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...Open Hatch which was a last minute group. Both events went well and we should be receiving some type of report from both groups to publicize how their sprints went. As far as the continued activities from last month, he reported: Reimbursement for PyCon Finland and the Boston Twisted sprint are still needed. I will re-send the details to Kurt so we can get them covered. On his report of the new activities for the month, J. Noller said: The Plone Conference and Open Hatch sprints we sponsored t...
...open it for enrollment. Useful commments were received, resulting in improvements. I expect this process to continue over the next few months. We still need to link psfmember.org to python.org and make the community aware of the Associate Member opportunity. Kurt concluded his report with a list of financial business items he will be focused on, he said: My focus is on PyCon wrapup, AR/AP reduction, the Associate program, and the increased activity and interest on the fiscal sponsorship fro...
...open to the examination of any member, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, either at a place within the city where such meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or if not so specified, at the place where such meeting is to be held. The list shall also be produced and kept open at the time and place of the meeting and shall be subject to inspection by any member at any time during the meeting. Upon the willful neglect ...
...Open Source Foundations Meeting at EuroOSCON: M. von Löwis said he would check his availability [to attend; Amsterdam, October 21 & 22]. M. von Löwis reported that he has booked a flight, but he still needs to get his employer's approval. He talked to the organizers, and will report about the event to psf-board. Section 10.4, SSL Certificates: K. Kaiser will check whether he has something with [the PSF's official] address that could be sent to Barry [Warsaw]. K. Kaiser reported that this i...
...opens the mail, and another processes the checks. B. Cannon and D. Goodger noted that cashing US checks in Canada incurs a delay of several weeks. K. Kaiser replied that the accounts should stay in the US; the Treasurers need only send checks by mail. B. Cannon asked what the Assistant Treasurer's responsibilities would be. S. Deibel and K. Kaiser listed the Treasurer's responsibilities, which are shared with the Assistant Treasurer: make payments receive payments by check and deposit deal wi...
...open source license. Contributing Members have voting rights in the corporation and are counted for the purposes of quorum at meetings of the members. The Board of Directors may, from time to time, create alternate eligibility requirements for Contributing Members. Section 4.8. Fellows. To be eligible for membership as a Fellow, a member must be nominated by any Member of the corporation other than a Basic Member, or by a specially chartered Working Group, which nomination should be based upon c...
...open source them then we should somehow note that in the registry of contrib forms." A. Kuchling will write to the Jython contributors and ask them to sign contributor agreement forms. 5 Jython License A. Kuchling asked if there is a target number of contributor forms we need to reach before changing the license to be PSFv2. The current license is CNRI's. M. von Löwis: "We can put the PSF license on top of [the Jython license stack], and I guess we can do that now (...
...open-source product with non-commercial and commercial licenses. Architecture The Devil Framework system is composed of two different applications: the Application Server components and the IceBridge graphical console. Both are multi-platform applications completely written in Python: the server runs on Linux and Windows platforms (and can be easily ported to other Unix systems), the client runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Application Server Components The Applications Server components a...
...opening very shortly. We are approaching $100K of sponsorship money, so we'll probably be profitable again. Things are late, but we'll get it done. 11 Adjournment S. Deibel adjourned the meeting at 18:58 UTC.
...Open Participation contest participants. To be discussed further at PyCon. 6 PyCon Thank-You Fund D. Goodger reported that the PyCon profit estimate was somewhere around $70K, and that he would like to use a portion of that to express thanks to major contributors. Some computers are neeeded for recording A/V during the conference (Macs for video/firewire, and PCs for audio & VGA capture); these can be dual-purposed. The PSF will own the computers, which will be on loan ...
...open source, but at least it's Python, right?" D. Mertz: "I'd have some reservation about "endorsing" a closed-source product/project." A. Kuchling: "...The lack of open-sourceness is a concern. Also conflict of interest issues for me. But I'm hoping the PSF wouldn't be paying anything at all." S. Holden: "...I'd need to see some fairly detailed specifications." M. von Löwis: "How much effort would it be to setup a small demo installation?&q...
