Software engineer with direct experience of many aspects of the software and internet…

• Chairman, Director, Volunteer, Conference Organizer

  Python Software Foundation

  Jan 2000 - Apr 2012 12 years 4 months

  Science and Technology

  When I realized that Python was a valuable way to express object-oriented algorithms I determined to do what I could to help increase its popularity. Initial actions involved becoming active on the comp.lang.python Usenet group/mailing list, where I made thousands of posts over a period of ten or more years,

  This led to social involvement with the core Python development team, at whose instigation I organized and chaired the first three PyCon community conferences. This in turn led to…

  When I realized that Python was a valuable way to express object-oriented algorithms I determined to do what I could to help increase its popularity. Initial actions involved becoming active on the comp.lang.python Usenet group/mailing list, where I made thousands of posts over a period of ten or more years,

  This led to social involvement with the core Python development team, at whose instigation I organized and chaired the first three PyCon community conferences. This in turn led to election to the board of the Python Software Foundation where I was a director for eight years and its chairman for three.

• Director (8 yrs), Chairman (3 yrs), Fellow (26 yrs)

  Python Software Foundation

  Jan 2002 - May 2020 18 years 5 months

  Science and Technology

  Established sensible procedures and financial scrutiny, put the Foundation on a firm footing for its future.
  Acted as webmaster for python.org.

• Python in a Nutshell

  O'Reilly April 1, 2017

  This edition covers:

  Python syntax, Object-Oriented Python, standard library modules, and third-party Python packages.
  Python’s support for file and text operations, persistence and databases, concurrent execution, and numeric computations.
  Networking basics, event-driven programming, and client-side network protocol modules.
  Python extension modules, and tools for packaging and distributing extensions, modules, and applications.

  Other authors

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• The Frank Willison Memorial Award for Contributions to the Python Community

  O'Reilly Media/Python Software Foundation

  Jul 2007

  The Frank Willison Memorial Award is given annually to a person judged to have made an outstanding contribution to the Python community. The award was established in memory of Frank Willison, a Python enthusiast and O'Reilly editor-in-chief, who died in July 2001.