How Useful is the Python Job Board?
Steve ·
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...
Reminder: 5 days left for PyCon US 2010 Proposals
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...
Python at the 2009 Atlanta Linux Fest
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...
What modules need documentation work for Python 3.x?
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...
Reminder: 14 Days left for PyCon US 2010 Proposals
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...
GHOP 2009/2010 Planning
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...
Buildbot Champion Needed
Steve ·
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...
Call for Tutorials -- PyCon 2010
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...
PSF Helps Sponsor 3 Conferences
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...
Call for proposals -- PyCon 2010
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 ...
In Search of Success Stories
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...
Regional Conference Grants
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...
PSF Sponsors SciPy 2009
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...
Associate Memberships
Steve ·
Following discussions at EuroPython there has been some talk about the possibility of introducing associate memberships. At present nobody is really clear ex...
Python 3.0 is an ex-release! Long live Python 3.1!
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.
"conferences" new mailing list created
The conferences@python.org mailing list is for open discussion of issues related to Python conferences. All conferences are welcome: established and planned,...
PSF Board & Members' meeting minutes available
The minutes of all 2009 meetings through April were approved at the May Board meeting, and are available here: - 12 January 2009 Board meeting - 9 Februa...
PSF Community Awards - March 2009
Sunday, March 29th, at Pycon 2009 in Chicago: On behalf of the PSF Board of Directors, Python BDFL and PSF President Guido van Rossum announced two Python So...
Thanks to 2008 Donors
Steve ·
From figures supplied by the Treasurer it appears that the PSF received donations totalling $23,807.65 in 2008. The smallest donation was one cent, and the l...