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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.

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.

David Turvene

(to be completed)

Andy Todd

(to be completed)

James Tauber

(to be completed)

Tim Peters

(to be completed)

Martin von Löwis

(to be completed)

Andrew Kuchling

(to be completed)

Steve Holden

(to be completed)

David Goodger

(to be completed)

Stephan Deibel

A little about me:

Some of my past contributions to the PSF:

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

(to be completed)

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)

PythonSoftwareFoundation/BoardCandidates2007 (last edited 2009-03-14 12:07:19 by JeffRush)

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