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.

Search Python.org

Results

  • 2011-12-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what would then, hypothetically) be PSF trademarks. As far as reporting on new activities, however, he provided the following list of items: Mid December: Esri Press is currently developing a manuscript, Python Scripting for ArcGIS. They asked permission for a book cover design that I, as chair, initially thought was "inspired but not derived" from out logo. However, the opinion of other members was that it was a derived logo; I responded to Brian Harris <bharris@esri.com&g...

  • 2008-01-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what." The Board agreed to the proposal in principle, but details have to be worked out. K. Kaiser will research the tax implications of an awards program (both domestic & international recipients). S. Holden will refine the awards program proposal, for a vote at the next board meeting. 8   ILM Membership Regarding emeritus member Industrial Light & Magic, who applied for sponsor membership and were elected, but never paid their sponsor dues, S. Holden: I have be...

  • 2008-03-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...What we really need is a commitee with a budget, then the Board doesn't need to do more voting on this." S. Holden suggested that we call for committee members at the upcoming members' meeting. M. von Löwis agreed, noting "we need to get the members involved in that activity in particular." RESOLVED, that $2000 will be made available for issuing awards to the following Python community members for their dedication to Python through volunteerism: Peter Kropf, for work on job bo...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...What I really needed was a Python API to quickly generate nicely typeset copy in Word 97 for a limited set of documents, but in 2001 there was nothing available to do this. My only alternative was to find an open standard for typesetting that could be translated into Word 97 format after documents had been generated. Shopping for a Standard To find a solution, I spent some time surveying available open source typesetting solutions. The two most popular are TeX and DocBook, both of which are su...

  • 2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...What are the requirements for membership? Past and expected future contributions to the Python codebase and to the Python community; visibility in the community; attitude toward Python's IP. The existence of the new Membership FAQ was pointed out. Nomination should not merely be a reflection of appreciation. Emeritus membership. New category of membership to show appreciation: associate member? The consensus was no; appreciation should be shown on the website. After discussion, all proposed...

  • 2008-04-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what else the PSF could do". Status: done. Section 4, Discussion: D. Goodger will inform the new members of their election, and invite them to join the psf-members list. Status: done. 4   PSF Logo D. Goodger reported that we have a candidate logo from Marc-André Lemburg, plus his own variations on the the Python logo (with various "PSF" text layouts). Goodger asked if we want a new logo for the PSF, or is the Python logo sufficient? The Board agreed to put t...

  • 2008-11-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes (Draft)

    ...what action, if any, to take. Approved 7-0-0. J. Tauber will update the PSF committees page with Trademarks Committee information. 6   PyCon S. Holden: "I spent a day looking at sites in Atlanta and have reported back to David." D. Goodger will forward the report to the pycon-select mailing list. 7   Support Request from ZPUGDC Plone Conference The PSF received a request for support for the Plone Conference, held in October, after the fact. The ...

  • 2011-07-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what would then, hypothetically) be PSF trademarks. Committee members have opined both directions on whether this would assuage dilution concern, but we really need legal advice. Unfortunately, Van hasn't found time to develop an answer to this. As far as reporting on new activities, however, he provided the following list: - Finished resolving question from Ahmad Sofyan about Indonesian domain names that include the term 'Python'. I let him know we were OK to authorize it...

  • 2013-07-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what its benefits are in a professional and educational setting. Please see this wiki page for more information on the effort: https://wiki.python.org/psf/PSF%20Python%20Brochure Progress Nothing much new to report. We're still in the process of selling ad spaces to get the finances all setup for going to print. Meanwhile, I'm collection new leads for success stories for a second edition. If you are interested in signing up as reference sponsor or know someone who might be interested, please...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...what risky proposition. At v0.7 it was still relatively young, and had an extremely low profile. The acquisition of IronPython by Microsoft also raised uncertainties about the project's future, should it be deemed contrary to Microsoft's strategy. However, our initial experiments with IronPython went well. It turned out to be trivially easy to create a GUI using the excellent design tool in Visual Studio, then inherit from these classes in Python code and implement all behaviour in Python, in th...

