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  • PSF Membership Types & FAQ

    ...any other Membership - i.e. you may sign up for Supporting Membership and also be a Basic Member, Contributing Member, or a Fellow. You can sign up as a Supporting Member here. Contributing Members Contributing Members are people who dedicate at least five hours per month volunteering on projects that advance the mission of the PSF, where the work relates to the creation or maintenance of open source software available to the public at no charge, or by organizing Python events, running infras...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...any of the early innovations at ILM made it into the commercial realm, but the company's position on the cutting edge of visual effects technology continues to rely on an ever-changing combination of custom in-house technologies and commercial products. Today, ILM runs a batch processing environment capable of modeling, rendering and compositing tens of thousands of motion picture frames per day. Thousands of machines running Linux, IRIX, Compaq Tru64, OS X, Solaris, and Windows join together to...

  • Python 3.3.3 Release

    ...any more POSIX functions in the "os" and "signal" modules, as well as other useful functions such as "sendfile()" Hash randomization, introduced in earlier bugfix releases, is now switched on by default More resources Change log for this release. Online Documentation What's new in 3.3? 3.3 Release Schedule Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org. Help fund Python and its community. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter. We...

  • Python 3.3.4 Release

    ...any more POSIX functions in the "os" and "signal" modules, as well as other useful functions such as "sendfile()" Hash randomization, introduced in earlier bugfix releases, is now switched on by default More resources Change log for this release. Online Documentation What's new in 3.3? 3.3 Release Schedule Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org. Help fund Python and its community. Download This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter. We...

  • 2007-03-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any problem wasn't known, but it was thought to be a lack of organizers. The Board agreed that money probably isn't the solution. D. Goodger asked if the PSF has ever offered help for EuroPython; the PSF is a stable legal entity that can offer financial underwriting, with directors and members who can offer advice and help. A. Kuchling replied that he didn't think the PSF has ever helped with EuroPython, but that it is certainly within the PSF's mandate. D. Goodger noted that this would requi...

  • 2009-02-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any non-core-contributors. "Too many people with voting rights over the IP who have not had a hand in creating it." S. Deibel: "It's valid to ask why non-contributors should have a hand in managing the IP they don't own." D. Goodger: "The PSF is not solely about Python's IP. The community is a large part too." R. Hettinger: "There seems to be no unified notion of what makes for a PSF member." D. Goodger noted that there are documented criteria. S. Holden...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...any. With that goal in mind, our team went to work using the object oriented features of PHP. While we were able to re-fit the application and add increased functionality, the project ultimately failed due in large part to the problems encountered while using the object framework provided by PHP. Memory leaks, inconsistent interfaces, inconsistent internal data model, randomly freed objects, multiple object copies despite explicit use of references, internal PHP errors, and untraceable code fail...

  • Python Success Stories

    Python Success Stories Introduction Strakt is a Swedish company which specializes in developing scalable and secure products for collaboration in workflow intensive workplaces. Our vision is to empower professionals to collaborate in an enjoyable, intuitive, and efficient way that is tailored to their and their organisations' needs, while simultaneously developing and maintaining digitally stored organisational memory. In 2001, AB Strakt embarked on a large software development project aimed ...

  • Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x]

    Incompatibilities between Python 2.1[.x] and 2.2[.x] <h3>Incompatibilties between Python 2.2.2 and Python 2.2.3</h3> <p>The following visible differences between Python 2.2.2 and Python 2.2.3 are intentional. <ul> <p><li>It is no longer possible to use object.__setattr__ to circumvent the restrictions on setting attributes of type objects. <p><li>list.extend() works with any iterable. <p><li>In pdb, you can no longer enable breakpo...

  • Linux RPMs for Python 2.3

    ...any of the following packages were signed with the GPG key in <a href="/ftp/python/2.3/rpms/KRUD-GPG-KEY">KRUD-GPG-KEY</a> </ul> <li><b>Source:</b> <ul> <li><b>The base Python tar-file has a problem that prevents it from being built as an RPM. Use the following instead:</b> <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.3/rpms/python2.3-2.3-5pydotorg.src.rpm">python2.3-2.3-5pydotorg.src.rpm</a> (Red Hat 9 Source RP...

