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 Java-based product (and converted numerous developers to Python in the process)
• outside of Python have been involved in numerous committees including standards (W3C, OASIS), former member of Apache XML Project Team, UWA Graduates Association (including membership drive and fundraising)
• am Australian and would like to work to help make PSF donations tax-deductible for Australians

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. I was elected as a member of the PSF in 2003, began helping out with PyCon in 2004, then got involved with the Board of Directors, first as Assistant Secretary in 2005 and as a Director and Secretary in 2006.

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)