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PSF Fellow Nominations

PSF Fellow Nominations are added to this page. Please send your nomination to psf-fellow@python.org.

More info about the nomination process can be found here: https://www.python.org/psf/fellows/

Nominations

Please add new nominations here and also post them to the psf-members mailing list.

Example Entry: Joe User

I, John Doe, propose that Joe User be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contributions to the Python community as a co-founder of the PyCon Foobar regional conference, a lead organizer for the 2011 and 2012 editions of the Marsian Python community's flagship Python conference, MarsPython and as a long-term contributor to international collaborative efforts amongst the Marsian Python community.

2018 Q2 Nominations

=== Rizky Ariestiyansyah === I, Ady Rahmat MA, propose that Rizky Ariestiyansyah be recognized as a Fellow of Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contriubtions to the Python Community as a Founder of the PyCon Indonesia and who was successfully bring the first PyCon to Indonesia. Rizky Ariestiyansyah, has been travel through various of countries for attending PyCon as Speakers such as PyCon Japan, PyCon APAC, PyCon My, PyCon HK. Rizky is an active contributor to Python Indonesia Community.


2018 Q1 Nominations

Ernest W. Durbin III

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Ernest W. Durbin III be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his enormous contributions to the PSF's ecosystem. Ernest has volunteered endless hours triaging infrastructure issues and implementing improvements. Some examples include Python Package Index (PyPI) modernization, mail.python.org recovery, the PSF's salt configurations, and us.pycon.org improvements. Additionally, Ernest is the PyCon Conference Chair for 2018 and 2019 happening in Cleveland, OH and is very active towards making the conference diverse and welcoming to all.

Eyitemi Egbejule

I, Chukwudi Nwachukwu, do nominate Eyitemi Egbejule, a Cybersecurity Consultant/Researcher and a founding member of the NaijaSecForce Security Community (organizers of NaijaSecCon). Eyitemi Egbejule is also a founding member of the Python Nigeria Community, member of the community's board and also a member of the organizing committee of the just concluded PyCon NG 2017 in Nigeria. He is currently an Independent Member of the Django Software Foundation. On the side, Eyitemi is actively involved in Girl Tech Education by mentoring Girls in programming and Cybersecurity, and he has coached at over 18 Django Girls Events in West Africa. Eyitemi Egbejule has gone to where we couldn't go! He has touched lives- he is passionate about helping push for Python usage in Nigeria and beyond.

Michael Kennedy

I, Musharraf O. Elbushra, propose that Michael Kennedy be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contributions to the Python community through the popular podcasts he hosts. Through his efferts beginning and seasoned python developers can follow up with what is new in the python community as well as getting in depth interviews on the latest and trending in the python world. All of this make the python community more vibrant and accessible to new pythonistas.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like to propose that Nathaniel Smith be recognized as a PSF Fellow. Nathaniel has been instrumental in making manylinux an option for binary wheels, has made numpy infinitely easier to install, is a CPython contributor, and is entirely selfless with his time. He absolutely deserves recognition for his huge efforts to improve the Python ecosystem. Nominated by Paul Kehrer Feb 8, 2018

Amber Brown

I, Nick Coghlan, propose that Amber Brown be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due primarily to her significant contributions to the Python community by way of the Twisted asynchronous event handling project [1] that provided the core inspiration for the native asynchronous event handling capabilities in Python 3. In addition to serving as the project's release manager since 2013, Amber was also the primary driver of the modernisation effort that saw Twisted ported to Python 3 (funded in part by a PSF grant), and in ensuring that Twisted interoperates with asyncio and the native coroutine syntax added in recent Python 3.x releases.

Beyond Twisted, Amber is also an active participant in the Django community (including serving as a member of the Django Software Foundation's Code of Conduct committee), a Django Girls organiser and mentor here in Australia, and a regular participant in community conferences here and overseas (including keynoting DjangoCon Australia and PyCon Czech Republic in 2015 [3], speaking at the Python Language Summit [4] and keynoting PyCon Taiwan in 2016, and organising the development sprints at PyCon Australia in 2017).


2017 Q4 Nominations

Alex Gronholm

I, Darin Gordon, propose that Alex Gronholm be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contributions to the Python community. Alex has been an active member of the Python community for a long time. He has authored projects used by many, such as apscheduler [1] and the Asphalt asyncio framework [2]. For years, Alex has been a main point of support on Freenode's #sqlalchemy channel, helping countless new users of the ORM. Alex speaks at conferences and has recently talked on podcastinit about Asphalt. For these reasons, and more, Alex has earned to be recognized as a fellow.

