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  • 2007-06-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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...

  • PSF Bylaws

    ...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...

  • 2006-12-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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 (...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...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...

  • 2008-01-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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.

  • 2008-03-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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 ...

  • 2009-07-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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...

  • 2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...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 ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, December 13, 2005

    ...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...

  • 2008-10-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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...

  • 2011-07-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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...

  • 2012-04-30 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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...

  • 2008-07-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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...

  • 2009-03-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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...

  • 2009-10-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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...

  • 2011-02-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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...

  • 2008-12-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...OpenEye Scientific Software for their sponsor membership feee. Status: done. Originally from 8 September 2008, Section 5.2, Sponsor Member Application: Lucasfilm: K. Kaiser will invoice Lucasfilm for their sponsor membership fee. Status: done. Originally from 8 September 2008, Section 7, PSF Logo: D. Goodger will produce final layouts for a PSF logo. Status: carried forward. Originally from 13 October 2008, Section 4, PSF Community Award Certificates: S. Holden will issue PSF Community Award ...

  • 2009-02-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...open invoices for 2007 and 2008 dues. It's too early to start chasing 2009. They will be on the next AR report." S. Holden: "A polite 'phone call asking when payment is scheduled will detect problems early and avoid the issues we've had in the past." 6   Changes to the Bylaws S. Holden noted that we haven't heard from counsel regarding the legal review of the proposed bylaws changes. "If we don't vote on the changes today this means we will be bound by the...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Open Source community, and often ranks third behind Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman in the current pantheon of hacker demigods. At that time, I had used Perl for a number of small projects. I'd found it quite powerful, even if the syntax and some other aspects of the language seemed rather ad hoc and prone to bite one if not used with care. It seemed to me that Python would have quite a hill to climb as yet another scripting language, so as I read, I looked first for what seemed to set it ap...

  • 2011-08-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...open and mentioning it in a massive press push for 8/15. Jesse also reported on the new activities for the month. He said: Negotiations with CTE will be accelerating shortly. Negotiations for AV/Recording contracts will begin this month. AV/Recording is a significant cost for the conference - there will be some potentially heated discussions around this subject. Catering/etc costs may have some wiggle room, negotiating as we can. A unified call for proposals is being drafted - this single an...

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