Results

• 2020 PSF Annual Report

  ...While COVID-19 forced the cancellation of PyCon US in-person, our community rose to the challenge and stepped up to support our non-profit in many ways! The PSF’s priority is the health and safety of the community and when COVID-19 made it unsafe to hold PyCon US in 2020, we cancelled the event. The cancellation had several impacts on the PSF, not least of which was the financial impact. However, our community helped us raise more than $579K USD in donati...

• Python Success Stories

  ...while, the concerns about the IronPython project have diminished. The viability and visibility of IronPython has gone from strength to strength. Today, with dynamic languages getting ever more attention, IronPython forms the flagship language for Microsoft's recent Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), upon which future versions of Visual Basic will be based, and a healthy future seems assured. The success of IronPython is well deserved. It has proven to be a very capable implementation, with transpar...

• 2008-08-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...while. I will persevere, since I strongly believe that this is the right course for the PSF. I think people are missing the big picture, but communicating the issues can be difficult. Perhaps my mistake was to put the proposal to the members too soon. I should have run the 4th draft by the Board before sending it to the members. Stephan and Steve's comments on the members list seemed to set off a fresh wave of criticism -- perhaps because they're both Directors. I think the Board should be u...

• 2011-02-28 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...while we have started work on the brochure cover, a flyer for PyCon US and are currently preparing a blog post for the PSF blog. The next steps are setting up a website to attract both content providers and sponsors for the brochure." M.A.Lemburg also reported issues with the project, he said: "Getting contacts to companies with interesting Python projects has so far been difficult. While we did get a few leads on our first rounds of emails, we will need a lot more to make the brochure...

• 2007-03-12 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...While discussing the motion to increase the size of the Board (at PyCon), I was asked what the minimum number of Directors was. There is nothing in the bylaws or in the resolutions about a minimum. Should there be?" The Board agreed that there was no need to set a minimum. 12   Awards On January 18 Guido van Rossum forwarded a message from Nathan Torkington of O'Reilly reminding us about the "PSF awards". As the PSF doesn't have an awards program yet, and consi...

• Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

  ...while a __del__ or callback was running in the thread doing gc). The most likely symptom was "impossible" AttributeEror exceptions, appearing seemingly at random, on weakly referenced objects. The cure was to clear all weakrefs to unreachable objects before allowing any callbacks to run. Bug #1054139 _PyString_Resize() now invalidates its cached hash value. Extension Modules Bug #1048870: the compiler now generates distinct code objects for functions with identical bodies. This...

• Python Success Stories

  ...while. Then I had an inspiration: I'd let fetchmailconf use fetchmail's own parser! I added a --configdump option to fetchmail that would parse .fetchmailrc and dump the result to standard output in the format of a Python initializer. For the file above, the result would look roughly like Listing 2 (to save space, some data not relevant to the example is omitted). fetchmailrc = { 'poll_interval':300, "logfile":None, "postmaster":"esr", 'bouncemail':...

• 2012-06-18 & 2012-06-25 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...while since we've had an update, this report reflects activity by the committee from April through the present. Jessica reported on the committee's activities from April to the present. Please see the following report: 6.4.1   Grant proposals DECLINED: PSF sponsorship for the Ada Initiative's AdaCamp DC in July APPROVED: $350 grant for helping women to attend PyCamp 2012, the yearly Python Argentina outdoors sprint Proposed by Facundo Batista, the grant will assist 4 to 5 wome...

• Towards a Standard Parser Generator

  ...While little languages have been discussed in the Python community for quite some time [Ayc98], little progress has been made with including a parser generator in the standard library. This may be partially due to the fact that so far contributions have been made only by authors of the parser toolkits, but not by the users. This paper is a report on using Python parser generators in an application project, namely in an XPath parser for PyXML. XPath [W3C99] is a query language for XML....

• 2009-09-14 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...While I think the 900 attendee probable/budget is a good basis to be conservative in projections, I think a moderate optimism will put us back on an upward attendance slope and potentially make more than a nominal amount." V. Lindberg: "I figured that we needed to make sure that attendance plus a very conservative sponsorship budget was enough to cover costs and provide a small profit. Larger attendance or larger sponsorship means that we go significantly in the black. The higher costs...