[1] apscheduler: https://github.com/agronholm/apscheduler [2] asphalt: https://github.com/asphalt-framework/asphalt

Vijay Kumar

I, Anand Pillai (PSF Fellow: Elected 2010), would like to make a recommendation for PSF Fellow for Vijay Kumar - vijaykumar@bravegnu.org . Vijay Kumar is a technologist and trainer specializing in Embedded Systems using Python and Linux at Chennai, India. He has been volunteering for GNU/Linux User Groups, doing talks and organizing workshops, since 2001. Since 2011, he has been co-ordinating the activities of Chennaipy, the Chennai Python User Group. He has been instrumental in building an active community of Python developers in the Chennai region. In the past 5 years, he has done over 50 talks at Chennaipy[1] - and mentored multiple other Pythonistas at Chennai in honing their speaking and Python skills. Vijay also does live embedded workshops using Python and has given a number of very successful talks at PyCon India and at monthly meetings across other Python meetups in cities in South India. [2], [3] His work was recognized by the PSSI, with the Kenneth Gonsalves Award, for the year 2015. He has contributed to regional Python conferences as a core organizing member for PyCon India (2015)[4] and for PyConf Hyderabad (2017).[5] He is one of the top-most Embedded Python researchers and educators in India[6] at the moment and is a pioneer in this field with his tireless efforts. The recommendation is mainly to acknowledge his efforts in making a local Python chapter successful and also to encourage his efforts with education of Embedded Python in the country - mainly among college students and early adopters.

[1]: http://chennaipy.org/ [2]: http://bangalore.python.org.in/blog/2017/07/15/jul-workshop/ [3]: http://www.zilogic.com/blog/report-workshop-embedded-linux-pyconfhyd.html [4]: https://in.pycon.org/2015/team.html [5]: http://pyconf.hydpy.org/ [6]: http://www.zilogic.com/author/vijaykumar.html

Tania Rebeca Allard

I, Jaime Mendes, propose Tania Rebeca Allard to be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation. Tania is an active member of the Python community, she is an active open source developer and a valuable contributor to the European project: Open Dream Kit. As such she has developed tools and software to improve the research and learning approaches of those using Python and the Jupyter ecosystem. addition to this she has developed numerous tutorials, courses and additional materials for the adequate teaching of Python and its numerous applications: from scientific software development to web development and finally machine learning and data science. Her courses have been taught at undergraduate levels, as well as at professional levels for Research software engineers from all over the world. She is also a frequent public speaker and attends local meetups, and conferences usually sharing her passion for Python, open science, and reproducible research. Tania also is a certified Software and Data carpentry instructor and has been around the UK teaching best practices. For the next year, she will travel to Canada and Latin America to teach and speak about reproducible science and best practices for scientific software development. In addition, over the last year, she has been the Python lead instructor for Code First Girls at Manchester and Sheffield. CodeFirst Girls is organisation aimed to increase the number of females in the tech scene. She has been recognised as an instructor of the month by her students and fellow instructors, due to her passion, and innovative approach to teaching Python. She is a passionate diversity and inclusivity advocate and her efforts to make the scientific community go further than this: she plans to open a UK NorthWest Pyladies chapter is currently the only chapter in the UK is located in London. This new chapter will aim to bring together enthusiast Pythonistas from Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Stockport, and surrounding areas.

What is more, she has been in the organising committee for the Research Software Engineer and Julia conferences, acting as diversity chair for both of those events. As such, she has liaised with a number of communities from all over the world to increase the representation of under scripted groups within the conferences, not only as attendees but also as presenters and tutorial providers. For this, she has secured funding from various sources ( Inc Moore Foundation) to provide diversity scholarships as well as provided mentorship for first-time speakers and those coming from under scripted backgrounds. She also is the founder of Code Foundation an initiative aimed to increase the number of female and queer individuals entering computer science and tech-related undergraduate courses. Such initiative seeks to build a strong community of like-minded individuals as well as serve as a collection of resources aimed to help the individuals to acquire both soft and technical skills to develop their careers. Also, Coding Foundation has been accepted and developed within the competitive Mozilla Open Leaders programme. She is also attending the upcoming NUMFocus Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Computing unconference (an invite-only event, with a total of 50 attendees). Also, in addition to her role as an instructor for the Software carpentry, she is helping to translate some of the lessons to Spanish in order to expand the reach of the carpentries to Latin America. She is an avid advocate for reproducible science and she is currently working for a number of projects in this area.

