Re: How can I join to PBF

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:17:03 -0500 (EST), Stephan Deibel  
<sdeibel-Lm9UvEecpg9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Andriy Kravchuk wrote:
>> > The PBF is, if I'm remembering correctly, 10 Euro/year to join.
>> > I'll try to get your email to someone that might be able to get
>> > you set up to work on the PBF site, which indeed seems to
>> > have sunking into non-functionality.
>>
>> OK. Lets try.To start I need .zexp (and information about OS,
>> DA, DB if any) to work locally or manager account in the safe
>> copy of pbf site to work remote. Second choice is faster, maybe.
>> We can work with postgres and mysql rdbms. Please note, plone is
>> a puzzle thing and I can not guarantee 100% success.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have the keys for the PBF site so I can't
> help get you access.  I did send your email to someone that
> should be able to help, but there are deeper potential issues
> like whether or not they're still willing to host this.

I understand. I will try to help you in another project.
>
>> > Just to clarify:   The PBF is the Python Business Forum, which
>> > was intended as a place for Pythoneers with business interest
>> > in Python to "do things".  Not much has been done, but it's
>> > still a valid forum to have and I hope it might do more in
>> > the future (like create a global Python consultants database
>> > for customers looking for help w/ Python).
>>
>> It is very interesting. Lets talk about this db.
>
> I only have the perspective that I'd like to have it as a
> resource to point customers to when they ask about Python
> consulting.  I'd say something simple and self-maintaining
> is what's needed but unfortunately I don't have any time to
> put into this myself at this point.
>
>> > The PSF is the Python Software Foundation, which is primarily
>> > charged w/ holding the intellectual property rights behind
>> > Python (this is legally important to Python being open source).
>> > The PSF also has started giving grants for Python-related
>> > development and helps may PyCon possible.
>> >
>> > You can actually donate as an individual to the PSF as well.
>> > These donations are used primarily for funding grants:
>> >
>> > http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
>> >
>>
>> Already done. After updating the list I hope to see my name.
>
> Thanks very much for the donation!

Thank you too.

-- 
Andriy