A.M. Kuchling

The main Python site at www.python.org was redesigned in 2005-2006 -- over six years ago. It's time for a redesign, to improve the organization of the site a...

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...

The following summary of the PSF's accomplishments since the last member meeting was also posted to the psf-members mailing list. Improving PSF record-keepin...

The PSF's Chair, Stephan Deibel, wrote an article for The Python Papers introducing the Foundation and discussing some recent initiatives. This article is no...

Two upcoming events provide a good opportunity to jump into Jython or Python development. First, there's a Jython sprint being held in San Francisco on Satur...

Facundo Batista posted a report on the Santa Fe Python Day, held on Saturday June 9 2007. The PSF was one of the conference sponsors. $500 were donated. Facu...

Advocacy coordinator Jeff Rush has created some new mailing lists and resources for usergroup organizers, described in his post to the Python Advocacy weblog...

Google has announced the list of accepted students in the 2007 Summer of Code and the Python Software Foundation will be mentoring 34 projects. Thank you to ...

The Python Software Foundation is again participating in Google's Summer of Code; students can apply for funding to work on projects over the summer, and be ...

Introducing a new PSF site: planet.jython.org, which collects posts by Jython users and developers. If your weblog belongs on Planet Jython, please write to ...

We ask members of the Python community to please keep the Python Software Foundation in mind in your "year end giving". The PSF is the 501(c)3 non-profit org...

The PSF holds a registered trademark on the word "Python". Every few weeks someone writes to the board and asks permission to distribute a program with the w...

Today release manager Anthony Baxter announced: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Pyt...

One of the PSF's servers hosts planet.python.org, which collects postings from a long list of weblogs and displays the most recent ones. (Not to be confused ...

Brett Cannon, chair of the infrastructure committee, has posted the committee's recommendation for a new bug tracker. The PSF thanks everyone who set up a bug...

Today release manager Anthony Baxter announced: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the FINAL release ...

The Vancouver Python Zope User Group has donated the proceeds of the 2006 Vancouver Python Workshop, amounting to CAD$5770, to the Python Software Foundation...

The Call for Proposals and Call For Tutorials for PyCon 2007 have been posted. Talk proposals must be received by October 31st, and tutorial proposals must b...

Thanks to Tim Parkin's volunteer work, the PSF now has a CafePress storefront at www.cafepress.com/pydotorg. You can order T-shirts, hats, and stickers featu...

The Need For Speed sprint in Reykjavik, Iceland, is winding down today, and Steve Holden has posted a summary of the results. The gains are impressive: - S...

A slate of Python-related projects has now been selected for Google's Summer of Code initiative. The Python Software Foundation (PSF) was allocated 25 project...

The planning committee has set the date for the next PyCon conference: PyCon 2007 will be February 23 to 25 2007, in Addison, Texas.

Students can now submit their Python-related proposals for Google's 2006 Summer of Code. Please see the Summer of Code wiki page for ideas and application in...

Now is a good time to start thinking about the location of PyCon 2008. This posting is a call for interested groups to begin considering and planning sites f...

Some of the presentations from PyCon 2006 are now available from www.python.org. Unfortunately not all of the authors have made their presentations available...

The PSF is planning to participate in Google's Summer of Code again, and is calling for help from the community. Here's how you can help: - Suggest project...

I am pleased to report that the financial outcome of PyCon 2006 was profitable. The profit was about US$19000. This money will go into the PSF's general fund...

The Python Software Foundation is pleased to announce that we now have a weblog for posting announcements, requests for help, calls for discussion, organizat...

Today the PSF is pleased to announce a redesigned version of www.python.org. The new page design was created by Tim Parkin of Pollenation Internet. It uses m...