Officers, directors, and members of the python software. For the past four years, ive served as chairman of the board of the python software foundation. Neal norwitz, treasurer through october 18, assistant treasurer thereafter. Calling exec on code that includes a list comprehension that references a defined local variable x fails incorrectly on nameerror. Develop and manage brand identities associated with the python software foundation and python. Removing those prebuildevents by manually editing pythoncore. Please use fax or email if at all possible we cant guarantee well get snail mail in time.
Minutes of board of directors meeting september, 2005 games stating that sponsors have voting rights and participate in making psflevel decisions about python. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the python community and is responsible for various processes within the python community, including developing the core python distribution, managing intellectual rights, developer conferences. A regular meeting of the python software foundation the psf board of directors was held over internet relay chat at 17. Im also cofounder of wingware, maker a commercial ide for python, and have been involved with various advocacy related efforts such as the somewhat dated website and the python success stories collection which are also on python. The python software foundation is the organization behind python. The python software foundation psf is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation that holds the intellectual property rights behind the python programming language. The python software foundation the psf held its annual members meeting on march 14, 2008 at 12. Officers, directors, and members of the python software foundation. Even the recipients of the awards were blissfully unaware of their elevated status until our outgoing chairman, stephan deibel, informed them.
Stephan deibel, chairman of the board neal norwitz, treasurer through october 18, assistant treasurer thereafter kurt kaiser, assistant treasurer through october 18, treasurer thereafter. Stephan deibel writes pycon 2004, the second annual python developers conference, will be held at george washington universitys cafritz conference center in washington dc on march 2426, 2004. See the psf trademark usage policy work group resolution. Pythonsoftwarefoundationboardcandidates2007 python wiki. I did this because i believe strongly that the organization needs this kind of. A version of this article was originally published in the python papers volume 2. Python software foundation co neal norwitz 1707 sinclair lane crownsville, md 210321925 usa fax. The python software foundation minutes of special meeting of the board of directors march 25, 2005 a special meeting of the python software foundation the psf board of directors was held at george washington university on march 25 at noon.
I served on the psf board of directors for five years. A special meeting of the python software foundation the psf board of directors was held at george washington university on march 25 at noon. I would like to serve on the board of the python software foundation to give a little back to the open source community that has given me so much. Proposals should be for specific projects with a clear objective, rather than support for ongoing activities. The psfs chair, stephan deibel, wrote an article for the python papers introducing the foundation and discussing some recent initiatives. The psf plans to issue calls for proposals regularly. This year stephan has stepped down as a director, after helping to ensure that the foundations bylaws were reorganized.
Mitchell kapor, founder of lotus development corporation and the open source applications foundation, will be the keynote speaker. Membership shall consist of cochairs and additionally carl trachte, doug napoleone, david. Psf community awards a littlepublicized feature of this years pycon was the first ever psf community awards. When using fax or snail mail, send an email copy of the proxy by email. The python software foundation psf holds and protects the intellectual property rights behind the open source python programming language. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. It was then resolved, that the board of directors recommends ccp games as a new sponsor of the psf. The python software foundation psf is a nonprofit organization devoted to the python programming language, 3 launched on march 6, 2001. This year, i stepped down and steve holden has replaced me. Ensure that content and design for such materials is consistent and appropriate with the mission and requirements of the python software foundation and the needs and ideals of the python open source community. Python is open source, was created by a community of thousands of developers worldwide, and is used by about 14% of all programmers today. Python software foundation members meeting minutes 200503.
Become a member of the psf and help advance the software and our mission. Join facebook to connect with stephan deibel and others you may know. Paul also hosted the fourth international python conference in 1996. Python software foundation wins computerworld horizon award for popular python programming. Served previously on the board of directors for the python software foundation and at the agricultural stewardship association. One of the issues with being a foundation of parttimers is that sometimes we do something important without finding a way to give it the right prominence.
Written by stephan deibel, chairman of the board, python software foundation. Become a member of the psf and help advance the software and our. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the python community and is responsible for various processes within the python community, including developing the core python distribution, managing intellectual rights, developer. The changes made in issue19788 break the ability to build x64 build target on a 32bit windows machine because prebuildevent entries in pythoncore. Pythonsoftwarefoundationboardcandidates2009 python wiki. Pycon is a communityoriented conference targeting developers. These are my thoughts as a user, advocate, coauthor of an ide for python, and a director of the python software foundation. This committee assesses actual and proposed uses of the python trademarks. Psfvolunteers better fund raising for the psf grokbase. The python software foundation minutes of regular meeting of the board of directors october 12, 2004 a regular meeting of the python software foundation the psf board of directors was held over internet relay chat at 17. Im cofounder of wingware, makers of wingide for python since 1999. Workgroups of the python software foundation python. Im the current chairman of the board of the psf since 2004 and will be running again as a director.
Im also cofounder of wingware, maker a commercial ide for python, and have been involved with various advocacy related efforts such as the somewhat dated website and the python success stories collection which are also on. The members of the python software foundation the psf held its annual meeting on march 24, 2005 at 17. The python software foundation is seeking grant proposals for projects related to the further development of python, pythonrelated technology, and educational resources. Python software foundation chairman of the board march 2004 to march 2008 a nonprofit foundation that holds and protects the intellectual property rights behind the python programming language. Python software foundation wins computerworld horizon award for popular python programming language.
Pythonsoftwarefoundationboardcandidates2008 python wiki. In the linuxunix nonwindows nonos2 implementation of listdir in posixmodule. Member of python software foundation stephane wirtel. Im happy to contribute wherever i can and am comfortable that i can fulfil the duties and responsibilities of a director of the psf. The python software foundation the psf held its annual members meeting on february 23, 2007 at 19. Im also a former chairman of the board of the python software foundation. Lets spend some time getting to know abigail better. Abigail is also a fellow of the python software foundation. The python software foundation psf is a nonprofit organization devoted to the python programming language, launched on march 6, 2001.
A developers guide to the pros and cons of python javaworld. Python is billed by the python software foundation as being easy to. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the python community and is responsible for various processes within the python community, including developing the core python distribution, managing intellectual rights, developer conferences including pycon, and raising funds. Stephan deibel 2003 stephane wirtel 20 stephen hawkes 2012 stephen thorne 2010 steve holden 2003 steven daprano 2010 tania allard 2019 ted pollari 2009 terri oda 20 terry peppers 2010. Python software foundation wikimili, the free encyclopedia. Promote, protect, and advance the python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of python programmers. While the psf has done ok obtaining new sponsors by osmosis, and has done reasonably well through pycon sponsorships, i think a manageable amount of additional effort could really increase our visibility as a worthy charitable organization. Abigail is active with the pyladies organization in africa and has also helped organize pycon africa. Can you tell us a little continue reading pydev of the week abigail. Stephan deibel stephan was last years outgoing chairman after four years in harness. Paul dubois was an original contributor to numerical python, and its coordinator for five years. Python is a very productive way to write code, says stephen deibel. Jeremy hylton and david goodger prepared these minutes.
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