Notice: While JavaScript is not essential for this website, your interaction with the content will be limited. Please turn JavaScript on for the full experience.
...number of Python users, especially in under-represented demographics. The Committee will identify key initiatives and programs toward this goal that the PSF can assist in, fund or help guide. The Committee will make recommendations to the membership, the board and its committees; initiate and coordinate outreach projects; and act as a guiding hand for the PSF in this domain. The committee shall not be an arbiter of controversial language or situations in Python ...
...number of reference entries to about 8-10. Current statistics 6 half page ads sold and paid 1 half page ad reservation 2 reference entries sold and paid 4 reference entry reservations Sending stickers to conferences Other than the brochure, we also have stickers available for use at conferences and user group meetings. Stickers have been sent to Albania, South Africa and Spain. I also took a set to PyCon UK (and they were gone within 15 minutes). New Activities Print more Python sticker...
...number years and was an early part of the organizing team for EuroPython. He was instrumental in starting the Python communities in Namibia and Ghana. Making sure that these conferences had strong support both financially and structurally. Daniele has been an executive member of the Pycon Africa team since we started and has been a consistent source of guidance. He continues to be a member of the Django Software Foundation and has spoken at many PyCons and DjangoCons around the world. Decembe...
...number of Directors was. There is nothing in the bylaws or in the resolutions about a minimum. Should there be?" The Board agreed that there was no need to set a minimum. 12 Awards On January 18 Guido van Rossum forwarded a message from Nathan Torkington of O'Reilly reminding us about the "PSF awards". As the PSF doesn't have an awards program yet, and considering the confusion last year, it was assumed that Torkington meant the Frank Willison Award. D. Good...
...numbers for 2013 and commission checks. Currently working on getting commission checks. PyCon Registration Management Settling some lose ends with registration payments. We are almost done with all of our open payments. PyCon Site Visits Working on getting Diana to Montreal for site visit in July. PyCon Website Management Signed with Caktus. Working on launching the first phase July 1st, which will also open call for proposals. 5.2 Administrator Report Boa...
...number_or_string[, base_number]]) long([number_or_string]) float([number_or_string]) complex([number_or_string[, imag_number]]) str([object]) unicode([string[, encoding_string]]) tuple([iterable]) list([iterable]) type(object) or type(name_string, bases_tuple, methods_dict) The signature of type() requires an explanation: traditionally, type(x) returns the type of object x, and this usage is still supported. However, type(name, bases, methods) is a new usage tha...
...number of expected attendees or participants We want to understand the ratio of impact to grant dollars spent. Please ensure you submit a grant report via our reporting form if you are a repeat grant applicant and received PSF grant funding in the past. We want to understand how the grant funding was used and what impact it made. If you have yet to receive any grant funding from the PSF, you do not need to submit any reports. If your request is for a conference, we require a link to the sche...
...number of sites and was the highest viewed post all year. We covered the recent Code of Conduct resolutions in early December, and that post was picked up in a lot of places as well, including the Ada Project, who supported the actions. 11.4 Planned for Next Month There's no specific action here, but for PyCon we switched news release vendors to Marketwire, so I'm going to keep an eye out for how the press releases are being picked up through that service. If it turns out th...
...numbers vs. Kurt's QBOL Registration numbers PyCon Catering Nothing to Report for May 2012 PyCon Contract Negotiations 2013 Santa Clara Convention Center Contract was adjusted. I have released half of the 200 rooms. This has decreased our deposit and final amount. I have also succeed in extending the deadline for the 2013 deposit until we close the books on 2012. 2013 Hyatt Regency contract was adjusted. I have released all Sprint rooms on Thursday March 21st since we will have it at the C...
...number of attendees, we've created a smaller teaser version of the brochure to get attention of potential ad, reference and subscription sponsors. The teaser will be placed in the PyCon US attendee bags. Additional copies will be available at the registration desk in case you want to take some along to show to companies who might be interested in booking an ad or listing. Here's the link to the PDF of the teaser: LINK REDACTED Please don't pass the PDF around, since we haven't yet finalized the ...
...number of talks (374 as of this writing) and tutorials (89). The Program Committee is staffing up and beginning to do reviews. See: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/10/pycon-2012-announcing-new-diamond.html 7. Management of the program guide has been passed off to Yannick, Ewa, Van and Doug N. Idan Gazit has been tapped to do the artwork for the Program Guide and T-Shirts. Negotiations with Elegant Stitches are ongoing. 9. Reached out to PyLadies, and other organizations to help put together a p...
...numbers, so AP is also up by $335K. Donations for the month were $2,626. This includes $1,891 in donations to the PSF received as part of PyCon registration." Kurt concludes his report by revealing the financial business items he plans to continue to focus his attention on, he said: "My focus remains on AR and AP reduction and implementation of the Associate Member program." Board Discussion: S. Holden: "The Treasurer's report shows we have discharged most of our PyCon oblig...
...number this year I worked with the team at Google to get us an additional 6 slots (total 31) beyond our initial allocation of 25. Almost every student requested by a project under the PSF which met our requirements was approved. Riley reported on new activities for the month. He said: Community bonding period for accepted students. This ends today (5/20) as students prepare to begin their projects on Monday May 21st. Updating http://soc.python.org/ for this year's students, this should be com...
...number of ongoing projects: No opinion yet expressed by committee members about an iOS "Python Math" distribution, which is intended as a restricted subset of Python (i.e. not all modules included in distro). Open and unclear request about the website/project WTactics.org. Carl Trachte identified a likely problematic derivative with pugce. This should be addressed, but has not currently. Doug Napoleone identified a probably dilutive derived logo by psycopg. I need to followup with ...
...number of subscription sponsors that way (*). As of now, we are working on compressing and finalizing the brochure text, getting texts translated, proof read and formatted for the brochure. Armin, our designer and producer, is working on an example double page based on the existing drafts to use in the sponsor acquisition phase, which is due to start as soon as the credit card payment system is set up. The latter was delayed due to having to go through three levels of providers/contracts, each w...
...number of women of color in digital careers by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 14 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science in a supportive, and challenging environment." They were a Google RISE 2012 grant recipient: http://www.google.com/edu/rise/recipients.html. Jessica McKellar has been discussing with founder Kimberly Bryant the possibility of integrating some Python programming into thei...
If you didn't find what you need, try your search in the Python language documentation.