[python-committers] MSDN subscriptions/renewals

2019-08-06 Thread Brian Curtin
Hey all! It's everyone's favorite time of year: MSDN subscription season. Microsoft provides our team complimentary Microsoft Developer Network accounts, which gives us access to various Visual Studio versions, OS images, and a whole lot more in support of us developing and testing Python on Windo

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2018-08-20 Thread Victor Stinner
Steve wrote: > Just to clarify one thing: you don't need a special license to get Visual Studio Community Edition to work on Python, even within a big company - it's free for open source work, and has everything we need. My employer gave me a laptop without Windows license. It is likely the case f

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2018-08-15 Thread Jim Baker
Brian, Thanks again for helping here! Two additional experience stories on why MSDN is valuable for those of working on the Python language: - Some of us otherwise don't run Windows devices, but would like to support Windows, across potentially a range of versions and natural languages

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2018-08-15 Thread Steve Dower
On 15Aug2018 0650, Brian Curtin wrote: This will give you access to Microsoft's Developer Network, which includes access to things like Visual Studio and Windows licenses that we can use for working on Python. Just to clarify one thing: you don't need a special license to get Visual Studio Co

[python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2018-08-15 Thread Brian Curtin
Hey everyone, I've had a few people reach out to me recently (or not so recently; sorry about that) about renewals for their MSDN subscriptions. If yours is expired or soon to expire, please send me the email address you're using to login, your full name, and your mailing address, and after I've r

Re: [python-committers] MSDN subscriptions/renewals

2016-07-07 Thread Paul Moore
Hi Brian, My current subscription expires at the start of November, which seems to be a little out of sync with when you do these renewals (I'm not sure how that happened - I think I was late renewing one year). I don't know if it's worth renewing now to bring things back in sync, but in case it is

[python-committers] MSDN subscriptions/renewals

2016-07-07 Thread Brian Curtin
Hey all, The fine folks at Microsoft have been giving us complimentary access to Microsoft Developer Network subscriptions for many years now in support of Python on Windows, and it's soon going to be expiration time (or past that) for some of your accounts. If any existing subscribers anyone wou

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2015-03-03 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Trent Nelson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:27:34AM -0500, Yury Selivanov wrote: >> Hi Brian, >> >> My subscription expires today.. > > I think you get a grace period for a couple of weeks which is handy. Yep, usually there's some grace period. If anyone

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2015-03-03 Thread Trent Nelson
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:27:34AM -0500, Yury Selivanov wrote: > Hi Brian, > > My subscription expires today.. I think you get a grace period for a couple of weeks which is handy. > Is it possible to renew it somehow? So, I ended up renewing my subscription most recently via an online

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2015-03-03 Thread Yury Selivanov
Hi Brian, My subscription expires today.. Is it possible to renew it somehow? Thanks, Yury On 2014-11-14, 4:39 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: Brian Curtin python.org> writes: Since I've gotten a couple of requests now for MSDN renewals, I may as well try to do them in a big batch. If you have an MS

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2014-11-14 Thread Vinay Sajip
Brian Curtin python.org> writes: > Since I've gotten a couple of requests now for MSDN renewals, I may as > well try to do them in a big batch. If you have an MSDN subscription > that is expired or soon expiring, I can get you a renewal if you send > me the email address you use to login and your

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2014-11-14 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 14/11/2014 17:47, Steve Dower a écrit : > Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Le 14/11/2014 03:11, Nick Coghlan a écrit : >>> Oh, that reminds me - we should mention the availability of Visual >>> Studio Community edition on python-dev, and likely update the >>> developers guide to recommend i

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2014-11-14 Thread Steve Dower
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le 14/11/2014 03:11, Nick Coghlan a écrit : >> Oh, that reminds me - we should mention the availability of Visual >> Studio Community edition on python-dev, and likely update the >> developers guide to recommend it to Windows based contributors. >> >> I'll w

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2014-11-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 14/11/2014 03:11, Nick Coghlan a écrit : > Oh, that reminds me - we should mention the availability of Visual > Studio Community edition on python-dev, and likely update the > developers guide to recommend it to Windows based contributors. > > I'll write something up for the li

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2014-11-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 14 November 2014 12:08, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 14 November 2014 09:04, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> Since I've gotten a couple of requests now for MSDN renewals, I may as >> well try to do them in a big batch. If you have an MSDN subscription >> that is expired or soon expiring,

Re: [python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2014-11-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 14 November 2014 09:04, Brian Curtin wrote: > Hey all, > > Since I've gotten a couple of requests now for MSDN renewals, I may as > well try to do them in a big batch. If you have an MSDN subscription > that is expired or soon expiring, I can get you a renewal if you send > me the email addres

[python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2014-11-13 Thread Brian Curtin
Hey all, Since I've gotten a couple of requests now for MSDN renewals, I may as well try to do them in a big batch. If you have an MSDN subscription that is expired or soon expiring, I can get you a renewal if you send me the email address you use to login and your Subscriber ID. This is found at

[python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

2013-08-01 Thread Brian Curtin
Hi all, Since I've gotten a handful of requests lately, I wanted to put out a call to try and handle them in a batch. That'll make it easier for the people at Microsoft who run their Open Source program. If you're using your MSDN subscription and it will be expiring in the next couple of months,