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* Duties and Responsibilities of Directors (TBD) | * `Duties and Responsibilities of Directors <../DutiesAndResponsibilitiesOfDirectors>`__ |
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* open source developer since 1993 * Python developer since 1998 * have led numerous open source projects in Python including Redfoot, Cleese, Leonardo and Pyjamas * wrote first Python implementation of numerous standards: TREX (precursor to RELAX NG), Atom Publishing Protocol, Unicode Collation Algorithm * PSF mentor for Google Summer of Code 2005 and 2006 * Chief Scientist at mValent where I introduced Python as scripting language for large-scale J2EE |
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(to be completed) | I first learned Python in 1998 and immediately became an enthusiastic Pythonista. The Python community has become very important to me. That's why I became a PEP editor and started helping out with the web site. Since I was elected as a member of the PSF in 2003, I became involved with PyCon and with the board of directors, first as Assistant Secretary and now as a Director and Secretary. I believe in the principles of the Free Software movement in general, and Python and its community in particular. Working with the PSF as a Director is one way for me to give something back. Contributions to the PSF & the Python community: * Creator of `Docutils <http://docutils.sf.net>`__ and `reStructuredText <http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html>`__ * PEP editor since 2002 * A maintainer of python.org, including the website conversion * PyCon volunteer since 2004 * Director & Secretary since PyCon 2006, Assistant Secretary in 2005 As Secretary (and Assistant Secretary before), I maintain the minutes of the Board and Members' meetings, and am in the process of organizing our paper records. As a Director, I have taken on many tasks large and small, perhaps too many: I currently have the distinction of the most pending action items in the Board meeting minutes. As a Director, these are some of the things I would like to accomplish and see accomplished: * Establishment of an annual budget and budget policy, and a strategy/action plan (e.g. a grants process) * Organization of the PSF's records * Simplification of the web site's toolchain * Creation of effective advocacy materials * Reduction of my PSF to-do list |
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(to be completed) | A little about me: * Co-founder of Wingware, maker of Wing IDE for Python http://wingware.com/ * Created Pythonology, one of the early Python Advocacy sites http://pythonology.org/ * Editor of the Python Success Stories collection http://pythonology.org/success http://python.org/about/success * Member of the PSF * Using Python since 1998 Some of my past contributions to the PSF: * Chairman of the Board of the PSF since 2004 * Worked with legal counsel on the trademark policy http://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/ * Drafted parts of the license FAQ http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq * Supported funding of the website redesign, and participated in the work as a volunteer http://python.org/ * Supported paying nominal salaries for the critical work done by the Treasurer (Kurt Kaiser) and Secretary (David Goodger) * Championed funding Jeff Rush in the current six-month trial period for the Python Advocacy Coordinator position position, which I now oversee together with Neal Norwitz http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonAdvocacyCoordinator * Respond to email questions re: trademarks and licensing Things I would like to see: * An easier-to-use web framework for python.org * Continued support for advocacy, if this proves effective * Revival of the grants process in some form * Development of a more effective fund raising capability (more like a "normal" charity) Notes: I am also chairman of the Python Support Committee, which is charged with fund raising, but haven't had much time for this so there is little progress. My company, Wingware, was previously a sponsor of the PSF, under its legal name Archaeopteryx Software Inc, but converted to Emeritus status when I started putting time into the PSF. I live in Cambridge NY, a rural town in upstate NY where "pie ala mode" was invented and life is good. |
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(to be completed) | I was elected to the PSF membership during the first PyCon in 2003. Shortly after that I become a committer on Python itself. Over the years I have made various contributions to the Python community, the largest of which was writing the python-dev Summaries for over two and a half years. At PyCon 2006 I joined the PSF board. I was also elected chairman of the Infrastructure committee which is nearly completion on moving Python's issue tracking from SourceForge over to our own Roundup installation. |
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(to be completed) | * director of the PSF since inception * connector with other foundations (mozilla, apache, perl, etc.) * co-author of Python books * CTO/VP @ ActiveState (vendor of tools for Python programmers) |
Candidates for the PSF Board of Directors
The following people have been nominated as Directors of the Python Software Foundation for the term beginning 23 February 2007. Their self-written summaries follow.
