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  • 2013-04-26 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...yCon 2013 Chair RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation appoints Diana Clarke as the PyCon 2014/2015 Conference Chair Approved, 11-0-0. 13   Robin Dunn for Q1 Community Service Award RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation grant the 2013 Quarter One Community Service Award to Robin Dunn for being the principal maintainer of wxPython Approved, 11-0-0. 14   Tim Golden for Q1 Community Service Award RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation grant...

  • 2007-03-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y for advocacy. K. Kaiser: Note that the cost of the AC would be about equal to our income last year. I repeat my comment that the position should be self funding in that advocacy should result in more sponsors and donors. 8   PSF Support for EuroPython N. Norwitz reported a rumor that EuroPython may need help. The nature (and existence) of any problem wasn't known, but it was thought to be a lack of organizers. The Board agreed that money probably isn't the solution. D. Go...

  • 2010-06-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y associate membership shall be granted, on a yearly basis, in consideration of financial donation to the PSF, but subject to revocation by the Board of Directors. Annual donations sufficient for honorary associate membership shall initially be set at US$99, and may be revised by the Board of Directors from time to time. Honorary associate members may withdraw from membership in the corporation at any time upon ten (10) days' written, signed notice delivered to an officer of the corporation. The...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ...y derivative work, doesn't that mean my work must be released under exactly the same terms as Python? No. Paragraph 1 explicitly names Python 1.6 beta 1 as the only software covered by the CNRI license. Since it doesn't name your derivative work, your derivative work is not bound by the license (except to the extent that it binds you to meet the requirements with respect to your use of Python 1.6). You are, of course, free to add your own license distributing your derivative work und...

  • Python 1.6 License FAQ

    ...y derivative work, doesn't that mean my work must be released under exactly the same terms as Python? No. Paragraph 1 explicitly names Python 1.6 beta 1 as the only software covered by the CNRI license. Since it doesn't name your derivative work, your derivative work is not bound by the license (except to the extent that it binds you to meet the requirements with respect to your use of Python 1.6). You are, of course, free to add your own license distributing your derivative work und...

  • 2010-10-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ystem. I am surprised that registration has been such a time sink over so many years." K. Kaiser: "Yes, we change every year but hopefully, this is it for awhile..." J. Noller: "Because registration and accounting is a h"ard problem, we've been unable to get a volunteer pool to address fully, completely, and with a code base that's actually maintainable." D. Napoleone: "Registration is very hard to get right, especially when everything including the kitchen sin...

  • 2013-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y to the ledger PyCon Housing Management Worked on getting the final pick up numbers for 2013 and commission checks. Currently working on getting commission checks. PyCon Internet Nothing to report for April PyCon Printing Nothing to report for April PyCon Registration Management Worked on the open payment registrations with Jackie and Kurt. Currently working on getting payment from one last company before we close the books. PyCon Site Visits Worked on site visit f...

  • 2013-11-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...ython Users Group and mentioned various PSF news, and there's some interested in having a sprint(s) there, so I'll follow up with them and see if they may be putting anything together. Ongoing Projects None Tabled Activities None 6   3rd Quarter CSA RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation award the 2013 - Q3 PSF Community Service Award to Barry Warsaw Approved, 7-0-0. 7   Other Business The board discussed ways to change the PSF sponsor n...

  • 2011-09-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...Yannick, Ewa, Van and Doug N. 6. We have announced the first keynote speaker: Paul Graham of Y Combinator, as well as the first Plenary speaker - David Beazley. Both announcements have generated an amazing amount of buzz and positive energy for the conference. http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/09/announcing-first-pycon-2012-plenary.html http://pycon.blogspot.com/2011/09/announcing-first-pycon-2012-keynote.html 7. Announced and deployed the new PyCon Jobs Fair page and sponsor benefit - http://us.py...

  • 2010-11-15 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y working with our treasurer, Kurt Kaiser in order to setup the new Honorary Associate Membership fee payment system that will interface with the Python website. Andrew Kuchling of MatrixMaxx is currently onboard to tackle membership subscriptions & fee payments for-the-most-part. In other words, we are working on many technical aspects of the project at this point. Board Discussion: Mertz: "Any word on when this is likely to be pinned down?" Campbell: "We are currently loo...

