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  • Fiscal Sponsorees

    ...Python Association (BAPyA) BAPyA is a group of Python community organizers in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to supporting local gatherings to learn and discuss Python. Please consider supporting the BAPyA community with a contribution. Boston Python Boston Python is one of the world's largest local Python user groups. We have a presentation night and a project night almost every month, and run weekend workshops to introduce beginners to Python. Your donation helps keep the Python commu...

  • Release – Python 3.8.0a2

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    Released: Feb. 25, 2019

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.8 Major new features of the 3.8 series, compared to 3.7 Python 3.8 is still in development. This release, 3.8.0a2 is the second of four planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of …

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  • Matching Donations

    ...to double, or even triple, the impact of your gift. Contributions of any amount help us award grants and provide resources for furthering the development of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. Your employer may receive a tax deduction for contributions to the Python Software Foundation (PSF) (EIN 04-3594598) , which is a public charity classified as exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. How to donate and have your company match In a few simp...

  • Catalog Requirements

    ...to remote sites, in order to prevent disasters 2.3) It should be possible to mirror the catalog without too much trouble, using a conventional FTP or HTTP mirroring script. Requirements from #3 3.1) Users can check a signature on the downloaded package, using an external tool such as GnuPG. 3.2) Checking the signature is optional, and can be skipped if the external tool isn't available. (We could implement our own signature scheme with Python code, but that's a bad idea...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (June 11, 2002)

    ...how to spend it Future Python conferences 5. Conference committee Jeremy proposed a comittee to deal with the planning of official Python conferences, to allow for coordination between them. David offers to chair the committee and wil start preparing its formation. 6. Next board meeting Guido is on vacation from June 21 to July 8, and proposes to hold the next meeting on July 16th rather than the 9th. There are no objections. 7. Adjournment There being no furt...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (December 10, 2002)

    ...ton, Tim Peters, Guido van Rossum, Thomas Wouters, Marc-Andre Lemburg, Martin von Loewis. A quorum was present. 2. Meeting minutes of past IRC meetings Guido moved to approve the meeting minutes of November 12th. Motion passes with 2 abstentions and 4 ayes. 3. Secretary/Treasurer's report Hylton has sent out invoces to Strakt Holdings and Merfin LLC. The bank transfer from Sweden to US didn't work out right for Strakt due to routing problems. Hylton will get in touch with the the bank to so...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, October 11, 2005 (Draft)

    Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, October 11, 2005 (Draft) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors (Draft) October 11, 2005 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 17:15 UTC, 11 October 2005. Martin von Löwis presided at the meeting. 1   Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors w...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (November 9, 2004)

    ...tor holds, but opposed to requiring contributors to claim that there are no patents on their contribution. Martin explained that, as a result of that, only the Apache License, and the Academic Free License are real candidates for an initial license. He suggested that contributors might be surprised that they cannot contribute under the Python License, and proposed that this should be explained to contributors.Martin will circulate a draft motion to adopt the forms to the PSF members 5. Grants...

  • PSF Fundraiser for Q2 2021

    ...to under-represented Pythonistas Awarded $2,804,281 in grants for Python projects worldwide Provided PSF grants in 91 countries To see how much the PSF has grown, check out the PSF timeline below: You made this possible. You sustained this incredible community for more than twenty years. You helped us come this far. To continue this growth, we need your help raising $80,000 by June 12th. Your donation allows the PSF to continue to provide PyCon scholarships, grants...

  • Software Bill-of-Materials Information

    ...Python-3.12.2.tgz the SBOM document will be named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json. SBOM documents can be downloaded from the Python release page or can be downloaded using an HTTP client. Below is an example of downloading the SBOM document using curl: $ curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.2/Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json After downloading the SBOM document there should be a file named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json in your working directory. What's included in CPython's Software Bi...

