2017

Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q4 2017

We are happy to announce our 2017 4th Quarter Python Software Foundation Fellow Members: - Belinda Weaver - taught over 20 workshops throughout Australia...

Community is at its Peak at North Bay Python

As I sat in the cool, darkened theater, I reflected on what had brought me to North Bay Python. While I had heard the buzz about a Python conference in Petal...

The PSF’s Grant Program Policies and Preferences

Are you starting a new Python conference, founding a group, or beginning a workshop? The Python Software Foundation can help with a grant. But first, you nee...

The PSF awarded $170,000 grant from Mozilla Open Source Program to improve sustainability of PyPI

When are we finally going to see Warehouse deployed? What's the holdup? Has this project stalled? For the last year, we at the Python Packaging Authority hav...

Eric Floehr, Community Service Award 3rd Quarter 2017 Recipient

When Eric Floehr was a child growing up in Ohio, he had three interests: space, dinosaurs, and the weather. One day, his dad brought home a computer to make ...

PSF's October Board Meeting

Last week Monday, October 16th, the Python Software Foundation held its first in-person director meeting outside of PyCon. We were able to get 9 directors to...

Why Become A PyCon Sponsor?

Sponsors help keep PyCon affordable and accessible to the widest possible audience. Sponsors are what make this conference possible. From low ticket prices t...

Thomas Kluyver, Community Service Award 3rd Quarter 2017 Recipient

People love Python for its ease of use, breadth of modules, and vibrant community. These qualities are made possible by people like Thomas Kluyver who, during...

Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2017

We are happy to announce our 2017 3rd Quarter Python Software Foundation Fellow Members:
 Aisha Bello Brian Costlow Carol Willing Carrie Anne Philbin Cory ...

A New Python Security Mailing List

The Python community takes security very seriously. In an effort to enhance security and promote transparency about security matters, the Python Security Res...

Join the Python Developers Survey 2017: Share and learn about the community

2017 is drawing to a close and we are super-excited to start the official Python Developers Survey 2017! We’ve created this survey specially for Python devel...

The PyLady Behind PyLadies: Lynn Root, Community Service Award 2nd Quarter 2017 Recipient

PyLadies is an international mentorship community for women that use Python. Started with a grant in 2011, PyLadies has continued to bring women into the Pyt...

Improving Python and Expanding Access: How the PSF Uses Your Donation

The PSF is excited to announce its first ever membership drive beginning on September 18th! Our goal for this inaugural drive is to raise $4,000.00 USD in do...

Au revoir PyCon Pune

By Anwesha Das February 2017 marked the beginning of a new journey for a new regional Python Conference - PyCon Pune. PyCon is the meeting place for communist...

PythonDay Mexico: Recap of the Inaugural PythonDay in Mexico

It has been three years since I first learned about PyCon. I watched some workshops and talks and I was amazed by how inviting, open and inclusive the commun...

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Python in Nigeria In 2015, the PSF sponsored the first Python event in Nigeria - the Codesses Workshop in Lagos. In 2016, the number of events increased t...

The Ethical Maintainer: Community Service Award Recipient Glyph Lefkowitz

Glyph Lefkowitz was barely 20 years old when he promised himself, "I am never going to use a proprietary programming language again!" He had been writing a J...

2017 Bylaw Changes

The PSF has changed its bylaws, following a discussion and vote among the voting members. I'd like to publicly explain those changes. For each of the changes...

Welcome New Board Members

The PSF is thrilled to welcome six new board members, chosen on June 11 during the 2017 PSF Board Election. The PSF would not be what it is without the exper...

2017 Frank Willison Memorial Award Goes To Katie Cunningham And Barbara Shaurette

Every year the Python Software Foundation awards the Frank Willison Memorial Award to a member(s) of the Python community. The purpose of this award is to re...

Attending PyCon 2017? Consider Becoming a Sponsor!

As PyCon approaches, we would like to invite attendees and members of our community to join the Python Software Foundation as a sponsor. Your generous support...

Brian Costlow, “the quietly amazing rock” Python volunteer: Community Service Award Recipient

Brian began volunteering unofficially, when he threw out a pile of pizza boxes. He was at PyOhio in 2009 when, as Brian recalls, “Lunch was delivered pizza a...

Community Service Award Recipient Ian Cordasco

The Python Software Foundation depends on its board of directors in order to function. Board members are elected every year by PSF voting members in a process...

Pay What You Want for "The Humble Book Bundle: Python" and Benefit the PSF

Pay what you want for a stack of Python ebooks from No Starch Press, and decide what portion goes to the PSF. This deal is presented by Humble Bundle, which ...

Python at Google Summer of Code: Apply by April 3

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers post-secondary students an opportunity to be paid for contributing to an open source project ove...

Ee takes the call - Community Service Award Recipient Ee Durbin

The day was October 23, 2015, Friday afternoon. The PSF and PyCon organizers were busy pulling together sponsors for the upcoming PyCon conference when sudde...

Discovering the Python Community in Zimbabwe at their first PyCon

On the heels of attending a successful PyCon in Namibia in 2015, a small group of Python enthusiasts in Harare, Zimbabwe vowed to organize the first-ever PyC...

Pythonistas (and a Python!) at PyCon Jamaica

This past November marked the first PyCon Jamaica. Held in the capital, Kingston, the conference began on November 17th with a day of tutorials followed by a...

Time To Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory

If you're using an older Python without the most secure TLS implementation, this is the year to get serious about upgrading. Otherwise next June you may not ...

“I use Python to help build the kind of world I want to live in” - Shannon Turner, Community Service Award Winner Q4

Shannon Turner has been fascinated with programming since she was a child, thanks in part to her grandmother, who loved video games. Watching her grandmother...

Sheila Miguez and Will Kahn-Greene and their love for the Python Community: Community Service Award Quarter 3 2016 Winners

There are two elements which make Open Source function: 1. Technology 2. An active community. The primary need for a successful community is a go...

"Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil

In a 1947 lecture on computing machinery, Alan Turing made a prediction: "The new machines will in no way replace thought, but rather they will increase the ...