  • ...any proxy previously given for this meeting. Name (print): ____________________________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________________________________________________ Signature: ____________________________________________________________________ Filing Notes Deadline for Receipt: February 19, 2007 This form must be filed with the Secretary of the PSF in advance of the meeting. The form may be sent by GPG/PGP-signed email to: psf at python.org or fa...

  • 2009 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...any members (and an observer or two) clarifying their positions and how trademarks work. RESOLVED, that the PSF stops enforcing control over the Python logo as a trademark, and licenses it as a work of art to anybody without any restrictions. Defeated, 8-48-1. 8   Financial Report Kurt Kaiser, the PSF Treasurer, reported on the financial status of the PSF for 2008: a net income of $86,086 and total equity of $453,397. 9   Adjournment Steve Holden adjourned the ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, November 8, 2005

    ...any time, through an issue tracker, for small grants. Every three months, grants are issued in roughly the amount of donations received, about $5000 per quarter. Occasional requests for larger grants are deal with on a case-by-case basis. The KDE Foundation, the Gnome Foundation, and the Mozilla Foundation all have trademark policies. The PSF could try to borrow ideas for our own trademark policy. Other issues discussed: involvement of members, and policies for membership legal standing of ...

  • 2007-09-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any mistakes be reported. 8   Draft Budget for PyCon 2008 D. Goodger reported that a draft budget for PyCon 2008 has been published (but it's not ready for a vote yet): http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pyx4TeJX2JDoKnFsixLn9bw. 9   Adjournment D. Goodger adjourned the meeting at 17:43 UTC.

  • 2009-04-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any contributions: to PyCon networking, to python.org maintenance, and to the Python community. Whether to award Sean or his company, Tummy.com, was debated. T. Peters: "We should ask Sean which he'd prefer -- he may have business reasons for wanting, or not wanting, Tummy to get it." 8   Grant for Vern Ceder for NECC Talk Vern Ceder approached S. Holden about PSF support for his attendance at National Educational Computing Conference (12,000+ teachers), where he wil...

  • PSF Community Service Awards

    ...any years serving as postmaster for mail.python.org and supporting the Python community mailing lists and the PSF’s email traffic. March 2022 The Q1 2022 Community Service Award was given to John Hawley for his many years of volunteering on behalf of the PSF to support students and their mentors working on Python projects via Google Summer of Code. The Q1 2022 Community Service Award was given to Matthew Lagoe for his many years of volunteering on behalf of the PSF to support students and th...

  • Absentee ballot for February 24, 2006 member meeting in Dallas, TX

    ...any names as you like. There will be 8 directors] <!--END TEXT COMMON WITH BALLOT--> <h3>Authorized Signature</h3> <p>I authorize the PSF secretary to record these votes on my behalf. I hereby revoke any proxy previously given for this meeting. <p>Name (print): _______________________________________ <br> <br> <br>Signed: ____________________________________________ <br> <br>Date: ______________________________________________ <br&g...

  • 2008 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...any trademark as an adjective only, followed by a generic noun. Van recommended that the PSF register the Python & PyCon logos. Facundo Batista asked about the threshold above which contributor agreements were necessary. Van Lindberg replied "it depends"; the interpretation of trivial versus significant changes is open to interpretation. Andrew Kuchling asked what we should do if there's no contributor form. It was pointed out that the Google Summer of Code required participant...

  • 2006-11-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Any updates require prior approval of the PSF board. Approved 4-0-1. D. Goodger will add a note to the trademark policy page with the board resolution details. A. Kuchling will post a PSF weblog entry about the trademark policy. 7   PyCon A. Kuchling provided a PyCon status report: 104 talk proposals were submitted. This is a significant increase over last year; for 2006 we received ~80 proposals. The final accept/reject decisions still need to be made; we'll try to do t...

  • 2012-08-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...any physical and electronic PSF records she may have, back to the PSF. (This vote was taken by the PSF Board on IRC 2012-07-25 18:08:40) Approved, 10-0-0 4   Votes Taken Over Email There was one vote taken over email: 4.1   PyCarolinas 2012 Conference Grant RESOLVED, that the PSF provide fiscal sponsorship for the "direct project" PyCarolinas. The PSF will collect targeted donations and reimburse properly receipted expenses on their behalf up to the l...

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