From mfoord at python.org  Mon Dec  6 03:03:52 2010
From: mfoord at python.org (Michael Foord)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:03:52 +0000
Subject: [pydotorg-www] [PSF-Board] SciPy India Conference Grant - PSF
 Board Resolution Notification
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Hello Steve,

This seems to have slipped through the net. How about this for a news item:

The PSF is pleased to announce that it is provide a $1250 US grant to 
help fund sprints at the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in 
Hyderabad between December 13th to the 18th. This year SciPy India has 
over 20 scheduled talks and 30 talks in total which is a 300% increase 
on last year.

Michael Foord

On 23/11/2010 03:38, Steve Holden wrote:
> Prabhu:
>
> I am copying this mail to the web editors list, so that should take care
> of the news item. I am also copying it to Doug Hellmann. Expect to be
> contacted by a member of the blogging team in due course.
>
> regards
>   Steve
>
> On 11/22/2010 12:12 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>> Dear Pat and the PSF board,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your generous sponsorship!  I will send the
>> invoice in a couple of days.  A news item and blog post would be great
>> and I will get back on these in a couple of days.  The technical program
>> of the conference is finalized and this year we have over 20 scheduled
>> talks and 30 talks in total which is a whopping 300% increase since last
>> year.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Prabhu
>>
>> On Wednesday 17 November 2010 02:12 AM, Pat Campbell wrote:
>>> Hi Prabhu Ramachandran:
>>> This email notification is being sent to you to inform you of the PSF
>>> Board?s decision to provide funding in the amount of USD 1250 for your
>>> 2010 SciPy India Conference to be held in Hyderabad between December
>>> 13th to the 18th. Please see the following board resolution that was
>>> voted on and passed on November 15, 2010 below:
>>>
>>> RESOLVED, that the PSF provide a $1250 US grant to help fund sprints at
>>> the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in Hyderabad between December
>>> 13th to the 18th.
>>>
>>> Also, please send an invoice to our Treasurer, Kurt Kaiser, at
>>> kbk at shore.net  <mailto:kbk at shore.net>.
>>>
>>> If you would like a news item on the python.org<http://python.org/>
>>> home page or perhaps a blog entry somewhere, please mail your request to
>>> pydotorg at python.org  <mailto:pydotorg at python.org>.
>>>
>>> Wishing you much success with SciPy India 2010,
>>>
>>> Pat Campbell, Secretary
>>>
>>> Python Software Foundation
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran
>>> <prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in  <mailto:prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>      Dear PSF members,
>>>
>>>      As you know, the SciPy community is a well-established,
>>>      international, and growing group of scientists, engineers,
>>>      mathematicians, and software developers who use Python for
>>>      scientific computing.  Our community has formed around various
>>>      software packages including numpy, scipy, and matplotlib.  In
>>>      addition to these software libraries, our community has also grown
>>>      as a result of several annual conferences.  The first annual SciPy
>>>      conference in the US was held in 2002.  More recently, annual SciPy
>>>      conferences have started in both Europe and India. The first annual
>>>      SciPy India conference was held last year in Kerala (http://scipy.in
>>>      <http://scipy.in/>).
>>>
>>>      This year's SciPy India conference will be held in Hyderabad between
>>>      December 13th to the 18th.  The conference consists of two days of
>>>      talks, three days of a combination of morning tutorials and
>>>      afternoon coding sprints, as well as an additional full day of
>>>      sprints.  The adoption of Python for scientific programming is not
>>>      as wide-spread in India as it is in the US and Europe. Hence, the
>>>      conference focuses heavily on tutorials and coding sprints.
>>>
>>>      Since we are targeting students and faculty for the conference, it
>>>      is essential for us to keep the conference costs as low as possible
>>>      for attendees. To that end, most of the conference costs are covered
>>>      by FOSSEE (http://fossee.in  <http://fossee.in/>).  FOSSEE (Free and
>>>      Open-source Software for Science and Engineering Education) is a
>>>      three-year project to enable the students and faculty of Science and
>>>      Engineering colleges/institutes/universities across India to use
>>>      open source software tools for all their computational needs,
>>>      thereby improving the quality of instruction and learning.  While
>>>      there are a few other open source tools promoted by FOSSEE, Python
>>>      is a major focus.  In addition to this conference, FOSSEE has
>>>      conducted about 20 scientific programming in Python workshops across
>>>      India over the last year alone.
>>>
>>>      Given that many of the attendees will have little or no previous
>>>      experience with Python, the coding sprints will be structured to
>>>      familiarize participants on using Python as well as on how to
>>>      contribute back to the community.  Our plan for the sprints are as
>>>      follows:
>>>
>>>          * Text book companion: as part of this we will take a popular
>>>      math/physics textbook at the undergraduate level and convert all of
>>>      its worked out examples to use Python and Sage
>>>      (http://www.sagemath.org  <http://www.sagemath.org/>).
>>>
>>>          * Working on improving the documentation for various Python
>>>      packages used for scientific computing.
>>>
>>>          * Spoken tutorial translation to local languages:  FOSSEE has
>>>      generated a reasonable amount of content to promote the use of
>>>      Python for scientific computing.  We are currently making this
>>>      material available in the form of screencasts.  They are currently
>>>      in English. We will attempt to translate these into screencasts made
>>>      in a few local languages in order to increase the adoption of Python.
>>>
>>>          * In addition we will have targeted package specific sprints.
>>>
>>>
>>>      To ensure that a large number of students and faculty are able to
>>>      participate in the sprints and tutorials, we are subsidizing the
>>>      housing, travel, food, and registration costs.  In addition, we are
>>>      hosting several central scientific python contributors including
>>>      Perry Greenfield (numarray/numpy), Fernando Perez (ipython), John
>>>      Hunter (matplotlib), and Stefan van der Walt (numpy/scipy).  These
>>>      invited speakers along with the FOSSEE team will focus on directing
>>>      participants to areas they can help, answering questions, and
>>>      reviewing submitted work. We hope to have more than 100 sprint
>>>      participants at various skill levels.  We think this number is
>>>      possible because we plan to combine the tutorials with sprints.  We
>>>      used this model at the Sage Days 25 conference
>>>      (http://fossee.in/sage_days) with a great deal of success.
>>>
>>>      We would like the PSF Board to consider partially sponsoring the
>>>      2010 SciPy India conference.  Specifically, we request $2,500 US to
>>>      sponsor the SciPy India sprints, if possible.  We would use this
>>>      money towards subsidizing the housing and food of the sprint
>>>      participants, and offset venue and travel costs of the invited
>>> speakers.
>>>
>>>      If the PSF provides the sponsorship, we will list the PSF as a
>>>      sponsoring organization on the conference website (http://scipy.in/)
>>>      and recognize the PSF's sponsorship at the  conference sessions.
>>>
>>>      We appreciate your consideration and look forward to partnering with
>>>      the PSF to support this important segment of the Python community.
>>>
>>>      Sincerely,
>>>      Prabhu Ramachandran and Jarrod Millman
>>>      SciPy.in 2010 Conference Chairs
>>>      _______________________________________________
>>>      PSF-Members mailing list
>>>      PSF-Members at python.org  <mailto:PSF-Members at python.org>
>>>      http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-members
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Pat Campbell
>>> PSF Administrator/Secretary
>>> patcam at python.org  <mailto:patcam at python.org>
>> _______________________________________________
>> PSF-Board mailing list
>> PSF-Board at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-board
>>


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From doug.hellmann at gmail.com  Mon Dec  6 03:25:01 2010
From: doug.hellmann at gmail.com (Doug Hellmann)
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 21:25:01 -0500
Subject: [pydotorg-www] [PSF-Board] SciPy India Conference Grant - PSF
	Board Resolution Notification
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On Dec 5, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

> Hello Steve,
> 
> This seems to have slipped through the net. How about this for a news item:
> 
> The PSF is pleased to announce that it is provide a $1250 US grant to help fund sprints at the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in Hyderabad between December 13th to the 18th. This year SciPy India has over 20 scheduled talks and 30 talks in total which is a 300% increase on last year.

Michael,

Paulo Nuin from the communications team is working on a post for the PSF blog.  I've caused a delay because I'm on deadline with my book, but I think we've solved that.  Some of the detail you include here was missing from Paulo's first draft, so I'm copying him so he can add it.

FWIW, just because there's a post going up on the blog soon doesn't mean this shouldn't go up on the news feed, too.  At some point I'd like to discuss whether it is appropriate to merge the two sources of information in some way, but I'm not going to have time to think about that in any depth until early next year.

