At the PSF member meeting last week, there was lively discussion about two (very different) topics: the future of the Python conference, and the legal terms under which contributions to Python can be redistributed by the PSF. It was decided to create two open mailing lists to continue these valuable discussions, and hopefully come to concrete recommendations. I hereby invite everyone who considers themselves part of the Python community and wants their voice to be heard to sign up for either list. A brief description of the lists: conferences-discuss: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/conferences-discuss This list is intended for discussion of the future of the Python conference. Python10 was a big success, but behind the scenes there have been a lot of grumblings, and several alternatives have been proposed, e.g. a dirt cheap conference like Yet Another Perl Conference (held at a university, registration under $100, sleep in dorm rooms at $25/night), and/or moving in with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (more expensive but also much larger and varied than past Python conferences). Serious consideration should be given to doing both. On this list we'll try to agree on what to do and who will do it. Because of the lead time for organizing a conference, hope is that we'll reach agreement in the first few months of 2002 on how, where and when to hold Python11 in 2003. psf-forms-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-forms-discuss This is a short-lived discussion list set up to provide a forum for agreeing on PSF contributor's forms and procedures. Its charter lasts only until 15-Apr-2002. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)