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• 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...important for release. Brian will double check the PSF?s social media accounts, but not important for launch. Ewa will check with vendors as to what needs to be done to get social login/openID going on the site. Should not block the 17Feb release. Ewa will be getting logins setup for the redesign group via vendors.Ewa will ask the vendors about offline editing capabilities. Tabled Activities PSF Budget: Update the PSF budget with recent spending (since the last time we edited it). I am n...

• 2007-04-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...important. Really need someone who is comfortable with double entry accounting. S. Deibel asked, should assistants also get some pay? M. von Löwis asked, did K. Kaiser receive "training" when he became Treasurer? K. Kaiser replied that Neal Norwitz wrote up a narrative which is in CVS and has been updated/amplified. K. Kaiser informed the Board that barring unforeseen changes, he should be able to continue as Treasurer for at least another year. S. Deibel will work with the Trea...

• 2008-10-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...importance to us, and the organisations behind Ubuntu and MySQL have an easier time making money (e.g. through support contracts). Hereby, we apply for sponsor membership. My employer, the KNMP ("Royal Dutch Pharmaceutical Society"), is a member organisation itself, with about 1500 out of 1800 Dutch pharmacies as its members. Our software department develops solutions for pharmacists, researchers, medical organisations and government departments to monitor or query medicine usage in th...

• 2008-08-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...important part of the job (and the part that nobody has time for) is defining the roles, making the systems, and managing the volunteer force. This was followed by a wide-ranging discussion. D. Goodger will follow up on-list regarding staffing. 10   Adjournment S. Holden adjourned the meeting at 17:04 UTC.

• 2011-02-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...import our data from the MatrixMaxx system to CiviCRM. Hopefully, our first HAM membership signup will soon be on the way once the HAM membership signup and payment system is integrated with python.org!" 5.4   Infrastructure Committee S. Reifschneider, Infrastructure Committee Chair, reported on a task from previous months, he said: A previous task that I thought was completed, the "trac" instance for the PSF, was re-opened. Through a mis-communication, I thoug...

• Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

  ...importing the types module) types.DictType (and a third, types.DictionaryType). But now that types play a more central role, it seems appropriate to have built-in names for the types that you're likely to encounter. Here's an example of a simple dict subclass, which provides a "default value" that is returned when a missing key is requested: class defaultdict(dict): def __init__(self, default=None): dict.__init__(self) self.default = default ...

• Python Humor

  ...import this!) Fundamental... Subject: Re: Book review review From: "Chyden.Net" <@chyden.net> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:53:48 +0100 Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Mark Lutz wrote: > Naturally, not everyone has the same sense of humor. Dear, gentle, Mr. Lutz: Not everyone has *ANY* sense of humor. I -- an economist-turned-businessman who never got "Hello World" to work right in C++ -- have enjoyed reading _Programming Python_. I find computer science as god-...

• Frank Willison Memorial Award

  ...import system implementation from C to Python, creating the "devinabox" project to make it easier for new contributors to get started at development sprints, writing the "Python-dev Summaries" articles from 2002 to 2005, and moderating the python-ideas mailing list since its introduction in December 2006. Brett has served on the PSF Board of Directors from 2006-2010, and again from 2013-2014, and was PSF Vice President in 2006-2007, and Executive Vice President from 2007-2010...

• PSF Grants Program

  ...important piece of the process because we want to gauge the impact of the grant. It is also required to be eligible for any future grant proposals. Why do we ask for so much information? We know that a lot of work goes into pulling together all the required information to apply for a grant, and we're very appreciative of that effort! The PSF is a nonprofit organization based in the US, which means a couple of things for our Grants Program: We have information requirements as well a...

• 2009-05-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...important -- but I just feel I can't sign off on spending $10K on this proposal. I'm OK with giving him another chance to expand further ..." T. Peters: "I suggest we ask him for a plain budget..." [60] S. Holden will ask Ian Benson for an updated "NiceTime" proposal with a detailed budget. 8   US and International Trademark Registration of the Python Logo S. Holden reported that Van Lindberg recommended trademark registration for the Python logo i...

• 2010-03-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...important in that area. How about you?" T. Peters: "Seems that Python is used in these apps in much the same way it's used in SciPy apps. That is, Python isn't the goal, it's part of the means. That's fine." RESOLVED, that the PSF support GNOME Foundation for Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 with a grant of $3,000. Approved, 5-0-0. [130] S. Holden will inform the GNOME Foundation organizers for Libre Graphics of the boards decision to provide funding of $3,000 and request an invoice. ...

• 2011-03-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...importance of updating contributor agreements in the bug tracker as a building block toward utilizing electronic contributor agreements sometime in the near future. J. Noller: "I am following up on electronic contributor agreements per the PyCon discussions (the language summit) with Van Lindberg and Jacob Kaplan moss. When I have more information and a fully fledged plan, I will send it to the board. I have requirements from the summit, and Guido/others." S. Holden: "That would b...

• 2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...importing the PSF database from MatrixMaxx into CiviCRM where the Honorary Associate Membership data will reside. However, there is be more work to be done in order to get the site up and running According to Andrew, before the site is up and running, it will need a top page, for example: "We need to implement a top page for the site, set up the associate-member pages, and then turn off 'Site is offline'."" 5.3   Infrastructure Committee S. Reifschneider, Infrast...

• 2012-03-26 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...important. What could happen to make http://python.org/community/ more welcoming / useful Need to propose a budget for this year Summarize what we've done so far in a report to the PSF at large Do quarterly reports to the PSF (Jessica will do this) Speaker exchange program ** This idea exists somewhere (people added themselves to a list saying they were happy to speak), so let's revive it. Revisit the user group organizer survey for more ideas What do user groups need money for: ** foo...

• PSF Community Service Awards

  ...important Python projects: Cython and lxml. Stefan forked off Pyrex and started Cython almost 11 years ago. Cython makes writing and maintain a C extension or C library bindings simple. It plays a vital role in the numeric and scientific community, too. Without Cython, Python 3 adoption would have taken much longer. Cython hides much of the Python 2 / 3 C-API differences from the developer. https://pypi.org/project/Cython/ lxml is the fastest and most feature rich XML parsing, transforming and q...

• 2009-07-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...importantly, as Steve has advocated, I think it would encourage more active involvement with Python and PSF activities." S. Holden: "...It [Associate Membership implementation] needs consideration so we are providing a package with some benefits to the members, and some financial gain to the Foundation. I suspect the hidden benefit might be to eventually enlarge the development community." D. Goodger: "I agree that it's worth exploring, probably worth doing..." S. Holden...

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