Doug


> 
> Michael Foord
> 
> On 23/11/2010 03:38, Steve Holden wrote:
>> Prabhu:
>> 
>> I am copying this mail to the web editors list, so that should take care
>> of the news item. I am also copying it to Doug Hellmann. Expect to be
>> contacted by a member of the blogging team in due course.
>> 
>> regards
>>  Steve
>> 
>> On 11/22/2010 12:12 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>> Dear Pat and the PSF board,
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much for your generous sponsorship!  I will send the
>>> invoice in a couple of days.  A news item and blog post would be great
>>> and I will get back on these in a couple of days.  The technical program
>>> of the conference is finalized and this year we have over 20 scheduled
>>> talks and 30 talks in total which is a whopping 300% increase since last
>>> year.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Prabhu
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday 17 November 2010 02:12 AM, Pat Campbell wrote:
>>>> Hi Prabhu Ramachandran:
>>>> This email notification is being sent to you to inform you of the PSF
>>>> Board?s decision to provide funding in the amount of USD 1250 for your
>>>> 2010 SciPy India Conference to be held in Hyderabad between December
>>>> 13th to the 18th. Please see the following board resolution that was
>>>> voted on and passed on November 15, 2010 below:
>>>> 
>>>> RESOLVED, that the PSF provide a $1250 US grant to help fund sprints at
>>>> the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in Hyderabad between December
>>>> 13th to the 18th.
>>>> 
>>>> Also, please send an invoice to our Treasurer, Kurt Kaiser, at
>>>> kbk at shore.net  <mailto:kbk at shore.net>.
>>>> 
>>>> If you would like a news item on the python.org<http://python.org/>
>>>> home page or perhaps a blog entry somewhere, please mail your request to
>>>> pydotorg at python.org  <mailto:pydotorg at python.org>.
>>>> 
>>>> Wishing you much success with SciPy India 2010,
>>>> 
>>>> Pat Campbell, Secretary
>>>> 
>>>> Python Software Foundation
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran
>>>> <prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in  <mailto:prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>     Dear PSF members,
>>>> 
>>>>     As you know, the SciPy community is a well-established,
>>>>     international, and growing group of scientists, engineers,
>>>>     mathematicians, and software developers who use Python for
>>>>     scientific computing.  Our community has formed around various
>>>>     software packages including numpy, scipy, and matplotlib.  In
>>>>     addition to these software libraries, our community has also grown
>>>>     as a result of several annual conferences.  The first annual SciPy
>>>>     conference in the US was held in 2002.  More recently, annual SciPy
>>>>     conferences have started in both Europe and India. The first annual
>>>>     SciPy India conference was held last year in Kerala (http://scipy.in
>>>>     <http://scipy.in/>).
>>>> 
>>>>     This year's SciPy India conference will be held in Hyderabad between
>>>>     December 13th to the 18th.  The conference consists of two days of
>>>>     talks, three days of a combination of morning tutorials and
>>>>     afternoon coding sprints, as well as an additional full day of
>>>>     sprints.  The adoption of Python for scientific programming is not
>>>>     as wide-spread in India as it is in the US and Europe. Hence, the
>>>>     conference focuses heavily on tutorials and coding sprints.
>>>> 
>>>>     Since we are targeting students and faculty for the conference, it
>>>>     is essential for us to keep the conference costs as low as possible
>>>>     for attendees. To that end, most of the conference costs are covered
>>>>     by FOSSEE (http://fossee.in  <http://fossee.in/>).  FOSSEE (Free and
>>>>     Open-source Software for Science and Engineering Education) is a
>>>>     three-year project to enable the students and faculty of Science and
>>>>     Engineering colleges/institutes/universities across India to use
>>>>     open source software tools for all their computational needs,
>>>>     thereby improving the quality of instruction and learning.  While
>>>>     there are a few other open source tools promoted by FOSSEE, Python
>>>>     is a major focus.  In addition to this conference, FOSSEE has
>>>>     conducted about 20 scientific programming in Python workshops across
>>>>     India over the last year alone.
>>>> 
>>>>     Given that many of the attendees will have little or no previous
>>>>     experience with Python, the coding sprints will be structured to
>>>>     familiarize participants on using Python as well as on how to
>>>>     contribute back to the community.  Our plan for the sprints are as
>>>>     follows:
>>>> 
>>>>         * Text book companion: as part of this we will take a popular
>>>>     math/physics textbook at the undergraduate level and convert all of
>>>>     its worked out examples to use Python and Sage
>>>>     (http://www.sagemath.org  <http://www.sagemath.org/>).
>>>> 
>>>>         * Working on improving the documentation for various Python
>>>>     packages used for scientific computing.
>>>> 
>>>>         * Spoken tutorial translation to local languages:  FOSSEE has
>>>>     generated a reasonable amount of content to promote the use of
>>>>     Python for scientific computing.  We are currently making this
>>>>     material available in the form of screencasts.  They are currently
>>>>     in English. We will attempt to translate these into screencasts made
>>>>     in a few local languages in order to increase the adoption of Python.
>>>> 
>>>>         * In addition we will have targeted package specific sprints.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>     To ensure that a large number of students and faculty are able to
>>>>     participate in the sprints and tutorials, we are subsidizing the
>>>>     housing, travel, food, and registration costs.  In addition, we are
>>>>     hosting several central scientific python contributors including
>>>>     Perry Greenfield (numarray/numpy), Fernando Perez (ipython), John
>>>>     Hunter (matplotlib), and Stefan van der Walt (numpy/scipy).  These
>>>>     invited speakers along with the FOSSEE team will focus on directing
>>>>     participants to areas they can help, answering questions, and
>>>>     reviewing submitted work. We hope to have more than 100 sprint
>>>>     participants at various skill levels.  We think this number is
>>>>     possible because we plan to combine the tutorials with sprints.  We
>>>>     used this model at the Sage Days 25 conference
>>>>     (http://fossee.in/sage_days) with a great deal of success.
>>>> 
>>>>     We would like the PSF Board to consider partially sponsoring the
>>>>     2010 SciPy India conference.  Specifically, we request $2,500 US to
>>>>     sponsor the SciPy India sprints, if possible.  We would use this
>>>>     money towards subsidizing the housing and food of the sprint
>>>>     participants, and offset venue and travel costs of the invited
>>>> speakers.
>>>> 
>>>>     If the PSF provides the sponsorship, we will list the PSF as a
>>>>     sponsoring organization on the conference website (http://scipy.in/)
>>>>     and recognize the PSF's sponsorship at the  conference sessions.
>>>> 
>>>>     We appreciate your consideration and look forward to partnering with
>>>>     the PSF to support this important segment of the Python community.
>>>> 
>>>>     Sincerely,
>>>>     Prabhu Ramachandran and Jarrod Millman
>>>>     SciPy.in 2010 Conference Chairs
>>>>     _______________________________________________
>>>>     PSF-Members mailing list
>>>>     PSF-Members at python.org  <mailto:PSF-Members at python.org>
>>>>     http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-members
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Pat Campbell
>>>> PSF Administrator/Secretary
>>>> patcam at python.org  <mailto:patcam at python.org>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> PSF-Board mailing list
>>> PSF-Board at python.org
>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-board
>>> 
> 
> 
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From steve at holdenweb.com  Mon Dec  6 07:32:36 2010
From: steve at holdenweb.com (Steve Holden)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:32:36 +0100
Subject: [pydotorg-www] [PSF-Board] SciPy India Conference Grant - PSF
 Board Resolution Notification
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Sounds like this is under control, then. I think an immediate news item
along the lines Michael suggested would be great. Thanks, everyone.

regards
 Steve

On 12/6/2010 3:25 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 
> On Dec 5, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
> 
>> Hello Steve,
>>
>> This seems to have slipped through the net. How about this for a news item:
>>
>> The PSF is pleased to announce that it is provide a $1250 US grant to help fund sprints at the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in Hyderabad between December 13th to the 18th. This year SciPy India has over 20 scheduled talks and 30 talks in total which is a 300% increase on last year.
> 
> Michael,
> 
> Paulo Nuin from the communications team is working on a post for the PSF blog.  I've caused a delay because I'm on deadline with my book, but I think we've solved that.  Some of the detail you include here was missing from Paulo's first draft, so I'm copying him so he can add it.
> 
> FWIW, just because there's a post going up on the blog soon doesn't mean this shouldn't go up on the news feed, too.  At some point I'd like to discuss whether it is appropriate to merge the two sources of information in some way, but I'm not going to have time to think about that in any depth until early next year.
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
>>
>> Michael Foord
>>
>> On 23/11/2010 03:38, Steve Holden wrote:
>>> Prabhu:
>>>
>>> I am copying this mail to the web editors list, so that should take care
>>> of the news item. I am also copying it to Doug Hellmann. Expect to be
>>> contacted by a member of the blogging team in due course.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>  Steve
>>>
>>> On 11/22/2010 12:12 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>> Dear Pat and the PSF board,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much for your generous sponsorship!  I will send the
>>>> invoice in a couple of days.  A news item and blog post would be great
>>>> and I will get back on these in a couple of days.  The technical program
>>>> of the conference is finalized and this year we have over 20 scheduled
>>>> talks and 30 talks in total which is a whopping 300% increase since last
>>>> year.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Prabhu
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 17 November 2010 02:12 AM, Pat Campbell wrote:
>>>>> Hi Prabhu Ramachandran:
>>>>> This email notification is being sent to you to inform you of the PSF
>>>>> Board?s decision to provide funding in the amount of USD 1250 for your
>>>>> 2010 SciPy India Conference to be held in Hyderabad between December
>>>>> 13th to the 18th. Please see the following board resolution that was
>>>>> voted on and passed on November 15, 2010 below:
>>>>>
>>>>> RESOLVED, that the PSF provide a $1250 US grant to help fund sprints at
>>>>> the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in Hyderabad between December
>>>>> 13th to the 18th.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, please send an invoice to our Treasurer, Kurt Kaiser, at
>>>>> kbk at shore.net  <mailto:kbk at shore.net>.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you would like a news item on the python.org<http://python.org/>
>>>>> home page or perhaps a blog entry somewhere, please mail your request to
>>>>> pydotorg at python.org  <mailto:pydotorg at python.org>.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wishing you much success with SciPy India 2010,
>>>>>
>>>>> Pat Campbell, Secretary
>>>>>
>>>>> Python Software Foundation
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran
>>>>> <prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in  <mailto:prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Dear PSF members,
>>>>>
>>>>>     As you know, the SciPy community is a well-established,
>>>>>     international, and growing group of scientists, engineers,
>>>>>     mathematicians, and software developers who use Python for
>>>>>     scientific computing.  Our community has formed around various
>>>>>     software packages including numpy, scipy, and matplotlib.  In
>>>>>     addition to these software libraries, our community has also grown
>>>>>     as a result of several annual conferences.  The first annual SciPy
>>>>>     conference in the US was held in 2002.  More recently, annual SciPy
>>>>>     conferences have started in both Europe and India. The first annual
>>>>>     SciPy India conference was held last year in Kerala (http://scipy.in
>>>>>     <http://scipy.in/>).
>>>>>
>>>>>     This year's SciPy India conference will be held in Hyderabad between
>>>>>     December 13th to the 18th.  The conference consists of two days of
>>>>>     talks, three days of a combination of morning tutorials and
>>>>>     afternoon coding sprints, as well as an additional full day of
>>>>>     sprints.  The adoption of Python for scientific programming is not
>>>>>     as wide-spread in India as it is in the US and Europe. Hence, the
>>>>>     conference focuses heavily on tutorials and coding sprints.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Since we are targeting students and faculty for the conference, it
>>>>>     is essential for us to keep the conference costs as low as possible
>>>>>     for attendees. To that end, most of the conference costs are covered
>>>>>     by FOSSEE (http://fossee.in  <http://fossee.in/>).  FOSSEE (Free and
>>>>>     Open-source Software for Science and Engineering Education) is a
>>>>>     three-year project to enable the students and faculty of Science and
>>>>>     Engineering colleges/institutes/universities across India to use
>>>>>     open source software tools for all their computational needs,
>>>>>     thereby improving the quality of instruction and learning.  While
>>>>>     there are a few other open source tools promoted by FOSSEE, Python
>>>>>     is a major focus.  In addition to this conference, FOSSEE has
>>>>>     conducted about 20 scientific programming in Python workshops across
>>>>>     India over the last year alone.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Given that many of the attendees will have little or no previous
>>>>>     experience with Python, the coding sprints will be structured to
>>>>>     familiarize participants on using Python as well as on how to
>>>>>     contribute back to the community.  Our plan for the sprints are as
>>>>>     follows:
>>>>>
>>>>>         * Text book companion: as part of this we will take a popular
>>>>>     math/physics textbook at the undergraduate level and convert all of
>>>>>     its worked out examples to use Python and Sage
>>>>>     (http://www.sagemath.org  <http://www.sagemath.org/>).
>>>>>
>>>>>         * Working on improving the documentation for various Python
>>>>>     packages used for scientific computing.
>>>>>
>>>>>         * Spoken tutorial translation to local languages:  FOSSEE has
>>>>>     generated a reasonable amount of content to promote the use of
>>>>>     Python for scientific computing.  We are currently making this
>>>>>     material available in the form of screencasts.  They are currently
>>>>>     in English. We will attempt to translate these into screencasts made
>>>>>     in a few local languages in order to increase the adoption of Python.
>>>>>
>>>>>         * In addition we will have targeted package specific sprints.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     To ensure that a large number of students and faculty are able to
>>>>>     participate in the sprints and tutorials, we are subsidizing the
>>>>>     housing, travel, food, and registration costs.  In addition, we are
>>>>>     hosting several central scientific python contributors including
>>>>>     Perry Greenfield (numarray/numpy), Fernando Perez (ipython), John
>>>>>     Hunter (matplotlib), and Stefan van der Walt (numpy/scipy).  These
>>>>>     invited speakers along with the FOSSEE team will focus on directing
>>>>>     participants to areas they can help, answering questions, and
>>>>>     reviewing submitted work. We hope to have more than 100 sprint
>>>>>     participants at various skill levels.  We think this number is
>>>>>     possible because we plan to combine the tutorials with sprints.  We
>>>>>     used this model at the Sage Days 25 conference
>>>>>     (http://fossee.in/sage_days) with a great deal of success.
>>>>>
>>>>>     We would like the PSF Board to consider partially sponsoring the
>>>>>     2010 SciPy India conference.  Specifically, we request $2,500 US to
>>>>>     sponsor the SciPy India sprints, if possible.  We would use this
>>>>>     money towards subsidizing the housing and food of the sprint
>>>>>     participants, and offset venue and travel costs of the invited
>>>>> speakers.
>>>>>
>>>>>     If the PSF provides the sponsorship, we will list the PSF as a
>>>>>     sponsoring organization on the conference website (http://scipy.in/)
>>>>>     and recognize the PSF's sponsorship at the  conference sessions.
>>>>>
>>>>>     We appreciate your consideration and look forward to partnering with
>>>>>     the PSF to support this important segment of the Python community.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Sincerely,
>>>>>     Prabhu Ramachandran and Jarrod Millman
>>>>>     SciPy.in 2010 Conference Chairs
>>>>>     _______________________________________________
>>>>>     PSF-Members mailing list
>>>>>     PSF-Members at python.org  <mailto:PSF-Members at python.org>
>>>>>     http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-members
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Pat Campbell
>>>>> PSF Administrator/Secretary
>>>>> patcam at python.org  <mailto:patcam at python.org>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> PSF-Board mailing list
>>>> PSF-Board at python.org
>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-board
>>>>
>>
>>
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From mfoord at python.org  Mon Dec  6 11:14:24 2010
From: mfoord at python.org (Michael Foord)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:14:24 +0000
Subject: [pydotorg-www] [PSF-Board] SciPy India Conference Grant - PSF
 Board Resolution Notification
In-Reply-To: <E8BD0449-24B2-4917-A3C9-7D1553AFB70F@gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTinMFYCzEwQ-C_gPFBC2ASPbV1tpUngyeC=upjP4@mail.gmail.com>	<4CEAA46D.5010606@aero.iitb.ac.in>
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Message-ID: <4CFCB780.4080801@python.org>

