2006

Call for Nominations of PSF Directors

The Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation is issuing this call for nominations of new Directors. Self-nominations are the norm, so don't wait ...

Remember the PSF in your year-end donations

We ask members of the Python community to please keep the Python Software Foundation in mind in your "year end giving". The PSF is the 501(c)3 non-profit org...

November PSF Board Meeting Minutes Available

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation, November 13, 2006

PyCon 2007 - Fifth Annual Python Community Conference

ADDISON, TX, November 30, 2006 - PyCon 2007, the fifth annual conference of the Python community, will take place February 23-25 at the Dallas/Addison Marrio...

Status of the Grants Committee

A report by Martin von Löwis on the status of the PSF grants from 2004, and his thoughts on the past and future of the Grants Committee.

PSF adopts a trademark policy

The PSF holds a registered trademark on the word "Python". Every few weeks someone writes to the board and asks permission to distribute a program with the w...

October PSF Board Meeting Minutes Available

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation, October 9, 2006

Infrastructure committee moves forward with Roundup as the issue tracker for Python

In a previous post we pointed out that the Infrastructure committee had come to a recommendation for a new issue tracker for Python development. As part of t...

Python 2.4.4 released

Today release manager Anthony Baxter announced: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Pyt...

September PSF Board Meeting Minutes Available

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation, September 18, 2006

What's the point of Planet Python?

One of the PSF's servers hosts planet.python.org, which collects postings from a long list of weblogs and displays the most recent ones. (Not to be confused ...

Infrastructure committee recommends a new bug tracker for Python

Brett Cannon, chair of the infrastructure committee, has posted the committee's recommendation for a new bug tracker. The PSF thanks everyone who set up a bug...

August PSF Board Meeting Minutes Available

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors, August 14, 2006

Python 2.5 released

Today release manager Anthony Baxter announced: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the FINAL release ...

Vancouver Python and Zope User Group donates over $5000

The Vancouver Python Zope User Group has donated the proceeds of the 2006 Vancouver Python Workshop, amounting to CAD$5770, to the Python Software Foundation...

Jeff Rush is the Python Advocacy Coordinator

The PSF has signed a contract with Jeff Rush of Tau Productions, Inc to fund his proposal to act as Python Advocacy Coordinator for six months. In this posit...

PyCon: Call for Proposals and for Tutorials

The Call for Proposals and Call For Tutorials for PyCon 2007 have been posted. Talk proposals must be received by October 31st, and tutorial proposals must b...

Announcing the PSF CafePress store

Thanks to Tim Parkin's volunteer work, the PSF now has a CafePress storefront at www.cafepress.com/pydotorg. You can order T-shirts, hats, and stickers featu...

July PSF Board Meeting Minutes Available

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors, July 10, 2006

Four issue trackers submitted for Infrastructure Committee's tracker search

Back in June, the Python Software Foundation's Infrastructure Committee asked for help in the search for a new issue tracker to replace SourceForge. We asked...

June PSF Board Meeting Minutes Available

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the PSF Board of Directors, June 12, 2006 -- David Goodger, PSF Secretary

April PSF Board Meeting Minutes Available

April board meeting minutes. There was no May board meeting, due to the lack of quorum. -- David Goodger, PSF Secretary

2005 & 2006 PSF Members Meeting Minutes Available

2006 PSF Members Meeting minutes 2005 PSF Members Meeting minutes -- David Goodger, PSF Secretary

A request for trackers from the Infrastructure Committee

Currently Python's bug/patch tracker is hosted on SourceForge. While it has served its purpose over the years, the decision has been made that it is time to ...

Results from the Need For Speed sprint

The Need For Speed sprint in Reykjavik, Iceland, is winding down today, and Steve Holden has posted a summary of the results. The gains are impressive: - S...

Summer of Code projects selected

A slate of Python-related projects has now been selected for Google's Summer of Code initiative. The Python Software Foundation (PSF) was allocated 25 project...

Eighteen Pythonistas Sprint for Speed

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 17 May 2005: Two Python Software Foundation directors (Steve Holden, Tim Peters) and a former director (Fredrik Lundh) are among a group ...

PyCon 2007 date announced

The planning committee has set the date for the next PyCon conference: PyCon 2007 will be February 23 to 25 2007, in Addison, Texas.

Submission for Summer of Code proposals is now open

Students can now submit their Python-related proposals for Google's 2006 Summer of Code. Please see the Summer of Code wiki page for ideas and application in...

Foundation Supports PyWeek with Hosting

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...

So you want to host PyCon 2008...

Now is a good time to start thinking about the location of PyCon 2008. This posting is a call for interested groups to begin considering and planning sites f...

PyCon 2006 presentations online

Some of the presentations from PyCon 2006 are now available from www.python.org. Unfortunately not all of the authors have made their presentations available...

PSF participation in Google's Summer of Code

The PSF is planning to participate in Google's Summer of Code again, and is calling for help from the community. Here's how you can help: - Suggest project...

Minutes of PSF Board meetings available

In full colour: http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2006-02-25 (board meeting at PyCon) http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2006-03-1...

PyCon 2006 financial report

I am pleased to report that the financial outcome of PyCon 2006 was profitable. The profit was about US$19000. This money will go into the PSF's general fund...

Python 2.5 Licensing Change

\[To avoid any uncertainty on the part of later readers, this article was part of an April Fool's joke. No such licensing changes are currently anticipated. ...

Draft minutes of February 14 PSF Board meeting available

http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2006-02-14 I have also posted the old-style HTML to my starship.python.net account so that you get the pretty...

Announcing the new PSF weblog

The Python Software Foundation is pleased to announce that we now have a weblog for posting announcements, requests for help, calls for discussion, organizat...

Redesigned www.python.org site launches

Today the PSF is pleased to announce a redesigned version of www.python.org. The new page design was created by Tim Parkin of Pollenation Internet. It uses m...