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  • 2013-06-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and marking them in bug tracker. Going through all of the backlog from PyCon. Documentation Upkeep and Wiki created the charter for the Bylaw WG and also the interaction sheet for future charters. Other Conferences Please see the Event Coordinator Report for the detail. 5.3   Outreach and Education Report Awards $767.27 for an introduction to Python Workshop at the 2013 American Library Association annual conference, led by Andromeda Yelton. $300 for a women's ...

  • Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers.” The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the non-profit legal entity that holds and protects the intellectual property rights behind Python, keeping it free and open for all to use. The PSF also contributes to the Python community by underwriting or sponsoring conferences, funding grants and special projects, and leading volunteer efforts. Everyone that prog...

  • 2011-10-17 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and leave Gold and Silver and FOSS open. Financial updates will be sent to the private board list. 3. CTE negotiations and discussions have completed. We are now entering the registration implementation phase. Room commission rate negotiations with the Hyatt are done. 5. The on-site visit with the Hyatt and the Convention center are complete. The space looks amazing and the staff has been exceedingly friendly and polite. 6. The call for proposals for PyCon 2012 has closed - We broke all reco...

  • 2011-11-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and Doug N. Idan Gazit has been tapped to do the artwork for the Program Guide and T-Shirts. Work on this progresses slowly. Negotiations with Elegant Stitches are ongoing. The Program Committee is going full steam - due to the sheer number of proposals and the amount of work required, they are missing the original delivery dates however, and are adjusting as best they can. Tutorial selection/discussion is ongoing, and making excellent progress. Negotiations between PyCon and O'Reilly and Pearso...

  • 2011-12-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Andre Lemburg [arrived at 12:14], Martin von Löwis, David Mertz [arrived at 1:08], Jesse Noller, Tim Peters, Jeff Rush, and Gloria Willadsen. Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer) and Pat Campbell (Secretary/Administrator). 2   Minutes of Past Meetings The 21 November 2011 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved. RESOLVED, the minutes at http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board /2011-November/015898.html be accepted as a true and accurate record Appro...

  • Absentee Ballot - 2008-03-14 PSF Members' Meeting

    ...andidates for the Board of Directors (8 slots). To be elected, a candidate must receive more "Yes" votes than "No" votes. Please vote to accept as Director (check one of "Yes", "No", or "Abstain" for each candidate): Nominee Yes No Abstain Brett Cannon       Stephan Deibel       David Goodger       Raymond Hettinger       Steve Holden       Martin von Löwi...

  • Notes

    ...andom.py is now self-contained, and offers all the functionality of the now-deprecated whrandom.py. See the docs for details. random.py also supports new functions getstate() and setstate(), for saving and restoring the internal state of the generator; and jumpahead(n), for quickly forcing the internal state to be the same as if n calls to random() had been made. The latter is particularly useful for multi- threaded programs, creating one instance of the random.Random() class for each thread,...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Feb. 2002 Member Meeting

    ...Andre Lemburg circulated a draft contributor agreement in January. The PSF intends to have each contributor to the Python CVS repository sign the agreement and have it apply to all checkins. <p>The agreement was discussed at length, and compared the the Zope and Mozilla agreements. Paul Everitt described the Zope agreement as a joint ownership model: The committer and the PSF each receive one-half interest of the copyright and intellectual property of any checkin. <p>The members d...

  • 2013-03-29 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and Andrew Kuchling (Jessica and Andrew joined for the last item the board voted on). Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer) and Ewa Jodlowska (Secretary/Administrator). 2   Minutes of Past Meetings The 05 March 2013 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved. RESOLVED: that the PSF approve the minutes at http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2013-March/021427.html as representing a true and accurate record of the March 05 2013 meeting. Approved, 8-0-0...

  • Python Special Interest Groups

    ...ander Belopolsky Discussions related to date and time archive, subscribe db-sig Andy Todd Databases archive, subscribe distutils-sig A.M. Kuchling Packaging and build tools. archive, subscribe doc-sig Fred Drake Documentation archive, subscribe edu-sig Timothy Wilson Python in Education archive, subscribe email-sig Barry Warsaw email package SIG archive, subscribe i18n-sig Andy Robinson Internationalization archive, subscribe image-sig Fredrik Lundh Image Processing archive, subscribe im...

