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Minutes of the 2004 member meeting
The members of the Python Software Foundation (the "Corporation") held its annual meeting on March 25, 2004 at the George Washington University's Cafritz Center in Washington, D.C. Jeremy Hylton, secretary and treasurer, presided over the meeting. The following members attended the meeting:- David Ascher (also representing ActiveState)
- Steve Holden
- Jim Fulton (also representing Zope Corporation)
- Fred Drake
- Jeremy Hylton
- Thomas Wouters
- Barry Warsaw
- Paul Prescod
- Trent Mick
- Brett Cannon
- Anthony Baxter
- Neil Schemenauer
- Reggie Dugard representing Merfin LLC.
- Eric Jones
- Tim Peters
- David Goodger
- Laura Creighton representing AB Strakt
- Stephan Deibel
- Aahz
- Michael McLay
- Neil Norwitz
- Paul Dubois
- Guido van Rossum
- Andrew Kuchling (also representing Advanced Simulation Technology Inc.)
- Martin v. Löwis
| Proxy | for |
|---|---|
| Guido van Rossum | Michael C. Olson
Matthew Dixon Cowles Thomas Heller Jack Jansen |
| Neal Norwitz | Jason Tishler |
| Barry Warsaw | Skip Montonaro
Peter Schneider-Kamp Jason Abate (Hostway) Ka-Ping Yee |
| Martin von Loewis | Marc-André Lemburg |
| Steve Holden | Alex Martelli |
| David Ascher | Neil Hodgson
Kevin Altis |
| Jeremy Hylton | Vinay Sajip
Sam Rushing |
| Tim Peters | Greg C. Ewing |
| Brett Cannon | Raymond Hettinger |
Board Report
Jeremy Hylton presented the annual report of the board, summarizing reports from individual committees. The Python Support Committee (chaired by Marc-André Lemburg) has focus on fund raising. The Paypal system was established and first donations were received. The website features a ranking based on priorities. To date, 258 donations were received. The board has established the notion of a pending sponsor member, which is a donor who is likely to be voted as a sponsor member at the next member meeting. The python.org domain was transferred from CNRI, and work is on progress on selecting contributor agreement. The most recent suggestion from the lawyer to replace suggested three contributor agreements with an individual one, has been well received by the directors.Treasurer Report
Neal Norwitz gave a brief summary of the PSF's financial status. The current balance are assets of $115k. He then responded to detailed questions from the members on specific numbers regarding the donations.Sponsor members
Jeremy presented a list of new proposed sponsor members. 43 ballots were collected, and all of the proposed members have been elected, with the following number of aye/nay votes:- Array BioPharma (38 ayes)
- BizRate.com (34 ayes)
- Enthough (39 ayes)
- Google (43 ayes)
- IronPort (40 ays)
- Open Source Application Foundation (43 ayes)
- Industrial Light & Magic (42 ayes, 1 nay)
- Opsware (37 ayes)
- ZeOmega (40 ayes)
Member voting
After discussion, all proposed nominated members have been elected, with the following votes:- Hye-Shik Chang (39 ayes)
- Andrew Dalke (39 ayes)
- Jeff Elkner (38 ayes, 2 nays)
- Kurt B. Kaiser (40 ayes)
- Gustavo Niemeyer (38 ayes)
- Armin Rigo (43 ayes)
- Trevor Toenjes (34 ayes, 1 nay)
- Danny Yoo (43 ayes)
Board election
After discussion, the following members were elected, with the following number of votes:- David Ascher (33)
- Stephan Deibel (24)
- Steve Holden (24)
- Jeremy Hylton (29)
- Martin v. Löwis (35)
- Tim Peters (35)
- Guido van Rossum (26)