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2009 was a challenging year for the PSF, primarily for financial reasons. I'm pleased to say the Board responded appropriately without going overboard, continuing to make grants at a lower but sustainable level, while establishing new accounting and budget procedures. Exciting as watching rocks sleep? Yup, but essential - the glory of serving of serving on the Board isn't for everyone ;-) 2009 was a challenging year for the PSF, primarily for financial reasons. I'm pleased to say the Board responded appropriately without going overboard, continuing to make grants at a lower but sustainable level, while establishing new accounting and budget procedures. Exciting as watching rocks sleep? Yup, but essential - the glory of serving on the Board isn't for everyone ;-)

Candidates for the 2010 PSF Board of Directors

The following people have been nominated as Directors of the Python Software Foundation for the term beginning in February 2010. Their self-written summaries follow.

Raymond Hettinger

Incumbent board member. Director of Technology at SauceLabs. Ten year contributor to the Python core. Active participant at multiple Python conferences.

Jesse Noller

Jesse is a prominent member of the Python community. His accomplishments include:

  • Python committer and maintainer of the multiprocessing module
  • PSF member
  • Chairman of the PyCon 2010 program committee
  • Python blogger

David Mertz

Incumbent board member. Author of Python books and articles, including Addison Wesley's Text Processing in Python and IBM developerWorks' column Charming Python. Vice-chair of the PSF Trademarks Committee.

Jeff Rush

Incumbent board member. I've been a consultant since 1984 and first got involved with Python in 1997 by porting it to OS/2 (with patches into the Python core) and then for a number of years produced RPMs for Python that were picked up by Red Hat. I've worked with Python, Zope and Twisted ever since.

I started the DFW Pythoneers usergroup in 2005, became a member of the PSF in 2006, and co-chaired PyCon in Dallas for 2006 and 2007. I was hired by the PSF to be Python Advocacy Coordinator for two six-month terms in 2006/2007 and have produced a number of screencasts about Python at www.showmedo.com. I also coordinated in 2007 the community response to the Forrester Research study on dynamic languages that rated Python highly.

I've presented about Python at the Vancouver Python Workship (2004), PyCon (2006-2009), Texas Regional Python Conference (2007), PyArkansas (2008) and Texas OpenSource Symposium (2008) and numerous DFW Unix and DFW Pythoneer usergroup meetings.

Tim Peters

Your longest-standing Board member remains ever ready to mentor the young, or to chide them, depending on which medications he forgets to take from day to day.

2009 was a challenging year for the PSF, primarily for financial reasons. I'm pleased to say the Board responded appropriately without going overboard, continuing to make grants at a lower but sustainable level, while establishing new accounting and budget procedures. Exciting as watching rocks sleep? Yup, but essential - the glory of serving on the Board isn't for everyone ;-)

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