Richard Kellner

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Richard Kellner be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation due to his significant contributions to the Python community as the founder of PyCon Slovakia (https://2018.pycon.sk/sk/) and being the lead organizer for PyCon SK 2016, 2017, and the upcoming 2018 conference. The conference has an influential Education Track and the conference strives to be inclusive and diverse thanks to Richard's work. Additionally, he makes an effort to hire underrepresented locals to help with the conference for maximum community impact. Richard's efforts include traveling to other PyCons around Europe. During these trips he meets with organizers and discusses organizational hurdles and best practices. Additionally, Richard has been organizing the monthly Python user group in Bratislava since 2015. Many local organizers can learn a lot from Richard and I look forward to the continual impact he will have on the Python community.

Ola Sitarska

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Ola Sitarska be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation due to her significant contributions to the Python community as the co-founder of the Django Girls organization. Thanks to Ola's work, the educational program has reached over 50 countries and more than 4,000 participants. Their online tutorial has reach over 650,000 people. Additionally, the tutorial has been translated into 14 languages. Ola's work continues to make the Python community grow and be more diverse. Furthermore, Ola was one of the main organizers of DjangoCon Europe 2013.

Aleksandra Sendecka

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Aleksandra Sendecka be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation due to her significant contributions to the Python community as the co-founder of the Django Girls organization. Thanks to Aleksandra's work, the educational program has reached over 50 countries and more than 4,000 participants. Their online tutorial has reach over 650,000 people. Additionally, the tutorial has been translated into 14 languages. Aleksandra's work continues to make the Python community grow and be more diverse. Furthermore, Aleksandra was one of the main organizers of DjangoCon Europe 2013 and has co-organized Django Sprints in Krakow, Poland.

Ivaylo Bachvarov

I, Antonia Yordanova, propose that Ivaylo Bachvarov be recognized as Python Software Foundation Fellow, due to him significant contibution to Bulgarian Python community. Ivaylo is a full-stack Python and Django developer since 2012. He has always been interested in Python as a Web Development Platform. He has contributed to improve Python projects related to web development like CookieCutter Django. For the last 5 years Ivaylo actively served the Python and Django commumity in Bulgaria. He has teached more than 150 people as a Python and Django lecturer in free courses, Q&A sessions and CodeWeek events, participates in many meetups and promoting Python. He is one of the founders and currnetly CTO at HackSoft. I have had the privilege to work with Ivaylo closely for the last 4 years. He is not only a developer, he keeps a special part of his heart for Python and Django. I believe Ivaylo is a perfect representation of your fellow profile.

Belinda Weaver

I, Nick Coghlan, propose that Belinda Weaver be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to her significant contributions to the Python community as the organiser of the first Software Carpentry bootcamp hosted in Queensland (teaching Python to researchers at the University of Queensland), founder of the Brisbane edition of the Research Bazaar open source data science event, and active contributions to the Software Carpentry education community (which eventually led to her attaining the position of Community Development Lead with that organisation [1]). She has organised or taught at more than 20 Software Carpentry workshops in 5 Queensland cities, is the lead organiser for Library Carpentry (which targets librarians rather than research scientists) and is a trainer for additional Carpentry workshop instructors in Australian and New Zealand. [1] https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2017/06/community-developement-lead.html

Filip Kłębczyk

I, Richard Kellner, propose that Filip Kłębczyk (fklebczyk@gmail.com), be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation. Filip made significant contributions to the Python community as a PyCon PL regional conference, a lead organizer for 2017, 2016 and 2015 as far as I can confirm. I have been visiting and volunteering at this conferences and they were organized in high standard. As far as I could go into the history of the websites: https://pl.pycon.org/2010/organizatorzy.html in 2010 he was part of the organizational team. And as far as the talks go the first PyCon PL was in 2007 and Filip was there as well (I have no proof, this is just word of mouth). Filip is active in the community more than a decade and he does the volunteering work. Therefore I think Filip's work should be officially recognized! I have started to organize PyCon SK in 2015 and we had the first conference in 2016 and Filip was the supporting community member who went the extra mile and came to Bratislava to out very first meetup to support the community growth. We told him our ideas about PyCon SK and he was willing to share his 8 years of experience with PyCon PL. Without him, we wouldn't be able to organize our first conference at such high level.

