Re: the Python Foundation

2010-03-24 Thread Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF
Mark Tarver wrote: >>From the website > > The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit > corporation that > holds the intellectual property rights behind the Python programming > language. We manage the open source licensing for Python version 2.1 > and later and own and protect

Re: python admin abuse complaint

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF
Xah Lee wrote: > This is a short complaint on admin abuse on #python irc channel on > freenode.net. > > Here's a log: > > 2010-02-02 > > (12:11:57 PM) The topic for #python is: NO LOL | http://pound-python.org/ > | It's too early to use Python 3.x | Pasting > 3 lines? Pastebin: > http://paste.po

Re: How Do I...?

2009-12-19 Thread Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF
Victor Subervi wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Tim Chase > mailto:python.l...@tim.thechases.com>> > wrote: > > Victor Subervi wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Tim Chase > >wrote: > > Well, you st

Please Help Publicize PyCon

2009-12-19 Thread Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF
Hi,everyone. This year I hope all readers of this list will assist me in crass commercial promotion of next year's PyCon. I will be speaking about "Building the Python Community", and we can't do that without advertising that the Python community exists (and hey, has pretty good conferences too).