• 2012-02-27 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...while they replace the lead. I'm expecting some additional load over the next month or two due to this. Kurt concluded his report with a list of financial business items he will be focused on, he said: My focus is on PyCon issues, AR/AP reduction and the Associate Member program. 5   Progress Reports The following board reports were submitted to the board mailing list one week prior to this month's meeting. Please see a summary of each board report listed below and a possible ...

• Python Software Foundation Sponsors

  ...While the PSF thanks these sponsors for their support, we don't necessarily endorse nor promote any specific activity of any of its sponsors. Interested in becoming a sponsor? Check out our sponsor application. Visionary Sponsors Google Bloomberg ...

• The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order

  ...while 1: nonemptyseqs=[seq for seq in seqs if seq] if not nonemptyseqs: return res i+=1; print '\n',i,'round: candidates...', for seq in nonemptyseqs: # find merge candidates among seq heads cand = seq[0]; print ' ',cand, nothead=[s for s in nonemptyseqs if cand in s[1:]] if nothead: cand=None #reject candidate else: break if not cand: raise "Inconsistent hierarchy" res.append(cand) for seq in nonemptyseq...

• 2009-06-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...While there is a strong desire to bring the domain under the PSF's control, the domain's owner (Marc-André Lemburg) is reliably and responsively managing it. A. Kuchling noted that "we do need to document how new domains will be brought to tummy's attention". S. Holden: "Good point. I imagine they'll brief us on procedures. We need to keep Pat in the loop there." 7   Funding for PyCon Talk Recording Process Improvement S. Holden: Carl's point is that we...

• 2011-05-16 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...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 spend money to save money. Right now there is still quite a bit of depression in the hotel/convention market - although it is going away quickly. This was a chance (for them) to lock us in to being there two years, and (for us) to lock in the lower of our 2011 costs or negotiated 2012 costs...

• 2011-09-19 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...While there wasn't a lot of data provided the "we trust Jesse" principle prevails. Early September: Clarified nominative use in conference badges for Sandeep Dedage <Sandeep.Dedage@newport.com>. Early September: Clarified for Nick Chadwick <chadnickbok@gmail.com> that his "LetsPython" name and unaltered logo were nominative use. Mid September: Several "Python in Debian" project members submitted derived logos that modified the Python logo to comb...

• PSF Community Service Awards

  ...While it would be unusual for a single individual to receive multiple awards, repeated awards will be appropriate to acknowledge ongoing contributions. Recipients need not be Foundation members (though receiving an award may be an indication that consideration for membership is appropriate). Recognition will take the form of an award certificate plus both of the following: A cash award of $599. (Non-US based recipients will be subject to Federal US tax withholding of 30% unless all requirement...

• 2011-04-18 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...While some members expressed an abstract desire for an "official and free-of-cost" version (or for Njal to donate some money to PSF), that is not a trademark issue. On the narrow issue, the derived logos were clear and non-dilutive, and moreover seem to comply with Apple guidelines for iOS icons. So we enthusiastically approved the derived use, and Njal's app in general. Steve Holden expressed some related concerns about what he felt was a scammer using the Python logo. The initiall...

• 2018 PSF Annual Report

  ...while still focussing on sustainability for our staff and community. We’re excited to share these data points with you! Our staff team increased by two full-time employees in 2018. We hired a Director of Infrastructure to lead much needed improvements to our internal systems, assist our community with PSF hosted services, and support the Python core developers with their infrastructure needs. As PyCon continues to grow and require a...

• Python 2.0

  ...while they were still live. Fixed parsing in gc.set_debug() for platforms where sizeof(long) > sizeof(int). Fixed refcount problem in instance deallocation that only occurred when Py_REF_DEBUG was defined and Py_TRACE_REFS was not. On Windows, getpythonregpath is now protected against null data in registry key. On Unix, create .pyc/.pyo files with O_EXCL flag to avoid a race condition. Build and platform-specific issues Better support of GNU Pth via --wi...

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