocacy, and running important parts of the Python community (mailing lists, website, job board, etc). You can help out by signing up the psf-volunteers mailing list, which puts you in a pool of people that receive requests from the PSF board when there is work to be done that we cannot handle ourselves. Sign up here! Don't worry if you won't always be availa...
PSF Weblog Policy Version 1.03 Accepted by the PSF Board, March 13 2006. This policy applies to the PSF weblog. Access Policies Officers will always have posting privileges for the weblog. Therefore, officers can always post items without requiring permission from anyone else. This access is removed when the person is no longer an officer. The Board will appoint a weblog editor, who will also have posting access. PSF members and PSF committees can submit items for posting to the weblog edit...
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Python Success Stories Background Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) was started in 1975 by filmmaker George Lucas, in order to create the special effects for the original Star Wars film. Since then, ILM has grown into a visual effects powerhouse that has contributed not just to the entire Star Wars series, but also to films as diverse as Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Terminator 2. ILM has won numerous Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects...
Python Success Stories Summary XIST is a XML transformation engine written completely in Python at LivingLogic AG, a software development company specializing in web technology. XIST was designed to facilitate the task of creating and maintaining large web sites. Background Soon after we began creating web pages in 1994, it became clear that typing HTML files by hand is tedious and cumbersome, and we began to search for tools to simplify the repetitive task of HTML generation. Early on, we ...
Python Software Foundation: Minutes of the 1st Annual Meeting The Python Software Foundation Minutes of the 1st Annual Meeting The members of the Python Software Foundation (the "Corporation") held its first annual meeting on March 5, 2001 at the Hilton Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. Greg Stein, chairman of the Board of Directors, presided over the meeting. The following members, constituting a quorum of the members according to the Bylaws, attended the meeting: David Ascher Fred L...
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Python 3.3.5 release Python 3.3.x has reached end-of-life. Python 3.3.7, the final security-fix release, is available here. Python 3.3.5 was released on March 9th, 2014. Python 3.3.5 includes fixes for these important issues: a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20731) potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode() (see http://bugs.pyt...
Current pre-release testing versions This is a list of the current pre-release development versions available for testing. These are preview releases, and their use is not recommended in production settings. Consider your needs carefully before using a version other than the current production versions. Please report any bugs in these versions of Python to the Python issue tracker. See here for more information on reporting issues. Click here
Audio/Video Instructional Materials for Python audio, video, instructional material, python, podcast, podcasts A growing body of podcasts, screencasts and video presentations for the Python community. There is a growing body of podcasts, screencasts and video presentations for the Python community. This page collects some of the best. Podcast Repositories core.py Pablo Galindo and Łukasz Langa talk about Python internals, because they work on Python internals. PyPodcats Hidden Figures of Pyt...
Creating And Distributing Your Own Screencasts screencasts, python For users of Windows, there are instructions and a video on how to get starting using the free, GPL'd CamStudio software. Note: The difference between a screencast and a video is a semantic one, but generally a screencast is a video lecture that focuses on looking at actual source code or other such text on the presenter's desktop. A video, as the term is used here, is usually shot with a standalone camera of a presenter talk...
Alternative Python implementations alternative python implementations This site hosts the "traditional" implementation of Python (nicknamed CPython). A number of alternative implementations are available as well and several vendors have repackaged CPython to include more libraries or specialized it for a particular application. This site hosts the "traditional" implementation of Python (nicknamed CPython). A number of alternative implementations are available as well, namely ...
comp.lang.python.announce Posting Guidelines comp.lang.python.announce comp.lang.python.announce The comp.lang.python.announce newsgroup (or c.l.py.a for short) has been created in early 1998 as a companion newsgroup for comp.lang.python focused on Python-related announcements. The newsgroup charter is as follows: comp.lang.python.announce is a moderated, low-volume newsgroup for announcements regarding the Python programming language, including: new releases of the core distribution and con...
Python 3.4.0 Release Candidate 3 Release Python 3.4.0 release candidate 3 Note: Python 3.4.0rc3 has been superseded by Python 3.4.9. Python 3.4.0 release candidate 3 was released on March 9th, 2014. This is a preview release of the next major release of Python, Python 3.4, and is not suitable for production environments. Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3 Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. ...
Python 3.4.0 Python 3.4.0 Note: Python 3.4.0 has been superseded by Python 3.4.9. Python 3.4.0 was released on March 16th, 2014. Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3 Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.4 release series are PEP 428, a "pathlib" module providing object-oriented filesystem paths PEP 435, a standardized "enum&q...
PSF PyCon Trademark Usage Policy PyCon, trademark, policy Version 1.0 "PyCon" Trademark Policy In order to protect the term "PyCon" against unwanted or misleading use by third parties, the PSF claims the term “PyCon” as a trademark worldwide for conference activities. The PSF is additionally pursuing registration of the mark in various jurisdictions. It is the policy of the Python Software Foundation to allow the use of "PyCon" for conferences that focus on Pytho...
Python 3.4.2 Python 3.4.2 Note: Python 3.4.2 has been superseded by Python 3.4.9. Python 3.4.2 was released on October 8th, 2014. Python 3.4.2 has many bugfixes and other small improvements over 3.4.1. One new feature for Mac OS X users: the OS X installers are now distributed as signed installer package files compatible with the OS X Gatekeeper security feature. Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3 Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hu...
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