Final 2009 Community Service Awards
Only now have I been able to make the time to record the recipients of the final PSF Community Service Awards of 2009. I hope the recipients will accept my a...
Only now have I been able to make the time to record the recipients of the final PSF Community Service Awards of 2009. I hope the recipients will accept my a...
The PSF Board chose in the first quarter of this year to honor two individuals who have both given outstanding service to PyCon. For the first time framed ce...
Under the PSF bylaws, in order to become a voting member you must be nominated by an existing member. The bylaws do not, however, require that directors be m...
A service that the PSF has run for a very long time now is the Python Job Board. This allows any potential employer with a requirement for Python skills to p...
The Python buildbots have been switched off. The reason for this is that there is nobody to manage them, and configuration changes would be required (along w...
Following discussions at EuroPython there has been some talk about the possibility of introducing associate memberships. At present nobody is really clear ex...
From figures supplied by the Treasurer it appears that the PSF received donations totalling $23,807.65 in 2008. The smallest donation was one cent, and the l...
To assist those wanting to migrate their code to Python 3.0 the developers have just announced the creation of the Python-porting mailing list. Signing up fo...
Further to our recent cogitations on better meeting the PSF's goals the Board has taken a number of decisions which I'd like to let you know about. - I am ...
We are grateful to Greg Lindstrom for the following feedback on a recent successful regional event. Congratulations are due to the organizers. We held our 1-...
At the July Board meeting of the PSF Board of Directors, PSF Community Awards were awarded to Georg Brandl and Brett Cannon. Georg has been an enthusiastic c...
PyCon UK takes place in Birmingham UK from 12th to 14th September 2008. A full programme includes a day of tutorials; bookings are being taken at http://www....
Yesterday at OSCON I had the pleasure of announcing the 2008 Frank Willison award. This was instituted by O'Reilly in memory of their editor in chief, whose ...
PyCon FR is to be held at the Cité des sciences et de la Villette in Paris. This is the second national Python Conference in France. There is an interesting ...
May 1, 2008 Linux Journal announced their 2008 Readers' Choice Awards today, and we are happy to say that Python won the Favorite Scripting Language category...
A little-publicized feature of this year's PyCon was the first ever PSF Community Awards. One of the issues with being a Foundation of part-timers is that so...
One of the more valuable services available through the python.org web site is the Python Job Board. This is normally maintained by the pydotorg webmasters, ...
Have you used Python to improve your life as a system administrator? (Yes, even system administrators are supposed to have lives). If so then Sys Admin magaz...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 17 May 2005: Two Python Software Foundation directors (Steve Holden, Tim Peters) and a former director (Fredrik Lundh) are among a group ...
May 1, 2006. PyWeek is a game programming challenge in which participants must write a game in one week using Python. The second PyWeek challenge placed heav...
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