PyCon: Call for Proposals and for Tutorials

The Call for Proposals and Call For Tutorials for PyCon 2007 have been posted. Talk proposals must be received by October 31st, and tutorial proposals must be received by November 15th.

Announcing the PSF CafePress store

Thanks to Tim Parkin's volunteer work, the PSF now has a CafePress storefront at www.cafepress.com/pydotorg.

You can order T-shirts, hats, and stickers featuring the blue-and-yellow Python logo and the yellow-and-black PyCon logo. About 25% of the sale price will be returned to the PSF to help fund our activities.

July PSF Board Meeting Minutes Available

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors, July 10, 2006

Four issue trackers submitted for Infrastructure Committee's tracker search

Back in June, the Python Software Foundation's Infrastructure Committee asked for help in the search for a new issue tracker to replace SourceForge. We asked people who wished to help with the search to install their favourite issue tracker and import a data dump of our issues from SourceForge. We placed a deadline of August 7th to have the installation up and going. We realized that this was a large request to make of the community, but we needed to make sure that we got to evaluate any candidate trackers with the amount of issues that Python has so as to get a real-world feel. Not surprisingly, the community stepped up to the challenge with four different test tracker installations by the deadline! We have one for JIRA, Roundup, Trac, and Launchpad. The current schedule calls for the Infrastructure Committee to spend the next month evaluating the four trackers and making a decision on which one to go with. This might slip, though, since this overlaps with traditional American and European vacation time. But the slippage will not go beyond October 1. On behalf of the Infrastructure Committee, I thank the people who took the time and effort to set up a test tracker to help improve the development of Python.