PSF Grants: Program & Charter Updates (TLDR)
The PSF Board and Staff have recently undertaken a review and update of our Grants Program to ensure its sustainability and alignment with the evolving needs...
PSF Grants: Program & Charter Updates (Part 3)
The PSF Board has approved a new Grants Work Group Charter, effective March 1, 2025. To implement the changes across our documentation, application form, and...
PSF Grants: Program & Charter Updates (Part 1)
The PSF Board and Staff have continued to work over the past couple of months to improve and steward the PSF Grants Program to fit the changing needs of the ...
PSF Grants: Program & Charter Updates (Part 2)
The PSF Board, with the support of PSF Staff, has outlined a set of Guiding Principles for the PSF Grants Program, as mentioned in Part 1 of this series of b...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2024! đ
The PSF is pleased to announce its third batch of PSF Fellows for 2024! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazin...
Do you know the PSF's next sponsor?
TLDR; the Python Software Foundation needs the support of companies that use and rely on Python and our sponsorship applications are open! Read on for more d...
PSF Board Retreat 2024
The PSF Board came together September 12th-15th, 2024, for our annual board retreat. This year we met in Lisbon, Portugal. We used the opportunity to work to...
Help power Python and join in the PSF year-end fundraiser & membership drive!
!Join the PSF 2024 Fundraiser & Membership Drive The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the charitable organization behind Python, dedicated to advancing, s...
PSF Grants Program Updates: Workgroup Charter, Future, & Refresh (Part 2)
Building on Part 1 of this PSF Grants Program Update, we are pleased to share updates to the Grants Workgroup (workgroup) Charter. We have outlined all the c...
PSF Grants Program Updates: Workgroup Charter, Future, & Refresh (Part 1)
Time has flown by since we received the community call last December for greater transparency and better processes around our Grants Program. PSF staff have ...
PyCon US 2025 Kicks Off: Website, CfP, and Sponsorship Now Open!
Exciting news: the PyCon US 2025 conference website, Call for Proposals, and sponsorship program are open! To learn more about the location, deadlines, and o...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2024! đ
The PSF is pleased to announce its second batch of PSF Fellows for 2024! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q2! The following people continue to do amazi...
Join the Python Developers Survey 2024: Share your experience!
This year we are conducting the eighth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. The goal is to capture the current state of the language and the e...
Python 3.13 and the Latest Trends: A Developer's Guide to 2025 - Live Stream Event
Join Tania Allard, PSF Board Member, and Ĺukasz Langa, CPython Developer-in-Residence, for âPython 3.13 and the Latest Trends: A Developerâs Guide to 2025â, ...
Service Awards given by the PSF: what are they and how they differ
Do you know someone in the Python community who inspires you and whose contributions to the Python community are outstanding? Other than saying thank you (de...
Pallets projects added to scope of PSF CVE Numbering Authority
Last year the Python Software Foundation was announced as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) to manage and assign CVE IDs for CPython and pip. Becoming a CVE Nu...
Python Developers Survey 2023 Results
We are excited to share the results of the seventh official annual Python Developers Survey. This survey is done yearly as a collaborative effort between the...
Ask questions or tell us what you think: Introducing monthly PSF Board Office Hours!
Greetings, Pythonistas- thank you so much for supporting the work of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and the Python community! The current PSF Board has...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q1 2024! đ
The PSF is pleased to announce its first batch of PSF Fellows for 2024! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q1! The following people continue to do amazin...
Security Developer-in-Residence role extended thanks to Alpha-Omega
We are excited to announce the continuation of Seth Larsonâs work in the Security Developer-in-Residence role through the end of 2024 thanks to continued sup...
Pythonâs Supportive and Welcoming Environment is Tightly Coupled to Its Progress
Python is as popular as it is today because we have gone above and beyond to make this a welcoming community. Being a friendly and supportive community is pa...
Notice of Python Software Foundation Bylaws change, effective 10 August 2024
There has been a lot of attention directed at our Bylaws over the last few weeks, and as a result of that conversation, the Board was alerted to a defect in ...
PSF Board update on improvements to the PSF Grants program
In December 2023 we received an open letter from a coalition of organizers from the pan-African Python community asking the PSF to address concerns and frust...
Announcing the 2024 PSF Board Election & Proposed Bylaw Change Results!
The 2024 election for the PSF Board and proposed Bylaws changes created an opportunity for conversations about the PSF's work to serve the global Python comm...
Announcing Our New PyPI Support Specialist!
We are thrilled to announce that our first-ever search for a dedicated PyPI Support Specialist has concluded with the hire of Maria Ashna, the newest member ...
Announcing Our New Infrastructure Engineer
We are excited to announce that Jacob Coffee has joined the Python Software Foundation staff as an Infrastructure Engineer bringing his experience as an Open...
The 2024 PSF Board Election is Open!
Itâs time to cast your vote! Voting is open starting today Tuesday, July 2nd, through Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 2:00 pm UTC. Check the Elections page to see h...
Announcing the PSF Board Candidates for 2024!
