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Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (September 13, 2005) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors September 13, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 UTC, September 13, 2005. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1 Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present from the...
...events, publicly promoting Python, and teaching and coordinating others. Nominated Person's efforts have shown leadership and resulted in long-lasting and substantial gains in the 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...
...events." 5.5 Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront The project leader, M.A. Lemburg, Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront, reported progress on this project for the month: "No one on the team has had time to work on the project in the last 4 weeks. By shutting down the EC2 instance, we have reduced the monthly costs to USD 4.01, which is significantly down from the USD 70-80 we had to pay with the EC2 instance up and running for a whole month." In terms of having any iss...
...events." 5.4 Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront The project leader, M.A. Lemburg, Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront, reported on progress for the month: "The project is currently on hold, since the team members don't have time to put into this." In terms of having any issues surrounding his project, M. A. Lemburg reported no issues except one: he said, he just does not have enough time to devote to his Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront project. Lemburg also report...
...events." 5.5 Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront The project leader, M.A. Lemburg, Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront, reported progress on this project for the month: "The project is currently on hold, since the team members don't have time to put into this. If anyone wants to join, please let me know. In order to save hosting costs, we have shut down the EC2 instance we've been using, so we're now just paying for the PyPI data storage, which is about USD 12-13 per month...
...events" to future agenda [D. Goodger]. Status: carried forward. Originally from October 2005, Section 7, Reserve Funds: K. Kaiser will send a reserve fund investment proposal to the PSF-board mailing list. Status: carried forward. Originally from November 2005, Section 8, Trademark Policy: D. Ascher will probably work with ActiveState's legal person on trademark policy. Status: carried forward. 3.4 New in December The following action items originated with the Decembe...
...events" to future agenda [D. Goodger]. Status: carried forward. Originally from November 2005, follow-up from December 2005: D. Goodger is to contact a potential PSF sponsor/donor. Status: carried forward. Originally from November 2005, follow-up from December 2005: S. Holden is to contact a potential PSF sponsor/donor. Status: carried forward. Originally from November 2005, Section 8, Trademark Policy: S. Deibel to work on the PSF trademark policy, and discuss with Milind Shaw. Status: ...
...events" to future agenda [D. Goodger]. Status: carried forward. Originally from October 2005, Section 7, Reserve Funds: K. Kaiser will send a reserve fund investment proposal to the PSF-board mailing list. Status: carried forward. The following action items originated with the November 2005 meeting, as highlighted in the minutes: Section 4, Python.org Redesign: To do [S. Holden]: get the new production system to run on Mac OS X; detail which parts of the current content have been trans...
2007-05-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 14, 2007 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:02 UTC, 14 May 2007. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 Status of Past...
...events." 5.6 Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront The project leader, M.A. Lemburg, Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront, reported progress on this project for the month: "We have setup the Amazon account for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and enabled S3 and CloudFront. Since we don't want to get into issues with respect to the PyPI content being subject to US regulations, we will be using the European facilities of Amazon in Ireland for hosting the data. The current PyPI product...
Python Software Foundation: Vendor Policies Introduction Employee vs contractor Purpose Factors Form SS-8 Vendor Definition Invoices Invoice Contents Invoice Example Payment Terms Approval Process OFAC Sanctioned Countries Vendor Tax Documents Tax Withholding Domestic Individuals and Organizations Tax Withholding Form 1099 Foreign Individuals and Organizations Tax Withholding United States-Foreign Country Tax Treaties US Tax Identification Numbers Obtaining a US ITI...
...events to manipulate the application's GUI, and then asserting the existence and content of various GUI components like windows and textboxes, to provide automated assurance of end-to-end functionality. Test-Driven Development Dynamic languages like Python complement automated testing, by allowing the patching of modules, classes, methods or attributes with arbitrary objects at runtime. This allows tests to easily eliminate dependencies of the code under test, and thus concentrating on testing...
2008-08-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors August 11, 2008 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 11 August 2008. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 Status of ...
2008-09-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors September 8, 2008 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:03 UTC, 8 September 2008. David Goodger presided at the meeting (in Steve Holden's absence) and prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 &...
...events in order to help spread the word about the Python." G. Stein: "I'd suggest making this the responsibility of the Communications Officer." This discussion was deferred to email. 19 Adjournment S. Holden adjourned the meeting at 17:28 UTC.
Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation Written by Stephan Deibel, Chairman of the Board, Python Software Foundation. A version of this article was originally published in The Python Papers volume 2, issue 4. Last updated March 2008 Introduction “The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers.” The Python Software Foundatio...
Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation Written by Stephan Deibel, Chairman of the Board, Python Software Foundation. A version of this article was originally published in The Python Papers volume 2, issue 4. Last updated March 2008 Introduction “The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers.” The Python Soft...
Python Success Stories First published in Linux Journal, May 2000. Copyright 2000 Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction My first look at Python was an accident, and I didn't much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz's book Programming Python from O'Reilly & Associates had recently come out. O'Reilly books occasionally land on my doorstep, selected from among the new releases by some mysterious benefactor inside the organization u...
2009-04-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors April 13, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:02 UTC, 13 April 2009. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 Votes Taken ...
...events. Summary of informal offer to David Goodger: A one-year contract renewal at the same rate as currently being paid, contingent upon: A requirement to document both the PyCon Chair and the Board Secretary roles completely by the end of July 2009. A requirement to complete an approved Time Management course of at least a week's duration by the end of August 2009. Resignation of Board Directorship and position as Board Secretary to avoid any conflict of interest. The Board reached an info...
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