  • Proxy Form - 2008-03-14 PSF Members' Meeting

    ...andidates for the Board of Directors (8 slots). To be elected, a candidate must receive more "Yes" votes than "No" votes. Please vote to accept as Director (check one of "Yes", "No", or "Abstain" for each candidate): Nominee Yes No Abstain Brett Cannon       Stephan Deibel       David Goodger       Raymond Hettinger       Steve Holden       Martin von Löwi...

  • 2009-12-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and Jeff Rush. Also in attendance were David Goodger (Secretary), Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer), and Pat Campbell (Administrator). 2   Minutes of Past Meetings No action was taken at this meeting. 3   Votes Taken Between Meetings There were no votes taken since the last Board meeting on 14 December. 4   Status of Past Action Items See the minutes of December 14, 2009. 5   PSF Budget for 2010 K. Kaiser: "We are all agreed, I thin...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...and as a member of the Python Steering Council. Audrey Roy Greenfeld and Daniel Roy Greenfeld (2018) Audrey and Daniel were honored for their contributions to the development of Python and the global Python community through their speaking, teaching, and writing. Katie Cunningham and Barbara Shaurette (2017) The Python Software Foundation has awarded the 2017 Frank Willison Award to Katie Cunningham and Barbara Shaurette in recognition of their work to create and run their Young Coders class...

  • 2011-04-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Andre Lemburg , David Mertz, Doug Napoleone, Jesse Noller, Allison Randal, Jeff Rush, Greg Stein, Martin von Loewis, and Gloria Willadsen. Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer), and Pat Campbell (Secretary & Administrator). 2   Minutes of Past Meetings The 21 March 2011 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved. Approved, 10-0-1. 3   Votes Taken Between Meetings There were no votes taken since the last Board meeting held on 21 March 2011. ...

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

    ...and Greg Stein and ask about their attendance at PyCon and possible BoF participation. Status: done (they didn't attend PyCon). 3.4   New in February Section 3.3.2, Status of Past Action Items, Carried Forward: (re: Grants Committee) M. von Lรถwis will ask Brian Zimmer to send an invoice for the part of the Jython grant that goes to him. M. von Lรถwis reports that "Brian has sent and invoice, and I approved payment. Not sure whether payment happened." Status: done....

  • What's new in Python 2.3

    ...times() into repeat(), and addition of chain() and cycle().) logging - a flexible, configurable logging package based on log4j and our own PEP 282; written by Vinay Sajip. (New in 2.3a2: warn/WARN renamed to warning/WARNING; logging module actually included in the Windows installer.) optparse - a powerful command line option parser, by Greg Ward (based on his Optik package). ossaudiodev - an interface to OSS (Open Sound System), the standard audio API for Linux and some BSD flavors. Code by...

  • 2007-05-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Andrew Kuchling has a couple of photos up on his site and on Flickr, and I'd like to get photos of the other recipients too. Betsy Waliszewski sent a 2006 certificate to Alex Martelli. I informed Anna that it would be arriving. She intercepted it, noticed that the wording was strange ("for his outstanding contribution to the python community in 2006"), and asked Betsy to redo it (remove "in 2006", and add the date separately). A revised certificate has been received and pr...

  • 2012-02-27 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...and revenue will move to the P&L and our assets and liabilities will return to normal levels. He reported on the revenue and expense below: Revenue: In the month of January, YTD income was down by 2K. Donations for the month were $1075. Expense: Grants: Portland Python Meetup.com 72 Outside Services: Wendroff 1,150 The treasurer goes on to say: AR is up by 86K due to PyCon 2012 Sponsor and PSF Sponsor invoicing and collection activity. We opened ...

  • ...andidates stepping forward, in addition to the 8 incumbents. We have a total of 12 candidates for Director this year, but currently the Board is limited to 8 Directors. As Tim Peters put it, "the bigger the board, the more gets done." This motion aims to increase the limit on the number of Directors going forward. We learned in the past that it's better to expand the Board than to miss out on offers of help. This does not mean that all candidates for Director will automatically be e...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, February 14, 2006

    ...and Greg Stein and ask about their attendance at PyCon and possible BoF participation. Status: carried forward. Originally from December 2005, Section 7, PSF BoF Sessions: M. von Löwis agreed to see if the grant recipients (Greg Wilson, Brian Zimmer, and/or Ilya Etingof) will be at PyCon, and ask them to report on what they've done. Status: done. M. von Löwis reported that all of the grant recipients were asked, and all said they would be unable to attend PyCon. A post to the PSF blog was sugg...

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