Selena Deckelman

I, Nick Coghlan, propose that Selena Deckelman be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to her significant contributions to the Python community as the founder of the PyLadies Portland chapter [1], as an advocate for improved collaboration between open source contributors and local teachers [2], and as an elected member of the 2014/15 PSF Board [3].

[1] http://www.chesnok.com/daily/2013/02/23/why-pyladies/ [2] http://pyvideo.org/speaker/selena-deckelmann.html [3] https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/history/#selena-deckelmann

Juan Luis Cano

(Spain) Python in Aeronautics and Community

Nominated by Naomi Ceder

Andy Dirnberger

I, Jon Banafato, nominate Andy Dirnberger to be recognized as a Python Software Foundation Fellow. He works tirelessly to support the Python community in New York City, serving as an organizer for local meetups (most notably NYC Python [1]) since 2012 and the co-chair of PyGotham [2] since 2014. During this time, he was instrumental in growing NYC Python to over 10,000 members and PyGotham to nearly 550 checked-in attendees in 2017. His continued efforts are often behind the scenes, ensuring that events run smoothly and that any issues are resolved with minimal impact to the events and attendees. Andy not only improves the community through his work, he also pushes the other organizers around him to be better as well.

Mario Corchero

(Spain) PyCon ES organizer, advocate for Python in corporate settings.

Nominated by Naomi Ceder

Mabel Delgado

(Spain)Tireless worker for Python in Spain

Nominated by Naomi Ceder

Mai Giménez

(Spain) Because beautiful is better than ugly

Nominated by Naomi Ceder

Yamila Moreno

(Spain) Single-handly created PyConES, active in all areas, respected leader.

code

organizing python events:

teaching

coordinating others

Nominated by Naomi Ceder

Mário Sergio Queiroz

(Brazil) Dedicated to building community in Brazil

Nominated by Naomi Ceder

Fernando Masanori Ashkinaga

(Brazil) Global Python educator and diversity advocate

Nominated by Naomi Ceder

Chukwudi Nwachukwu

(Nigeria)Leader of Nigerian Python Community

Nominated by Naomi Ceder

Don Sheu

I would like to propose Don Sheu as a fellow of the PSF. Don has been one of the core coordinator of Startup Row at PyCon since 2014 and he is the founder of the Seattle Python user group.

In his role with the Startup Row, he has traveled to nearly a dozen cities to coordinate pitch nights, he has spent countless hours reaching out to young companies, potential judges, and reviewing applications. He has demonstrated diligence and availability to help selected companies arrange their trip to PyCon and get the most of the experience in the expo hall.

In his role as the founder of the Seattle Python User Group, he has reached out to numerous speakers, secured sponsorship agreements with local Python-using companies, and trained a team of a dozen co-organizers. The Seattle Python user group features an active community of 4500 members on Meetup.com. Bi-monthly meetups and project nights are routinely attended by over 150 members, which is largely thanks to Don's dedication in fostering this community that did not exist as recently as 5 years ago.

On top of the above, Don has been one of the instigator and is actively involved with PyCascades, a local conference targeting the Pacific Northwest of North America and that is well on it's way to have it's inaugural event in January 2017.

In light of these accomplishments and sustained dedication to fostering a strong Python community in Seattle and beyond, I would like Don to be considered as a fellow member of the PSF.

Nominated by Yannick Gingras

Donald Stufft

I, Nick Coghlan, propose that Donald Stufft be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contributions to the Python community as the founder of the Warehouse project to modernise the Python Package Index infrastructure, the current lead maintainer for both pypi.python.org and pypi.org, prolific contributor to the Python packaging tools ecosystem, and co-creator and maintainer of the ensurepip module in the Python standard library.

Piotr Dyba

I, Agata Skamruk (Bublewicz), propose that Piotr Dyba be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contributions to the Python community. Peter is a organizer and mentor at the cyclical Pyladies workshop and a organizer and meta mentor at the weekend workshop. Has experience in Python projects, both in work and in social work.

Russell Keith-Magee

I, Katie McLaughlin, propose that Russell Keith-Magee be recognised as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contributions to the Python community as, and not limited to:

Cristoph Gohlke

I, Martin Gfeller, like to nominate Cristoph Gohlke (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/) of Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine as PSF fellow. Christoph's repository of compiled Python packages (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/) makes using Python on the Windows 64-bit much easier, and feasible for those without compiling skills. This contribution to the ecosystem shows technical excellence and dedication to keep all packages up to date. By making Python 3 version of packages available since quite some time, he also helped transition to Python 3 for Windows users. I believe his work is widely used, but not widely acclaimed, so in my opinion, he deserves recognition for this very valuable service. I had never a need to contact him, because the latest packages are always compiled and already there as soon as I have a need.

