Candidates for the 2014 PSF Board of Directors
The following people have been nominated as Directors of the Python Software Foundation for the term beginning in April 2014. Their self-written summaries follow.
There are currently 11 seats on the Board of Directors (last changed in the 2012 PSF Members vote).
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Jesse Noller
2012 Board Member.
Jesse has been a PSF board member since 2010, and was the PyCon Chair for 2012 and 2013. He's also been involved in (and pushed for) many different projects to make the PSF visible and usefuul: outreach programs, the Code of Conduct, the Sprints committee, the professionalization of the python.org infrastructure.
Affiliation: Jesse Noller is employed by Rackspace.
Lynn Root
2013 Board Member.
Lynn has been a PSF board member since 2013, a member of the PSF Outreach and Education committee since 2012, and continues to lead the PyLadies of San Francisco since 2012. She currently leads the development and growth of the global organization of PyLadies, including helping other locations starting a local PyLadies, maintaining pyladies.com and github.com/pyladies/pyladies-kit. Lynn is also helping organizing PyCon 2014 by leading the lightning talks segment and PyLadies presence at the conference.
Lynn wishes to be a board member for the next year to accomplish the following things:
- PyLadies trademark on name & logo,
- Broadening the PSF's reach in diversity,
- Finding more PSF/PyCon sponsors that align with the PSF's diversity mission.
Affiliation: Lynn Root works for Spotify.
Jessica McKellar
Current board member (2012, 2013)
It has been an honor and pleasure to serve on the PSF Board for the past two years. I love this community, and I hope to have the opportunity to continue to serve it as a Board member as it grows into new challenges and opportunities next year.
I bring several perspectives to the Board, as:
- a user group organizer, for the Boston Python user group -- the largest Python user group in the world.
- someone who regularly interacts with beginners, new community members, and first-time open source contributors, through various initiatives including the OpenHatch project, Google Summer of Code, and as a Twisted core developer.
- someone who regularly does programming outreach to underrepresented groups, through my work on the Outreach and Education Committee, Software Carpentry, and as head organizer for the Boston Python Workshop.
This past year, as part of my Foundation work I:
- served on the PSF Outreach and Education Committee, and in particular worked to promote the committee and help groups write and submit grant requests.
- regularly spoke and wrote about the PSF and encouraged community participation (e.g. Kiwi PyCon 2013 keynote, All Things Open, upcoming PyCon North America 2014 keynote, upcoming PyTennessee keynote, upcoming PyCon APAC 2014 keynote, PSF blog posts).
- regularly reached out to individuals and initiatives about partnering with the PSF or applying for grants / getting community support to run Python events.
- after informally playing this role in 2013, became the first ever Diversity Outreach Chair for PyCon North America 2014. The conference has a record-setting percentage of proposals submitted by women, and will have a record 33% women speakers. There are of course many more axes to diversity and more to do next year!
The language and community continue to grow, which is great, but with this growth have come some growing pains for the Foundation. I think the most important goal for the PSF for 2014 is to finish several important but lagging initiatives, and to do so in a way that is transparent and with sustainable volunteer obligations. In particular, 2014 will be the year we finish:
Additionally, I'd like to lead:
- more global community development, including support for user groups, conferences, and outreach initiatives, in particular outside the United States.
- proactively seeking out/creating and supporting opportunities for Python in education.
Affiliation: Jessica McKellar is a co-founder of Zulip.
Brian Curtin
Current board member (2012, 2013)
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Alex Gaynor
Current board member (2013)
It's been a privilege to serve the community on the board in this past year. I additionally serve on the Sprints and Outreach and Education committees. I've also served as the co-chair of the PyCon US Program Committee, and I've worked with the Infrastructure committee on various projects.
In the coming year I'm looking forward to working on implementing the new working group-centric organization for the PSF, and empowering more people to promote Python within their communities (whether geographic or shared-interest).
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