2015

Python-Cuba Workgroup

Today I’d like to report on some of the progress that has been made as a result of last years' controversy over an April 1st joke post about a (fictional) Py...

Google Summer of Code–Terri Oda gets CSA award!

At the latest PSF Board of Directors' meeting, it was decided that a 4th quarter Community Service Award will go to Terri Oda for her work as the Python Coor...

Meet the Coulson Tough Elementary Python Club

As we all know, one of the PSF’s main purposes is to educate and advocate for the use of Python. What makes us so successful in this area is the enthusiasm w...

PyCon Japan 2015: A Success

Last month PyCon Japan took place from October 9 - 12th at the Tokyo International Exchange Center Plaza Heisei. The PSF has recently received a report from ...

First-Ever PyCaribbean Coming This February!

At the October 28th meeting of the Board of Directors of the PSF, the following resolution was passed: > > [](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R2...

Register Now for PyCon 2016!

Once again, the PSF is proud to underwrite and produce the largest gathering of the international Python community at PyCon 2016! The 2016 conference will be...

Django Girls Seoul: A Great Success!

One of the greatest joys of being part of the PSF is to hear the success stories our members. Back in July, the PSF sponsored a small Django Girls workshop i...

Twisted Trial Ported to Python 3!

Twisted, as many of you know, is an asynchronous, or event driven networking framework written in Python (https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki). Twisted has b...

BBC’s micro:bit project open-sourced today!

As you may recall, there have been a couple of previous posts to this blog about the BBC’s micro:bit project (also see PSF newsblog). The micro:bit is a small...

Python in Cameroon a Success!

It is always a pleasure to report on the success of PSF funded projects. Recently we’ve heard from Ngangsi Richard about the Python Cameroon initiative. As y...

New PSF Community Mailing List

Last year, the Python Software Foundation adopted an open membership model, allowing anyone that uses and supports Python to become a member of the foundatio...

CSA Awards to Tollervey, Stinner, and Storchaka

Greetings Readers, I apologize for the hiatus I’ve taken recently from writing this blog -- other commitments temporarily got in the way. But during this tim...

Jessica McKellar receives 2015 Frank Willison Award

Ask any Pythonista to name the best features of Python and they are sure to include its amazing community. For the past 15 years the PSF has recognized this ...

PyOhio Young Coders to receive PSF Funding

The PSF is always thrilled to be able to help introduce young people to the world of programming. As such, Young Coders' Workshops (also see O'Reilly) are es...

Correction to Micro:bit post: no internal battery!

Yesterday's blog post about the BBC Micro:bit requires a brief correction. I said that it can be run off of another device or from its own battery power. How...

BBC Micro:bit successfully launched!

July 7, 2015 BBC Microbit Last March, I wrote about a terrific educational project taking place in the UK, with which the PSF is proud to be involved (see PS...

PyCon Singapore

The PSF is happy to report that the third annual PyCon Singapore took place June 17 to 19, 2015. This event, organized by the Python User Group Singapore, is...

CSA goes to PSF Brochure Creators

RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation award Armin Stross-Radschinski and Jan Ulrich Hasecke the 1st Qtr 2015 PSF Community Service Award for their wo...

Nicholas Tollervey and Python in Education

As many of you know, the use of Python in education has grown tremendously in the past several years (see PSF Newsblog). The Python community celebrates this...

Mark Hammond Receives Distinguished Service Award

Like other community-based open source software, volunteers from around the world are to thank for Python's existence. When it comes to Python on Windows, th...

Sponsor Election Results!

Last month, in addition to the election for the Board of Directors, a separate election was held asking PSF members to approve three new sponsors. Here is Ia...

The Election Process and the new PSF Election Administrator

Background: As those of you who have been following recent events in the PSF know, there were some difficulties and disagreements surrounding the election fo...

Congratulations to the new Board of Directors!

Board Election Results The PSF annual Board members' election was just completed, with voting closed at end of day (AOE) on May 31, 2015. Thanks to all who t...

Read the Docs: growing with a little help from its friends at the PSF (and elsewhere)

Today's post, like the previous one, features a development project that the PSF has been delighted to fund once again this year. On April 28, 2015, the PSF ...

PSF funds development: Armin Rigo's CFFI 1.0

In looking back over the PSF newsblog posts, it appears that most of the PSF funded projects I’ve written about were conferences, workshops, and education/ou...

New Board Election! Important! Please Read!

For those of you who haven't followed the recent discussion on the PSF members list, there has been an important development regarding the election of member...

