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Announcing: the brand new PSF Python Job Board We are happy to announce that we have successfully relaunched the PSF Python Job Board. After almost one yea...

Several recent blog posts have focused on Python-related and PSF-funded activities in Africa and the Middle East. But the Python community is truly global, a...

I previously posted about a wonderful education program utilizing Raspberry Pis (AstroPi). Here’s another one: Since last May, Unicef has been using Raspberr...

This morning, PSF Director David Mertz announced on the PSF Members' mailing list the opening of a vote. For those of you who have already self-certified as ...

This morning, PSF Fellow Nicholas Tollervey of the UK posted the following to the PSF Members List: "Today the BBC announced the MicroBit (part designed by \...

Today’s blog is about another African educational project that the PSF has recently funded. Hyperion Development, a South African based company, has been pro...

The second PSF sponsored African conference I want to tell you about is Python Namibia (only a mere 3500 kilometers or 2175 miles south of Cameroon). The con...

The PSF was delighted to hear recently from the organizers of two Python conferences held in Africa that we had helped sponsor. The first of them, Pycon Came...

I am very sad to report that John Pinner has passed away. The Python Community has lost a great friend. John received a PSF Community Service Award in 2010 f...

Last week the PSF Board passed the following resolution: “RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation award the 4th Quarter 2014 Community Service Awards t...

"Membership has its privileges!" Since the new PSF bylaws were adopted in 2013, there have been several new membership categories that allow for voting right...

Personal Note: In 2013, I attended my first PyCon in Santa Clara, CA. At the time, I was a complete novice at programming, but interested both because my par...

The esteemed, international scientific journal Nature has just published an article that names Python as THE programming language to use for scientists and r...

One function the PSF is happy to do is to send a PSF Director to PyCons in various parts of the world to give a talk and to provide information about and enc...

Earlier this week, I posted about a workshop the PSF sponsored given by Geek Girls Carrots. Since then, I've been in touch with organizer, Zuzanna Podwińska,...

PSF Python Brochure PDF (low resolution version) We are happy to announce that we have successfully distributed the first 5,000 copies of the PSF Python Br...

For many people, myself included, it's hard to see the way that my individual dreams and desires may be part of a bigger movement, and may, in fact, contribu...

Sometime back in 2011, the PSF realized that Python, although at the time a mature and widely-used language, was still unknown to many decision-makers outside...

Today's post wraps up our brief review of 2014, with a summary of both technical and community developments. On the technical side, the Python language grew ...

Happy New Year from the PSF! 2014 was an eventful year for the Python community, and so we thought a brief rundown of highlights from last year should put us...