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  • Debugging Reference Count Problems

    ...dated or incorrect information. Debugging Reference Count Problems From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> To: python-list@cwi.nl Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 11:09:40 -0400 Mike Fletcher wrote a number of posts about debugging C code that bombs, probably because of reference count problems. His approach to debugging this problem seems typical, but I think it's not very productive, so I would like to suggest a different approach. Basically, it's often more producti...

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

    ...date are a yearly retainer for the law firm of Carlton Fields ($275) and a yearly fee to Delaware to maintain our incorporation status ($20). <p>Paul Everitt described the background of Andrew Greenberg, an attorney at Carleton Fields. Greenberg has extensive software experience; he contributed to a recent book on Squeak and developed computer games like Wizardry. <p><b>Members</b> <p>Guido van Rossum present a list of new members for admission to the Corporation, ...

  • 2010 PSF Members' Meeting Minutes (informal)

    ...dates present at the meeting introduced themselves and outlined the basis of their candidacies: Jesse Noller, Gloria Willadsen, Doug Napoleone, and Allison Randal. There were two board candidates for the 2010 election who were not present during the informal meeting: Greg Stein and Marc-André Lemburg. 5   Number of Available Slots for Board There was some discussion over the number of open slots on the board versus the number of new board candidates for 2010. 6  &nbs...

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

    ...dates are nailed down; setting up a PyCon weblog for publicity purposes. 5   New Business M. von Löwis began discussions on a "Python release committee". The first decision to make is whether Python releases should be a "PSF product". If yes, the PSF members should be asked if they agree. For the PSF, the advantage would be better visibility. Anthony Baxter is Python's all-purpose release manager, with a time plan that he tends to follow. T. Peters asked...

  • Grants - Frequently Asked Questions

    ...date. Q. Can we use your logo or a similar logo? How should we use the words "Python" or "PyCon" which are trademarked? A. Please read our Trademark policy . This covers the Python logo or any similar logos and the use of the words "Python" or "PyCon" and how you should proceed. if you have any doubts about your intended use of the trademarks, please contact the PSF Trademarks Committee. Q. How should we report after the event/project? A. The PSF has a p...

  • 2008-09-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...date certificate design to the Board mailing list. Opinions were mixed. M. von Löwis noted "I think we should not defer this forever, and go with what is proposed", and recommended that we should complete this in under 40 days. The Board agreed to use the candidate design, at least for now. In the future, we can always switch the design. 11   Progress Report: PyCon D. Goodger noted that there is progress on the 2009 web site, and there should be "call for prop...

  • 2010-05-10 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...date of receipt or invoice. Late filings will not be processed or refunded, unless prior arrangements have been made with the PSF Board, with a summary sent to psf@python.org. Expenses in non-USD currencies will be refunded in USD at the representative exchange rate as published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as-of the date on the receipt/invoice (http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/param_rms_mth.aspx). Approved, 10-0-0. 11   Exoweb, Ltd. Sponsor Membership App...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...Date' type='Date' /> </props> We can write a C++ file with inlined Python code: // SchemaPropEnum.h enum SchemaPropEnum { /* [[[cog import cog, handyxml for p in handyxml.xpath('Properties.xml', '//property'): cog.outl("Property%s," % p.name) ]]] */ // [[[end]]] }; After running this file through Cog, it looks like this: // SchemaPropEnum.h enum SchemaPropEnum { /* [[[cog import cog, handyxml f...

  • Mailing Lists

    ...date on what's new in the Python world. See the comp.lang.python.announce posting guidelines for guidelines on submitting announcements. It is also available as a moderated mailing list, python-announce. Subscribing can be done via the python-announce list information page. comp.lang.python.announce is moderated by a team of people. If you need to contact them directly, e.g. to ask why a particular message was rejected, write to clpa-moderators-owner @ python.org. There are several archives ...

  • Python Special Interest Groups

    ...datetime-sig Alexander 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 archi...

  • Minutes of the PSF Member Meeting at PyConDC 2004

    ...date, 258 donations were received. The board has established the notion of a pending sponsor member, which is a donor who is likely to be voted as a sponsor member at the next member meeting. The python.org domain was transferred from CNRI, and work is on progress on selecting contributor agreement. The most recent suggestion from the lawyer to replace suggested three contributor agreements with an individual one, has been well received by the directors. <h1>Treasurer Report</h1> Nea...

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

    ...dates 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 Löwis &n...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...dates back to 1979, and its first CG production was the 1982 Genesis sequence from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In the early days, ILM was involved with the creation of custom computer graphics hardware and software for scanning, modeling, rendering, and compositing (the process of joining rendered and scanned images together). Some of these systems made significant advances in areas such as morphing and simulating muscles and hair. Naturally, as time went by many of the early innovations at...

  • 2009-12-21 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...date with financials and tax filings." S. Holden: "The point is first of all to start planning. Then we can improve our planning. The accountants [Wendroff] should be providing a much better picture of our position on a monthly basis this year." RESOLVED, that the PSF adopt the budget proposed in http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ags6GY_6T6qqdEJySEQ0VHBoaWlDWEJhZk9mZGhzNHc&hl=en to guide its operations in 2010. Approved, 4-0-2. [113] K. Kaiser will update the PSF websit...

  • 2014-01-31 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...dated. This information is current in my spreadsheet I have created to track PSF sponsor payments. Still working on updating CiviCRM; PyCon duties and redesign are getting in the way. Ongoing Projects Board Agenda / Minutes: I continue to write up the Board Agenda and keep it up to date. I continue to write up the Board Meeting minutes. Grant and Award Notification: I continue to notify respective parties of board resolutions. Email and Communication: I am continuing to monitor all PSF ...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...dates, general autonomous event handling, and improved security at the attribute (as opposed to file, or case) level. Architecture CAPS is divided into three parts: (1) the Infinite Filing Cabinet, (2) the Business Logic, and (3) several client packages. The CAPS Architecture Zoom in The Infinite Filing Cabinet (IFC) is a general Object Relational database engine with a Python API. The IFC is built on top of Postgres, with an Oracle version in the works, but it is possible to use any full-f...

  • ...dates 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 elect...

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

    ...date. The 2005 books are reconciled with credit cards and bank statements. The remaining things to do are to reclassify the PyCon travel grants and to reclassify "other income" left over from the last PyCon. S. Deibel asked if there is a list somewhere of which tax/etc forms we need to file at what times of year? K. Kaiser replied that N. Norwitz wrote such a list, "recurring.txt" in the PSF repository. There aren't many: the yearly Federal filing, the DE payment, and the...

  • PSF Grants Program

    ...date. If this is your first Grant request, we recommend adding a couple of weeks to the process. These time frames give us enough time to thoroughly review, ask questions, make a decision, and have enough time to send you the funds if your request is approved. Note: Consolidated applications and any requests that do not receive consensus within the Grants Working Group get moved to the PSF Board which may extend the timeframe. Types of grants the PSF funds: Our current focus is on Python confer...

  • Absentee ballot for February 24, 2006 member meeting in Dallas, TX

    ...Date: ______________________________________________ <br> <h3>Filing note</h3> <p><b>Deadline for Receipt:</b> February 20th, 2006 <p>This form must be filed with the Secretary of the PSF in advance of the meeting. The form may be mailed or faxed to <blockquote> Python Software Foundation <br>P.O. Box 653 <br>Ipswich, MA 01938 <br>USA <P>Fax: +1 858 712 8966 </blockquote> or by GPG/PGP-signed email to psf at python.or...

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