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...Python African Tour Request: S. Holden will respond to the Python African Tour request: we will add them to our list of cooperators, and would like further information about their governance before considering sponsorship. S. Holden noted that this project is looking for an existing organization to act as their umbrella. Status: done. 4 Hiring of Administrator and Accountant S. Deibel: I've tried to stress that both [K. Kaiser] and [D. Goodger] are doing lots of work ...
...to sponsor the conference to be held in Poland. Approved, 10-0-0. 9 PyCon ZA 2012 Conference Grant RESOLVED, that the PSF become a Silver Sponsor $1,500 USD of the PyCon ZA Conference 2012, to be held in Cape Town South Africa. Approved,10-0-0. 10 PyArkansas 2012 Conference Grant RESOLVED, that the PSF provide conference grant funding of USD $825 to sponsor the PyArkansas Conference 2012, to be held in Conway, Arkansas US October 27th. Approved,10-0-0. 1...
...too much attempted all at once. S. Deibel agreed that it could have been done better, but thought it was worth the pain/breakage (which should mostly be fixed by now). M. von Lรถwis noted that the pydotorgers will fix what got broken over time. D. Goodger suggested a debrief/post-mortem at some point; "I think we can learn a lot from this". D. Ascher wanted to know how we're going to enroll people outside the pydotorgers to help with content, and noted that Fredrik Lundh has a good p...
...python.org/devguide/). As of this moment the pages related to getting someone set up to becoming a core developer are now done." As far as plans for next month's activities, Brett goes on to say: "The guides on how to make changes to the stdlib and the language will be done. There is also some doc cleanup in terms of moving things out of various PEPs and the Misc directory in Python's repo and over to the devguide. After that I will start the Python 2->3 porting guide." 5.3&n...
...tory Access to PSF Administrator: S. Holden will initiate further discussion via email about adding the PSF Administrator to the Board email list and granting access to the repository. [66] Section 14, Contract Renewal for Conference Coordinator: S. Holden will draw up a formal renewal contract for D. Goodger, with the assistance of V. Lindberg. [67] Section 14, Contract Renewal for Conference Coordinator: S. Holden will make a formal written offer of employment as Conference Coordinator to D. G...
...to improve our coverage. (Transferred from #13, Dec 2006 §4.) Status: active. [58] Originally from 11 May 2009, Section 5, New Memory for PSF Computer: M. von Löwis will purchase new memory to replace faulty memory on a PSF computer. Status: pending. [65] Originally from 11 May 2009, Section 13, Board Email List and Repository Access to PSF Administrator: S. Holden will initiate further discussion via email about adding the PSF Administrator to the Board email list and granting access to the r...
...python" TLDs as discussed on the board list. These all redirect to python.org. Still pending is the registration of the python.china domain due to problems with the Chinese registry. I'm now busy with Kurt to get the existing PSF domains which he has access to transferred to Gandi. All but the psfb.org and the python.org domain have been transferred. Next week, I plan to start the transfer of the domains that Arc has access to. A new email alias psf-domains at python.org was setup, so that ...
...to. C API The PyRange_New() function is deprecated. What's New in Python 2.4 beta 2? Release date: 03-NOV-2004 License The Python Software Foundation changed the license under which Python is released, to remove Python version numbers. There were no other changes to the license. So, for example, wherever the license for Python 2.3 said "Python 2.3", the new license says "Python". The intent is to make it possible to refer to the PSF license in a more durable way. ...
...Python infrastructure, CPython, and Packaging continued to evolve. An initiative was started to improve CPython processes by migrating bugs to GitHub. Some additional highlights included Python Packaging receiving several grants to support new features including localization & internationalization for PyPI, the in- troduction of Secure PyPI downloads with signed repository metadata, and a new dependency resolver for pip. For 2021, our goals are to continu...
...to the PSF, but subject to revocation by the Board of Directors. Annual donations sufficient for honorary associate membership shall initially be set at US$99, and may be revised by the Board of Directors from time to time. The Board or Directors may, at its discretion, decide to provide incidental benefits to honorary associate members, such as subscription to a newsletter, Python-branded email addresses, or printed promotion material such as badges, stickers, or garments. Denied, 2-8-0. 1...
...to write up the Board Agenda and keep it up to date. I continue to write up the Board Meeting minutes. Grant and Award Notification: I continue to notify respective parties of board resolutions. Email and Communication: I am continuing to monitor all PSF Board/Members mailing lists also making sure emails are being answered/followed up on. I am continuing to read through all of the email threads that occur on the board/members mailing lists. Contributor Agreements: I continue to collect agreemen...
...to make it easier for the community to find Python related events, I've setup a team of volunteers to manage two new event calendars. One for larger events and another one for smaller events: Python events calendar Python user group events calendar The calendars are displayed on the http://pycon.org/ site and in the sidebar of http://python.org/. Details about the calendars are available on the wiki page we have for them: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar There are plans to a...
...tors on a schedule deemed convenient by the Board, but with no requirement to be more frequent than the election of Cohort A directors. Officer Directors can also be removed subject to a vote of no confidence by the at-large Directors. In all other respects Officer Directors shall be as at-large Directors. Section 5.6. Resignation and Removal of Directors. A director may resign at any time upon written request to the corporation. Furthermore, any director or the entire Board of Directors may be ...
...tocopies to P. Campbell. [Update 2009-03-10] Copies received by P. Campbell. Status: in progress. [30] Originally from August 2006, Section 10: T. Peters will ask the advice of Larry Rosen regarding concerns with the contributor agreement. Status: carried forward. [13] Originally from December 2006, Section 4, Jython Contributor Agreements: D. Goodger will write to the Jython contributors and ask them to sign contributor agreement forms, in combination with item 1 [11] above (transferred from...
...to put into this. If anyone wants to join, please let me know." In terms of having any issues surrounding his project, M. A. Lemburg reported no issues except that he just does not have enough time to devote to his Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront project and therefore, he wants to transfer the project lead on to another interested party. M. A. Lemburg also reported on future plans for the project: "Check to see whether a trigger based approach to S3 syncing wouldn't be easier to imple...
...to the meeting, D. Goodger agreed to the informal proposal. D. Goodger's status (employee vs. contractor) was discussed. Further discussion was deferred to email. K. Kaiser: "I'd like to suggest that PyCon be budgeted to include the [Conference Coordinator] expense and 2/3 of the Treasurer expense. ... Officers need to be employees. However, the [Conference Coordinator] could be a contractor. Right now, David's an employee." D. Goodger to K. Kaiser: "I'd like to work with you o...
...tocopies to P. Campbell. [Update 2009-03-10] Copies received by Pat Campbell. Copies received by Pat Campbell 2009-03-10. Status: in progress. [30] Originally from August 2006, Section 10: T. Peters will ask the advice of Larry Rosen regarding concerns with the contributor agreement. Status: carried forward. [13] Originally from December 2006, Section 4, Jython Contributor Agreements: D. Goodger will write to the Jython contributors and ask them to sign contributor agreement forms, in combina...
...to the following procedures: (1) Any Director may make a motion to the Board, using the published Board mailing list address. (2) For a motion to pass, a "super-quorum" of 3/4 of the Directors MUST participate in the email vote by stating 'Aye', 'Nay' or 'Abstain' to a proposed motion, with the vote appended to a quoted version of the exact motion proposed. In the case of a Board of 13 Directors, this will require 10 directors to vote by email. (3) For a motion to pass, an absolute maj...
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