On 06/12/2010 02:25, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
>
>> Hello Steve,
>>
>> This seems to have slipped through the net. How about this for a news item:
>>
>> The PSF is pleased to announce that it is provide a $1250 US grant to help fund sprints at the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in Hyderabad between December 13th to the 18th. This year SciPy India has over 20 scheduled talks and 30 talks in total which is a 300% increase on last year.
> Michael,
>
> Paulo Nuin from the communications team is working on a post for the PSF blog.  I've caused a delay because I'm on deadline with my book, but I think we've solved that.  Some of the detail you include here was missing from Paulo's first draft, so I'm copying him so he can add it.
>
> FWIW, just because there's a post going up on the blog soon doesn't mean this shouldn't go up on the news feed, too.  At some point I'd like to discuss whether it is appropriate to merge the two sources of information in some way, but I'm not going to have time to think about that in any depth until early next year.
>

For the python.org main page we usually stick to a maximum of one 
paragraph. We also publish news that isn't always on the PSF blog 
(Python releases including alphas etc). If we can automate merging them 
(produce a partial feed of the first paragraph of PSF blog entries) then 
it may be worthwhile. It would require coding up to integrate it with 
the website. The news items are "compiled" into the web page from yaml 
at the moment.

All the best,

Michael

> Doug
>
>
>> Michael Foord
>>
>> On 23/11/2010 03:38, Steve Holden wrote:
>>> Prabhu:
>>>
>>> I am copying this mail to the web editors list, so that should take care
>>> of the news item. I am also copying it to Doug Hellmann. Expect to be
>>> contacted by a member of the blogging team in due course.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>   Steve
>>>
>>> On 11/22/2010 12:12 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>>>> Dear Pat and the PSF board,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much for your generous sponsorship!  I will send the
>>>> invoice in a couple of days.  A news item and blog post would be great
>>>> and I will get back on these in a couple of days.  The technical program
>>>> of the conference is finalized and this year we have over 20 scheduled
>>>> talks and 30 talks in total which is a whopping 300% increase since last
>>>> year.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Prabhu
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 17 November 2010 02:12 AM, Pat Campbell wrote:
>>>>> Hi Prabhu Ramachandran:
>>>>> This email notification is being sent to you to inform you of the PSF
>>>>> Board?s decision to provide funding in the amount of USD 1250 for your
>>>>> 2010 SciPy India Conference to be held in Hyderabad between December
>>>>> 13th to the 18th. Please see the following board resolution that was
>>>>> voted on and passed on November 15, 2010 below:
>>>>>
>>>>> RESOLVED, that the PSF provide a $1250 US grant to help fund sprints at
>>>>> the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in Hyderabad between December
>>>>> 13th to the 18th.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, please send an invoice to our Treasurer, Kurt Kaiser, at
>>>>> kbk at shore.net<mailto:kbk at shore.net>.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you would like a news item on the python.org<http://python.org/>
>>>>> home page or perhaps a blog entry somewhere, please mail your request to
>>>>> pydotorg at python.org<mailto:pydotorg at python.org>.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wishing you much success with SciPy India 2010,
>>>>>
>>>>> Pat Campbell, Secretary
>>>>>
>>>>> Python Software Foundation
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran
>>>>> <prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in<mailto:prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in>>   wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>      Dear PSF members,
>>>>>
>>>>>      As you know, the SciPy community is a well-established,
>>>>>      international, and growing group of scientists, engineers,
>>>>>      mathematicians, and software developers who use Python for
>>>>>      scientific computing.  Our community has formed around various
>>>>>      software packages including numpy, scipy, and matplotlib.  In
>>>>>      addition to these software libraries, our community has also grown
>>>>>      as a result of several annual conferences.  The first annual SciPy
>>>>>      conference in the US was held in 2002.  More recently, annual SciPy
>>>>>      conferences have started in both Europe and India. The first annual
>>>>>      SciPy India conference was held last year in Kerala (http://scipy.in
>>>>>      <http://scipy.in/>).
>>>>>
>>>>>      This year's SciPy India conference will be held in Hyderabad between
>>>>>      December 13th to the 18th.  The conference consists of two days of
>>>>>      talks, three days of a combination of morning tutorials and
>>>>>      afternoon coding sprints, as well as an additional full day of
>>>>>      sprints.  The adoption of Python for scientific programming is not
>>>>>      as wide-spread in India as it is in the US and Europe. Hence, the
>>>>>      conference focuses heavily on tutorials and coding sprints.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Since we are targeting students and faculty for the conference, it
>>>>>      is essential for us to keep the conference costs as low as possible
>>>>>      for attendees. To that end, most of the conference costs are covered
>>>>>      by FOSSEE (http://fossee.in<http://fossee.in/>).  FOSSEE (Free and
>>>>>      Open-source Software for Science and Engineering Education) is a
>>>>>      three-year project to enable the students and faculty of Science and
>>>>>      Engineering colleges/institutes/universities across India to use
>>>>>      open source software tools for all their computational needs,
>>>>>      thereby improving the quality of instruction and learning.  While
>>>>>      there are a few other open source tools promoted by FOSSEE, Python
>>>>>      is a major focus.  In addition to this conference, FOSSEE has
>>>>>      conducted about 20 scientific programming in Python workshops across
>>>>>      India over the last year alone.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Given that many of the attendees will have little or no previous
>>>>>      experience with Python, the coding sprints will be structured to
>>>>>      familiarize participants on using Python as well as on how to
>>>>>      contribute back to the community.  Our plan for the sprints are as
>>>>>      follows:
>>>>>
>>>>>          * Text book companion: as part of this we will take a popular
>>>>>      math/physics textbook at the undergraduate level and convert all of
>>>>>      its worked out examples to use Python and Sage
>>>>>      (http://www.sagemath.org<http://www.sagemath.org/>).
>>>>>
>>>>>          * Working on improving the documentation for various Python
>>>>>      packages used for scientific computing.
>>>>>
>>>>>          * Spoken tutorial translation to local languages:  FOSSEE has
>>>>>      generated a reasonable amount of content to promote the use of
>>>>>      Python for scientific computing.  We are currently making this
>>>>>      material available in the form of screencasts.  They are currently
>>>>>      in English. We will attempt to translate these into screencasts made
>>>>>      in a few local languages in order to increase the adoption of Python.
>>>>>
>>>>>          * In addition we will have targeted package specific sprints.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      To ensure that a large number of students and faculty are able to
>>>>>      participate in the sprints and tutorials, we are subsidizing the
>>>>>      housing, travel, food, and registration costs.  In addition, we are
>>>>>      hosting several central scientific python contributors including
>>>>>      Perry Greenfield (numarray/numpy), Fernando Perez (ipython), John
>>>>>      Hunter (matplotlib), and Stefan van der Walt (numpy/scipy).  These
>>>>>      invited speakers along with the FOSSEE team will focus on directing
>>>>>      participants to areas they can help, answering questions, and
>>>>>      reviewing submitted work. We hope to have more than 100 sprint
>>>>>      participants at various skill levels.  We think this number is
>>>>>      possible because we plan to combine the tutorials with sprints.  We
>>>>>      used this model at the Sage Days 25 conference
>>>>>      (http://fossee.in/sage_days) with a great deal of success.
>>>>>
>>>>>      We would like the PSF Board to consider partially sponsoring the
>>>>>      2010 SciPy India conference.  Specifically, we request $2,500 US to
>>>>>      sponsor the SciPy India sprints, if possible.  We would use this
>>>>>      money towards subsidizing the housing and food of the sprint
>>>>>      participants, and offset venue and travel costs of the invited
>>>>> speakers.
>>>>>
>>>>>      If the PSF provides the sponsorship, we will list the PSF as a
>>>>>      sponsoring organization on the conference website (http://scipy.in/)
>>>>>      and recognize the PSF's sponsorship at the  conference sessions.
>>>>>
>>>>>      We appreciate your consideration and look forward to partnering with
>>>>>      the PSF to support this important segment of the Python community.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Sincerely,
>>>>>      Prabhu Ramachandran and Jarrod Millman
>>>>>      SciPy.in 2010 Conference Chairs
>>>>>      _______________________________________________
>>>>>      PSF-Members mailing list
>>>>>      PSF-Members at python.org<mailto:PSF-Members at python.org>
>>>>>      http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-members
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Pat Campbell
>>>>> PSF Administrator/Secretary
>>>>> patcam at python.org<mailto:patcam at python.org>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> PSF-Board mailing list
>>>> PSF-Board at python.org
>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-board
>>>>
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From patcam at python.org  Mon Dec  6 20:33:27 2010
From: patcam at python.org (Pat Campbell)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:33:27 -0500
Subject: [pydotorg-www] PSF- Board Meeting Minutes -Approved- October 2010
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=qguByVs65T6bHYf8_7x__VzAW2N3Wo98eVcQJ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello:

Could you please post the following "PSF board meeting minutes" online at
the usual web locations:

please see the attachment for the approved board meeting minutes for October
2010.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,
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| The Python Software Foundation
| Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors
|
| October 18, 2010
|
| 

A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of
Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 18
October 2010. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell
prepared the minutes.

All votes are reported in the form "*Y-N-A*" (*in favor ? opposed ?
abstentions*; e.g. "5-1-2" means "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2
abstentions").


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Attendance                                  
==========

The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the
meeting: Steve Holden, Marc-Andre Lemburg, Martin v. Lowis, David Mertz, 
Doug Napoleone, Jesse Noller, Tim Peters, Jeff Rush, Greg Stein, James 
Tauber, and Gloria Willadsen. Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser 
(Treasurer), and Pat Campbell (Secretary & Administrator).


