Jon Banafato

PyGotham • https://conferencechats.org • PyCon US Co-Chair

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2026-03-24 16:46:52 CET

In today's edition of "Jon has media literacy complaints": making someone an "offer they can't refuse" isn't like... a positive thing.

2024-12-18 21:14:33 CET

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The PSF's membership system is a bit more complicated. The different membership types are described at https://www.python.org/psf/membership-faq/#what-membership-classes-are-there, and you can check your Basic Membership status at https://www.python.org/users/membership/ and your Supporting or Contributing Membership status at https://psfmember.org/user-information/ (this page will display an error if you're not logged in, so head to https://psfmember.org/wp-login.php to log in first).

2024-12-18 21:06:26 CET

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I think I know what you mean by this, but can you elaborate on which parts of PSF and DSF memberships have you feeling uneasy (private message is fine with me as well)? For what it's worth, I have feedback for both of these membership programs and have only been a DSF member for a month, so I am coming at this from a "how to we make this whole process better?" angle.

2024-12-18 20:53:57 CET

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> We had 400 eligible voters, and received 215 votes (54%).
Now what do we do to get this percentage up for the next election? If you were eligible to vote and didn't vote, why not?

2024-12-18 20:49:12 CET

Congrats to the incoming Django Steering Council! https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/dec/18/django-6x-steering-council-election-results/

2024-10-30 22:41:23 CET

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Feel free to tell me to stay in my lane here, but may I also suggest broadening the community events language? e.g. many of us Python conference organizers factor Django's place in the Python web dev community when into the talk selection process. (Obviously there are Python events that are wholly unrelated to Django as well, but all of these things tend to be trusting that people won't abuse the system, anyway.)

2024-08-29 22:04:40 CEST

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Seems to be essentially placeholder packages based on https://inspector.pypi.io/, but yeah, there are some strange things that get published there.

2024-06-22 02:35:43 CEST

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The general context is the third change listed at https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/06/for-your-consideration-proposed-bylaws.html (and IMHO an unfortunate volume of discourse surrounding it).
I am happy to help with the voting membership registration if you'd like. There's a form at https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=32 that shouldn't take 15 minutes (and will hopefully become simpler soon), and if you've donated within the past year, you should also be eligible for a "supporting membership".