What an exciting list! Please take a look at who is running for the PSF Board this year on the PSF Board Election 2024 Nominees page. This year there are 3 s...
FAQ for Proposed Changes to PSF Bylaws
As part of the PSF Board Election, there are three proposed changes to the PSF Bylaws which will be on the upcoming ballot. We have received a significant am...
The Python Language Summit 2024: Should we make pdb better?
Tian Gao came to the Language Summit 2024 to talk about improving pdb, short for "Python debugger", a module and command line tool for debugging Python. <tab...
The Python Language Summit 2024: Python on Mobile
Malcolm Smith from BeeWare presented on the status and direction of Python on mobile platforms like iOS and Android. BeeWare has been working on bringing Pyt...
The Python Language Summit 2024: Annotations as Transformers
The final talk of the main schedule of the Python Language Summit was delivered by Jason R. Coombs on using annotations for transforms. The presentation was ...
The Python Language Summit 2024: Lightning Talks
The Python Language Summit 2024 closed off with six lightning talks which were all submitted during the Language Summit. The talks were delivered by Petr Vik...
The Python Language Summit 2024: Python's security model after the xz-utils backdoor
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The Python Language Summit 2024: Native Interface and Limited C API
Back in October 2023, PEP 731 proposed a new C API working group charged with overseeing and coordinating the development and maintenance of the Python C API...
The Python Language Summit 2024: PyREPL -- New default REPL written in Python
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The Python Language Summit 2024
The Python Language Summit occurs every year just before PyCon US begins, this year occurring on May 15th, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The summit is at...
The Python Language Summit 2024: Limiting Yield in Async Generators
Zac Hatfield-Dodds came to the Language Summit to present on a fundamental incompatibility between the popular async programming paradigm "structured concurr...
The Python Language Summit 2024: Should Python adopt Calendar Versioning?
Hugo van Kemenade, the newly announced Release Manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15, started the Language Summit with a proposal to change Python's versioning sc...
The Python Language Summit 2024: Free-threading ecosystems
Following years of excitement around the removal of the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), Python without the GIL is coming soon. Python 3.13 pre-releases already...
For your consideration: Proposed bylaws changes to improve our membership experience
EDIT MADE ON JUNE 27th, 2024: A typographical error was discovered in the GitHub link for Change 2. The link in this post reflects the actual text that will ...
Itâs time to make nominations for the PSF Board Election!
This yearâs Board Election Nomination period opens tomorrow and closes on June 25th. Who runs for the board? People who care about the Python community, who ...
Affirm your PSF Membership Voting Status
Every PSF voting-eligible Member (Supporting, Managing, Contributing, and Fellow) needs to affirm their membership to vote in this yearâs election. If you wi...
Thinking about running for the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors? Letâs talk!
PSF Board elections are a chance for the community to choose representatives to help the PSF create a vision for and build the future of the Python community...
PSF Grants Program 2022 & 2023 Transparency Report
The PSFâs Grants Program is a key plank in our charitable mission to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facili...
PSF Board Election Dates for 2024
PSF Board elections are a chance for the community to choose representatives to help the PSF create a vision for and build the future of the Python community...
The PSF's 2023 Annual Impact Report is here!
2023 was an exciting year of growth for the Python Software Foundation! Weâve captured some of the key numbers, details, and information in our latest Annual...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q4 2023! đ
The PSF is pleased to announce its fourth batch of PSF Fellows for 2023! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q4! The following people continue to do amazi...
New Open Initiative for Cybersecurity Standards
The Python Software Foundation is pleased to announce our participation in co-starting a new Open Initiative for Cybersecurity Standards collaboration with t...
DjangoCon Africa Grant Process Retrospective
The PSF received an open letter asking us, amongst other things, to look into some of our recent grant decisions and make recommendations to the PSF Board fo...
Announcing a PyPI Support Specialist
We launched the Python Package Index (PyPI) in 2003 and for most of its history a robust and dedicated volunteer community kept it running. Eventually, we pu...
White House recommends use of memory-safe languages like Python
Earlier this week the White House published a report recommending the use of memory-safe programming languages to eliminate an entire class of vulnerability...
Software Bill-of-Materials documents are now available for CPython
Our Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, has been working to improve the management of vulnerabilities for Python users. Seth has championed progress...
Introducing PSF Grants Program Office Hours
In October 2023, we acknowledged the situation surrounding DjangoCon Africa and noted our intent to make ongoing improvements to the Grants Program. We also ...
Kicking off 2024 strong, thanks to our community!
We are starting off the year feeling energized and supported, thanks to each of you who shared or donated to our year-end fundraiser and membership drive. We...
Announcing the Deputy Developer in Residence and the Supporting Developer in Residence
Weâre very happy to welcome Petr Viktorin as the Deputy Developer in Residence! Better yet, he is joined by Serhiy Storchaka as the Supporting Developer in R...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2023! đ
The PSF is pleased to announce its third batch of PSF Fellows for 2023! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazin...
EUâs Cyber Resilience Act Passes with Wins for Open Source
Back in April, we wrote to the community about our concerns for the future of the open source ecosystem generally and CPython and PyPI specifically if the Eu...