Minutes of Past Meetings
========================

The 20 September 2010 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved.

Approved, 8-0-2.


Votes Taken Between Meetings
============================

There were no votes taken since the last Board meeting held on 20
September 2010.


Treasurer Report                                                                                              
================

The monthly Treasurer's Report was provided to Board members by K. Kaiser
prior to the Board meeting. There were no major changes in the PSF's 
financial position since the last Treasurer's Report a month ago. 

However, the treasurer did report that we will be moving away from the usual
Google Checkout system to CTE's Registration processing system for PyCon.
In addition, the treasurer will be soliciting the aid of our secretary to
help with AR and our new Quickbooks system.

M.A. Lemburg also suggested the use of a Quickbooks emailing feature to help 
reduce the on-going AP and AR issues by routinely emailing out reminders to
concerned parties.


Progress Report                                                                                                                                                                                             .
===============

The following board reports were submitted to the board mailing list
one week prior to this month's meeting. Please see a summary of each
board report listed below:

Communication Status
--------------------

D. Hellmann, Communication Officer, has recruited volunteers to help 
write for the blog found at http://pyfound.blogspot.com/. For instance,
Paul Nuin will be writing about the PyPi Mirroring Project and Engelbert 
Gruber is constructing interview questions to use to inquire about the 
new PyCon website.


Core Development Tasks
----------------------

B. Cannon, Core Development Tasks Project, will begin working
on this 2-month project in January 2011.


HAM WebPages/Links
------------------

P. Campbell, Honorary Associate Membership (HAM) WebPages Start-up 
Project, is currently working with our treasurer, Kurt Kaiser in
order to setup the new Honorary Associate Membership fee payment 
system that will interface with the Python website.

Board Discussion:

S. Holden: "We really need to treat this as important, since it
will generate additional revenues to spend on sprints and the like."

K. Kaiser:  "We are setting up a new processor, FirstData. So between
them and "classic" PayPal (money by email) we should be able to handle
the payments.


Marketing Material                                                                 
------------------

MAL provides a brief introduction into his marketing project:

"The project is lead by Marc-Andr? Lemburg who is in contact with
the people behind the Plone brochure created by the German Zope
User Group (DZUG): Jan Ulrich Hasecke and Armin Stro?-Radschinski.

We started working on the concept a few weeks after World Plone Day
(http://rheinland.worldploneday.de/) and had several meetings and
phone conference calls to take the idea forward."


PyCon US Website
----------------

D. Napoleone, PyCon US Website Project, says that the new website for
2011 has been launched and that calls for proposals, tutorials, and 
posters are currently being accepted:"The website us.pycon.org/2011 is
live with complete information, including sponsorship, and blog 
integration on planet python. Calls for proposals, tutorials and 
posters have been sent out and the website is now accepting all three. 
The review system is in place. We have already received proposals in 
all three categories."

In addition, D. Napoleone also reported that the registration launch
has been slightly delayed due to issues with PSF accounting and CTE.

Board Discussion:

S. Holden: "I see we chose to use CTE's registration system. I am
surprised that registration has been such a time sink over so many
years."

K. Kaiser: "Yes, we change every year but hopefully, this is it for
awhile..."

J. Noller: "Because registration and accounting is a h"ard problem, 
we've been unable to get a volunteer pool to address fully, completely, 
and with a code base that's actually maintainable."

D. Napoleone: "Registration is very hard to get right, especially when
everything including the kitchen sink is wanted. We are rather liberal
when its comes to things like refunds, and unlike some other conferences,
we have add-ons like tutorials which are announced AFTER registration
opens."

J. Noller: "Therefore, outsourcing it makes the most sense."

S. Holden: "A small concern that it ties us to a third party that's 
shown evidence of instability in the last year."

K. Kaiser: "Yes, outsourcing registration is a good idea because it 
provides continuity across volunteers."

D. Napoleone: "When you look at the history of trying to do registration 
with a volunteer based system, we have had to rewrite it every year. One 
massive problem with this is integration with the hotel registration which 
is something impossible for a volunteer effort to manage. As well as, we
change hotel vendors as we move locations."

pyOpenSSL Status
----------------

J.P. Calderone, pyOpenSSL Project, has been working to improve the
coverage provided by pyOpenSSl's test suite and one such improvement
would include having addressed all known issues with the port. 


Sprint Committee
----------------

J. Noller, Sprint Committee Chair, provides a brief summary of the 
Sprint Committee's current activities and progress:

"We still don't have the number of sprints we want lined up - on the other
hand, we do have a donor who has sent money to the PSF for further sprints funding:
http://pythonsprints.com/2010/10/11/trading-technologies-sponsors-python-sprints/"

Board Discussion:

S. Holden: "Thanks for your work on sprints. I see this as a good practical way 
to support grass-roots development work.


Host OSX Buildbot Slaves
========================

Motion from Martin v. Lowis:

   **RESOLVED**, that the PSF buys one Mac Mini computer, for a total
   of no more than 1200 USD, to be used for Python core development;
   usage details are determined by the infrastructure committee.
   
Approved, 11-0-0.  


Community Service Award Nomination for 2010-3rd Quarter
=======================================================

Michael Foord was selected for the 2010-3rd Quarter PSF Community 
Service Award.


   **RESOLVED**, that Michael Foord receives the PSF Community
   Service Award Q3 2010.   
   
Approved, 11-0-0.
       
     
Other Business                                                               
==============

S. Holden reminded members to utilize the board mailing list more often
per month to discuss board matters that are subject to be voted on during 
the monthly board meeting.

G. Stein will be providing a new template to be used by writers when 
they are drafting their monthly board reports. The new template will 
include an additional section to the board report to be used to 
summarize the report.


Adjournment
===========

S.?Holden adjourned the meeting at 16:59 UTC.

From patcam at python.org  Mon Dec  6 21:56:19 2010
From: patcam at python.org (Pat Campbell)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:56:19 -0500
Subject: [pydotorg-www] PSF- Board Meeting Minutes - Section 13 - May 2010
Message-ID: <AANLkTimUOOybmFuNjx+6undJeYwZJNB2hWSrRGqJ3MtV@mail.gmail.com>

To Pydotorg:

Could you please add & delete content to/from "section 13" of the board
meeting
minutes for May 2010. Please see the attachment regarding the Community
Service Award for recipient John Pinner.

*Please change from:*
One Nominee for the 2010 - 2nd quarter PSF Community Service Award was
selected.

*[Details temporarily omitted from the public minutes, to be restored after
the announcement of the prospective award recipient at the EuroPython
Conference to be held in Birmingham UK in July 2010.]*

*Please change to:*

PSF Community Service Award Nominations for 2010 - 2nd Quarter
==============================================================

John Pinner was selected as the 2010 - 2nd quarter PSF Community Service
Award
winner.

   **RESOLVED**, that John Pinner be awarded the 2010-2nd Quarter PSF
Community
   Service Award to be announced at the EuroPython Conference to be held in
   Birmingham UK in July 2010.

Approved, 7-0-3.

If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
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| May 10, 2010
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| Draft

A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of
Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:05 UTC, 10
May 2010.  Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell
prepared the minutes.

All votes are reported in the form "*Y-N-A*" (*in favor ? opposed ?
abstentions*; e.g. "5-1-2" means "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2
abstentions").


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Attendance
==========

The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the
meeting: Steve Holden, Marc-Andre Lemburg, David Mertz, Doug Napoleone 
[joined meeting at 16:12], Jesse Noller, Tim Peters, Jeff Rush, Greg 
Stein, Martin v. L?wis, Gloria Willadsen. Also in attendance were 
Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer), and Pat Campbell (Secretary & Administrator).


Minutes of Past Meetings
========================

The 12 April 2010 Board meeting minutes were approved during this 
month's meeting session.

Approved, 9-0-0


Votes Taken Between Meetings
============================

There were no votes taken since the last Board meeting on 12 April 2010.


Treasurer Report
================

The monthly Treasurer's Report was provided to Board members by K. Kaiser
prior to the Board meeting. 

The board also discussed a variety of strategies to use in order to get a more 
timely report on current financials as well as on a budget plan for periodic 
review and planning.


Progress Report
===============

V. Lindberg provided the board with an update on PyCon 2010 financials with a
preliminary budget report.

The board also discussed and was provide information from our treasurer on the 
status of how far away we are from transitioning the accounting to our new accounts.


Election of Additional Officers
===============================

The following officer position was added to the corporation:

Communications Officer

The following Officer was nominated and elected:

* **Communications**: Doug Hellmann

   **RESOLVED**, that we create a new officer position "Communications
   Officer" to oversee the PSF communication between board, members
   and community. Doug Hellmann is appointed as first PSF Communications
   Officer.
   
Approved, 10-0-0.  


Infrastructure Committee (IC) Conflict of Interest Motion
=========================================================

Motion from M.A. Lemburg:

   **RESOLVED**, that the Infrastructure Committee may contract companies
   affiliated with IC members under the condition that:
   * these affiliations are publicized,
   * the respective IC member abstains from any vote regarding
     a contract with an affiliated company,
   * the IC gets at least one quote from a non-affiliated company,
     in case the expected costs exceed USD 1000 for one-time
     or USD 1000 per year for periodically billed expenditures.
   * the IC reports a summary of the decision process to the board
     for each such decision.

Approved, 10-0-0.


Funding of PyCamp 2010
======================

The board discussed the funding of PyCamp 2010 and decided to provide a
USD 750 grant to the organizers of the PyCon Ukraine Conference.

   **RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a USD 750 grant to the organizers of
   the PyCon Ukraine conference to be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, later this
   year, for funding speaker travel expenses.
   
Approved, 10-0-0   


Funding of SciPy 2010
=====================

The board discussed funding of SciPy 2010 and agreed to provide a USD 1,000
grant to conference organizers. Motion from S. Holden.

    **RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a USD 1,000 grant to the organizers
    of the SciPy 2010 Conference to be held in Austin, Texas on June 28 
    through July 3, 2010, for students travel expenses.

Approved, 8-0-1.


Simplify Processing of Expense Receipts
=======================================

Motion from M.A. Lemburg:

   **RESOLVED**, that expense receipts and invoices for any PSF funded
   activity or equipment must be sent to the PSF Treasurer within 90
   days of date of receipt or invoice. Late filings will not be
   processed or refunded, unless prior arrangements have been
   made with the PSF Board, with a summary sent to psf at python.org.
   Expenses in non-USD currencies will be refunded in USD at the
   representative exchange rate as published by the International
   Monetary Fund (IMF) as-of the date on the receipt/invoice 
   (http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/param_rms_mth.aspx).
   
Approved, 10-0-0.   


Exoweb, Ltd. Sponsor Membership Application
===========================================

The board reached a consensus after a discussion on rather to
recommend the PSF sponsor membership application of Exoweb, Ltd., an 
international software development company.

   **RESOLVED**, that the board recommends Exoweb Ltd., Bejing, China, 
   as a pending sponsor member.
   
Approved, 10-0-0.


Late Filing of Non-USD PyCon 2009 Expenses
==========================================

Motion from M.A. Lemburg:

   **RESOLVED**, that all non-USD expenses incurred by officers or
   directors of the PSF for PyCon 2009 be reimbursed in USD based on
   the representative exchange rate as published by the
   International Monetary Fund as-of May 22 2009 
   (http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/param_rms_mth.aspx).
   
