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• 2007-02-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...closes on Friday February 16. Everything seems to be well in hand: T-shirts done, tote bags done, publications ready for printing, open space items being added. D. Goodger reported that PyCon is doing well financially: we're looking at a profit instead of a loss. D. Goodger also reported that there are two probable bids for 2008 (nothing formal yet): Chicago & San Francisco. 6   Advice on the "PyCamp" Name Jeff Rush sent the Board email asking for advice regardin...

• 2013-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...close the books. PyCon Site Visits Worked on site visit for Diana to visit the Palais. Has to reschedule it for July since the Palais is not available until then. PyCon Sponsors Nothing to report for April PyCon Website Management Helped collect the data for the 2014 website RFP, which is now complete and being circulated. 5.2   Administrator Report Board Agenda / Minutes I continue to write up the Board Agenda and keep it up to date. I continue to write ...

• EDU-SIG: Python in Education

  ...close to one hundred books that have been written about Python programming. Here, we will focus only on a subset that are of potential interest for educators who teach introductory courses in programming. More books can be found here and here, or by doing an internet search. For children, young and old: Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Michael Dawson was one of the first books written for this audience and remains one of the most popular. Hello World! Computer Programming for Ki...

• Python Software Foundation Board Meeting Minutes 2006-03-13

  ...closely than that. D. Ascher: "I don't think we should make a profit, but we should be wary of running big losses"; there was general agreement with this statement. D. Ascher observed that the move out of DC was because we were running out of room at GWU, and we haven't grown, making the move apparently pointless. S. Holden noted that the 2006 event showed the advantages of a hotel venue, even though it's more expensive; D. Ascher was not convinced. S. Holden and D. Goodger noted tha...

• 2007-06-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...closed, and there is no need for further payments. 5.3   Advocacy S. Deibel reported that the Advocacy Coordinator status is at http://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvocacyAccomplishments 5.4   EuroPython A. Kuchling informed the Board that Laura Creighton has been elected the chairman of the EuroPython Society, replacing Michael Hudson, the previous chairman. Kuchling also reported that Laura Creighton asked him two questions: Is the $5000 PSF sponsorship for travel ...

• Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, January 10, 2006

  Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, January 10, 2006 The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors January 10, 2006 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 18:00 UTC, 10 January 2006. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the mee...

• IDLE and tkinter with Tcl/Tk on macOS

  ...closely related and are normally installed or updated simultaneously. You should not attempt to mix-and-match Tcl and Tk versions. References to a specific version of Tk assume the corresponding version of Tcl is installed as well. The Python for macOS installers downloaded from this website dynamically link at runtime to Tcl/Tk macOS frameworks. The Tcl/Tk major version is determined when the installer is created and cannot be overridden. All current python.org installers link to their own ...

• Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.3

  ...closely match the standard Python provided by Red Hat. <ul> <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.2.3/rpms/redhat-9/python-2.2.3-26.i386.rpm">python-2.2.3-26.i386.rpm</a> (Red Hat 9 base RPM, 5530686 bytes) <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.2.3/rpms/redhat-9/python-devel-2.2.3-26.i386.rpm">python-devel-2.2.3-26.i386.rpm</a> (Red Hat 9 development RPM, 1172632 bytes) <li /><a href="/ftp/python/2.2.3/rpms/redhat-9/python-docs-2.2.3-26....

• 2009-07-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...closed-source product/project." A. Kuchling: "...The lack of open-sourceness is a concern. Also conflict of interest issues for me. But I'm hoping the PSF wouldn't be paying anything at all." S. Holden: "...I'd need to see some fairly detailed specifications." M. von Löwis: "How much effort would it be to setup a small demo installation?" [86] A. Kuchling will provide an overview of the software, MatrixMaxx 9.2 and provide an on-line demo to PSF board memb...

• Python Success Stories

  ...close to reinventing the concept of markup languages, by adapting direct PythonCOM-to-Word interfaces from Mark Hammond's book Python Programming on Win32, that I decided there had be a better way to do this from a design and maintenance standpoint. A Web search provided me with a crash course on markup languages such as XML, HTML, and SGML. My search also provided insight into DocBook SGML, a popular open standard, and OpenJade, an open source package that can translate DocBook SGML into Word R...

