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  • 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    ...what outdated list. 7   Funding pyArkansas Greg Lindstrom send a request for funding for PyArkansas, a new event to take place on October 4, organized by the Python Artists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...

  • Work Groups of the Python Software Foundation

    ...what action, if any, to take. Inactive Committees & Work Groups Scientific Python Work Group Formed:April 2015 Mailing List:scientific at python.org This working group shall draw on the expertise of both the PSF and NumFOCUS, and on the broader scientific Python community in general, to select the best use of its budgeted funds to advance the scope, breadth, and utility of Python for scientific work. In essence, the purpose of the group is to grant funds allocated to it by PSF a...

  • 2009-09-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...What progress on MatrixMaxx?" A. Kuchling: "Nothing on MatrixMaxx. I'm blocked due to various internal issues (new servers, preparing for this month's 9.3 release, etc.)." Further discussion on this topic was deferred to the next Board meeting on 12 October 2009. 7   Sponsor Membership Levels S. Holden: "We had a discussion on the mailing list of sponsor membership levels, but nothing was concluded. There seem to be two camps, one a "compute fees accordi...

  • 2010-02-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what next? Analyze which files aren't covered? Add an assignment flag to PyPI? I've started on a patch for that. Put this flag in MatrixMaxx? I'd like to see this task through, even though I won't be on the board." S. Holden: "Thank you for that." T. Peters: "100% coverage is the goal, right?" S. Holden: "I think we probably want a continual push to increase coverage." T. Peters: "The next step is to get closer to 100%." 10  ...

  • 2010-03-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what we gave for PyOhio or PyAR." D. Mertz: "Given the estimated attendance of 150, I think the Gold level is not merited." R. Hettinger: "10K would help that conference get off the ground and become a recurring event." S. Holden: "Do we have any evidence that Python national conferences are in danger of not becoming recurring events?" J. Rush: "Their success will be as much of volunteer support as monetary." RESOLVED, that the PSF grant AU$2,500 to ...

  • 2011-11-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what are we as a board going to do with the extra funds?" J. Noller: "I plan on proposing to the board we continue on our path: outreach, education, conference funding, etc. There's also the proposed revamp of python.org and it's properties." M.v Löwis: "I think the PyCon sponsorship should be spent on PyCon." S. Holden: "I'd certainly suggest an increase in the sprints budget, and possibly an increase in the maximum award. That seems to have got help to people writ...

  • 2012-01-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what to make them fit the available pages. We will likely have to shorten the stories some more or postpone a few stories to the next edition. Meanwhile, we're still getting new success stories - which is good, since we are actively collecting them in our tracker with the aim of putting them online after the first edition has been released and plan on using them for the second edition. If you know possible sponsors or are interested in sponsoring the brochure yourself, please check the available...

  • 2012-05-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...what we learned from 2012, and I am ramping up sponsorship discussions for 2013 behind the scenes. Until the books are closed for 2012 I am not comfortable with moving forward on 2013. I have a larger blog post planned to discuss the conference overall - with over 2300 attendees, the conference was a wild success by any measure and feedback has been positive modulo complaints about the food." 5.5   Sprint Committee (SC) J. Noller &/or B. Curtin, Sprint Committee Chair,...

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