Approved, 8-0-2.


PSF Community Service Award Nominations for 2010 - 2nd Quarter
==============================================================

John Pinner was selected as the 2010 - 2nd quarter PSF Community Service Award 
winner.

   **RESOLVED**, that John Pinner be awarded the 2010-2nd Quarter PSF Community 
   Service Award to be announced at the EuroPython Conference to be held in 
   Birmingham UK in July 2010.
   
Approved, 7-0-3.


PSF New Membership Class as Honorary Associate Member (HAM)- Bylaws Change 
==========================================================================

Motion from M.A. Lemburg:

   **RESOLVED**, that the Board of Directors implement the creation
   of a new membership class, called "honorary associate members",
   as requested and approved by the members at the 2010 first
   annual PSF members meeting, by updating the bylaws as follows:

   * Section 3.10, first paragraph, is updated to include the
     honorary associate members as non-voting member class:

     Section 3.10. Voting. Each nominated member shall be entitled to
     one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of the
     members, except as may otherwise be provided in the General
     Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Sponsor members that
     have appointed a representative, as described in Section 4.3,
     are also entitled to one such vote. Emeritus members and honorary
     associate members are not entitled to vote at members' meetings.

   * Section 4.1 is updated to include the new member class:

     Section 4.1. Member Classes. There are four classes of members
     of the corporation, denoted as nominated members, sponsor members,
     honorary associate members and emeritus members. References in
     these Bylaws to a "member" or to the "members" of the corporation
     shall not include any honorary associate member, emeritus member
     or sponsor member unless explicitly provided otherwise.

   * Section 4.9 is updated to include the possibility to have
     honorary associate members withdraw their membership:

     Section 4.9. Voluntary Withdrawal from Membership. Members
     (including honorary associate members and emeritus members) may
     withdraw from membership in the corporation at any time upon ten
     (10) days' written, signed notice delivered to an officer of the
     corporation.

   * a new Section 4.12 is added to defined the new membership class:

     Section 4.12. Honorary Associate Members. Honorary associate
     members have no voting rights and are not included in the
     membership count for purposes of establishing a quorum.
     Honorary associate membership shall be granted, on a yearly
     basis, in consideration of financial donation to the PSF, but
     subject to revocation by the Board of Directors. Annual
     donations sufficient for honorary associate membership shall
     initially be set at US$99, and may be revised by the Board of
     Directors from time to time. The Board or Directors may, at
     its discretion, decide to provide incidental benefits to
     honorary associate members, such as subscription to a
     newsletter, Python-branded email addresses, or printed
     promotion material such as badges, stickers, or garments.
   
Denied, 2-8-0.


PSF New Membership Class as Honorary Associate Member (HAM)- Board Resolution
=============================================================================

Motion from M.A. Lemburg:

   **RESOLVED**, that the Board of Directors implement the creation
   of a new membership class, called "honorary associate members",
   as requested and approved by the members at the 2010 first
   annual PSF members meeting, as follows:

   There are now four classes of members of the corporation, denoted as
   nominated members, sponsor members, honorary associate members and
   emeritus members. References in the bylaws to a "member" or to the
   "members" of the corporation shall not include any honorary associate
   member, emeritus member or sponsor member unless explicitly provided
   otherwise.

   Honorary associate members have no voting rights and are not included
   in the membership count for purposes of establishing a quorum.

   Honorary associate membership shall be granted, on a yearly basis, in
   consideration of financial donation to the PSF, but subject to
   revocation by the Board of Directors.

   Annual donations sufficient for honorary associate membership shall
   initially be set at US$99, and may be revised by the Board of
   Directors from time to time.

   Honorary associate members may withdraw from membership in the
   corporation at any time upon ten (10) days' written, signed notice
   delivered to an officer of the corporation.

   The Board or Directors may, at its discretion, decide to provide
   incidental benefits to honorary associate members, such as
   subscription to a newsletter, Python-branded email addresses, or
   printed promotion material such as badges, stickers, or garments.
   
This board discussion was deferred to email and will be voted on 
during the next board meeting to be held in June 2010.   


New Sprint Committee & Community-Based Sprints Funding
======================================================

Motion from J. Noller:

   **RESOLVED**, that the Board approves the creation of a specific 
   "Targeted Sprint Committee" and allocates a yearly budget of 5000 
   USD for the funding of targeted, community based sprints with Jesse 
   Noller as the initial Chairman, and additional members as needed 
   per project requirements and approved by the board.
   
Approved, 9-0-1


Funding for Redevelopment of PyCon Website
==========================================

The board discussed V. Lindberg's, PyCon 2011 Chairman, request of USD 15,000
for "redevelopment of the PyCon website using Django and Pinax, with the
funds going toward the hiring of Eldarion for initial development and any
necessary data porting from the old sites." 

This discussion was deferred to email.


Other Business
==============

Budget Planning
---------------

M.A. Lemburg suggested that "the PSF should start to work based on budgets 
rather than just having the treasurer chase after our expenses. This will
reduce the fluctuation we have in the financials figures and make the whole
operation more predictable." 

This discussion was deferred to email.


Creating Marketing Material for Python
--------------------------------------

The board also discussed the use of a Plone model to design a brochure and
flyer as marketing material for Python as suggested by M.A. Lemburg.

M.A. Lemburg: "MarcAndreLemburg has been in touch with a texter and a designer in 
Germany who have prepared a professional quality brochure and flyer for Plone. 
Should we put more energy and money into this to create a similar set for Python?
The idea then is to have the PSF send out this marketing material to conferences and 
other similar events in order to help spread the word about the Python."

G. Stein: "I'd suggest making this the responsibility of the Communications
Officer."

This discussion was deferred to email.


Adjournment
===========

S.?Holden adjourned the meeting at 17:28 UTC.

From contactprashantat at gmail.com  Sun Dec  5 12:48:48 2010
From: contactprashantat at gmail.com (Prashant Kumar)
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 17:18:48 +0530
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Porting python.org website
Message-ID: <AANLkTikLpV47-Y1x1NsgRZQjiKaKVcv54X8BCUd=b=zK@mail.gmail.com>

My name is Prashant Kumar. I and my friend Zubin have recently finished the
porting of Configobj. I was wondering if there is any way we could help in
the porting of python.org website over to python3k. It would be great if we
get the information regarding the dependencies which could be a factor in
hampering the porting over to Python3, the framework being used for hosting
and other necessary details.

with regards,
pkumar
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From mfoord at python.org  Sat Dec 18 03:26:54 2010
From: mfoord at python.org (Michael Foord)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:26:54 +0000
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin
Message-ID: <4D0C1BEE.7060701@python.org>

A reader has reported an error (and I'm pretty sure he's correct - see 
below) in the article at:

http://www.python.org/doc/essays/threads.html

This article isn't in the website svn and so I can't just correct it. I 
assume it is an old-and-no-longer-maintained article. The article itself 
starts with "This is an unfinished draft!".

I think the best course of action is just to delete it from the website. 
Anyone disagree?

All the best,

Michael

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	A little mistake, Agustin
Date: 	Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:00:59 -0500
From: 	salmeron at london.com
To: 	webmaster at python.org




Hello guys,

I am computer engineer with big experience developing in C/C++.
First of all thanks for your work, I think it is a great contribution.
I was reading this page http://www.python.org/doc/essays/threads.html
And in my opinion the following paragraph contain a tiny mistake.
The words underlain are in reverse order, so will be [.... from locked 
to unlocked ..... ]

...
A lock is an object with two states: locked and unlocked. Initially, it 
is in the unlocked state. It has two methods: acquire() and release(). 
The acquire() method changes the lock from the unlocked into the locked 
state. This is like setting a semaphore to unsafe and entering the 
stretch of railroad tracks guarded by the semaphore. The release() 
method changes the lock from _unlocked to locked_; it is like leaving 
the stretch and resetting the semaphore to safe. When acquire() is 
called on a lock that is already locked, the operation *blocks* until 
another thread invokes the release() method. This is like a train 
waiting to enter the stretch until the semaphore signals safe. It is 
illegal to call release() when the lock is unlocked. This would be like 
a train leaving the guarded stretch without having set the semaphore to 
unsafe on entering -- a crash may occur!
...

Thanks a lot.
I have some time, so I would like to collaborate with the project in any 
way.
Agustin Fuentes.
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From techtonik at gmail.com  Sat Dec 18 10:32:14 2010
From: techtonik at gmail.com (anatoly techtonik)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:32:14 +0200
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin
In-Reply-To: <4D0C1BEE.7060701@python.org>
References: <4D0C1BEE.7060701@python.org>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimCZMwM4BHKAih-gcQbA8NOuLsGuc6PTCjay343@mail.gmail.com>

The best course of action is to allow site edits by users.
-- 
anatoly t.


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Michael Foord <mfoord at python.org> wrote:

>  A reader has reported an error (and I'm pretty sure he's correct - see
> below) in the article at:
>
>     http://www.python.org/doc/essays/threads.html
>
> This article isn't in the website svn and so I can't just correct it. I
> assume it is an old-and-no-longer-maintained article. The article itself
> starts with "This is an unfinished draft!".
>
> I think the best course of action is just to delete it from the website.
> Anyone disagree?
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael
>
> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: A little mistake, Agustin  Date:
> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:00:59 -0500  From: salmeron at london.com  To:
> webmaster at python.org
>
>
> Hello guys,
>
> I am computer engineer with big experience developing in C/C++.
> First of all thanks for your work, I think it is a great contribution.
> I was reading this page http://www.python.org/doc/essays/threads.html
> And in my opinion the following paragraph contain a tiny mistake.
> The words underlain are in reverse order, so will be [.... from locked to
> unlocked ..... ]
>
> ...
>  A lock is an object with two states: locked and unlocked. Initially, it
> is in the unlocked state. It has two methods: acquire() and release(). The
> acquire() method changes the lock from the unlocked into the locked state.
> This is like setting a semaphore to unsafe and entering the stretch of
> railroad tracks guarded by the semaphore. The release() method changes the
> lock from *unlocked to locked*; it is like leaving the stretch and
> resetting the semaphore to safe. When acquire() is called on a lock that is
> already locked, the operation *blocks* until another thread invokes the
> release() method. This is like a train waiting to enter the stretch until
> the semaphore signals safe. It is illegal to call release() when the lock is
> unlocked. This would be like a train leaving the guarded stretch without
> having set the semaphore to unsafe on entering -- a crash may occur!
> ...
>
> Thanks a lot.
> I have some time, so I would like to collaborate with the project in any
> way.
> Agustin Fuentes.
>
> _______________________________________________
> pydotorg-www mailing list
> pydotorg-www at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
>
>
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From steve at holdenweb.com  Sat Dec 18 12:52:26 2010
From: steve at holdenweb.com (Steve Holden)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:52:26 -0500
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimCZMwM4BHKAih-gcQbA8NOuLsGuc6PTCjay343@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4D0C1BEE.7060701@python.org>
	<AANLkTimCZMwM4BHKAih-gcQbA8NOuLsGuc6PTCjay343@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D0CA07A.5090207@holdenweb.com>

On 12/18/2010 4:32 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> The best course of action is to allow site edits by users.

