Hi everyone,
The PSF board meeting minutes from 3rd April are available online at [1].
There were 9 directors present in the meeting. Ewa Jodlowksa (Director
of Operations), Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer), Betsy Waliszewski (Event
Planner and Administrator), Phyllis Dobbs (Controller/Assistant
Treasurer Accountant), (Mark Mangoba (IT Manager) were also in
attendance.
The sponsor working group approved UK Web Host Review and Accelebrate
as Iron level sponsors of PSF.
The Python Software Foundation also awarded the 2017 Frank Willison
Award to Katie Cunningham and Barbara Shaurette in recognition of
their continuing work to create and run their Young Coders classes,
along with freely distributing their teaching materials.
The following grants were also approved from our last meeting, totaling
$32087.46
* PyLadies Toronto meetup fee
$179.88
* PuPPy User Group
$269.82
* PyLadies London
$359.76
* Django Girls Jos, Nigeria workshop.
$750
* Django Girls São José dos Campos, Brazil
May 20, 2017
$750
* Django Girls Porto Alegre, Brazil
March 17, 2017
$1000
* Django Girls Accra, Ghana
June 16-17, 2017
$700
* Django Girls Faridabad
$400
* Django Girls Niterói
$500
* PyCode Czech Republic
April 7-9, 2017
$600
* Django Girls Maceió, Brazil
May 12-13, 2017
$500
* Django Girls Florence, Italy
April 2, 2017
$538
* Django Girls Gurgaon, India
April 9, 2017
$400
* PyCon APAC 2017
$3000
* Django Girls Warri, Nigeria
April 29, 2017
$600
* Python Programming Society of Namibia for lab equipment to be used
at the Windhoek Technical High School
$1000
* Django Girls Arapiraca, Brazil
August 26th, 2017
$500
* Django Girls Belo Horizonte, Brazil
May 27th, 2017
$500
* Django Girls Enugu State, Nigeria
April 27-28, 2017
$800
* Django Girls Sokoto, Nigeria
April 6, 2017
$740
* PyData San Luis, Argentina
November 16-18, 2017
$750
* PyConWEB 2017, Berlin
May 27-28, 2017
$2000
* PyLadies Taiwan Line Bot Workshop
May 13, 2017
$800
* PyCon CZ
June 9-11, 2017
2000€ ($2240 in today's value)
* SciPy Austin, TX
July 10-13, 2017
$2000
* Hapa Foundation Training Program in Kumasi, Ghana
$1250
* EuroPython 2017
July 9-16, Rimini, Italy
8000€ ($8960 in today's value)
For more updates from the PSF, please visit our blog[2] and follow us on
Twitter[3].
[1] https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2017-04-03/
[2] https://pyfound.blogspot.com/
[3] https://twitter.com/ThePSF
Kushal
--
Director, Python Software Foundation
Fedora Cloud Engineer
CPython Core Developer
http://kushaldas.in
After the final review round, we are now happy to announce the
complete list of more than 200 accepted sessions.
* EuroPython 2017 Session List *
https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/events/sessions/
Here’s what we have on offer:
- 5 keynotes
- 157 talks
- 20 trainings
- 10 posters
- 4 interactive sessions
- 5 help desks
- 2 EuroPython sessions
for a total of 203 sessions, arranged in 5 tracks from Monday, July
10, thru Friday, July 14, in addition to the Beginners’ Day and Django
Girls workshops on Sunday, July 9, and the Sprints on the weekend July
15-16.
Please see the session list for details and abstracts. In case you
wonder what poster, interactive and help desk sessions are, please
check the call for proposals:
https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/call-for-proposals/#Presenting-at-EuroPython
Additional help desk slots available
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We have 5 additional help desk slots available. If you are interested
in arranging one, please see our Call for Proposals for details and
contact program(a)europython.eu to submit your proposal. Organizers of
help desks are eligible for a 25% ticket discount.
Schedule to be announced next week
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Our program work group is now working hard on scheduling all these
sessions. We expect to announce the final schedule by the end of next
week.
We will use the same conference schedule layout as in previous years:
* Sunday, July 9: Beginners’ Day and Django Girls workshops;
registration desk opens
* Monday - Friday, July 10-14: Conference talks, trainings, keynotes,
help desks, interactive sessions, etc.
* Saturday - Sunday, July 15-16: Sprints
A typical conference day will open the venue at 08:30, have the first
session around 09:00 and end at 18:30. Lunch breaks are scheduled for
around 13:15. Please note that we don’t serve breakfast.
Aside: If you haven’t done yet, please get your EuroPython 2017 ticket
soon. We will switch to on-desk rates in June, which will cost around
30% more than the regular rates.
https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/registration/buy-tickets/
Enjoy,
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EuroPython 2017 Team
http://ep2017.europython.eu/http://www.europython-society.org/
PS: Please forward or retweet to help us reach all interested parties:
https://twitter.com/europython/status/868063669019697153
Thanks.
Hi,
As a part of the PSF's sponsorship of PyCon CZ, we have (4) free tickets
available. Please contact me if you are interested in attending.
https://cz.pycon.org/2017/
Best,
Betsy
--
Betsy Waliszewski
Python Software Foundation
Event Coordinator / Administrator
@betswaliszewski
We have received an amazing collection of proposals. Thank you all for
your submissions ! Given the overwhelming quality of the proposals, we
had some very difficult decisions to make. Nonetheless we are happy to
announce we have published the first 140+ sessions.
