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Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-10-09 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors October 9, 2006 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:05 UTC, 9 October 2006. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3&nb...
...Python conferences, impacting over 3,000 people globally $20,000 = ~25 hands-on workshops impacting over 700 people $10,000 = user group meetup fees for 150 groups around the world for 6 months $5,000 = hosting for 3-4 PSF community web services for a year(e.g. Mail.python.org, uspycon.org, wiki.python.org) $2,000 = support for 2 regional conferences, impacting over 500 people $99 = 6 months of Python meetup subscriptions $60 a month ($2.00 a day) = one workshop, impacting over 250 people H...
...Pythonistas and the Python language in so many ways. Jessica McKellar (2015) Jessica McKellar has served in many distinguished roles within the Python community: Director, Python Software Foundation; PyCon Diversity Outreach Chair; core organizer of Boston Python, one of Python’s largest user groups; frequent keynote speaker and tutorial presenter; board member of OpenHatch; Boston Python Workshop organizer and evangelist; PSF Fellow; mentor for Outreachy program; core contributor to OpenHatch...
...Python Software Foundation Meetup Pro Network grew to include 82 groups in 19 countries with over 129,000 members! In 2020, PyCon US 2021 planning started! The event will be virtual but our staff is working on making it as interactive an experience as possible! Throughout 2020, Python infrastructure, CPython, and Packaging continued to evolve. An initiative was started to improve CPython processes by migrating bugs...
...Python community. We can’t wait to hear about your event, workshop, or regional community—so let’s jump right in! Guiding Principles The PSF Grants Program supports hundreds of Python-related conferences, workshops, and communities globally in line with our mission: The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. To faci...
...Python Support: S. Holden will ask EuroPython to send an invoice for a 2008 silver sponsorship. Status: done. Section 10, Formalizing the Trademarks Committee: J. Tauber and D. Goodger will formulate a resolution for the formation of a Trademarks Committee. Status: carried forward. Section 11, PSF Awards Program: Nominations?: D. Goodger will ask the members for nominations for the PSF Awards Program. Email sent 2008-07-09. Status: done. 4 New Servers for python.org S. Ho...
...Python community. The Q1 2024 Community Service Award was given to Gregory Szorc as the author of python-build-standalone and PyOxidizer, among many other projects. python-build-standalone has quietly become a crucial component of the wider Python ecosystem. It provides builds of Python that can be installed in a way that avoids any risk of conflict with other existing installations so that Python can be painlessly distributed to users who are not themselves Python developers. The Q1 2024 Commun...
...pythonw" that runs your script with an interpreter living in such a .app bundle, this interpreter should be used to run any Python script using the window manager (including Tkinter or wxPython scripts). Most of Mac/Lib has moved to Lib/plat-mac, which is again used both in MacPython-OSX and MacPython-OS9. The only modules remaining in Mac/Lib are specifically for MacPython-OS9 (CFM support, preference resources, etc). A new utility PythonLauncher will start a Python interpreter when a .py ...
...Python Software Foundation (PSF) vendor policies are intended to provide guidance on whether services fall into employment or vendor relationships, further define vendors and invoice requirements, and tax documentation requirements. The Python Software Foundation does not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal, or accounting advice. Please consult your ta...
...Python 2.1.1 (final) ? The following bugs were fixed: [ #441664 ] Python crash on del of a slice of a mmap [ #438050 ] configure doesn't look for poll.h in sys [ #437487 ] 2.1 build on Solaris fails if CC is set [ #441527 ] unixccompiler preprocessor broken What's New in Python 2.1.1c1 ? Python 2.1.1 comes with the new, GPL-compatible PSF licence. Several insecurities in dict comparison as well as a scoping bug, that could lead to the Python interpreter crashing were fixed. Python should ...
...Python Software Foundation page. Status: done. Section 7, Support Request from ZPUGDC Plone Conference: S. Holden will write to the Plone Conference organizers asking for details of attendance and finances. Status: done. Section 8, Support Request for Peruvian Python Conference: M. von Löwis will follow up on responses to the Peruvian Python Conference organizer's request for speakers. Status: done. 5 Role of Administrator S. Holden: As you all know we have hired Pa...
...python interpreter, some environment variables would grow without limit. Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by exploitation of poor argument checking. bsddb code updated to version 4.7.3pre2. This code is the same than Python 2.6 one, since the intention is to keep an unified 2.x/3.x codebase. The Python code is automatically translated using "2to3". Please, do not update this code in Python 3.0 by hand. Update the 2.6 one and then do "2to3"...
...Python Conference, San Jose, Ca., Oct. 1997, pp. 11-20. [Hugunin2] Jim Hugunin. JPython Update. Invited talk, 7th International Python Conference. Houston, Tex., Nov. 1998. PowerPoint slides: http://www.jpython.org/jpython-talk-1.ppt [Jackson] Daniel Jackson and Allison Waingold. Lightweight Extraction of Object Models from Bytecode. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, Los Angeles, Ca., May 1999. [JPython] http://www.jpython.org/ [Know...
...Python Software Foundation Board of Directors grant $7500 USD to the 1st PythonHo Regional Python Community Conference taking place in Ho, Ghana, on October 25-26, 2024. Approved; 12-0-0, 2024-08-15 RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors grant $7500 USD to the 1st PythonHo Regional Python Community Conference taking place in Ho, Ghana, on October 25-26, 2024. Approved; 12-0-0, 2024-08-15 RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation charter a Board Committee to review...
...Python in Education projects thanks to our increased revenue in 2019. A $50,000 grant was awarded to the BeeWare Project to improve Python on Android. The PSF also awarded a grant of $12,000 to Meg Ray, to work on creating a Python in Education website where we can curate educational information from all over the world. Throughout 2020, we will publish more details on the grants the PSF approved from this initiative. For 2020, our intentions are set on community collaborations and s...
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