Mailman 3 April 2011 - pydotorg-www

Wiki bookmarks do not persist
by anatoly techtonik May 16, 2011

May 16, 2011

Every week or so my RecentChanges bookmark is set to something like 2010-09-30. I noticed this last week and set it to be 2011-01-05. Now I see it is reset again. What is going on? -- anatoly t.

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Jython wiki is still getting spammed
by Skip Montanaro April 26, 2011

April 26, 2011

The Jython wiki still gets spammed on a fairly regular basis. The TextChas seem not to be helping. The format of all the spam I've been deleting is roughly the same, so I'm pretty sure there's a bot at work. That suggests to me that either there is a human helper to get past the TextChas or they aren't being applied when they should be. (I get prompted whenever I edit the LocalBadContent page, so they are active in certain circumstances.) Can someone look into this? I don't have the time nor the expertise with more recent releases of MoinMoin. Thx, Skip

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2011-2012 Board Officers & Board Members – Please Update Web Pg.
by Pat Campbell April 24, 2011

April 24, 2011

Hi Pydotorg: Could you please update the following Python website pages by adding the new information below? Update web page here: http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/history/ Please add the year 2011-2012 link to "Officers & Directors by Year” Then, add Jesse Noller, PyCon Chair to the 2011-2012 list of new officers and directors and remove Van Lindberg, PyCon Chair from the list (see below): 2011-2012 Officers: Guido van Rossum, President Steve Holden, Chairman Pat Campbell, Secretary Kurt Kaiser, Treasurer Doug Hellmann, Communications Jesse Noller, PyCon Chair Board of Directors: Raymond Hettinger Steve Holden Marc-Andre Lemburg Martin von Löwis David Mertz Doug Napoleone Jesse Noller Tim Peters Allison Randal Jeff Rush Greg Stein James Tauber Gloria Willadsen Also, please update web page here: http://www.python.org/psf/members/ Please add Jesse Noller, PyCon Chair to the list of Officers as shown below and remove Van Lindberg, PyCon Chair from the list: Officers Guido van Rossum, President Steve Holden, Chairman Pat Campbell, Secretary Kurt Kaiser, Treasurer Doug Hellmann, Communications Jesse Noller, PyCon Chair If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks, Pat -- Pat Campbell PSF Administrator/Secretary patcam(a)python.org

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PSF- Board Meeting Minutes -Approved- January, Feb., & March 2011
by Pat Campbell April 23, 2011

April 23, 2011

Hello Pydotorg: Could you please post the following "PSF board meeting minutes" online, http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/ at the usual web locations: please see the attachments for the approved board meeting minutes for January, February, and March 2011. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks, Pat -- Pat Campbell PSF Administrator/Secretary patcam(a)python.org

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New Members to Membership Roster WebPage – Please Add
by Pat Campbell April 23, 2011

April 23, 2011

Hi Pydotorg Team: Please add the 2011 new members to the members’ web page: http://www.python.org/psf/members/ *2011 - New Nominated Members:* Ned Batchelder Vern Ceder Rick Copeland Brian Curtin Maciej Fijalkowski Daniel Greenfeld Yannick Gingras Jonathan Hartley Philip Jenvey Brian K. Jones Jonathan LaCour Mike Orr Ronald Oussoren Fabio Pliger Lennart Regebro Gregory Smith Richard Taylor *2011 New Sponsor Members:* * * Online Degree Reviews, http://www.OnlineDegreeReviews.org<http://www.onlinedegreereviews.org/>, since April 2011, represented by Steve Rawlinson Uniblue Systems Ltd, http://www.uniblue.com/ , since April 2011, represented by Raffaele Bianco Werbeagentur Berlin / Eventelligence ltd.<http://www.werbeagentur-berlin.de/> ,, since August 2010, represented by Daniel Knappe Zimbio, http://www.zimbio.com , since April 2011, represented by Bruce Martin * * Thanks, Pat -- Pat Campbell PSF Administrator/Secretary patcam(a)python.org

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Board Resolutions from January through March 2011 Board Meetings
by Pat Campbell April 23, 2011

