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...ide a direct incentive to contributors. Awards will be made periodically as deserving candidates are identified. Any PSF member is entitled to propose an award at any time, stating the reasons for which the award is merited. Proposals should be made confidentially to the Board by sending email to psf@python.org. The minutes of award considerations will not name the individuals concerned unless an award is made. The Board will contact proposers to keep them informed of the status of their p...
...id M. Beazley Steven Bethard Georg Brandl Titus Brown Brett Cannon Stephan Deibel Catherine Devlin Jeff Elkner Jim Fulton David Goodger Raymond Hettinger Steve Holden Michael Hudson Jim Hugunin Eric Jones Kurt B. Kaiser Andrew Kuchling Van Lindberg Martin von Löwis Alex Martelli Anna Martelli Ravenscroft David Mertz Trent Mick Doug Napoleone Travis Oliphant Samuele Pedroni Sean Reifschneider Guido van Rossum Jeff Rush James Tauber Barry Warsaw Thomas Wouters Moshe Zadka Brian Zimmer 12 represen...
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Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. There are a huge number of new features, modules, improvements and bug fixes. For information on what's changed, see: Andrew Kuchling's guide to What's New in Python 2.6. NEWS file contains a …
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...id of EA5BBD71. The Windows installers were signed by Martin von Löwis' public key which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The signature on the Mac disk image was signed by Benjamin Peterson's public key which has a key id of A4135B38. Documentation The documentation has also been updated. You can browse the HTML on-line or download the HTML: [1]The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture (formerly EM64T), i.e. the architecture that Microsoft calls ...
...idered at PSF Board meetings. If no nominations are received for four months, the Board should consider making its own nominations. There should be an annual budget, and a set frequency of awards. Awards are a formal way for the Board to offer recognition of work which significantly aids the Foundation's mission. The intention is not to provide a direct incentive to contributors. K. Kaiser noted (in email) that while grants for PyCon registration & travel are a compensatable expense with ...
...id Goodger is authorized to purchase three PSF-owned laptops, spending up to $10,000, for use by David Goodger, Doug Napoleone, and Van Lindberg. Approved 6-0-1. RESOLVED, that the PyCon 2008 Chair (David Goodger) is authorized to spend up to $5000 on thank-you gifts for significant PyCon contributors. Approved 7-0-0. 7 PyCon Italia Due Sponsorship The second Italian Python conference, PyCon Italia Due, asked the PSF to be a sponsor. The PSF was a gold sponsor last year. RES...
...id Emails, emails, emails Answering many financial aid emails regarding housing and how certain funds will be applied for people. There seem to be many special cases where funds have to be reallocated. keeping a spreadsheet up to date with everyones housing needs. Cut off is in a week and after that I will begin to pair people up and reserving rooms. Many people chose not to follow the FA instructions sent out by Peter so we had a few issues with housing. This needs to be addressed for 2014 b...
...id: "1. Discussion and explanation of the "deposit fees" associated with the Hyatt Convention center in Santa Clara. Currently, we have paid a ~39K deposit for the 2012 convention and on 12/1/2011 we must pay a deposit of 38,667 for the 2013 conference. These deposits are, while unfortunate in the short term, provide a long term benefit - quoting Van Lindberg (who constructed these contracts in conjunction with CTE guidance): "A little bit of background - this is a case of s...
...ide information about the PSF's fiscal sponsorship program. Our general process begins with an email from your project to us. Next, we provide you a fiscal sponsorship questionnaire and materials about how the PSF supports fiscal sponsorees, as well as an introductory call to discuss how your event, group, or project fits with the PSF's charitable mission. Generally, we do pause reviews of new fiscal sponsorship requests the month before and after the annual PyCon US. Bandit Bandit is a...