* EuroPython 2017 Sessions *
https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/events/sessions/
Here’s what we have on offer so far:
100 talks
19 trainings
10 posters
2 interactive sessions
5 help desks
2 EuroPython sessions
for a total of 138 sessions in addition to the 3 keynotes we have
already announced.
More sessions to come
---------------------
More sessions will be announced early next week and the full schedule
will follow. In total, we will again have more than 200 sessions
waiting for you.
Please see the session list for details and abstracts. In case you
wonder what poster, interactive and help desk sessions are, please
check the call for proposals:
https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/call-for-proposals/#Presenting-at-EuroPython
Aside: If you haven’t done yet, please get your EuroPython 2017 ticket
soon. We will switch to on-desk rates in June, which will cost around
30% more than the regular rates.
Enjoy,
--
EuroPython 2017 Team
http://ep2017.europython.eu/http://www.europython-society.org/
PS: Please forward or retweet to help us reach all interested parties:
https://twitter.com/europython/status/864785185098936320
Thanks.
Hi,
I just read this on reddit[0], a thread asking if PyPI packages are audited
and somebody pointed the `python-nation`[1] which is a harmful and useless
module, installing itself and sending the `/etc/passwd` content to external
endpoint.
The app receiving the data is hosted at http://python-nation.herokuapp.com
and as the PSF mission [2] says
The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and
advance the Python programming language
I wonder if there are some workgroup at PSF to handle this? and not only
the specific case of `python-nation` which should be deleted and the user
banned maybe, But also to handle the audit of other packages?
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/697da2/does_
pypi_review_code_thats_uploaded/
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/697da2/does_
pypi_review_code_thats_uploaded/dh4uyf8/
[2] https://www.python.org/psf/mission/
Cheers,
--
*Bruno Rocha - @rochacbruno <http://twitter.com/rochacbruno>*
http://brunorocha.org
Dear PSF members,
We will host a PSF Members Lunch at PyCon US Portland, OR for those that
are registered for the conference. If you are a new or long-time PSF
member, it would be great to meet you in person.
- Day/time: Saturday May 20, 2017, 12:40pm local time
- Location: Oregon Convention Center, Room F150-F151
- Menu:
- Salad option for all: Spinach and Curly Endive - strawberries,
Briar Rose Creamery goat cheese, black pepper honey Regular: Roasted
Breast of Chicken Roulade - local forest mushroom ragout, white cream
garlic sauce, garlic chips Portobello Napoleon (GF & LF) - grilled
portobello mushrooms, eggplant, roasted pepper, tomato coulis, basil oil
- Special dietary meals will be provided for those that request one
in the RSVP below.
- *RSVP by May 10, 2017: **https://goo.gl/forms/ebuLxsNmMSx3ieIQ2
<https://goo.gl/forms/ebuLxsNmMSx3ieIQ2>*
- Agenda:
- get to know some of the 2017/18 PSF Board candidates
- mingling with members
Best regards,
Ewa
Director of Operations
Python Software Foundation
Hi,
Are you interested in running for the PSF Board 2017/18 term? Please read
through & add your nomination here: https://wiki.python.org/
moin/PythonSoftwareFoundation/BoardCandidates2017.
*The deadline to submit a nomination is May 25, 2017 11:59pm AoE*:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=
Nomination+Deadline&iso=20170525T2359&p1=3926
Thanks,
Ewa Jodlowska
Director of Operations
At EuroPython, we let our attendees have a significant say in the
selection of the sessions which are presented at the conference.
We call this "talk voting" - attendees can tell us which submitted
talks they’d like to see at the conference.
To be eligible to vote for talks, you need to be a registered attendee
of the current EuroPython, or attendee of the past two EuroPython
conferences.
How talk voting works
---------------------
Please log in and proceed to
* https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/speakers/talk-voting/
to vote for talks.
The talk voting page lists all submitted proposals, including talks,
trainings and posters.
At the top of the page you find a few filters you can use to narrow
down the list by e.g. selecting tags you’re interested in or only show
one type of proposal and also to select the sorting order.
For each submission, you can find the talk title with a link to the
talk page.
In order to vote, have a look at the title/abstract and then indicate
your personal interest in attending this session. We have simplified
the voting process and you may chose between these four options:
- must see
- want to see
- maybe
- not interested
If you have questions about the talk, you can go to the talk page and
enter a comment.
Note that your votes are automatically saved to the backend without
the need to click on a save or submit button.
Talk selection
--------------
After the talk voting phase, the EuroPython Program Workgroup (WG)
will use the votes to select the talks and build a schedule.
The majority of the talks will be chosen based on the talk voting
results. Part of the available slots will be directly assigned by the
Program WG based on editorial criteria to e.g. increase diversity or
give a chance to less mainstream topics.
In general, the Program WG will try to give as many speakers a chance
to talk as possible. If speakers have submitted multiple talks, the
one with the highest rate will most likely get selected.
Enjoy,
--
EuroPython 2017 Team
http://ep2017.europython.eu/http://www.europython-society.org/
PS: Please forward or retweet to help us reach all interested parties:
https://twitter.com/europython/status/859021545066430464
Thanks.