Manuel Kaufmann

I, Johanna Sanchez, propose Manuel Kaufmann to be recognized as Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contributions to the Python communities in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) with the project Argentina in Python (https://argentinaenpython.com).

Manuel Kaufmann has organized more than 50 events to promote and share knowledge about Python programming at different audience levels from beginner to advanced. Some of these events are registered in the "Past Events" section (https://argentinaenpython.com/eventos/#eventos-pasados). Within these spaces it has taken into account the inclusion of women in technology, organizing more than 15 Django Girls workshops throughout all Latin America. Gallery with a lot of pictures from most of all his events: - https://argentinaenpython.com/galeria/ Blog post written by others about his latest participation in events:- http://blog.djangogirls.org/post/165656387217/this-blog-post-was-written-by-jorge-namour-thank, - http://pybaq.co/blog/como-fue-organizar-primer-django-girls-barranquilla/ He is currently supporting the organizers of PyCon Colombia 2018 as a collaborator and nexus with the PSF as sponsor. - https://www.pycon.co Finally, has been invited to participate as Keynote Speaker in PyCon Spain 2016 (https://youtu.be/e0500NDu2tA) and will soon be in PyCon Brazil 2017.

Second nomination:

I, Gonzalo Peña-Castellanos propose that Manuel Kauffman be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contributions to the Python community in Latin America as a co-founder of the Argentina en Python Project (argentinaenpython.com/), and as a long-term contributor to international collaborative efforts amongst the Colombian Python community, via the Python Colombia and Django Girls Colombia communities.

Third nomination:

I, Lucio Delelis, would like to nominate Manuel "humitos" Kaufmann as a Fellow of the PSF for his incredible contribution to spreading the use and knowledge of Python in all of Latin America. Manuel started his journey through Argentina in 2014 with the goal of promoting the use of Python and Free Software across the country. Finally, after 2015, he set his goal higher: to promote both these concepts across all Latin America. His journey is being documented on his website: https://argentinaenpython.com

Fourth nomination:

I, Juan Bagnera, would like to nominate Manuel Kaufmann (Humitos) as a Fellow of the PSF for his incredible contribution to spreading the use and knowledge of Python in all of Latin America. Manuel started his journey through Argentina in 2014 with the goal of promoting the use of Python and Free Software across the country. Finally, after 2015, he set his goal higher: to promote both these concepts across all Latin America. His journey is being documented on his website: https://argentinaenpython.com


2017 Q3 Nominations

Brian Ray

I, Don Sheu, propose that Brian Ray founder of Chicago Python user group is recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, due to his significant contributions to the Python community of organizing one of the oldest and largest user groups in the world for over 12 years. Chicago Python ("ChiPy") has fostered such important contributors to Python and computer science like Aaron Swartz the creator of RSS and founder of Reddit, Adrian Holovaty the creator of Django, Mike Cafarella creator of Hadoop, John Hunter creator of MatPlotLib, and Harper Reed the CTO for the Obama for America campaign and credited with winning the 2012 election. Brian has also contributed to and launched open source and free software projects.

Dusty Phillips

I, Don Sheu, propose that Dusty Phillips author of Python 3 Object Oriented Programming and Production Engineer at Facebook is recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation. In addition to his significant contributions as an author of high quality books on Python subjects, Dusty founded Puget Sound Programming Python ("PuPPy") in August 2014. In less than a year, PuPPy has attracted nearly 1000 members and holds monthly meetings that draw over 100. The most recent meeting in June hosted by Google drew attendance of over 170. Dusty booked speakers like Larry Hastings, Lukasz Langa, Jack Diederich, Carlos Guestrin, and several founders of successful Python-using Seattle startups.

Peter Inglesby

Peter has served the UK Python community through his extraordinary efforts to ensure the continuity of the PyCon UK conference. Under his tenure, the size of the conference has grown continuously as has the team of voluntary organisers.

His leadership has ensured the longevity of the event and the continued existence and improvement of a vital event in the life of the UK Python community.

- Nominated by Own Campbell May 2017

Daniele Procida

Daniele has served the Python community through his sustained contributions to PyCon and DjangoCon conferences around the world as an organiser, speaker, mentor and teacher.