That's an opinion, but not the only one. Have you seen the PHP
documentation with user comments? The comments render the documentation
less useful in some cases.

regards
 Steve, but
-- 
Steve Holden           +1 571 484 6266   +1 800 494 3119
PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17       http://us.pycon.org/
See Python Video!       http://python.mirocommunity.org/
Holden Web LLC                 http://www.holdenweb.com/

From techtonik at gmail.com  Sat Dec 18 17:15:57 2010
From: techtonik at gmail.com (anatoly techtonik)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:15:57 +0200
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin
In-Reply-To: <4D0CA07A.5090207@holdenweb.com>
References: <4D0C1BEE.7060701@python.org>
	<AANLkTimCZMwM4BHKAih-gcQbA8NOuLsGuc6PTCjay343@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D0CA07A.5090207@holdenweb.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikBEN=ss4YsafMk-AA8rTT+Qa7HjXbtBSigDTO=@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> On 12/18/2010 4:32 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> The best course of action is to allow site edits by users.
>
> That's an opinion, but not the only one. Have you seen the PHP
> documentation with user comments? The comments render the documentation
> less useful in some cases.

Comments were extremely useful some years ago, as they had a lot of
actual examples, which greatly saved time. When I was working on
Extended CHM version of PHP manual
https://students.kiv.zcu.cz/doc/php5/docs-echm.php.html user comments
were one of its major features.

>From my learning experience user feedback in comments was more useful
than outdated documentation. The feedback that Python still lacks. I
tried to start Python several times, but until I found Python
Cookbook, I couldn't understand a whole world of concepts behind the
language. Maybe that's the goal - filter people, until they are
proficient enough to understand the language?

There was no cookbook for PHP - all recipes for most common problems
were in comments. Right now the system may be outdated. Comments are
moderated, but even long ago there were so many requests that nobody
really had time to review and approve them all. The comment system
could evolve to allow users report outdated info and rate comments,
but those who became capable to enhance the system grow out of PHP.
People switched to Experts Exchange and now there is StackOverflow.

My opinion is that documentation should be edited online, and right
now it is possible to make at least documentation edits more
accessible. My ticket for "suggest a change" link is waiting somewhere
on bug tracker. Idea is there, moderation queue algorithm is there,
patch system is ready, even rendering is partially there. But nobody
wants to see the system as a whole, so proposals like "immediate doc
build system" are closed. I must say that there is no framework for
collaboration. People are concentrated on specific bugs and work
alone, but complex issues require coordination, and nobody seem
interested in that.

Not interested, because there are many open questions, before you
start contributing, and if people can't find the answers, and don't
have time for discussions, they are unlikely to be involved. For
example, let's take the main questions for most open source projects -
licensing of this collaborative work. Why should I participate? What
do I get in exchange? Can I reuse that I've done? After the last time
I tried to discuss it, my patches stopped to be accepted, so I don't
write them anymore. For all open source projects it is clear that if
project is MIT licensed your patch will also be MIT licensed, isn't
it?

Some time ago I opened a project on http://code.google.com/p/pydotorg/
to draft a collaboration platform I'd like to see for pydotorg. It is
not ideal, but sets some standards that python.org fails. I hope it
clearly communicates the ideas of reuse and cross-project
collaboration. If only smb. else was interested in these.. But at
least people are free to add and star proposals.

--
anatoly t.

From mfoord at python.org  Sat Dec 18 19:22:04 2010
From: mfoord at python.org (Michael Foord)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:22:04 +0000
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikBEN=ss4YsafMk-AA8rTT+Qa7HjXbtBSigDTO=@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4D0C1BEE.7060701@python.org>	<AANLkTimCZMwM4BHKAih-gcQbA8NOuLsGuc6PTCjay343@mail.gmail.com>	<4D0CA07A.5090207@holdenweb.com>
	<AANLkTikBEN=ss4YsafMk-AA8rTT+Qa7HjXbtBSigDTO=@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D0CFBCC.8020502@python.org>

On 18/12/2010 16:15, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Steve Holden<steve at holdenweb.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/18/2010 4:32 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>> The best course of action is to allow site edits by users.
>> That's an opinion, but not the only one. Have you seen the PHP
>> documentation with user comments? The comments render the documentation
>> less useful in some cases.
> Comments were extremely useful some years ago, as they had a lot of
> actual examples, which greatly saved time. When I was working on
> Extended CHM version of PHP manual
> https://students.kiv.zcu.cz/doc/php5/docs-echm.php.html user comments
> were one of its major features.

We will soon have online comments for the Python documentation itself 
and much of our site is in the form of a wiki that is user editable. 
(Thank you Georg.)

Much of the rest of the site (front page, essays and so on) it 
absolutely doesn't make sense to have user editable.

All the best,

Michael Foord

> > From my learning experience user feedback in comments was more useful
> than outdated documentation. The feedback that Python still lacks. I
> tried to start Python several times, but until I found Python
> Cookbook, I couldn't understand a whole world of concepts behind the
> language. Maybe that's the goal - filter people, until they are
> proficient enough to understand the language?
>
> There was no cookbook for PHP - all recipes for most common problems
> were in comments. Right now the system may be outdated. Comments are
> moderated, but even long ago there were so many requests that nobody
> really had time to review and approve them all. The comment system
> could evolve to allow users report outdated info and rate comments,
> but those who became capable to enhance the system grow out of PHP.
> People switched to Experts Exchange and now there is StackOverflow.
>
> My opinion is that documentation should be edited online, and right
> now it is possible to make at least documentation edits more
> accessible. My ticket for "suggest a change" link is waiting somewhere
> on bug tracker. Idea is there, moderation queue algorithm is there,
> patch system is ready, even rendering is partially there. But nobody
> wants to see the system as a whole, so proposals like "immediate doc
> build system" are closed. I must say that there is no framework for
> collaboration. People are concentrated on specific bugs and work
> alone, but complex issues require coordination, and nobody seem
> interested in that.
>
> Not interested, because there are many open questions, before you
> start contributing, and if people can't find the answers, and don't
> have time for discussions, they are unlikely to be involved. For
> example, let's take the main questions for most open source projects -
> licensing of this collaborative work. Why should I participate? What
> do I get in exchange? Can I reuse that I've done? After the last time
> I tried to discuss it, my patches stopped to be accepted, so I don't
> write them anymore. For all open source projects it is clear that if
> project is MIT licensed your patch will also be MIT licensed, isn't
> it?
>
> Some time ago I opened a project on http://code.google.com/p/pydotorg/
> to draft a collaboration platform I'd like to see for pydotorg. It is
> not ideal, but sets some standards that python.org fails. I hope it
> clearly communicates the ideas of reuse and cross-project
> collaboration. If only smb. else was interested in these.. But at
> least people are free to add and star proposals.
>
> --
> anatoly t.
> _______________________________________________
> pydotorg-www mailing list
> pydotorg-www at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www


-- 

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May you do good and not evil
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
-- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html


From martin at martinthomas.net  Sat Dec 18 15:05:48 2010
From: martin at martinthomas.net (Martin Thomas)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:05:48 -0600
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimCZMwM4BHKAih-gcQbA8NOuLsGuc6PTCjay343@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4D0C1BEE.7060701@python.org>
	<AANLkTimCZMwM4BHKAih-gcQbA8NOuLsGuc6PTCjay343@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <B15C9594-D9D0-4967-B861-ED3BD27E0CB5@martinthomas.net>


On Dec 18, 2010, at 3:32 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:

> The best course of action is to allow site edits by users.
Not clear how this would fix missing content... and not in favour of user comments.
+1 for dropping the pag.

//M
> -- 
> anatoly t.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Michael Foord <mfoord at python.org> wrote:
> A reader has reported an error (and I'm pretty sure he's correct - see below) in the article at:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/essays/threads.html
> 
> This article isn't in the website svn and so I can't just correct it. I assume it is an old-and-no-longer-maintained article. The article itself starts with "This is an unfinished draft!".
> 
> I think the best course of action is just to delete it from the website. Anyone disagree?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Michael
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:	A little mistake, Agustin
> Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:00:59 -0500
> From:	salmeron at london.com
> To:	webmaster at python.org
> 
> 
> Hello guys,
> 
> I am computer engineer with big experience developing in C/C++.
> First of all thanks for your work, I think it is a great contribution.
> I was reading this page http://www.python.org/doc/essays/threads.html
> And in my opinion the following paragraph contain a tiny mistake.
> The words underlain are in reverse order, so will be [.... from locked to unlocked ..... ]
> 
> ...
> A lock is an object with two states: locked and unlocked. Initially, it is in the unlocked state. It has two methods: acquire() and release(). The acquire() method changes the lock from the unlocked into the locked state. This is like setting a semaphore to unsafe and entering the stretch of railroad tracks guarded by the semaphore. The release() method changes the lock from unlocked to locked; it is like leaving the stretch and resetting the semaphore to safe. When acquire() is called on a lock that is already locked, the operation blocks until another thread invokes the release() method. This is like a train waiting to enter the stretch until the           semaphore signals safe. It is illegal to call release() when the lock is unlocked. This would be like a train leaving the guarded stretch without having set the semaphore to unsafe on entering -- a crash may occur!
> ...
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> I have some time, so I would like to collaborate with the project in any way.
> Agustin Fuentes.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> pydotorg-www mailing list
> pydotorg-www at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> pydotorg-www mailing list
> pydotorg-www at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

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From skip at pobox.com  Sun Dec 19 00:42:48 2010
From: skip at pobox.com (skip at pobox.com)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:42:48 -0600
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin
In-Reply-To: <B15C9594-D9D0-4967-B861-ED3BD27E0CB5@martinthomas.net>
References: <4D0C1BEE.7060701@python.org>
	<AANLkTimCZMwM4BHKAih-gcQbA8NOuLsGuc6PTCjay343@mail.gmail.com>
	<B15C9594-D9D0-4967-B861-ED3BD27E0CB5@martinthomas.net>
Message-ID: <19725.18168.875484.881852@montanaro.dyndns.org>

Any idea who the original author of this page is or how recently it was last
updated?  I searched for it on the Wayback Machine but didn't find a copy
there.  Maybe it should be moved to the wiki and updates/rewrites
solicited.  Or just deleted.

Skip


From mfoord at python.org  Sun Dec 19 14:48:35 2010
From: mfoord at python.org (Michael Foord)
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:48:35 +0000
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin
In-Reply-To: <19725.18168.875484.881852@montanaro.dyndns.org>
References: <4D0C1BEE.7060701@python.org>	<AANLkTimCZMwM4BHKAih-gcQbA8NOuLsGuc6PTCjay343@mail.gmail.com>	<B15C9594-D9D0-4967-B861-ED3BD27E0CB5@martinthomas.net>
	<19725.18168.875484.881852@montanaro.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <4D0E0D33.4000404@python.org>

On 18/12/2010 23:42, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Any idea who the original author of this page is or how recently it was last
> updated?  I searched for it on the Wayback Machine but didn't find a copy
> there.  Maybe it should be moved to the wiki and updates/rewrites
> solicited.  Or just deleted.

I have no idea, but given that the article starts with "This is an 
unfinished draft!" and doesn't appear in the source for the current 
website (so the article likely predates the last website makeover) I 
don't think we need worry about it.

