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Only now have I been able to make the time to record the recipients of the final PSF Community Service Awards of 2009. I hope the recipients will accept my a...

The PSF Board chose in the first quarter of this year to honor two individuals who have both given outstanding service to PyCon. For the first time framed ce...

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Under the PSF bylaws, in order to become a voting member you must be nominated by an existing member. The bylaws do not, however, require that directors be m...

A service that the PSF has run for a very long time now is the Python Job Board. This allows any potential employer with a requirement for Python skills to p...

Regular readers will know that the Foundation periodically honors those who have made significant contributions to its mission. Often these people aren't eve...

October 1, the deadline for submitting PyCon talk proposals, is now just under a week away. If you're planning to present, you should submit your outline now...

We should all give Brandon Rhodes a hearty "Thanks!" for doing a great job representing Python at the Atlanta Linux Fest on September 19th. You can read Bran...

As part of ongoing preparations for GHOP, Titus Brown and the other organizers are soliciting feedback about what modules in the standard library need more d...

October 1, the deadline for submitting PyCon talk proposals, is now just under a month away. Start thinking about your outline now! See the proposal instruct...

The Google Highly Open Participation contest ('GHOP') is going to run again this year in December starting around Dec 7th. Closer to December we will start t...

The Python buildbots have been switched off. The reason for this is that there is nobody to manage them, and configuration changes would be required (along w...

The period to submit proposals for PyCon 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) is now open and will close on October 18. Tutorials are 3-hour long classes on a spec...

In their August board meeting, the PSF's board of directors voted to sponsor three conferences. Each conference will receive US$750. The three conferences ar...

Submission Due date: October 1st, 2009 Want to showcase your skills as a Python Hacker? Want to have hundreds of people see your talk on the subject of your ...

The PSF is looking for information about successful uses of Python in order to create an updated list of success stories and find organizations that might be...

As part of the ongoing work to make Python conferences more widely accessible, the PSF Board has awarded grants to two regional conferences to help with thei...

The Python scientific community has its annual conference in Pasadena CA August 18-23rd. SciPy 2009 has just opened up registration. The keynote speakers inc...

Following discussions at EuroPython there has been some talk about the possibility of introducing associate memberships. At present nobody is really clear ex...

There will be no Python 3.0.2 release or further 3.0.x maintenance/security releases. All users of Python 3.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Python 3.1.