As the conference director for PyCon UK, he has overseen continuous growth in participation and has used that experience to help other conferences in their efforts to bring Python to a wider audience. A notable example is his work over three years to organise, establish and nurture PyCon Namibia to the point where it is now self-sustaining.

Daniele is a member of the Django Software Foundation board and one of the leading members of the Python community in Cardiff. After organising the first Django conference in the UK in Cardiff in 2014 he not only went on to organise DjangoCon Europe 2015 but also is a founding member of the Cardiff Python user group meetup (PyDiff) which has grown to be an event regularly hosting 30 attendees.

His commitment to nurturing beginner programmers and inexperienced conference speakers has been exemplary and he is a vocal champion of diversity and the support of minority communities at Python events.

As a mentor and teacher, Daniele has helped many programmers make their first contribution to open source software through his well regarded "Don't be afraid to commit" tutorial.

Daniele has become one of the premier PyCon organisers on an international scale and, whenever he is the conference chair, the event is diverse, welcoming, well-organised and educational for all. Many are members of the Python community simply as a result of his commitment and effort.

- Nominated by Own Campbell May 2017 - Nominated by Nicholas Tollervey July 2017

Carrie Anne Philbin

for all her international work promoting Python in education.

- Nominated by Nicholas Tollervey July 2017

Corinne Welsh

for organising and volunteering to run educational workshops in London that promote Python in education

- Nominated by Nicholas Tollervey July 2017

Cory Benfield

for being a prime mover in PyCon UK and for his continued work as the maintainer of "requests" (among many other things).

- Nominated by Nicholas Tollervey July 2017

Damien George

for single handedly creating a new port of Python to microcontrollers and volunteering work for the micro:bit project.

- Nominated by Nicholas Tollervey July 2017

Dan Pope

for his educational work on PyGame Zero, being a long-term "cat herder" at the London Python Code Dojo and for taking over the PSF massages at EuroPython after the passing of Rob Collins (who should be moved into the deceased fellows section on the website).

- Nominated by Nicholas Tollervey July 2017

Jackie Kazil

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Jacqueline Kazil be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation due to her contributions to the Python community. Jackie has been a local organizer of Python events for several years. In addition to that, Jackie has managed the PSF Grants Work Group and continues to help organize PyLadies events at PyCon such as the Auction and Luncheon that happen every year. Jackie has served on the PSF Board for two years.

Ruben Orduz

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Ruben Orduz be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation due to his significant contributions to the Python community. Ruben has been the PyCon US Tutorial Committee chair for several years. In that role, Ruben has guided the committee members, helped reviewers, created final schedules, communicated with instructors, and helped with financial organization to name a few. Ruben is also supporting our sponsorship efforts. Additionally, Ruben has been dedicate to representing the PSF at any Python event he attends around the world.

Carol Willing

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Carol Willing be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation due to her significant contributions to the Python community. Carol is an active organizer of the PyLadies San Diego group. Carol has served on the PSF board for two years. Additionally, Carol has been a member of the PyCon tutorial committee. Furthermore, Carol has been a great mentor to women in the Python community and she continues to lead in diversity efforts.

Łukasz Langa

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Łukasz Langa be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation due to his significant contributions to the Python language. Łukasz has been a dedicated core developer for several years. Additionally, he has also taken on the task of organizing yearly Sprints for the core devs.

Lorena Mesa

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Lorena Mesa be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation due to her significant contributions to the Python community. Lorena has been a very active local organizer for Python events in the Chicago area. Lorena has served on the PSF Board for two years. Additionally, Lorena does a lot of outreach in the Caribbean area and supports the growth of that community

Brian Costlow

I, Ewa Jodlowska, propose that Brian Costlow be recognized as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation due to his significant contributions to the Python community. Brian has been a PyOhio organizer for many years and continues to support his local community. Additionally, Brian has been a devoted volunteer at PyCon US helping with Captioning services.

Laura Cassell

Author, Python Projects; Founder, PyLadies Atlanta, Mentor, Manager, overall awesome person. Nominated by Brandy Porter.

Aisha Bello

I, Adeola Adesina, nominates Aisha Bello to be a fellow of the Python Software Foundation. She's a lead organizer of Django girls Lagos as well as over 5 other Django girls event in Nigeria. She's the Vice chairperson of the Python Nigeria Community. Her selfless contribution as well as that of the Chairman, Chukwudi Nwachukwu, has made Python a popular programming language in Nigeria.

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