All the best,

Michael
> Skip
>
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From patcam at python.org  Tue Dec 21 23:56:54 2010
From: patcam at python.org (Pat Campbell)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:56:54 -0500
Subject: [pydotorg-www] PSF- Board Meeting Minutes -Approved- October
	2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=qguByVs65T6bHYf8_7x__VzAW2N3Wo98eVcQJ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=qguByVs65T6bHYf8_7x__VzAW2N3Wo98eVcQJ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTik3JV6RoeqdMcCqGHzCZQXC-8dhHce7wOisyD5O@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Pat Campbell <patcam at python.org> wrote:

> 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
> October

    and November 2010.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,
Pat

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patcam at python.org



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| The Python Software Foundation
| Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors
|
| October 18, 2010
|
| 

A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of
Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 18
October 2010. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell
prepared the minutes.

All votes are reported in the form "*Y-N-A*" (*in favor ? opposed ?
abstentions*; e.g. "5-1-2" means "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2
abstentions").


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Attendance                                  
==========

The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the
meeting: Steve Holden, Marc-Andre Lemburg, Martin v. Lowis, David Mertz, 
Doug Napoleone, Jesse Noller, Tim Peters, Jeff Rush, Greg Stein, James 
Tauber, and Gloria Willadsen. Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser 
(Treasurer), and Pat Campbell (Secretary & Administrator).


Minutes of Past Meetings
========================

The 20 September 2010 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved.

Approved, 8-0-2.


Votes Taken Between Meetings
============================

There were no votes taken since the last Board meeting held on 20
September 2010.


Treasurer Report                                                                                              
================

The monthly Treasurer's Report was provided to Board members by K. Kaiser
prior to the Board meeting. There were no major changes in the PSF's 
financial position since the last Treasurer's Report a month ago. 

However, the treasurer did report that we will be moving away from the usual
Google Checkout system to CTE's Registration processing system for PyCon.
In addition, the treasurer will be soliciting the aid of our secretary to
help with AR and our new Quickbooks system.

M.A. Lemburg also suggested the use of a Quickbooks emailing feature to help 
reduce the on-going AP and AR issues by routinely emailing out reminders to
concerned parties.


Progress Report                                                                                                                                                                                             .
===============

The following board reports were submitted to the board mailing list
one week prior to this month's meeting. Please see a summary of each
board report listed below:

Communication Status
--------------------

D. Hellmann, Communication Officer, has recruited volunteers to help 
write for the blog found at http://pyfound.blogspot.com/. For instance,
Paul Nuin will be writing about the PyPi Mirroring Project and Engelbert 
Gruber is constructing interview questions to use to inquire about the 
new PyCon website.


Core Development Tasks
----------------------

B. Cannon, Core Development Tasks Project, will begin working
on this 2-month project in January 2011.


HAM WebPages/Links
------------------

P. Campbell, Honorary Associate Membership (HAM) WebPages Start-up 
Project, is currently working with our treasurer, Kurt Kaiser in
order to setup the new Honorary Associate Membership fee payment 
system that will interface with the Python website.

Board Discussion:

S. Holden: "We really need to treat this as important, since it
will generate additional revenues to spend on sprints and the like."

K. Kaiser:  "We are setting up a new processor, FirstData. So between
them and "classic" PayPal (money by email) we should be able to handle
the payments.


Marketing Material                                                                 
------------------

MAL provides a brief introduction into his marketing project:

"The project is lead by Marc-Andr? Lemburg who is in contact with
the people behind the Plone brochure created by the German Zope
User Group (DZUG): Jan Ulrich Hasecke and Armin Stro?-Radschinski.

We started working on the concept a few weeks after World Plone Day
(http://rheinland.worldploneday.de/) and had several meetings and
phone conference calls to take the idea forward."


PyCon US Website
----------------

D. Napoleone, PyCon US Website Project, says that the new website for
2011 has been launched and that calls for proposals, tutorials, and 
posters are currently being accepted:"The website us.pycon.org/2011 is
live with complete information, including sponsorship, and blog 
integration on planet python. Calls for proposals, tutorials and 
posters have been sent out and the website is now accepting all three. 
The review system is in place. We have already received proposals in 
all three categories."

In addition, D. Napoleone also reported that the registration launch
has been slightly delayed due to issues with PSF accounting and CTE.

Board Discussion:

S. Holden: "I see we chose to use CTE's registration system. I am
surprised that registration has been such a time sink over so many
years."

K. Kaiser: "Yes, we change every year but hopefully, this is it for
awhile..."

J. Noller: "Because registration and accounting is a h"ard problem, 
we've been unable to get a volunteer pool to address fully, completely, 
and with a code base that's actually maintainable."

D. Napoleone: "Registration is very hard to get right, especially when
everything including the kitchen sink is wanted. We are rather liberal
when its comes to things like refunds, and unlike some other conferences,
we have add-ons like tutorials which are announced AFTER registration
opens."

J. Noller: "Therefore, outsourcing it makes the most sense."

S. Holden: "A small concern that it ties us to a third party that's 
shown evidence of instability in the last year."

K. Kaiser: "Yes, outsourcing registration is a good idea because it 
provides continuity across volunteers."

D. Napoleone: "When you look at the history of trying to do registration 
with a volunteer based system, we have had to rewrite it every year. One 
massive problem with this is integration with the hotel registration which 
is something impossible for a volunteer effort to manage. As well as, we
change hotel vendors as we move locations."

pyOpenSSL Status
----------------

J.P. Calderone, pyOpenSSL Project, has been working to improve the
coverage provided by pyOpenSSl's test suite and one such improvement
would include having addressed all known issues with the port. 


Sprint Committee
----------------

J. Noller, Sprint Committee Chair, provides a brief summary of the 
Sprint Committee's current activities and progress:

"We still don't have the number of sprints we want lined up - on the other
hand, we do have a donor who has sent money to the PSF for further sprints funding:
http://pythonsprints.com/2010/10/11/trading-technologies-sponsors-python-sprints/"

Board Discussion:

S. Holden: "Thanks for your work on sprints. I see this as a good practical way 
to support grass-roots development work.


Host OSX Buildbot Slaves
========================

Motion from Martin v. Lowis:

   **RESOLVED**, that the PSF buys one Mac Mini computer, for a total
   of no more than 1200 USD, to be used for Python core development;
   usage details are determined by the infrastructure committee.
   
Approved, 11-0-0.  


Community Service Award Nomination for 2010-3rd Quarter
=======================================================

Michael Foord was selected for the 2010-3rd Quarter PSF Community 
Service Award.


   **RESOLVED**, that Michael Foord receives the PSF Community
   Service Award Q3 2010.   
   
Approved, 11-0-0.
       
     
Other Business                                                               
==============

S. Holden reminded members to utilize the board mailing list more often
per month to discuss board matters that are subject to be voted on during 
the monthly board meeting.

G. Stein will be providing a new template to be used by writers when 
they are drafting their monthly board reports. The new template will 
include an additional section to the board report to be used to 
summarize the report.


Adjournment
===========

S.?Holden adjourned the meeting at 16:59 UTC.
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| The Python Software Foundation
| Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors
|
| November 15, 2010
|
| 

A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of
Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:00 UTC, 15
November 2010. David Mertz presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell
prepared the minutes.

All votes are reported in the form "*Y-N-A*" (*in favor ? opposed ?
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Attendance                                  
==========

The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the
meeting: Raymond Hettinger, Marc-Andre Lemburg, David Mertz, Doug 
Napoleone, Jesse Noller, Tim Peters, Jeff Rush, Greg Stein, and James 
Tauber. Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer), and Pat 
Campbell (Secretary & Administrator).


Minutes of Past Meetings
========================

The 18 October 2010 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved.

Approved, 7-0-2.


Votes Taken Between Meetings
============================

There were no votes taken since the last Board meeting held on 18
October 2010.


Treasurer Report   																				                                                                                           
================

The monthly Treasurer's Report was provided to Board members by K. 
Kaiser prior to the Board meeting.  

However, during the board meeting, the treasurer did add that we will
soon have a 990 filing.


Progress Report                                                                                                                                                                                             .
===============

The following board reports were submitted to the board mailing list
one week prior to this month's meeting. Please see a summary of each
board report listed below and a possible board discussion to follow:


Communication Status                                                               
--------------------

D. Hellmann, Communication Officer, reports that a blog about the
Google Summer of Code, a blog about Bug Weekend, and a blog about John
Pinner's 2010 - 2nd Quarter Community Service Award has been posted 
by the newly recruited Mike Driscoll. Paulo Nuin is another recruited
volunteer who has written a blog about Michael Foord, the recipient of 
the 2010 - 3rd Quarter Community Service Award. Foundation News can be
found here: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/. 

Board Discussion:

T. Peters: "Mike Driscoll is a blogging machine."


Core Development Tasks
----------------------

B. Cannon, Core Development Tasks Project, will begin working
on this 2-month project in January 2011.

Board Discussion:

The discussion was deferred to email.


HAM WebPages/Links
------------------

P. Campbell, Honorary Associate Membership (HAM) WebPages Start-up 
Project, is currently working with our treasurer, Kurt Kaiser in
order to setup the new Honorary Associate Membership fee payment 
system that will interface with the Python website. Andrew Kuchling
of MatrixMaxx is currently onboard to tackle membership subscriptions 
& fee payments for-the-most-part. In other words, we are working on 
many technical aspects of the project at this point.

Board Discussion:

D. Mertz: "Any word on when this is likely to be pinned down?"

P. Campbell: "We are currently looking at the financial side of things."

K. Kaiser:  "I have offered payment options, but the problem is: How is 
the whole signup, renewal, etc. going to be automated -- what website,
what code, who is writing it, and who is tracking, etc.?"

This discussion was deferred to email.


Marketing Material                                                                 
------------------

M.A.Lemburg provides a few comments on how the project is expected to progress:

"Since our last meeting at the German DZUG Tagung, a German Zope/Plone/Python 
conference in Dresden (http://www.zope.de/tagung/Dresden_2010) we have made 
good progress on getting the needed pricing information for the brochure.

We now have a draft budget plan which covers the pre-production, production 
and shipping costs for a 10.000 brochure edition with 20 pages of content 
that I will discuss with the board over the next few weeks.

In order to make the project as easy manageable for the PSF as possible, 
special care has been taken to have all aspects of logistics, shipping, 
packaging, etc. done by the production agency.

To refinance the brochure production costs we want to use ads ("Ad Sponsors") 
and a consulting company reference list ("Reference Sponsors") in the brochure. 
Our aim is to fully refinance the costs, with the PSF backing the project
financially until all sponsor fees have been collected.

After production the brochure will be sent out to PyCon US (for 2012), each 
of the sponsors will receive a box and the rest will be stored at the production 
agency in Germany for on-demand shipping at the request of the PSF or based
on direct orders received via a web form."

Board Discussion:

This discussion was deferred to email.


Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront
--------------------------------

The project leader, M.A. Lemburg, Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront, provides 
a purpose for his project by saying, "The project is intended to improve the 
availability, uptime and performance of PyPI for use by automatic package 
installation tools.

The main idea is to make all PyPI static content available via Amazon 
Cloudfront, a content delivery network maintained by Amazon."

MAL hopes to get his project started by December 2010. He would also like
to start recruiting for volunteers to help implement the startup facets of
the project.