Nominees
Links
David Turvene
(to be completed)
Andy Todd
(to be completed)
James Tauber
- open source developer since 1993
- Python developer since 1998
- have led numerous open source projects in Python including Redfoot, Cleese, Leonardo and Pyjamas
- wrote first Python implementation of numerous standards: TREX (precursor to RELAX NG), Atom Publishing Protocol, Unicode Collation Algorithm
- PSF mentor for Google Summer of Code 2005 and 2006
- Chief Scientist at mValent where I introduced Python as scripting language for large-scale J2EE
Tim Peters
(to be completed)
Martin von Löwis
(to be completed)
Andrew Kuchling
(to be completed)
Steve Holden
(to be completed)
David Goodger
I first learned Python in 1998 and immediately became an enthusiastic Pythonista. The Python community has become very important to me. That's why I became a PEP editor and started helping out with the web site. Since I was elected as a member of the PSF in 2003, I became involved with PyCon and with the board of directors, first as Assistant Secretary and now as a Director and Secretary.
I believe in the principles of the Free Software movement in general, and Python and its community in particular. Working with the PSF as a Director is one way for me to give something back.
Contributions to the PSF & the Python community:
Creator of Docutils and reStructuredText
PEP editor since 2002
A maintainer of python.org, including the website conversion
PyCon volunteer since 2004
Director & Secretary since PyCon 2006, Assistant Secretary in 2005
As Secretary (and Assistant Secretary before), I maintain the minutes of the Board and Members' meetings, and am in the process of organizing our paper records. As a Director, I have taken on many tasks large and small, perhaps too many: I currently have the distinction of the most pending action items in the Board meeting minutes.
As a Director, these are some of the things I would like to accomplish and see accomplished:
- Establishment of an annual budget and budget policy, and a strategy/action plan (e.g. a grants process)
- Organization of the PSF's records
- Simplification of the web site's toolchain
- Creation of effective advocacy materials
- Reduction of my PSF to-do list
Stephan Deibel
A little about me:
- Co-founder of Wingware, maker of Wing IDE for Python
- http://wingware.com/
- Created Pythonology, one of the early Python Advocacy sites
- http://pythonology.org/
- Editor of the Python Success Stories collection
- http://pythonology.org/success http://python.org/about/success
- Member of the PSF
- Using Python since 1998
Some of my past contributions to the PSF:
- Chairman of the Board of the PSF since 2004
- Worked with legal counsel on the trademark policy
- http://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/
- Drafted parts of the license FAQ
- http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq
- Supported funding of the website redesign, and participated in the work as a volunteer
- http://python.org/
- Supported paying nominal salaries for the critical work done by the Treasurer (Kurt Kaiser) and Secretary (David Goodger)
- Championed funding Jeff Rush in the current six-month trial period for the Python Advocacy Coordinator position position, which I now oversee together with Neal Norwitz
- http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonAdvocacyCoordinator
- Respond to email questions re: trademarks and licensing
Things I would like to see:
- An easier-to-use web framework for python.org
- Continued support for advocacy, if this proves effective
- Revival of the grants process in some form
- Development of a more effective fund raising capability (more like a "normal" charity)
Notes:
I am also chairman of the Python Support Committee, which is charged with fund raising, but haven't had much time for this so there is little progress.
My company, Wingware, was previously a sponsor of the PSF, under its legal name Archaeopteryx Software Inc, but converted to Emeritus status when I started putting time into the PSF.
I live in Cambridge NY, a rural town in upstate NY where "pie ala mode" was invented and life is good.
Brett Cannon
I was elected to the PSF membership during the first PyCon in 2003. Shortly after that I become a committer on Python itself. Over the years I have made various contributions to the Python community, the largest of which was writing the python-dev Summaries for over two and a half years.
At PyCon 2006 I joined the PSF board. I was also elected chairman of the Infrastructure committee which is nearly completion on moving Python's issue tracking from SourceForge over to our own Roundup installation.
David Ascher
- director of the PSF since inception
- connector with other foundations (mozilla, apache, perl, etc.)
- co-author of Python books
- CTO/VP @ ActiveState (vendor of tools for Python programmers)