April 23, 2011

Hi pydotorg team: Could you please add the following board resolutions from the January through March 2011 board meeting to this web page: http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/resolutions/ Please see list of board resolutions to be added below: **RESOLVED**, that C Conservancy in recognition of the past and current work they have done on their PyPy Python implementation, including JIT and C extension support and in moving their Python implementation forward towards the 2.7 standard. The PSF recognizes the hard work and dedication the PyPy team has continually exhibited, and looks forward to supporting them in the future. Approved 9-2-2 by IRC vote, 24 January 2011. **RESOLVED**, that the 2011-Q1 PSF Community Service Award be made to Van Lindberg and Benjamin Peterson and announcement of the prospective award recipients will take place at the PyCon Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia in March 2011. Approved 13-0-0 by IRC vote, 24 January 2011. **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide USD $1,800 to Will Kahn-Greene to finance the Miro Community service costs for one year (USD $900) and continue to develop the Python Miro Community. Approved 10-1-1 by IRC vote, 28 February 2011. **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide a US$1,500 sponsorship funding to the PyCon AU 2011 conference to be held in Sydney, Australia. Approved 9-0-1 by IRC vote, 28 February 2011. **RESOLVED**, that the PSF approves the exploration and creation of a Request For Proposals (RFP) document outlining the requirements for an redesign and refresh of the current Python.org website, including front-end user interface and back end publishing and content creation system. The document will be put together by Jesse Noller (current PSF board member) and the acceptance and publishing of the document will be contingent on board approval. Approved 8-0-3 by IRC vote, 28 February 2011. **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide funding for the Read the Docs website (http://readthedocs.org/) hosting costs for a period of 12 months at the rate of $70 for a total amount of $840 for the next year. Approved 6-2-3 by IRC vote, 28 February 2011. **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide $2,000 to the 2011 EuroPython Conference to be held in Italy. Approved 9-0-0 by IRC vote, 21 March 2011. **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide $500 for travel expenses to Vern Ceder for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) speaking engagement to be held in Philadelphia, US, June 2011. Approved 10-0-0 by IRC vote, 21 March 2011. **RESOLVED**, that the Board of Directors recommends Online Degree Reviews to the membership, as a future sponsor member of the PSF. Approved 9-0-0 by IRC vote, 21 March 2011. **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide NZ$ 2,000 for Kiwi PyCon 2011 Conference to be held in New Zealand. Approved 8-2-0 by IRC vote, 21 March 2011. Thanks for posting the above resolutions online. If you have any questions, please let me know. Pat -- Pat Campbell PSF Administrator/Secretary patcam(a)python.org

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need new DNS entries for translations of Python Insider
by Doug Hellmann April 21, 2011

April 21, 2011

We have some volunteers ready to translate the posts on Python Insider into Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. We are going to host the translations on separate blogs, to make it easy for readers to follow the posts in their language of choice. We need to have a CNAME record for each blog pointing back to Google's name for the blogger host, just as with the main blog. I think Martin added the CNAME blog.python.org, but I don't know if anyone else has access to the DNS entries, so I am mailing the list again to ask someone to make the changes for us. These names: blog-es.python.org blog-ja.python.org blog-pt.python.org should all point to "ghs.google.com" A related question: Where DNS for python.org hosted? I don't see anything on dinsdale. The whois record seems to point to XS4ALL.NL DNS servers, so I guess they have a UI for editing the DNS settings? Thanks in advance, Doug

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Obsolete content in the /dev section
by Ned Deily April 20, 2011

April 20, 2011

This is an issue I originally brought up on the python-dev list here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/122072 > With the transition to the new devguide, references to the main page of > the old dev section of the website, http://www.python.org/dev/, redirect > to http://docs.python.org/devguide/, the main page of the new guide. > However, many links to some obsoleted sections of the old dev section > are out in the wild (and showing up prominently in Google searches) and > the webserver still seems to be serving up those obsolete links even > though they appear to have been deleted from the www repo, for instance, > the old links previously under Core Development on the left margin bar: > > http://www.python.org/dev/faq/ > http://www.python.org/dev/setup/ > http://www.python.org/dev/tools/ > etc > > I was going to suggest that the webserver be changed to redirect all > /dev/* references to /devguide/ but then I noticed that's it not that > simple as there are other valid links still under /dev: > > http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/ > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ > http://www.python.org/dev/pydotorg/ > http://www.python.org/dev/searchplugin/ > > So I think there are two issues here: > 1. deleted webpages cached by the webserver > 2. adding redirects from /dev/{faq|setup|tools| et al } to > docs.python.org/devguide I subsequently mentioned this to Georg on IRC and he successfully made the deleted webpages turn into 404's, I assume by deleted the stale files somewhere on the webserver. But then I noticed a day later or so that those deleted files had returned again. So apparently there's a caching issue somewhere that doesn't handle files deleted from svn. I also looked into the redirects and I see that Brett (who made the original changes to support the new devguide) had checked in a set of redirects to trunk/beta.python.org build/redirects.txt, the final version is at svn up -r13620. However, subsequently, build/redirects.txt has been deleted from svn (I'm guessing it wasn't really being used on the main server?) and it appears that the final state of those redirects are not currently in the production server config. Can somebody please add them and make the deleted files go away? Thanks. Here are the /dev redirects from the -r13620 (I have not investigated the other redirects in it): /dev/patches/ http://docs.python.org/devguide/patch.html /dev/faq/ http://docs.python.org/devguide/faq.html /dev/contributing/ http://docs.python.org/devguide/#contributing /dev/setup/ http://docs.python.org/devguide/setup.html /dev/intro/ http://docs.python.org/devguide/ /dev/workflow/ http://docs.python.org/devguide/triaging.html /dev/doc/ http://docs.python.org/devguide/docquality.html -- Ned Deily, nad(a)acm.org

