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  • Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...cost developer-focused Python conference called PyCon. This conference format proved to be quite successful and the conference has experienced substantial growth in size and offerings each year. The original PyCon conference is held in North America. In 2007, PyCon-style conferences were added in Italy, the UK and Brasil. The PSF has been closely involved with the North American PyCon since its creation. It provides the financial backing that is necessary to plan and run the conference, and has ...

  • Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    ...cost developer-focused Python conference called PyCon. This conference format proved to be quite successful and the conference has experienced substantial growth in size and offerings each year. The original PyCon conference is held in North America. In 2007, PyCon-style conferences were added in Italy, the UK and Brasil. The PSF has been closely involved with the North American PyCon since its creation. It provides the financial backing that is necessary to plan and run the conference, and has ...

  • 2007-02-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...contributor agreement forms. Status: carried forward. Originally from December 2006, Section 5, Jython License: A. Kuchling will write up a summary of the license discussion, post it to jython-dev, and the current developers can decide what to do. Status: carried forward. Originally from December 2006, Section 9, Catering the Members' Meeting: D. Goodger will coordinate food for the 2007 PSF Members' Meeting with the conference committee & members. D. Goodger will send out menu choice...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...ce interface for extracting reports from the object database into OpenOffice or Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. ZSQLCatalog was very successful in this project: a Zope database with more than 2,000,000 objects can be queried with statistical methods in a few milliseconds. ERP5SyncML: Synchronized Distributed Objects Coramy's requirements for ERP5 included the need to deploy applications in its factories in Tunisia. This posed some additional challenges, since internet connectivity between Africa...

  • Python 2.0

    ...cribed by PEP 214. Optional Collection of Cyclical Garbage Python is now equipped with a garbage collector that can hunt down cyclical references between Python objects. It's no replacement for reference counting; in fact, it depends on the reference counts being correct, and decides that a set of objects belong to a cycle if all their reference counts can be accounted for from their references to each other. This devious scheme was first proposed by Eric Tiedemann, and brought t...

  • 2007-04-09 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...concerned about: cost ability to maintain/administer applications finding people to work on their applications Reasons for not using open source include: Commercial software makes it very easy to get a nonprofit price. Suspicion of free software (perception of untrustworthiness). Fear that the software or its community will vanish. Companies are thought to be more stable. Lack of knowledge about the open source alternatives. Documentation not good enough; intermediate documentation needed (b...

  • Python Software Foundation: Vendor Policies

    ...credit for taxes paid to the US if the income was also taxed by the vendor’s country of residence. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a United States Federal Law intended to improve tax compliance. Payers such as the PSF must: Have procedures to categorize foreign payees and identify payments that are subject to withholding. Have procedures to report and withhold tax from payments that are subject to withholding. Receive appropriate doc...

  • Release – Python 3.12.0a6

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    Released: March 8, 2023

    This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a6 is the sixth of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state …

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...ckage needed for scientific computing with Python. It contains: a powerful N-dimensional array object sophisticated broadcasting functions basic linear algebra functions basic Fourier transforms sophisticated random number capabilities tools for integrating Fortran code. tools for integrating C/C++ code. SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. The SciPy library depends on NumPy, which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional ...

  • 2010-02-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...current treasurer's activities. Excerpt from summary: I'm continuing to focus on monitoring PyCon registration and processing refunds and donations, manually processing the Google Checkout transactions, processing PyCon Sponsor invoices and payments, producing the 2010 Sponsor Invoices, collecting Sponsor Member receivables, processing the year-end 1042 tax forms, converting the bookkeeping to an outside service, updating our insurance coverage, and expediting the remaining tax documentation so...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...ch contains a detailed description of how Python can create and manipulate Word documents with the Word 97 COM object model. This implementation inserted the content into Word documents by driving Word directly through its COM interface. Unfortunately, the COM interface was much too slow to handle the massive number of table cells that were extracted from the BEACON source code. Worse were the reuse issues with the classes I was writing for dealing with the different stylistic requirements at t...

  • PSF Community Service Awards

    ...Con Africa and was the chair of the talk committee. Noah is also one of the founders of DjangoCon Africa, the upcoming inaugural conference for Django developers on the continent. He has spoken at several Python conferences including DjangoCon Europe. Noah is a consistent force for good, particularly in the African Python community. The Q2 2020 Community Service Award went to Katia Lira for her contributions to PyCon LatAm as conference chair, which held its inaugural conference in 2019. Additio...

  • PSF Board Resolutions

    ...Code as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) scientific and educational public charity, and will conduct its business according to the rules for such organizations. with: It qualifies under the US Internal Revenue Code as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) scientific and educational public charity, and conducts its business according to the rules for such organizations. Remove the paragraph that reads: By "open source" we mean freely available technology licensed under terms compatible with Version 1.9 (or...

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