• 2010-12-20 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...close. The treasurer's focus for the beginning of the year 2011 starts out with PSF Sponsor Member invoices: "My focus is currently on PSF Sponsor Member invoices, AR and AP reduction, and implementation of the financial aspects of the Associate Member program. With respect to the latter, I've begun setting up a new PayFlow Pro account using our new processor, since MatrixMaxx can't interface to our existing PayFlow account." 5   Progress Report The following board rep...

• 2011-01-24 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...close call, but I'm glad that such projects can finally be undertaken with the PSF. We are currently preparing the paperwork to get the contractual side setup and have in parallel started work on the content." As far as future plans are concerned for his marketing materials project, he reported: "If the project goes well, we'll follow up with a Python flyer, translated versions of the brochure and also consider creating marketing material more targeted at specific user groups or applic...

• 2012-12-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...closer to the event, I am sending new data as it comes. I will continue this until the expo hall is full/closed. I have sent information to the Sponsors regarding the Auction at PyCon 2013. So far I have only received two responses. After the holidays I will ping them again. We need to create more interest for this event, otherwise it will not be successful. I have begun to draft a holiday letter to the sponsors that Jesse will be sending out. I am urging Sponsors to have their registrations in ...

• What's New In Python 3.0

  ...close() method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The FileIO object also got a new readonly attribute closefd. Issue #3626: On cygwin, starting python with a non-existent script name would not display anything if the file name is only 1 character long. Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which __reduce__ method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items. Issue #3723: Fixed initializati...

• 2008-06-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...closed to the public but open to all members; anything Board-specific could be handled by access control lists). Further discussion was deferred. 15   Adjournment S. Deibel adjourned the meeting at 17:03 UTC.

• Notes

  ...Closes bug #1039270. Updates for the email package: email.Utils.formatdate() grew a 'usegmt' argument for HTTP support. All deprecated APIs that in email 2.x issued warnings have been removed: _encoder argument to the MIMEText constructor, Message.add_payload(), Utils.dump_address_pair(), Utils.decode(), Utils.encode() New deprecations: Generator.__call__(), Message.get_type(), Message.get_main_type(), Message.get_subtype(), the 'strict' argument to the Parser constructor. These will be removed...

• Notes

  ...closed. Fixed a bug in this bugfix where flush() was called for a read-only file. imputil: added an uninstall() method to the ImportManager. Canvas: fixed bugs in lower() and tkraise() methods. SocketServer: API change (added overridable close_request() method) so that the TCP server can explicitly close the request. pstats: Eric Raymond added a simple interactive statistics browser, invoked when the module is run as a script. locale: fixed a problem in format(). webbrowser: made it work when t...

• Linux RPMs for Python 2.2.1

  ...close enough" to work (or worse yet, install their own copies of those libraries), the RPM system will track this and warn you of a possible problem. <p /> The best solution to this is to build a set of binary RPMs which are custom tailored to your system... It's easy. See the related question on <a href="#FAQ-build">how to build binary RPMs</a>. <!-- <hr /> <li />Q) <li />A) System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 285) Definiti...

• 2009-04-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...closely monitored by Meetup. D. Goodger asked about obtaining an umbrella group discount. J. Rush: "I'm still talking with meetup.com; they don't make it easy to sponsor groups of groups. Been pushing them for years." A. Kuchling: "Is there some criteria we should set for reimbursement? E.g. meetings of a certain size/frequency." D. Goodger agreed S. Holden: "We could have criteria for continued funding, but at $50 per group per year we don't want to over-administer t...

• 2009-09-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...closely tied to the previous agenda item, the Board has decided to place it on hold until a consensus has been reached on the new break-down of sponsor membership levels. 9   Modify PSF Opening Mission Statement S. Holden: "You'll be aware that there's a "diversity statement" in preparation. The mission statement tweak is an acknowledgement that we want a diverse community." RESOLVED, that the PSF Mission Statement be modified to read "The mission of th...

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