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Brian #1: PSF Elections coming up

This is elections for the PSF Board and for 3 bylaw changes.
To vote in the PSF election, you need to be a Supporting, Managing, Contributing, or Fellow member of the PSF, …
And affirm your voting status by June 25.
See Affirm your PSF Membership Voting Status for more details.
Timeline
- Board Nominations open: Tuesday, June 11th, 2:00 pm UTC
- Board Nominations close: Tuesday, June 25th, 2:00 pm UTC
- Voter application cut-off date: Tuesday, June 25th, 2:00 pm UTC
  - same date is also for voter affirmation.
- Announce candidates: Thursday, June 27th
- Voting start date: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2:00 pm UTC
- Voting end date: Tuesday, July 16th, 2:00 pm UTC
See also Thinking about running for the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors? Let’s talk!
- There’s still one upcoming office hours session on June 18th, 12 PM UTC
And For your consideration: Proposed bylaws changes to improve our membership experience
- 3 proposed bylaws changes

Michael #2: Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos

Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired.
The court documents state that Brody's employment was terminated after he violated company policies by connecting a USB drive.

Brian #3: Python: Import by string with pkgutil.resolve_name()

Adam Johnson
You can use pkgutil.resolve_name("[HTML_REMOVED]:[HTML_REMOVED]")to import classes, functions or modules using strings.
You can also use importlib.import_module("[HTML_REMOVED]")
Both of these techniques are so that you have an object imported, but the end thing isn’t imported into the local namespace.

Michael #4: DuckDB goes 1.0

via Alex Monahan
The cloud hosted product @MotherDuck also opened up General Availability
Codenamed "Snow Duck"
The core theme of the 1.0.0 release is stability.

Extras

Brian:

Sending us topics. Please send before Tuesday. But any time is welcome.
NumPy 2.0
htmx 2.0.0

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