Marc-André Lemburg

The PSF was founded on Thursday, March 5, 2001, at the 9th International Python Conference (Long Beach, California, USA) with the aim to protect the intellectual property of Python and further its use.

PSF Founding Member & PSF Fellow

The initial founding PSF members were mostly made up of Python core developers. I was one of them and may call myself a PSF Fellow after the membership reform in 2014.

PSF Board Member

I was PSF board member from 2002 - 2004 and then asked to run for board again in 2010 by Steve Holden, with the aim of nudging the PSF into a more business like approach to growth and operation.

From 2010 to 2016, I worked as PSF board member, pushing various projects forward and making sure that interests of Python users and the core developers get a voice in board decisions.

In 2016, I decided not to run for board again, in order to have more time to focus on other things I enjoy, like creating a larger community around the EuroPython conference.

My PSF Projects

• PSF Python Brochure - initiated the project in 2011, pushed it through the board approval process and lead the project since then. The first print run of 5,000 copies was launched in time for PyCon US 2014 in Montreal. The second run of another 5,000 copies was launched in time for PyCon US 2015 in Montreal. In 2016, we still had a few copies left which were shipped to PyCon US 2016, as well as the community world-wide. We’re out of stock now, so the project ended. There’s talk about a second edition, but I likely won’t be participating - 5 years was long enough.
  (2011-2016)
• PSF Python Job Board Team - kickstarted the project in Feb 2014 to migrate the old job board procedure to the new python.org’s jobs app. The project was hold pending python.org site updates for several months between Aug 2014 and Jan 2015, but then picked up speed again early in Feb 2015 and we were able to relaunched the Job board on 2015-03-19. Since then a team of reviewers has been working hard to keep up with many job postings we get each day. The job board team is transitioning to a PSF work group and I decided to step out of the process due to lack of time.
  (2014-2018)
• PSF Python Events Calendars - initiated the project in 2012 and have been running it ever since as team effort. In the first 4 years, we had over 240 events submitted and the calendars are becoming an increasingly popular resource for the community. I plan to turn this into a PSF work group as well.
  (2012-today)
• PSF Marketing Material Project - I started this project mostly myself, pushing the PSF forward to do more active Python marketing in classical areas such as creating logos, conference kits, flyers, stickers, brochures and sending these around the world to help Python community members to promote Python.
  (2011-2015)
• Managed the large PSF Conference Kit for Europe, sending it to 15 Python events and giving several talks and lightning talks about the PSF at these events.
  (2012-2017)
• Founding member of the PSF Marketing WG. In Sept 2015, we launched an official PSF Marketing WG to take the PSF Marketing Material Project to the next level. I was the initial chair of the WG, but then stepped down to free up time to spend on running EuroPython.
  (2015-2016)
• Founding member of the PSF Trademark Committee. Co-chair since 2013.
  (2008-today)
• Admin of the Python wikis (https://wiki.python.org/). Maintainer of the main Python wiki and PSF wiki. In 2013, I helped reconstruct the wiki’s contents after they came under attack.
  (2013-2021)
• Admin of http://www.pycon.org/, using a bitbucket repo for maintenance, and the pycon.org sub-domains. I’m moving this to github now. I owned the pycon.org domain from 2003-2012 before I contributed it to the PSF and tried to get as many Python conferences using subdomains of pycon.org as possible, so that everyone could benefit from being part of the movement.
  (2003-2019)
• Member of the PSF Bylaws WG - helped work out the bylaws changes implemented in 2014 to open up the PSF for the general Python community (2013-2015)
• Admin of the PSF’s Gandi domain registrar account and the PSF domains, taking care of registrations, renewals, transfers and updates. I also negotiated the special terms and discounts we’re getting from Gandi.
  (2013-2019)
• Admin of the PSF’s StartSSL certificate account, creating PSF SSL certificates for PSF infrastructure and community sites. Mark Mangoba took over in 2016. We have since stopped using StartSSL in 2016 and now switched to Let’s Encrypt, Gandi and DigiCert certificates.
  (2014-2016)
• Several smaller PSF projects: 2014/2015, 2013/2014, 2012/2013, 2011/2012, 2011/2012, 2010
  (2010-2016)
• PSF Public Support Committee - started and chaired this committee in 2002 to help with fund raising for the PSF, until I left the board in 2004. (2002-2004)