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  • 2010-03-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers in square brackets (like "[0]") refer to the action item ID on the wiki. 4.1   Carried Forward The following are action items carried forward from the 11 January 2010 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes (Section 4, Status of Past Action Items). Numbers in [brackets] represent the item ID in the PSF private wiki. [11] Originally from June 2006, Section 6, PSF Records: The Board agreed to assemble the existing records in one place, have them scanned, and ente...

  • Summary of "Extension Building" Session

    ...number, and the current platform, e.g. mydist-1.2.3-sunos5.tar.gz or mydist-1.2.3-win32.zip. However, there's a lot of interest in "smart" installers like Red Hat's RPM (and I got the impression that there are a couple of competing possibilities for the Windows world -- someone from the dark side will have to fill me in on that). My current thinking is that there should be a separate command (or Makefile target) for each of these, so you might run make...

  • Standard Exception Classes in Python 1.5

    ...number", errno, "(%s)" % strerror The same approach works for the SyntaxError exception, with the proviso that the info part is not always present: try: c = compile(source, filename, "exec") except SyntaxError, what: try: message, info = what except: message, info = what, None if info: "...print source code info..." print "SyntaxError:", msg

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ...number of technical reasons, CNRI never formally licensed this work for Internet download, although it did permit Guido to share the results with the Python community. As none of this work was published either, there were no CNRI copyright notices placed on these Python releases prior to 1.6. A CNRI copyright notice will appear on the official release of Python 1.6. The CNRI license was created to clarify for all users that CNRI's intent is to enable Python extensions to be developed in a...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ...number of technical reasons, CNRI never formally licensed this work for Internet download, although it did permit Guido to share the results with the Python community. As none of this work was published either, there were no CNRI copyright notices placed on these Python releases prior to 1.6. A CNRI copyright notice will appear on the official release of Python 1.6. The CNRI license was created to clarify for all users that CNRI's intent is to enable Python extensions to be developed in a...

  • 2010-10-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...number of sprints we want lined up - on the other hand, we do have a donor who has sent money to the PSF for further sprints funding: http://pythonsprints.com/2010/10/11/trading-technologies-sponsors-python-sprints/" Board Discussion: S. Holden: "Thanks for your work on sprints. I see this as a good practical way to support grass-roots development work. 6   Host OSX Buildbot Slaves Motion from Martin v. Lowis: RESOLVED, that the PSF buys one Mac Mini computer, for a ...

  • 2013-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers for 2013 and commission checks. Currently working on getting commission checks. PyCon Internet Nothing to report for April PyCon Printing Nothing to report for April PyCon Registration Management Worked on the open payment registrations with Jackie and Kurt. Currently working on getting payment from one last company before we close the books. PyCon Site Visits Worked on site visit for Diana to visit the Palais. Has to reschedule it for July since the Palais is not...

  • 2014 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...number of contributing members per project right now. Instead, we should make sure that we get the needed information from contributing members to monitor the effects: have a field with the project name to which the member contributes in the database have a field with the affiliation of the member in the database 6   Voting With the new e-vote system in place, we no longer have fixed voting times, but instead call for votes on an ad-hoc basis. Discussion of the votes will h...

  • 2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers in square brackets (like "[0]") refer to the action item ID on the wiki. 4.1   Carried Forward The following are action items carried forward from the 11 May 2009 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes (Section 4, Status of Past Action Items). Numbers in [brackets] represent the item ID in the PSF private wiki. [11] Originally from June 2006, Section 6, PSF Records: The Board agreed to assemble the existing records in one place, have them scanned, and enter th...

  • 2011-03-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...number of useful contacts which we will be following up with over the next weeks. We've also created a newsletter mailing list, a twitter account and RSS feed for interested parties." M.A.Lemburg also reported issues with the project, he said: "Additional help in finding such interesting projects would be greatly appreciated. Please consider signing up as contact scout: http://brochure.getpython.info/signup/contact-scout-signup Thanks !" As far as future plans are concerned for h...

