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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

  • 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

Mark Summerfield

(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

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:

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

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)

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