South African Brothers and Sisters for Python

Today’s post is a follow-up to a previous post about a PSF funded project by Hyperion Development in South Africa. The PSF has recently heard from Riaz Moola...

PSF/NumFOCUS joint Working Group on Scientific Python

For the first time ever, the PSF has joined forces with another open source organization, NumFOCUS, to create a collaborative working group to make decisions...

Reminder: Friday May 1 deadline for PSF Board nominations

As we previously announced, nominations for the Python Software Foundation's board of directors are open, and they will be accepted through Friday May 1. Ple...

Highly Contagious: Python Spreads through South America!

As you may recall, I previously posted about a wonderful project in South America that has been funded in part by the PSF. That first blog post described the...

Finding global voices

On the psf-members mailing list today, current Director David Mertz expressed some sentiments about increasing diversity in the governance of the foundation ...

Board of Directions Nomination Instructions Update

Unfortunately, the Python Wiki has experienced some spamming and vandalism lately. This may mean that editing the Wiki, including the Directors nomination pa...

Run for the Board of Directors!

The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth o...

My Dinner with Katie

Last week at PyCon, I had the pleasure of talking with Katie Cunningham at a dinner party hosted by O'Reilly. Katie is well-known in the Python community. Th...

Python X Southwest: SciPy in Austin!

Mark your calendars: SciPy 2015 is coming in July (July 6-12, 2015) to the fabulous city of Austin, TX. This will be the 14th annual SciPy devoted to scienti...

PSF supports more Django Girls!

A couple of posts ago, I wrote about the PSF’s funding of the upcoming Plone Conference in Bucharest as an example of how the PSF supports Python development...

PSF Python Brochure: Get your free copy at PyCon 2015

PSF Python Brochure PDF (low resolution version) After having distributed the first 5,000 copies of the PSF Python Brochure to Python conferences and user ...

PSF Seeks Event Coordinator/Administrator

The PSF is looking to fill a position as an Event Coordinator/Administrator. Note that this is a remote position and that it does not require software develo...

PSF to sponsor Plone Bucharest 2015!

The PSF has been happy to acknowledge and help sponsor the use of Python in creating terrific Web Development Frameworks. This blog has previously featured s...

PyCon 2018-2019 in Havana, Cuba!

> Hi everyone, > The below post is an April Fools joke. It was written by PSF Blogger and Basic Member Mary Ann Sushinsky, with Director and Outreach & Educa...

For S/He's a Jolly Good. . .The PSF Fellow Recognition Program

As most of you already know, last year the PSF changed the bylaws regarding membership in order to become more inclusive, diverse, and participatory. Several...

To sublicense or not to sublicense? That is the election.

Earlier this month, the PSF opened an election on two issues: the first was a straightforward vote on the adoption of new Sponsor Members; the second was more...

World Domination: One Student at a Time!

A couple of years ago, I discovered the edX MIT course 6.00x Intro to Computer Science and Programming Using Python. At the time, I was eager to learn Python...

Let's make decisions together!

Personal opinion: I think it’s always a good idea to periodically revisit one’s purpose and basic goals; speaking from experience, getting lost is inefficien...

Google Summer of Code Applications are open!

Google Summer of Code is a program for post-secondary students who want to work on open source projects as a means of summer employment, and the Python Softw...

Raspberry Pi 2: Even More Delicious!

For those of you not familiar with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, this UK based educational charity provides fun projects and opportunities for bringing coding...

PSF Python Job Board relaunched !

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...

Manuel Kaufmann and Python in Argentina

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...

Unicef Pi4Learning

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

Membership Vote

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 ...

BBC launches MicroBit

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 \...

Hyperion Development Awarded Fourth PSF grant

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...

Python Namibia

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...

Pycon Cameroon

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...

John Pinner

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...

PSF Community Service Award goes to Django Girls

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

Enroll as PSF Voting Member

"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...

Raspberry Pis in Space: AstroPi

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...

Python featured in "Nature"

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

PyCon Belarus

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...

Geek Girls Carrots coming to PyCon 2015!

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 "sold out" - help us kick start the second print run !

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...

Geek Girls Carrots Warsaw workshop

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...

The PSF Brochure

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...

2014 Year in Review, Part 2

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 ...

2014 Year in Review

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...

Python Events Calendars - Please submit your 2015 events

Introduction As some of you may know, the PSF has a team of volunteers who are maintaining a set of central Python event calendars. We currently have two ...