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  • 2013-06-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...joined after minutes were voted on), David Mertz, Jesse Noller, Brian Curtin, Jessica McKellar, Lynn Root, Brett Cannon and Alex Gaynor. Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer) and Ewa Jodlowska (Secretary/Administrator). 2   Minutes of Past Meetings The 31 May 2013 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved. RESOLVED: that the PSF approve the minutes at http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2013-June/022251.html as representing a true and accurate reco...

  • Frank Willison Memorial Award

    ...jointly with Andy Robinson) the author of an O'Reilly title, Python Programming on Win-32. Martin von Löwis (2008) Martin von Löwis continues to be a tireless worker on behalf of the Python community. He has been a long-term contributor to the Python core, and regularly answers questions on the Python developers' and users' mailing lists. A PSF director since 2002, he was also the prime mover in transitioning the Python development infrastructure from SourceForge, and has created several Ro...

  • 2009-04-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...join the psf-members list, and will update the membership records. Status: carried forward. [52] Section 5, PSF Community Awards: P. Campbell will add "PSF Community Award nominations" to the Board agenda quarterly. Status: carried forward. 4.4   New Between Meetings No action items were added since the last Board meetings on 12 March and 27 March. 5   Grant Funding from Mellon Foundation S. Holden asked the other Directors to familiarize themselve...

  • 2012-07-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...joining you support the PSF, that is a given. But there have to be some benefits added in order to sell this. Otherwise people can just give donations instead of becoming associate members. I strongly believe this should be changed. The signing up process for Associate Members needs to be changed as well. This I have addressed with MAL and he has asked Andrew to change it. The feeling of EuroPython is very similar to PyCon. At least outside of talks. People hang around, code, talk, discuss ideas...

  • 2009-05-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...join the psf-members list, and will update the membership records. Email sent to new nominated members 2009-04-16. Status: active. [52] Originally from 27 March 2009, Section 5, PSF Community Awards: P. Campbell will add "PSF Community Award nominations" to the Board agenda quarterly. Status: pending. 4.2   New On 13 April These action items originated at the 12 March 2009 Board meeting on IRC. [53] Section 6, PyCon Italia: S. Holden will notify the PyCon Italia or...

  • 2010-03-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...join the psf-members list, and will update the membership records. [Update 2009-04-16/DG: Email sent to new nominated members.] [Update 2009-06-01/DG: Membership roster updated.] [Update 2009-06-08/DG: Email sent to new sponsor members.] Status: active. [45] Added 2009-05-08: A. Kuchling will design, write, and deploy a Python for Beginners site. (Discussion/notes in public wiki, Drafting has been started). Status: active. [57] Added 2009-05-08: A. Kuchling will analyze how much 'coverage' we ...

  • 2013-12-06 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...joining such a working group, please let me know. Python Events Calendar I'm continuing discussions with national and local groups, encourage people to make use of the Python events calendars: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar and help maintain it, along with a team of volunteers. New Activities None Planned for Next Month None Ongoing Projects PSF at conferences PSF Marketing Work Group Python Events Calendar Tabled Activities None Issues / Blockages ...

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...join as volunteers; the edu-sig mailing list is more for discussions about uses of Python in educational settings. Free books and tutorials for educators There are a number of freely available tutorials for Python. For example, there is a collection of Beginner's Guide to Python available on the Python wiki. In addition, the following may be of particular interest to educators: Think Python, by Allen B. Downey, is a substantially revised version of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist Lea...

  • 2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...join the psf-members list, and will update the membership records. Email sent to new sponsor members on 2009-06-08. Status: active. [52] Originally from 27 March 2009, Section 5, PSF Community Awards: P. Campbell will add "PSF Community Award nominations" to the Board agenda quarterly. Status: active. [45] Added 2009-05-08: A. Kuchling will design, write, and deploy a Python for Beginners site. (Discussion/notes in public wiki). Status: active. [57] Added 2009-05-08: A. Kuchling wil...

  • 2011-10-17 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...join them for a sprint. As far as the continued activities for the month, he reported: None On his report of the new activities for the month, J. Noller said: PyCon UK, PyCon Finland, and the Boston Twisted sprints all occurred this month, and we've received UK's reimbursement request which we're processing. Finland and Boston occurred just a few days ago so we're waiting to receive their details. We're also working out the details of sponsoring a sprint for Python Sheffield in the UK. The use...

  • 2008-05-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...joined the meeting:] R. Hettinger reminded K. Kaiser that he (Hettinger) is now the Assistant Treasurer and stands ready to help. 5   Hostway Sponsor Membership Termination S. Holden reported that Hostway has dropped out of PSF membership. They were valuable early PyCon sponsors, but the interest has dropped with the departure of the individuals concerned. I think no further action is required, unless someone feels they should be emeritus? S. Deibel: In general I'd ...

  • 2009-07-13 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...join the psf-members list, and will update the membership records. [Update 2009-04-16/DG: Email sent to new nominated members.] [Update 2009-06-01/DG: Membership roster updated.] [Update 2009-06-08/DG: Email sent to new sponsor members.] Item updated on 2009-06-08. Status: active. [52] Originally from 27 March 2009, Section 5, PSF Community Awards: P. Campbell will add "PSF Community Award nominations" to the Board agenda quarterly. Status: done. [45] Added 2009-05-08: A. Kuchling wi...

  • Python Humor

    ...join you when code you write. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. LUKE: Is Perl better than Python? YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive. LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl? YODA: You will know. When your code you try to read six months from now.

  • Notes

    ...join() method is strongly preferred for performance sensitive code. PEP-0318, Function Decorators have been added to the language. These are implemented using the Java-style @decorator syntax, like so: @staticmethod def foo(bar): (The PEP needs to be updated to reflect the current state) When importing a module M raises an exception, Python no longer leaves M in sys.modules. Before 2.4a2 it did, and a subsequent import of M would succeed, picking up a module object from sys.modules ...

  • Computer Programming for Everybody

    ...joining the work force (and the military). We expect the new mobile and embedded computing and communication technologies mentioned above to reach maturity around the same time. Thus, our timelines are nicely matched. Motivation In the dark ages, only those with power or great wealth (and selected experts) possessed reading and writing skills or the ability to acquire them. It can be argued that literacy of the general population (while still not 100%), together with the invention of pri...

  • 2012-12-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

    ...joined by one of our accountants, Rui. We went through the basic use of QBOL. Details that were covered included outstanding balances and invoicing. I have written up questions for Kurt and will be emailing them next week (cc'ing the board). I'd like to get involved with following up on invoices because we have over 90K outstanding that is 60+ days overdue and I do not see why it has to be that way. Overall the training went well and QBOL seems very straight forward. 9.6   Cont...

  • Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

    ...join() method is strongly preferred for performance sensitive code. PEP-0318, Function Decorators have been added to the language. These are implemented using the Java-style @decorator syntax, like so: @staticmethod def foo(bar): (The PEP needs to be updated to reflect the current state) When importing a module M raises an exception, Python no longer leaves M in sys.modules. Before 2.4a2 it did, and a subsequent import of M would succeed, picking up a module object from sys.modules ...

  • PSF Board Resolutions

    ...Joint ICML and IJCAI Workshop on Computational Biology 2018 for use in finding three (3) travel awards. Approved 7-0-0, June 13, 2018 RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $1667 USD to the "Python workshop for beginners" event happening in Vadodara, India June 18, 2018 Denied 0-7-0, June 12, 2018 RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $450 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Bauchi, Nigeria June 30, 2018 Approved 7...

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