...id PyCon tutorials is found and provided. D. Goodger will send all remaining PyCon checks to K. Kaiser for deposit. D. Godoger will provide K. Kaiser with PyCon financial aid documentation. D. Goodger will provide K. Kaiser with PyCon expense and cash reports. D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon sponsorships. D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon registrations. 7 PyOhio Support PyOhio has no concrete proposal on the table. The Board agreed to wait f...
...id PyCon tutorials is found and provided. Status: carried forward. [8] Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.6, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will provide K. Kaiser with PyCon expense and cash reports. Status: done. [9] Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.7, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon sponsorships. Status: carried forward. [10] Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.8, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon regist...
...ided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 Status of Past Action Items 3.1 Carried Forward 3.2 New in November 4 Jython Contributor Agreements 5 Jython License 6 PyCon Budget 7 Swag For Events 8 Call For New Directors? 9 Catering the Members...
...id PyCon tutorials is found and provided. Status: pending. [9] Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.7, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon sponsorships. Status: pending. [10] Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.8, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon registrations. Status: pending. [25] Originally from 11 August 2008, Section 6.2, PyCon UK Sponsorship: R. Hettinger will propose a blanket policy for sponsorships, instead o...
...id PyCon tutorials is found and provided. Status: carried forward. Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.4, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will send all remaining PyCon checks to K. Kaiser for deposit. Status: carried forward. Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.5, Treasurer's Report: D. Godoger will provide K. Kaiser with PyCon financial aid documentation. Status: carried forward. Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.6, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will provide K. Kaiser with PyCo...
...id PyCon tutorials is found and provided. Status: carried forward. [9] Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.7, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon sponsorships. Status: carried forward. [10] Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.8, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon registrations. Status: carried forward. [25] Originally from 11 August 2008, Section 6.2, PyCon UK Sponsorship: R. Hettinger will propose a blanket policy for...
...idelines for Sponsor Membership Levels: K. Kaiser will copy the new guidelines for sponsor membership levels into the repository. Status: pending. [105] Originally from November 2009, Section 7, Adopt Guidelines for Sponsor Membership Levels: S. Holden will send a sponsor membership levels draft letter out to the Board and to PSF members for comments. Status: active. [106] Originally from November 2009, Section 8, SEO Moves Sponsor Membership Application: S. Holden will inform SEO Moves organi...
...ided for a business trip to Atlanta by Sean Reifschneider and David Goodger to plan for the PyCon 2010 Conference, discuss PyCon internet, and survey the venue. RESOLVED, that the PSF fund travel expenses including meals for David Goodger and Sean Reifschneider to visit Atlanta and plan PyCon 2010. Approved, 9-0-1. 10 PyCon 2011 Venue D. Goodger requested the Board's approval to hold PyCon 2011 in Atlanta at the same venue as PyCon 2010. The Board agreed. D. Goodger noted th...
...id: PyCon video equipment loan/rental program post There was some discussion of offering the PyCon video equipment to PUGs for their meetings, but the mechanism to do it isn't in place, yet. 5.2 Marketing Material M.A.Lemburg, Marketing Material Project Manager, provided a summary of his work. He said: The project is lead by Marc-André Lemburg who is in contact with the people behind the Plone brochure created by the German Zope User Group (DZUG): Jan Ulrich Hasecke and ...
...ided at the meeting. David Goodger prepared these minutes. Contents 1 Attendance 2 Minutes of Past Meetings 3 Status of Past Action Items 3.1 Carried Forward 3.2 New in January 4 Jython License Change 5 PyCon Status 6 Advice on the "PyCamp" Name 7 Treasurer Records 8 Adjournment 1 Attendance Th...
...id-June... which is coming up fast. I will coordinate this with Betsy Waliszewski of O'Reilly. I suggest asking Guido and past winners for candidates, then bringing it to the Board for a vote. If we go this route, obviously current PSF Directors and Officers either would not be eligible, or [nominees] would have to recuse themselves. As for the recipient having to be present at OSCON, that was a misunderstanding. Nat Torkington just wants to know in advance if the person will be there or not,...
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