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Candidates for the 2017 PSF Board of Directors¶
The following people have been nominated as Directors of the Python Software Foundation for the term beginning in June 2017. Their self-written summaries follow. The specific dates of relevance to the election are:
Open call for Board Director Nominations: May 1, 2017
Board Director Nomination & Voter Eligibility cut-off: May 25, 2017 AoE - nominations & voting eligibility closes at 2017-05-25 23:59:59 UTC-12
Voting start date: June 1, 2017 AoE - ballots will be sent out
Voting end date: June 10, 2017 AoE - election closes at 2017-06-10 23:59:59 UTC-12
The above closing times are given in the “Anywhere on Earth” (AOE) timezone.
There are currently 11 seats on the Board of Directors (last changed in the 2012 PSF Members vote).
Nominees
Registering as a PSF Board candidate
To register as a candidate for the Board elections, add your nomination to this page using the format listed at the end of the page. We’d like as many groups within the PSF membership as possible to have the option of electing candidates that can directly represent their interests in Board discussions, so if there’s someone you’d particularly like to have represent you, you may want to consider getting in touch with them and (politely!) asking if they’d be interested in nominating themselves.
Read through the Letter from PSF Director of Operations - Expectations of Board Directors & Duties and Responsibilities of Directors. Please note that the PSF bylaws require that Board candidates disclose significant organizational affiliations (for example, their employer).
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Registering to vote on PSF ballots
While PSF Membership is open to anyone that chooses to join, Basic Members are not entitled to vote on PSF ballots, including Board elections. In accordance with the bylaws, the following PSF Members are entitled to vote on PSF ballots:
Managing Members
Contributing Members
Supporting Members (these were previously called “Associate Members”)
PSF Fellows
To register as a Managing or Contributing member, refer to this post on the PSF blog.
To register as a Supporting Member, please use the PSF Associate Membership site.
PSF Fellows must themselves be approved through a PSF ballot, and thus only existing Fellows will be entitled to vote on the upcoming ballot. This ballot will include bylaw updates for the newly established process for nominating Fellows.
Outgoing Directors
The following members of the 2016/17 Board are stepping down and will not be registering as candidates for the 2017/18 Board:
Diana Clarke
Carol Willing
Please use the following format:
Candidate Name
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*2016 Board Member.* or *New Board Member.*
Description.
Affiliation: ...
2016 Board Member
Description
It is with great pleasure that I outline my personal contributions to the Python community. Additionally I will provide an overview of the merits that I believe I could bring to the PSF as 2017 member of the Board of Directors.
I began using Python as a staffer at Obama for America and continued to use Python as a political analyst. With over 9 years experience using Python, namely in the space of supporting a data science team and historically in civic tech, Python has been a constant tool in my professional tool belt.
As a Python organizer my career began when I founded the PyLadies Chicago chapter over two years ago. Since then I’ve acted as the lead organizer helping:
grow the PyLadies Chicago community to over 700 MeetUp members on MeetUp
organize over 50 events since our start
average 3 events every 2 months
PyLadies Chicago has been a rich and rewarding experience as the continued recruitment for women in technical communities, such as Python, is one of my top priorities. As a Latina and a woman I believe it is instrumental we continue to advance this cause but more importantly to continue to advance it on a global scale.
2016/2017 PSF Community Contributions
Attended 16 of 17 meetings (3 by proxy)
Represented PSF and Spoke at Python Jamaica (November 2016)
Co-delivered PSF Update at EuroPython 2016 with Naomi Ceder
PSF Communications Co-Chair, Overseeing Blog
Assisted in the hiring of 2 new PSF Bloggers
Authored 2 PSF Blog Articles
Interviewed about the PSF in several capacities, for example: ZimboPy April 2017 Interview, Podcast Interviews (e.g. Python.__init__)
Spearheaded the start of the PyCon Organizers Manual
Participate in the creation of the PSF Code of Conduct Working Group Charter (ongoing)