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  • PSF Fellow Membership

    ...excellence, 2) is an example of software engineering principles and best practices, and 3) has achieved widespread usage or acclaim. For those who have served the Python community by coordinating, organizing, teaching, writing, and evangelizing, the following statement should be true: Nominated Person has served the Python community through extraordinary efforts in organizing Python events, publicly promoting Python, and teaching and coordinating others. Nominated Person's efforts have shown l...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...excellent control in the application domain for which they were intended, and (almost) no freedom in unanticipated areas. For example, HTML has no inherent ability for conditional inclusion of text, or for variable expansion. (The fact that such features have been added many times as incompatible extensions merely proves this point.) General languages, on the other hand, usually aren't as good in any particular domain. For example, it is much harder to write a program in a general languag...

  • 2007 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes

    ...excellent results. Ideas & comments that arose during the discussion: Thomas Wouters: Should we have a lower fee, and take a loss? Travis Vaught: Spend more on financial aid / scholarships? Steve Holden: Increase sponsorship fees? Ka-Ping Yee: Lower the student rate? David Goodger: The financial aid program should start earlier, and end prior to the end of early-bird registration. Neal Norwitz: We should mention financial aid in the call for proposals. Moshe Zadka: Free registration for spe...

  • 2008-06-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...excellent reason. "It really complicates the accounting and the IRS 990." 8   SciPy Support S. Deibel noted that we have a concrete proposal for the SciPy conference, requesting $10K to sponsor 10 students to attend. "I'm assuming this would just be a sponsorship we pay to them and they would deal with the details." The amount was discussed; some thought the request excessive comparable to other conferences. D. Goodger noted that for PyCon 2008, the PSF ef...

  • 2009-08-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...excellent results involving PyCon and the hotel attrition charges. Status: done. [78] Originally from 08 June 2009, Section 13, Frank Willison Award Nominations: S. Holden will communicate the results of the Frank Willison Award nomination to G. v. Rossum and O'Reilly. Status: done. 4.2   New On 13 July These action items originated at the 13 July 2009 Board meeting on IRC. [79], Section 7, Appointment of a Chairperson for PyCon 2010: D. Goodger will update the website to re...

  • 2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...excellent results involving PyCon and the hotel attrition charges. 15   Adjournment S. Holden adjourned the meeting at 17:05 UTC.

  • 2011-09-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...excellent position financially. I continue to drive hard on sponsorship; and I have at least an addition 10 sponsors pending. I am driving hard on getting fresh leads for potential sponsors. 2. The budget was approved in its current form; and we continue to update the current position(s) as required. Our current outlook is extremely positive solely based on the sponsor revenue. A note on the current level will be sent to the private board list. 3. The call for proposals was issued, has been unde...

  • 2011-11-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...excellent progress. Negotiations between PyCon and O'Reilly and Pearson are complete. Jesse also listed a new activity for the month. Please see below: Get solid quotes on t-shirt costs. The last two PyCon US items reported on by Jesse were the "planned for next month" where he listed six(6) items and included a list of the "current Heads/Staff for PyCon 2012." [see above] 1. Continue sponsor drive. 2. Continue to push hard to get the program committee work completed. ...

  • 2009-07-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...excellent results involving PyCon and the hotel attrition charges. Status: done [78], Section 13, Frank Willison Award Nominations: S. Holden will communicate the results of the Frank Willison Award nomination to G. v. Rossum and O'Reilly. Status: done 4.3   New Between Meetings No action items were added since the last Board meeting on 8 June. 5   Conference Coordinator Position D. Goodger: "I formally accept the position of Conference Coordinator, and...

  • 2012-12-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Excellent sponsor testimonial from Walt Disney Animation: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/12/why-become-pycon-sponsor-sponsors.html PyPgDay Announced: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/12/announcing-pypgday-at-pycon-us-2013.html We have partnered with NumFOCUS and Continuum Analytics to run PyData SV alongside our sprints: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/11/pycon-us-2012-big-data-how-about-pydata.html We have announced a 6th talk track: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2012/11/pycon-us-2013-how-many-talk-tr...

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