  • 2013-09-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y happen in the next few months, available time permitting. If anyone is interested in joining such a working group, please let me know. Python.org Wikis Not really directly related to community relations, but I thought I'd mention it here anyway: The Python, Jython and PSF wikis have finally be setup for HTTPS only mode, e.g. https://wiki.python.org/moin/. All HTTP traffic is redirected to HTTPS automatically and thanks to Donald Stufft we even have perfect forward security enabled on the...

  • 2013-03-29 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y are correct before they are placed in the ledger for payment. PyCon Catering Finalized PyCon 2013 catering. PyCon Contract Negotiations Nothing to report for February & March PyCon Electrical Finalized the electrical needs for PyCon 2013 with Tricord. M1, M2, and M3 were lacking power for the tutorials so they were added late by Tricord and PyCon staff. Discount was added to our final bill for this mishap. PyCon Exhibit Hall finalized expo floor with Tricord. finali...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y. Ernest - Testpypi on RS is close, need people to try it out shortly (this week). Migration will probably take an hour, mostly for DB swapover. Testpypi is deployed on new stack. Working on migration and data copy plan. Testing backup/restore cycle. Moving pythonhosted.com SSL termination to RS CLB. Donald - Working on PyPI migration. Alex - Starting on analytics tooling for PyPI downloads. Using Postgres, but out of critical path for PyPI web. Ben - PyPI outage handling. Bylaws: W...

  • Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, December 13, 2005

    ...y complete: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Talks http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Tutorials http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Sprints The talks have been chosen and announced, but the actual schedule hasn't been posted by the Program Chair yet. I am not happy about this and have been badgering him about it; we'll set the schedule in an IRC meeting next year. There are no keynote speakers yet, beyond GvR. It's increasingly probable we won't have any other keynotes. (I'm OK wi...

  • 2010-12-20 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...yPI to Amazon CloudFront The project leader, M.A. Lemburg, Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront, provided a purpose for his project by saying, "The project is intended to improve the availability, uptime and performance of PyPI for use by automatic package installation tools. The main idea is to make all PyPI static content available via Amazon Cloudfront, a content delivery network maintained by Amazon." MAL hopes to get his project started by early 2011. He would also like to start recru...

  • 2011-01-24 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...yPy Project A motion was passed granting an award of $10,000 to the PyPy project to be announced at PyCon 2011. RESOLVED, that the PSF make a grant of $10,000 to the PyPy project via the Software Freedom Conservancy in recognition of the past and current work they have done on their PyPy Python implementation, including JIT and C extension support and in moving their Python implementation forward towards the 2.7 standard. The PSF recognizes the hard work and dedication the PyPy team has continu...

  • 2011-07-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y Audrey Roy's work) the proposal for the Board to fund PyCon AU supplementary grants for gender diversity. That proposal is separately before the Board. - By unanimous consent, the Chair adopted the following decision procedure for committee decisions: :: The PSF Outreach and Education Committee may adopt resolutions by email at any time, subject to the following procedures: (1) Any Member may make a motion to the Committee, using the published Committee ma...

  • 2013-07-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y via brochure at getpython.info. Issues The only issue at the moment is the slow progress in signing up reference entry sponsors. We'd really like to finish the project and go to print. 5.5   Community Relations Report Summary With the PSF Community Relations we aim at creating closer bindings with the world-wide Python communities. Please see this wiki page for more information on the effort: https://wiki.python.org/psf/Community%20Relations Progress We've had ...

  • 2009-10-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y statement, and publish it with links to ancillary materials maintained by members of the diversity list: The Python Software Foundation and the global Python Community welcome and encourage participation by everyone. Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we are working to help each other live up to these principles. We want our community to be more diverse: whoever you are, and whatever your background, we welcome you. Approved, 8-0-0. [102] D. Mertz wi...

  • 2010-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...y associate membership shall be granted, on a yearly basis, in consideration of financial donation to the PSF, but subject to revocation by the Board of Directors. Annual donations sufficient for honorary associate membership shall initially be set at US$99, and may be revised by the Board of Directors from time to time. Honorary associate members may withdraw from membership in the corporation at any time upon ten (10) days' written, signed notice delivered to an officer of the corporation. The...

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