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Fwd: PyCon Australia 2011: registrations now open
by Michael Foord April 20, 2011

April 20, 2011

Hey guys, Something for a news item I think. Michael -------- Original Message -------- Subject: PyCon Australia 2011: registrations now open Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:30:02 +1000 From: Ryan Kelly <ryan(a)rfk.id.au> To: webmaster(a)python.org Hi Everyone, I'm pleased to announce that registrations are now open for PyCon Australia 2011. PyCon Australia is Australia's only conference dedicated exclusively to the Python programming language, and will be held at the Sydney Masonic Center over the weekend of August 20 and 21. See below for more information and updates on: 1. Registration is now open 2. Classroom Track 3. Call For Proposals deadline approaching 4. Sponsors Announced Please pass this message on to those you feel may be interested. Registration Is Now Open ======================== We offer three levels of registration for PyCon Australia 2011. Registration provides access to two full days of technical content presented by Python enthusiasts from around the country, as well as the new classroom track and a seat at the conference dinner. We are currently offering a limited number of early-bird tickets, but get in quick because they are selling fast! Corporate - $440 If your company is paying for you to attend PyCon, please register at the corporate rate. You'll be helping to keep the conference affordable for all. Full (Early Bird) - $165 This is the registration rate for regular attendees. We are offering a limited Early Bird rate for the first 50 registrations until the end of May. Student - $44 For students able to present a valid student card we're offering this reduced rate, which does not include the conference dinner. All prices include GST. For more information or to register, please visit the conference website. Register here: http://pycon-au.org/reg Classroom Track =============== In addition to the standard technical talks, this year's conference will feature a "Classroom Track" designed specifically for tutorial style presentations. If you need to get up to speed on some of the latest language features and tools, this will be a great opportunity to learn fast in a supportive environment. Call For Proposals ================== We've had some great initial responses to the Call For Proposals, but there's still time left and plenty of program to fill. Remember, the deadline for proposal submission is the 2nd of May. That's just under two weeks away! We are looking for proposals for talks on all aspects of Python programming from novice to advanced levels; applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organisation. We're especially interested in short presentations that will teach conference-goers something new and useful. Can you show attendees how to use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package an application? We welcome first-time speakers; we are a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience. If you have friends or colleagues who have something valuable to contribute, twist their arms to tell us about it! Please also forward this Call for Proposals to anyone that you feel may be interested. The earlier you submit your proposal, the more time we will have to review and give you feedback before the program is finalised. Speakers receive free registration for the conference, including a seat at the conference dinner. Don't miss out, submit your proposal today! http://pycon-au.org/cfp Sponsors Announced ================== We are happy to announce our first set of sponsors. Thank you to the following companies for their continuing support of Python and for helping to make PyCon Australia 2011 a reality: Gold: Google<http://www.google.com.au/> Gold: Microsoft<http://www.microsoft.com.au/> Silver: Anchor<http://anchor.com.au/> Silver: Enthought<http://www.enthought.com/> Silver: Python Software Foundation<http://www.python.org/psf/> Thanks also to Linux Australia, who provide the overarching legal and organisational structure for PyCon Australia. Ryan Kelly PyCon Australia 2011

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Fwd: Fwd: [Python-Help] Found a broken link on your page
by Michael Foord April 17, 2011

April 17, 2011

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: [Python-Help] Found a broken link on your page Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:28:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Matthew Dixon Cowles <matt(a)mondoinfo.com> To: webmaster(a)python.org This originally sent to python-help. --- Beginning of forwarded message --- > From Angela Hill<angela.hill88(a)gmail.com> To help(a)python.org Subject [Python-Help] Found a broken link on your page Date Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:43:30 -0700 [Tue, 19:43 here] Hey Python, I found a broken link on http://www.python.org/doc/Newbies and since this link was something I was needing to research in the past few days, I found an updated article online. The broken link to "Non-Programmers Tutorial for Python" is http://www.honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut and I found an article on the front page of http://www.onlinecomputersciencedegree.com/ if you wanted to fix it. Click the tab "Beginner Python Tutorials" to get to the article. Figure I'd send you an email because others may need that link for the same reasons! Thanks Python Angela Hill angela.hill88(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-Help maillist - Python-Help(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-help --- End of forwarded message ---

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