  • 2008-08-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what outdated list. 7   Funding pyArkansas Greg Lindstrom send a request for funding for PyArkansas, a new event to take place on October 4, organized by the Python Artists of Arkansas (PyAR^2). RESOLVED, that the PSF provide a $300 grant to PyArkansas. Approved 7-0-0. S. Holden will inform PyArkansas of their sponsorship grant, and request an invoice. 8   PyCon 2010 Venue D. Goodger reported that there are RFP replies from several hotels & conference cente...

  • 2008-09-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what is proposed", and recommended that we should complete this in under 40 days. The Board agreed to use the candidate design, at least for now. In the future, we can always switch the design. 11   Progress Report: PyCon D. Goodger noted that there is progress on the 2009 web site, and there should be "call for proposals" announcements soon. 12   Sponsorship Policy R. Hettinger asked: With respect to a policy for sponsorships, is everyone...

  • PSF Community Service Awards

    ...What's New" documentation <http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/index.html> for new releases of Python. The Python Software Foundation is pleased to recognize Andrew's contributions to the community. October 2010 The following award was announced on November 03, 2010 in a PSF blog article: Michael Foord was awarded in recognition of his incredible work in promoting Python everywhere he could. Michael is active on IRC channels, mailing lists, conferences, sprints and similar events....

  • 2013-02-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what its benefits are in a professional and educational setting. 11.1   Summary The project is led by Marc-André Lemburg who is in contact with the people behind the Plone brochure created by the German Zope User Group (DZUG): Jan Ulrich Hasecke and Armin Stroß-Radschinski. We started working on the concept a few weeks after World Plone Day in April 2010 and had several meetings and conference calls to take the idea forward. The project has been running for more than two years no...

  • 2008-12-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what the members discussion is for. They may or may not object and if they object then obviously we need to take that into account. Further discussion was deferred to email. 7   Introduction & Support for OBOOE Martijn Faassen introduced Xavier Heymans (CEO, Zea Partners) to us. Xavier is forming OBOOE, the European Federation of the Open Source Industry: Our goal is to develop collaboration with existing organizations and fill the gap in business advocacy and economical ...

  • 2009-02-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what makes for a PSF member." D. Goodger noted that there are documented criteria. S. Holden: "The IP needs protection, but creation and protection are two entirely separate issues. I see one of the purposes of the Foundation as removing crap from developers' lives so they can get on with the task of creating the IP ..." R. Hettinger: "The criteria seems to be anyone can nominate anyone and it seems to just get approved." M. von Löwis: "I think it's not the nominati...

  • 2009-12-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...What about a matching funds approach here also?" S. Holden: "So should we suggest that we solicit contributions for this effort? We could run it as an experimental try at "fiscal sponsorship." T. Peters: "I would definitely like to fund the first part: designing the new APIs and developing validation tests." RESOLVED, that the PSF offer a seed funding grant of $4,000 to David R. Murray to initiate the development of the email module (described in http://www.bitdan...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...What's New in Python" series, published for each version of Python since 2.0. Since receiving the Frank Willison Award, Andrew has served on the PSF Board of Directors and he co-chaired the 2006 & 2007 PyCon community conferences in Dallas, Texas. Andrew is now operating a consulting firm, Green Dragonfly LLC. Andrew's article about the award O'Reilly press release Andrew's homepage

  • 2009-04-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what the money would be spent on. ... Specific would be "food", "clothing", "travel", "awards", etc. In effect, I want a high-level budget from him, so I have some idea where the PSF's money is going." [56] S. Holden will request a reformulated proposal for NiceTime. 11   PSF Prepayment and Reimbursement of Meetup.com Fees J. Rush presented a proposal to reimburse user group organizers for fees paid to Meetup.com in the past year, ...

  • Towards a Standard Parser Generator

    ...what time-consuming. Thus, a single hand-written scanner would simplify adjustment to various parser generators. On the other hand, it introduced another requirement on parsers being evaluated: They need to interoperate with a hand-written scanner. Semantic Actions Since the ultimate objective of this project was to incorporate 4XPath into PyXML, the existing XPath evaluation library of 4XPath had to be re-used, if possible as-is. That turned out to be quite feasible: The 4XPath BisonG...

Python language documentation

If you didn't find what you need, try your search in the Python language documentation.