The 2010 Board of Directors
Raymond Hettinger has been a contributor to the Python core for 10
years, and has worked on many of the standard library modules,
including itertools, sets, and collections. He regularly speaks at
Python and Open Source conferences around the world. He is currently
working on an update to the Python Cookbook, as well as the Python
Swallowed Whole book project. In 2009, he lead an ongoing effort to
ensure that we have signed contributor agreements from all
contributors to Python core or the standard library. Raymond is
Director of Technology at SauceLabs and is a Certified Public
Accountant.
Steve Holden joined the PSF in 2003, its Board of Directors in
2004, and became Chairman in 2008. He founded and chaired the first
Python community conference, establishing PyCon as the premier event
for Pythonistas in North America. He again chaired PyCon in 2004
and 2005. He received the Frank Willison Memorial Award in 2007
for his services to the Python community. He is the author of Python
Web Programming and for two years wrote the monthly "Random Hits"
column in Python Magazine. Steve runs Holden Web LLC, a consulting
and training company with a strong Python focus.
Marc-André Lemburg been working with Python since 1993 and on
Python since 1997 as core developer. His major contributions include
the design for Unicode integration, the codecs subsystem, pybench, and
the platform module. From 2002-2004 Marc-André served on the PSF
board and was PSF vice president in 2003-2004. He started the Public
Support Committee (PSC) as a way of looking for income sources for the
PSF. He also initiated the work of having signed Python contributor
agreements for all contributors. Marc-André's company eGenix.com
provides Python project support and produces several Python extension
libraries for working with dates, text processing, and ODBC
connectivity.
David Mertz is currently Chair of the PSF's Trademarks Committee,
and served as Vice Chair last year. He proposed the adoption of a
2009 diversity statement by the Board. He is a developer and
author, most notably of Text Processing in Python and the IBM
developerWorks' column Charming Python. He is also co-authoring the
updated 3rd Edition of The Python Cookbook. As CTO and board member
of the Open Voting Consortium, David advocated for the use
of Python to create an Open Source voting platform. For the last
couple years, David has been consulting for D.E.Shaw Research, builders of *Anton*, the world's
fastest supercomputer for doing computational biochemistry.
Doug Napoleone has developed with Python for the past 10 years and
has been active in the community for 7 years. He is the lead
developer of the PyCon-tech project, the application for managing most
aspects of the PyCon US conference. He is also active on several
organizing committees for PyCon US. Doug has worked with and helped
organize three local Python user groups.
Jesse Noller is a prominent Python-dev team member, especially
noted for his contributions to the multiprocessing module. He has
been working with Python for over five years, on a variety of projects
including distributed systems and automation frameworks. He writes on
his blog and has contributed to Python
Magazine as both author and editor. He also chaired the PyCon 2010 Program Committee. Jesse is a Senior
Engineer at Nasuni Corporation.
Tim Peters has served on the Board since its inception. He
corresponded extensively with Guido about Python's design before its
first public release in the early 1990s, and contributed to many areas
of the language implementation over the years, especially to
optimization of time-critical paths. Other contributions include the
first POSIX thread implementation, the first Python port to a 64-bit
machine, the Emacs Python mode, The Zen of Python, SpamBayes, doctest, and Python's
sorting algorithms.
Allison Randal is architect of the Parrot VM, as well as the lead developer of Pynie (an implementation of Python 3 on
Parrot). In addition to sitting on the PSF board, Allison chairs the
board of the Parrot Foundation, and is on the board of the Perl
Foundation. In 2005, together with Dave Neary of GNOME, she founded
FLOSS Foundations to bring together
leaders of open source foundations to share resources and knowledge.
Allison is currently studying at the University of Bristol in the UK.
Jeff Rush first became involved with Python in 1997 by porting it
to OS/2. He started the Dallas Ft. Worth Pythoneers user group in 2005 and co-chaird PyCon
in Dallas in 2006 and 2007. Jeff worked for the PSF as Python
Advocacy Coordinator in 2006-2007. He frequently gives talks at
Python and other Open Source conferences and user group meetings.
Greg Stein is one of the original members who incorporated the
PSF, and is a prior Director. In addition to his many contributions
to Python, he blogs, works on several
Apache projects, the WebDAV specification, and Subversion. He is a
member of the Apache Software Foundation's
board of directors, and was its chair from 2002-2007.
James Tauber has been working with Python for 12 years and open
source for 17 years. He is lead developer of Pinax as well as a Django core developer. He
was a mentor for the PSF's participants in the Google Summer of Code program from 2005-2007, and an
administrator for the project from 2007-2008. He is a frequent
conference speaker and currently sits on the PSF Trademarks Committee.
James is CEO of Eldarion, a web startup that uses Django and Pinax and
helps others do the same.
Martin v. Löwis is a Python core developer. Over the last year,
he has been focusing on infrastructure issues such as hardware
upgrades, PyPI, the bug tracker, and acting as a liason to the PSF's
hosting provider XS4ALL.
Gloria Willadsen has been working with Python for over ten years.
She has written online and in articles for The Python Papers and Python Magazine. She also had a
regular column called "I Love Python" for DevChix. Gloria teaches tutorials at conferences
around the world and has started two apprenticeship groups to teach
Python tools and techniques to developers.
