2021

Georgi Ker Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q4 2020

Georgi Ker was awarded the Python Software Foundation 2020 Q4 Community Service Award. > RESOLVED that the Python Software Foundation award the Q4 2020 Commu...

PyPI User Feedback Summary

The PSF conducted a series of three surveys to identify key user requirements that have not been addressed so far. We used this round of surveys to engage wi...

A message from the PSF's outgoing Executive Director

Today is my last day at the PSF. It's been an honor and a pleasure serving the Python community for over a decade. It's a very bittersweet feeling for me. Al...

Loren Crary has joined the PSF as its Director of Resource Development

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is excited to welcome Loren Crary as our new Director of Resource Development! Financial sustainability is critical t...

Humphrey Butau Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q4 2020

Humphrey Butau, web developer, PSF fellow, and PyCon Zimbabwe co-founder was awarded the Python Software Foundation 2020 Q4 Community Service Award. > RESOLV...

2021 End of the year fundraiser!

Summary: The PSF launched its end-of-the-year fundraiser. There are two ways to donate: 1. donate directly to the PSF or 2. purchase a discounted PyCharm lic...

The Python Software Foundation is searching for its next Executive Director

Summary: After announcing earlier this summer that Ewa Jodlowska is leaving after ten years of service, the PSF has begun its search for the organization's n...

Vicky Twomey-Lee Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q3 2021

Vicky Twomey-Lee, software engineer, PyLadies Dublin founder, EuroPython Society emeritus board member, Coding Grace co-founder, Women Who Code Dublin direct...

Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2021! 🎉

The PSF is pleased to announced its third batch of PSF Fellows for 2021! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazi...

Join the Python Developers Survey 2021: Share and learn about the community

This year we are conducting the fifth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. The goal is to capture the current state of the language and the ec...

Katia Lira Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q2 2020

Katia Lira, Software Engineer from Mexico city, has been awarded the Python Software Foundation 2020 Q2 Community Service Award. > RESOLVED, that the Pyth...

Tereza Iofciu Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q1 2021

Tereza Iofciu, Data Science coach, PyLadies Hamburg organizer, and PSF Code of Conduct working group member has been awarded the Python Software Foundation 2...

Shamika Mohanan has joined the PSF as Packaging Project Manager

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is excited to welcome Shamika Mohanan as our new Packaging Project Manager! You can learn specifics about the role in ou...

Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2021

The PSF is pleased to announced its second batch of PSF Fellows for 2021! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q2! The following people continue to do amaz...

Łukasz Langa is the inaugural CPython Developer-in-Residence!

The PSF and the Python Steering Council are pleased to announce that the inaugural Developer-in-Residence role will be held by core developer Łukasz Langa. C...

Update on the Python Software Foundation Executive Director

After ten years of exceptional service to the Python Software Foundation, the PSF Executive Director Ewa Jodlowska has decided to leave the Foundation at the...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: Lightning Talks, Round 2

The second day of the 2021 Python Language Summit finished with a series of lightning talks from Ronny Pfannschmidt, Pablo Galindo, Batuhan Taskaya, Luciano ...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: Fuzzing and Testing Python With Properties

At the 2021 Python Language Summit, Zac Hatfield-Dodds gave a presentation about fuzzing and testing with Python properties. This presentation tied in with t...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: What Should I Work on as a Core Dev?

At the 2021 Python Language Summit, Eric Snow gave a presentation about how core developers can receive guidance to help them work on improvements to the lan...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: What Is the stdlib?

Brett Cannon gave a presentation at the 2021 Python Language Summit about the standard library in order to start a conversation about whether it's time to wr...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: The Python Documentation Work Group

Mariatta Wijaya and Carol Willing gave a presentation about a new documentation work group at the 2021 Python Language Summit. Last year, Carol Willing and N...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: The Challenges of Packaging Python for a Linux Distro

Matthias Klose gave a talk about the challenges of packaging Python for a Linux distribution at the 2021 Python Language Summit. He wanted to discuss: - CP...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: Lightning Talks, Round 1

The first day of the 2021 Python Language Summit finished with a series of lightning talks from Petr Viktorin, Lorena Mesa, Scott Shawcroft, and Jeff Allen. ...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: HPy — Present and Future

At the 2021 Python Language Summit, Antonio Cuni gave a presentation about HPy. He also gave a presentation about HPy at the 2020 Python Language Summit, so ...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: Making CPython Faster

At the 2021 Python Language Summit, Guido van Rossum gave a presentation about plans for making CPython faster. This presentation came right after Dino Viehl...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: CPython Performance Improvements at Instagram

Dino Viehland gave a presentation at the 2021 Python Language Summit about improvements to CPython's performance at Instagram. Cinder is Instagram's internal...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: Progress on Running Multiple Python Interpreters in Parallel in the Same Process

Victor Stinner and Dong-hee Na gave a presentation at the 2021 Python Language Summit about running multiple Python interpreters in parallel in the same proc...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: PEP 654 — Exception Groups and except*

PEP 654 was authored by Irit Katriel, Yury Selivanov, and Guido van Rossum. This PEP is currently at the draft stage. At the 2021 Python Language Summit, the...

The 2021 Python Language Summit: Welcome, Introductions, Guidelines

As attendees slowly filtered into the virtual event leading up to the official start time, they were clearly happy to see each other and have the chance to g...

The 2021 Python Language Summit

Every year, a small group of core developers from Python implementations such as CPython, PyPy, Jython, and more come together to share information, discuss ...

Débora Azevedo: Finding A Sense of Belonging Through the Python Community

PyLadies Brazil co-founder, Débora Azevedo can encapsulate her feelings about the Python community in one word: Belonging. Growing up in Natal, Brazil, Débor...

Welcoming Microsoft as a Visionary Sponsor

Microsoft helps millions of Python developers achieve more by enabling Python support across products and services like Windows, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, ...

Announcing six scientific Python grants

The Scientific Python Working Group considers funding proposals that advance the scientific use of Python. In the past these have most often been workshops a...

Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q1 2021

The PSF is pleased to announced its first batch of PSF Fellows in 2021! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q1! The following people continue to do amazin...

The PSF is hiring a Python Packaging Project Manager!

Thanks to a two-year grant commitment from Bloomberg, our second 2021 Visionary Sponsor and a long term committed supporter of the Python ecosystem, The Pyth...

The PSF is hiring a Developer-in-Residence to support CPython!

The Python Software Foundation is happy to announce the creation of the Developer-in-Residence role. The Developer-in-Residence will work full-time for one y...

Happy Anniversary to Python and the Python Software Foundation!

For two decades the PSF has worked on: - diversity and inclusion efforts - establishing and enforcing a code of conduct for our community - making PyCo...

Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q4 2020

It's that time of year! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q4! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community: Batuhan Taska...

Python Developers Survey 2020 Results: Learn about the Community

We are excited to share the results of the fourth official Python Developers Survey conducted by the Python Software Foundation with the help of JetBrains. M...

Welcoming Google as a Visionary Sponsor of the PSF

Our top sponsors—companies who step forward to make the biggest investment in Python and its community—not only use Python for their own internal development...

Jesse Noller is awarded the PSF's Distinguished Service Award

On January 27, 2021 the Python Software Foundation awarded the Distinguished Service Award to Jesse Noller: RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation awa...

2020 in Review

The beginning of 2020 was paving a new way for the PSF to support its community. The PSF Board Directors strategically planned to devote funding to Python's ...