> > It appears that CNRI can only think about one thing at a time <0.5 > > wink>. For the last 6 months, that thing has been the license. If > > they ever resolve the GPL compatibility issue, maybe they can be > > persuaded to think about the PSA. In the meantime, I'd suggest you > > not renew <ahem>. > > I think we need to find a better answer than that, and soon. While > everybody reading this list probably knows not to renew, the PSA is > the first thing that you see when selecting "Python Community" on > python.org. The first paragraph reads > > # The continued, free existence of Python is promoted by the > # contributed efforts of many people. The Python Software Activity > # (PSA) supports those efforts by helping to coordinate them. The PSA > # operates web, ftp, and email services, organizes conferences, and > # engages in other activities that benefit the Python user > # community. In order to continue, the PSA needs the membership of > # people who value Python. > > If you look at the current members list > (http://www.python.org/psa/Members.html), it appears that many > long-time members indeed have not renewed. This page was last updated > Nov 14 - so it appears that CNRI is still processing applications when > they come. It may well be that many of the newer members ask > themselves by now what happened to their money; it might not be easy > to get an answer to that question. However, there is clearly somebody > to blame here: The Python Community. I don't know how many memberships CNRI has received, but it can't be many, since we sent out no reminders. I'll see if I can get an answer. > So I'd like to request that somebody with write permissions to these > pages changes the text, to something along the lines of replacing the > first paragraph with > > # The Python community organizes itself in different ways; people > # interested in discussing development of and with Python usually > # participate in <a href="MailingLists.html">mailing lists</a>. > # > # <p>Organizations that wish to influence further directions of the > # Python language may join the <a href="/consortium">Python > # Consortium</a>. > # > # <p>The <a href="http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/">Corporation for > # National Research Initiatives</a> hosts the Python Software > # Activity, which is described below. The PSA used to provide funding > # for the Python development; that is no longer the case. > > If there is a factual error in this text, please let me > know. I've done something slightly different -- see http://www.python.org/psa/. I've kept only your first paragraph, and inserted a boldface note before that about the obsolescence (or deprecation :-) of the PSA membership. I've removed the references to the consortium, since that's also about to collapse under its own inactivity; instead, the PSF will be formed, independent from CNRI, to hold the IP rights (insofar they can be assigned to the PSF) and for not much else. I'll see if I can get some more news about the creation of the PSF (which is supposed to be an initiative of ActiveState and Digital Creations). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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