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The PSF's Directors and Officers conduct business via monthly meetings The PSF's Directors and Officers conduct business via bi-weekly meetings
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The position of Director is currently unpaid, purely volunteer. The position of Director is unpaid, purely volunteer.
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(1) Regular/adminstrative tasks to keep the PSF's legal standing
    healthy, and to respond to things like requests to use trademarks
   
or questions about the licensing of Python.
(1) Regular/administrative tasks to keep the PSF's legal standing
    healthy, keep the PSF operational and to respond to things
   
like trademark issues or questions about the licensing of Python.
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(2) Special projects, the most neglected of which include general
    funding raising, reviving our grants process, and doing something
    about the fact that python.org is not really being maintained.
(2) Leading the PSF into a bright future, discussing the directions
    with your fellow board members and getting the members behind
    these new ideas.
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We need both people who can learn over time about the PSF so they
can eventually take over more of (1), and we need people willing
and capable of helping with some aspect of (2).

Obviously, some of (2) could be done outside of being a Director of
the PSF, but typically some PSF-level leadership is needed even for
more general things like the python.org maintenance quandary.
We need people who can are willing and capable of implementing the PSF
visions.
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our monthly meetings are virtual; we meet on IRC. We only meet
face-to-face once per year, at PyCon, and even then, it's rare for all
the Directors to attend. We currently have Directors in the USA,
Canada, the UK, and Germany. Having Directors in other parts of the
world and other time zones may pose a logistical problem, but this
will be worked around.
our meetings are virtual; we meet on IRC. We only meet
face-to-face once or twice per year, at PyCon and EuroPython, and even
then, it's rare for all the Directors to attend. We currently have
Directors in the USA, Canada, and Germany. Having Directors in other
parts of the world and other time zones may pose a logistical problem,
but this will be worked around.
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others aren't; take your pick. Attending the monthly Board meetings others aren't; take your pick. Attending the Board meetings
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attendance in order to acheive quorum and pass any resolutions. attendance in order to achieve quorum and pass any resolutions.
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The PSF-Board mailing list typically sees about two or three messages The PSF-Board mailing list typically sees about a few messages

Duties & Responsibilities Of PSF Directors

In a nutshell, the Directors work to fulfill the mission of the PSF; we take responsibility for moving Python and the PSF forward. The formal responsibilities of Directors and Officers are listed in the bylaws, articles V and VI. Please see the minutes of the monthly Board of Directors meetings for specific actions and decisions taken.

The PSF's Directors and Officers conduct business via bi-weekly meetings (one hour on IRC) and an active mailing list. We discuss the work being done and the work to be done, and Directors vote on resolutions.

The position of Director is unpaid, purely volunteer. Certain Officers (Treasurer and Secretary) do receive a nominal salary.

There are two sides to a Director's responsibilities:

  1. Regular/administrative tasks to keep the PSF's legal standing healthy, keep the PSF operational and to respond to things like trademark issues or questions about the licensing of Python.
  2. Leading the PSF into a bright future, discussing the directions with your fellow board members and getting the members behind these new ideas.

We need people who can are willing and capable of implementing the PSF visions.

A Director's physical location is not an overriding factor. All of our meetings are virtual; we meet on IRC. We only meet face-to-face once or twice per year, at PyCon and EuroPython, and even then, it's rare for all the Directors to attend. We currently have Directors in the USA, Canada, and Germany. Having Directors in other parts of the world and other time zones may pose a logistical problem, but this will be worked around.

The time commitment is up to you -- what you want to work on, and how much time do you want to spend on it. Some activities are heavy, others aren't; take your pick. Attending the Board meetings is extremely important -- we need a majority of Directors in attendance in order to achieve quorum and pass any resolutions.

The PSF-Board mailing list typically sees about a few messages a day, but it can peak at ten or twenty around PyCon, when the members' meeting is held and we have major business to deal with.

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