PSF Fellow Work Group Charter

Purpose & Common Goals

The purpose of this working group is to accept, review, discuss, and vote on new Fellow Member nominations.

Active Time

This workgroup will be active indefinitely until the PSF Board decides otherwise.

Core Values & Internal Government

The core values for this group are:

• Respect
• Support
• Positive Atmosphere
• Constructiveness
• Integrity

The workgroup adopts the PSF Code of Conduct (https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/). Any actions (found by a majority) made against the members in the Code of Conduct will result in the acting person being removed from the workgroup.

Rules & Guidelines

• When a nomination is received, it will be posted on https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundation/FellowNominations

• Approved Fellow Members will be minuted in the WGs monthly report as well as a monthly announcement to the membership
• The WG will attempt to resolve any application within three weeks of receipt.
• If/when a particular individual has a conflict of interest they will excuse themselves from any voting.

Decision Making Procedures

Members of this WG voting on new Fellow Members should take into account one or more of the following criteria:

• the candidate has been active as a managing or contributing member of the Python community for at least 3 years, or
• the candidate has initiated or significantly influenced a project within the Python community which has significantly increased the Python user base, has significant relevance for Python applications, or has had a significant impact on the public awareness of Python as a programming language, or
• the candidate has received an official Python community award (e.g. PSF Community Service Awards, Frank Willison Award).

When adding new members to the working group, prospective members must send an email to psf-fellow@python.org introducing themselves and they must be current PSF Fellow Members.

Voting

A vote for any member nomination will last for 5 days, or when all voting members have voted, whichever comes first. For a nomination vote to be approved, it must have a majority rule.

More details needed for voting procedures and how we communicate outcomes to the nominees and the public.

Communication Plan

The working group will communicate via mailing list (psf-fellow@python.org) and via Slack (the-psf.slack.com#psf-fellow). If needed, conference calls or additional communication channels can be set up.

Budget

No budget will be needed for this. Possibly in the future, this WG can address benefits of Fellow Membership beyond just recognition. At that time the WG will ask the PSF board for a budget.

Current PSF Fellow WG Budget

$0

Participants

• Naomi Ceder
• Kushal Das
• Ewa Jodlowska
• Thomas Wouters
• Bruno Rocha