  • 2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...number of milestones (launching the site, CFP) which have been discussed. These are going to be more widely disseminated and finalized in the upcoming month. Our goal is a CFP by July/August. We already have sponsors ready to sign up with us for the 2012 conference, all we're waiting for are open books and a site." The report was closed with an explanation of his currently tabled activities Jesse said: "1. I am supposed to make a flight to Santa Clara and Montreal for site surveys; d...

  • 2011-11-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...number of proposals and the amount of work required, they are missing the original delivery dates however, and are adjusting as best they can. Tutorial selection/discussion is ongoing, and making excellent progress. Negotiations between PyCon and O'Reilly and Pearson are complete. Jesse also listed a new activity for the month. Please see below: Get solid quotes on t-shirt costs. The last two PyCon US items reported on by Jesse were the "planned for next month" where he listed si...

  • PSF Fellow Membership

    ...number and quality of Python users, and have been widely recognized as being above and beyond normal volunteering. If someone is not accepted to be a fellow in the quarter they were nominated for, they will remain an active nominee for 1 year for future consideration. It is suggested/recommended that the nominee have wide Python community involvement. Examples would be (not a complete list - just examples): Someone who has received a Community Service Award or Distinguished Service Award A dev...

  • 2012-01-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers/quotes. Program guide progress is moving more slowly than anticipated. As far as the continued activities from last month, he reported: 1. Sponsor signups have continued. We now have 100 sponsors and OSS partners, and more in the pipeline. We have had to announce that we will be closing down sponsorship applications after Jan. 20th: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/01/pycon-2012-close-of-sponsorship.html Financial updates will be sent to the private board list. Registration for the co...

  • 2006-12-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...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 (but we do need a board motion). If we have informal agreement from the major contributors ..., you could post to the Jython list announcing that the PSF board is going to change the license, and then do that at the next board meeting." A. Kuchling will write ...

  • 2013-09-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...number of reference entries. If you know someone who might be interested in signing up as ad sponsor, please refer them to the brochure site or have them contact me. http://brochure.getpython.info/ Here's the preview PDF to pass around, in case someone wants to take a look: http://brochure.getpython.info/preview.pdf Once we have the sponsors all signed up, we'll go to print with the brochure and have it distributed to the ad sponsors, reference sponsors, subscription sponsors and Python conferen...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 24.29 Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 8,471,018 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40). SLOCCount, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 David A. Wheeler Please credit this data as "generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'." On the Persons-Years side, it took us four years for two developers to develop the 2.0 version from scratch (version 1.x was in production use but never released). Results As said befor...

  • Python 1.6.1

    ...number of .pyc files; these have been removed. What's new in release 1.6? Here is a list of all relevant changes since release 1.5.2. Source Incompatibilities Several small incompatible library changes may trip you up: The append() method for lists can no longer be invoked with more than one argument. This used to append a single tuple made out of all arguments, but was undocumented. To append a tuple, use e.g. l.append((a, b, c)). The connect(), connect_ex() and bind() methods for socke...

  • 2009-07-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers in square brackets (like "[0]") refer to the action item ID on the wiki. 4.1   Carried Forward The following are action items carried forward from the 08 June 2009 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes (Section 4, Status of Past Action Items). Numbers in [brackets] represent the item ID in the PSF private wiki. [11] Originally from June 2006, Section 6, PSF Records: The Board agreed to assemble the existing records in one place, have them scanned, and enter t...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...numbers. PyCon Legal: We have been able to determine that no one speaking at PyCon will need a workers permit. There are some people who will need entry visas but the individuals are responsible for that. We are currently working on finding out what we need to do to make honorarium for tutorial speakers legal. Sponsor Management: I am continuing to answer emails and special requests from sponsors. I spend the majority of my time per day going through sponsor emails and updating their dashboards ...

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