  • Software Bill-of-Materials Information

    ...Python-3.12.2.tgz the SBOM document will be named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json. SBOM documents can be downloaded from the Python release page or can be downloaded using an HTTP client. Below is an example of downloading the SBOM document using curl: $ curl --remote-name https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.2/Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json After downloading the SBOM document there should be a file named Python-3.12.2.tgz.spdx.json in your working directory. What's included in CPython's Software Bi...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Mar. 12, 2002)

    ...to use for the revew. Jeremy indicates the plan was to use Zope Corporation's lawyer. The board agrees there is no conflict of interest in this particular case, but it is noted the choice of lawyer may be raised at later times, for other issues. Public Support Committee The Public Support Committee has been formed, but no members assigned yet. Marc-Andre is unclear on how to proceed; the exact regulations regarding committees, and how to determine howmany and ...

  • A Journey to Python

    ...to consult as a freelance Python specialist for a Swedish startup, and I took the opportunity, quitting my "safe job" and switching to freelance work, mostly but not exclusively for that Swedish company. It DID mean a lot of "commuting by plane", sigh, but it also gave me the opportunity to work almost exclusively in Python (and in C, coding extensions for Python). I also managed to offer some contributions to Python itself, and develop the gmpy project to offer advanced mu...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Python Software Foundation request the PyPI administrators to remove the package "slut" (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/slut) Approved, 6–4-1. 9   Other Business The board has decided to table indefinitely: RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation grant EUR 750 to the EuroPython Society for registering the EuroPython CTM trademark in order to protect the IP rights to the EuroPython conference series. The board of directors will come up with a new policy on how to ...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (June 14, 2005)

    ...to the PSF for each completed project, and Ascher wondered whether this money should be kept by the PSF or given to the project's mentor. After some discussion, the consensus was to offer the money to mentors but give them the option to let the PSF keep it; this way a mentor who wants the PSF to keep the money doesn't have to declare $500 of income. 5. Web site redesign status Tim Parkin is planning to unveil the new site design at EuroPython. Some discussion followed about the payment sche...

  • Recurring Giving Campaign

    ...python.org, uspycon.org, wiki.python.org) $2,000 = support for 2 regional conferences, impacting over 500 people $99 = 6 months of Python meetup subscriptions $60 a month ($2.00 a day) = one workshop, impacting over 250 people It's easy to donate Click here to make a one-time or recurring donation. If you’re an existing PSF Supporting Member and would like to make your support recurring, log into your account and click “Auto-Renewal”. If you’re an existing Supporting Member and would like t...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...to worry about the cost and bother of film and development. Nat's tastes are difficult to predict, so we might take pictures of a subject certain to please him, only to find that he has no interest in them at all. We wanted to be able to cast a wide net while taking pictures, to be certain to capture the images that would interest him. Once we had the camera, we took hundreds of pictures, and showed Nat how to look through them on the computer using an off-the-shelf image viewer called ThumbsP...

  • Python For Beginners

    ...how to get started with Python. Fortunately an experienced programmer in any programming language (whatever it may be) can pick up Python very quickly. It's also easy for beginners to use and learn, so jump in! Installing Installing Python is generally easy, and nowadays many Linux and UNIX distributions include a recent Python. Even some Windows computers (notably those from HP) now come with Python already installed. If you do need to install Python and aren't confident about the task you can...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (April 12, 2005)

    ...to dissolve the current committee, because he did not want that committee to have power over the conference. Kuchling proposed to reform the committee with himself, Nick Bastin, Mark Hertel, and Steve Holden as the members. There was discussion as to whether committee members need to be PSF members; the bylaws say that this is a requirement. The discussion concluded with an ACTION ITEM for Ascher to propose a motion to reform the committee. 5. Vacant Director's Position Deibel asked whether th...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (Feb. 12, 2002)

    ...ton volunteered to serve on the committee. The committee has to wait until a mission statement is approved, see agenda item 5. 3. Meet the new board Every director present greeted every other director present. 4. PSF website Guido van Rossum proposed to convert the website from Zope to CVS, and henceforth maintain it using the same CVS setup as the rest of python.org. This was approved unanimously. Van Rossum will try to do this today or tomorrow. He will also get Barry Warsaw and/...

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