PyCon US Website                                                                  
----------------

D. Napoleone, PyCon US Website Project, reports that the call for proposals, 
tutorials, and posters was very successful: 

"The call for participation was a huge success, with very few problems with 
the new submission software from Eldarion. Jesse Noller, acting as the Program 
Committee Chair made a blog post on this subject":
http://us.pycon.org/2011/blog/2010/11/12/pycon-2011-record-breaking-talk-and-tutorial-submi/

In addition, new activities for D. Napoleone will include the review system. He 
is also planning to launch PyCon US 2011 conference and hotel registration next month. 


pyOpenSSL Status
----------------

J.P. Calderone, pyOpenSSL Project, has been working to improve the
coverage provided by pyOpenSSl's test suite. He recently informed the
board that he had completed the pyOpenSSL Project and that the release
announcement can be seen here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3675e342b40310e9/157ae91ccee19151?show_docid=157ae91ccee19151


Sprint Committee
----------------

J. Noller, Sprint Committee Chair, provides board members with two resolutions
to review and vote on. One relates to expanding the charter itself and the other
relates to changing a leadership role on the Sprint Committee.


Board Discussion:

After some discussion, the board decided to modify the Sprint Committee Charter
(see board resolution below). However, they decided to maintain the current 
Sprint Committee leadership role.


Fund 2010 SciPy India Conference
=================================

   **RESOLVED**,that the PSF provide a $1250 US grant to help fund 
   sprints at the 2010 SciPy India conference to be held in Hyderabad 
   between December 13th to the 18th.
   
Approved, 5-4-0.  

   
Uniblue Systems Ltd. Membership Application
===========================================

   **RESOLVED**, that the board recommends Uniblue Systems Ltd. as a
   pending sponsor member.

Aproved, 8-0-0.


Modify Sprint Committee Charter
===============================

   **RESOLVED**, that the board approves the modification of the PSF 
   Sprints committee charter to allow for the funding of sprints 
   outside of the "python core" domain. The PSF and Sprint committee 
   may also accept donations to the PSF to help further fund the 
   Sprints project as a whole, but not to specific sprints via donor 
   advisement.

Approved, 9-0-0.

     
Other Business                        
==============

Assign Subdomain Pl.Python.org
------------------------------

   **RESOLVED**, that the PSF will assign the subdomain pl.python.org 
   to Piotr Tynecki and the Polish Python Coders Group, technical 
   details to be arranged by the Infrastructure Committee.
   
Approved, 7-0-0.


Adjournment
===========

D.?Mertz adjourned the meeting at 17:13 UTC.

From aclark at aclark.net  Thu Dec 23 02:23:34 2010
From: aclark at aclark.net (Alex Clark)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:23:34 -0500
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Add Alex Clark's Python-centric Blog to planet
	feed?
In-Reply-To: <4CBEFA34.9030708@python.org>
References: <AANLkTinkdYJj0NFjZawcmeP7rJd0bSfC6BNqv5CGTS4Y@mail.gmail.com>
	<4CBEFA34.9030708@python.org>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikJ6Ux=bH5QZe60D=BZvQZjkSvZQ8BMYDJSnX-G@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Michael,

Thanks! Sorry for the two month delay, here it is (planet CC'd):

   - http://blog.aclark.net/category/python/feed

Thanks,

Alex


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Michael Foord <mfoord at python.org> wrote:

>  Hey Alex,
>
> We'd be happy to do this. For adding to Planet Python we ask for a *Python
> specific* feed. This is usually done by tagging relevant posts with "python"
> and providing us with a tag / category specific feed.
>
> Could you set this up and send the Python tagged feed URL to planet
> <planet at python.org> <planet at python.org>
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael Foord
>
> On 20/10/2010 15:10, Alex Clark wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Could someone add http://feeds.feedburner.com/aclark to the Python planet
> feed list?
>
> That is the feed for: http://blog.aclark.net/ where I am planning to post
> more Python-centric content in the future (formerly Plone-centric).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
> --
> Alex Clark ? http://aclark.net
> Author ? Plone 3.3 Site Administration ? http://aclark.net/admin
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> pydotorg-www mailing listpydotorg-www at python.orghttp://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
>
>
>
> --
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>
> READ CAREFULLY. By accepting and reading this email you agree,
> on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations
> and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements,
> licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap,
> confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use
> policies (?BOGUS AGREEMENTS?) that I have entered into with your
> employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in
> perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges.
> You further represent that you have the authority to release me
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From ned at nedbatchelder.com  Thu Dec 30 13:43:14 2010
From: ned at nedbatchelder.com (Ned Batchelder)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:43:14 -0500
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Add Alex Clark's Python-centric Blog to planet
 feed?
In-Reply-To: <4CBEFA34.9030708@python.org>
References: <AANLkTinkdYJj0NFjZawcmeP7rJd0bSfC6BNqv5CGTS4Y@mail.gmail.com>
	<4CBEFA34.9030708@python.org>
Message-ID: <4D1C7E62.7060201@nedbatchelder.com>

Speaking of this, I've been meaning for years to create a feed 
specifically for Planet Python.  Now I've done it: 
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/planetpython.xml   Could you kindly update 
Planet Python to point to it?

--Ned.

On 10/20/2010 10:18 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
> Hey Alex,
>
> We'd be happy to do this. For adding to Planet Python we ask for a 
> *Python specific* feed. This is usually done by tagging relevant posts 
> with "python" and providing us with a tag / category specific feed.
>
> Could you set this up and send the Python tagged feed URL to planet 
> <planet at python.org>
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael Foord
>
> On 20/10/2010 15:10, Alex Clark wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Could someone add http://feeds.feedburner.com/aclark to the Python 
>> planet feed list?
>>
>> That is the feed for: http://blog.aclark.net/ where I am planning to 
>> post more Python-centric content in the future (formerly Plone-centric).
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Alex Clark ? http://aclark.net
>> Author ? Plone 3.3 Site Administration ? http://aclark.net/admin
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> pydotorg-www mailing list
>> pydotorg-www at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
>
>
> -- 
>
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/
>
> READ CAREFULLY. By accepting and reading this email you agree,
> on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations
> and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements,
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> policies (?BOGUS AGREEMENTS?) that I have entered into with your
> employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in
> perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges.
> You further represent that you have the authority to release me
> from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.
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From webmaster at python.org  Thu Dec 30 20:09:41 2010
From: webmaster at python.org (webmaster at python.org)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:09:41 +0000
Subject: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Few errors and enhancement (nice to have)
Message-ID: <4D1CD8F4.7020409@python.org>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Few errors and enhancement (nice to have)
Date: 	Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:34:04 +0100
From: 	Pastuszka Piotr <Piotr.Pastuszka at eservice.com.pl>
To: 	<webmaster at python.org>



Sorry my English, but J typically only read in English. First notice 
that www.python.org <http://www.python.org/> is little difficult to read.

1. http://docs.python.org/py3k/  - there no buttons to back to 
WWW.python.org <http://www.python.org/>  - my proposal is to link 
WWW.python.org <http://www.python.org/> on icon located on top/left of page

2. On WWW.python.org <http://www.python.org/> when click "Package Index" 
(http://pypi.python.org/pypi ) on left on top appears section "Package 
Index" and bottom of sections disappears many links.  Section "Package 
Index" disappears when click on another section like "About", "News", 
.... (no intuitive, because sometimes something appears and something 
disappears)

3. Package index (2.x) is very big. It is difficult to find good needed 
package -- now everybody have to check every package with description 
connected to subject.  In future 3.x it can be again big. It can be 
helpful to split list on 2 lists:

    A) Packages

    B) Packages arch -- in this list should by dead packages (non 
updates for 3 years) and low rating (lower then 3).

    I know there are Categories but it doesn't work perfect.

4. List of packages -- should have columns : Last update, Rating, Downloads

5. Please make "Advanced Search" in "Package Index".

6. Now "Video Python" is in About->Application 
http://www.python.org/about/apps/ and nowhere else. It should be in Help 
/Documentation.

7. Why content is split for 3 DNS subdomens?:
    a) www.python.org <http://www.python.org/>

    b) docs.python.org <http://www.python.org/>

    c) wiki.python.org <http://www.python.org/>

There is also pypi.python.org <http://www.pypi.python.org/>, but I 
understood why is this DNS subdomen

   Now many information is redundancy and little difficult to read for 
new users (specially native non English)

a)http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Overview

b)http://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/

c)http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide

d)http://www.python.org/about/help/

e)http://www.python.org/about/apps/

f)http://www.python.org/doc/

8. http://www.python.org/dev/pydotorg/website/ - it is difficult to 
maintain Website. Mayby better is to move all content to wiki.python.org 
(with obligatory acceptance)

Regards

Piotr Pastuszka from Poland

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From michael at voidspace.org.uk  Thu Dec 30 20:17:01 2010
From: michael at voidspace.org.uk (Michael Foord)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:17:01 +0000
Subject: [pydotorg-www] PyPI search link on the python.org search page is
	incorrect
Message-ID: <4D1CDAAD.6020000@voidspace.org.uk>

Hello all,

A user has report that the PyPI search link from the python.org 
"advanced search" page is broken.

If you go to python.org and click on "Advanced Search" link under the 
search box at the top right it takes you to:

     http://www.python.org/search/

This page has a "Search the Python Packages Index (PyPI)" link, which 
takes you to:

     http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search_form

This page is non-functioning, which means that either the link is 
incorrect or the functionality has stopped working.

All the best,

Michael Foord

-- 
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May you do good and not evil
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
-- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html


From martin at v.loewis.de  Thu Dec 30 21:25:00 2010
From: martin at v.loewis.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:25:00 +0100
Subject: [pydotorg-www] PyPI search link on the python.org search page
 is	incorrect
In-Reply-To: <4D1CDAAD.6020000@voidspace.org.uk>
References: <4D1CDAAD.6020000@voidspace.org.uk>
Message-ID: <4D1CEA9C.7010609@v.loewis.de>

Am 30.12.2010 20:17, schrieb Michael Foord:
> Hello all,
> 
> A user has report that the PyPI search link from the python.org
> "advanced search" page is broken.
> 
> If you go to python.org and click on "Advanced Search" link under the
> search box at the top right it takes you to:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/search/
> 
> This page has a "Search the Python Packages Index (PyPI)" link, which
> takes you to:
> 
>     http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search_form
> 
> This page is non-functioning, which means that either the link is
> incorrect or the functionality has stopped working.

AFAICT, the functionality has stopped working in 2006, when the site
redesign happened. In any case, I have now fixed it.

Regards,
Martin

From michael at voidspace.org.uk  Fri Dec 31 13:33:08 2010
From: michael at voidspace.org.uk (Michael Foord)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:33:08 +0000
Subject: [pydotorg-www] PyPI search link on the python.org search page
 is	incorrect
In-Reply-To: <4D1CEA9C.7010609@v.loewis.de>
References: <4D1CDAAD.6020000@voidspace.org.uk> <4D1CEA9C.7010609@v.loewis.de>
Message-ID: <4D1DCD84.4070108@voidspace.org.uk>

On 30/12/2010 20:25, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> Am 30.12.2010 20:17, schrieb Michael Foord:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> A user has report that the PyPI search link from the python.org
>> "advanced search" page is broken.
>>
>> If you go to python.org and click on "Advanced Search" link under the
>> search box at the top right it takes you to:
>>
>>      http://www.python.org/search/
>>
>> This page has a "Search the Python Packages Index (PyPI)" link, which
>> takes you to:
>>
>>      http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search_form
>>
>> This page is non-functioning, which means that either the link is
>> incorrect or the functionality has stopped working.
> AFAICT, the functionality has stopped working in 2006, when the site
> redesign happened. In any case, I have now fixed it.

Thanks Martin.

Michael

> Regards,
> Martin


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