...Open Source Applications Foundation, represented by Ted Leung (Stephan Deibel) Samuele Pedroni (Michael Hudson) Tim Peters (Barry Warsaw) Armin Rigo (Michael Hudson) Vinay Sajip (Richard Jones) Peter Schneider-Kamp (Barry Warsaw) Strakt Holdings, represented by Laura Creighton (Michael Hudson) Jason Tishler (Neal Norwitz) The following members voted by absentee ballot: Neil Schemenauer Brian Zimmer 60 members were in attendance, represented by proxy, or voted by absentee ballot, constituting ...
...open. Cost is $185/125 student, a $10 increase. Early bird registration ends Dec. 31st, after which prices go up, so if you're going, please register. Current registration: 27 attendees (12 tutorial registrations), but it's still early; most will be last-minute. Break-even figure is 351 attendees. I don't have current hotel registration numbers. Sponsorship target of $16K reached. (Sponsorships are still available, if you know any possibilities.) Jeff Rush is working on negotiating lower f...
...OpenEye Scientific Software: D. Goodger will inform OpenEye Scientific Software of their pending sponsor membership status, and will request a logo for the web site. S. Deibel informed OpenEye Scientific Software. Status: done. Section 4.2, Sponsor Member Application: K. Kaiser will invoice OpenEye Scientific Software for their sponsor membership feee. Status: carried forward. Section 5.1, Sponsor Member Application: Lucasfilm: S. Holden will inform Lucasfilm of their pending sponsor memb...
...open issues. We told both Diego Sarmentero (of NINJA-IDE) and Brad Allen (PyTexas) that logos they made were dilutive. Both of them have pushed back a bit hoping to find some way to allow authorization, with PyTexas folks suggesting assignment. I told Sarmentero that this MIGHT be an option if I could get legal opinion that it was. But no word for PSF counsel on the issue. David also reported on "other new activities." He said: - James Costa made some improved prop...
...Open Python" and the Python logo embedded in a US map for several Open Bastion conferences. Beginning of March: Discussion with Donald Stufft <donald at crate.io> about derived version of Python logo for site https://crate.io. An initial version of a derived logo was too much of a modification of the design, but some discussion led to a version that preserved the full shape of the Python logo (with some permitted perspective added, as if logo was stamped on side of a crate). The kind...
...open to proposals. Status: done. Section 8, SciPy Support: S. Holden will write to Travis Vaught about the PSF's sponsorship of SciPy 2008. Holden will inquire about the responsible organization, request a W-9 form, and note that the administration of the funding is up to SciPy. Status: done. Section 9, EuroPython 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 wi...
...open. There are over 20 new member nominations. We currently have 86 nominated members and 22 sponsor members. The Nominations 2009 page on the PSF private wiki will be used for the descriptions & recommendations of nominees, linked from the agenda. The preparations were discussed. D. Goodger: "We'll need ballots, and collating proxy forms. Pat can help with that on-site." S. Holden and D. Goodger noted that it was too late to send out individual notices by postal mail. D. Goodg...
...Opening Mission Statement: D. Goodger will update the web page: http://www.python.org/psf/mission/ to reflect the PSF Mission Statement change. Status: done. 4.3 New Between Meetings There were no action items added since the last Board meeting on 14 September. 5 Progress with MatrixMaxx Setup The board briefly discussed the progress of the implementation stages of the new PSF content management system with MatrixGroup. A beta system was introduced for re...
...opened. Through a mis-communication, I thought this was resolved, but the board was waiting for me to do the order. The treasurer needed to place the order and so it has been handed off to Kurt. As far as ongoing projects, Sean listed: PSF Trac. 5.5 Marketing Material M.A.Lemburg, Marketing Material Project Manager, reported progress on the project: "The contract has been finalized and submitted to the PSF chairman for sign-off. Meanwhile we have started work on the b...
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