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The Python Software Foundation has presented a Community Service Award for the fourth quarter of 2011 to Armin Rigo for his outstanding work on PyPy. The Pyt...

The Python Software Foundation has presented a Community Service Award for the fourth quarter of 2011 to Mike Müller for his outstanding work in bringing Pyt...

The 2011 Frank Willison Memorial Award for Services to the Python Community has been awarded to Georg Brandl. Georg has been a core contributor to CPython si...

The Python Software Foundation has presented a Community Service Award for the third quarter of 2011 to Nick Coghlan for outstanding core development work an...

PyCon 2012, the tenth annual Python conference, is accepting proposals for talks, tutorials, and posters through 12 Oct 2011. Please submit proposals at the ...

The Python Software Foundation has presented a Community Service Award for the third quarter of 2011 to Arc Riley for dedicated long-term support through org...

The Python Software Foundation has presented a Community Service Award for the second quarter of 2011 to Tarek Ziadé for his hard work leading the effort to ...

The Python Software Foundation has presented a Community Service Award for the second quarter of 2011 to Laura Creighton in recognition of her continuous eff...

The Python Software Foundation selected ten new nominated members during the election held in July 2011. New Nominated Members Nominated members are individu...

The Python Software Foundation is conducting an international survey of Python User Group organizers to help us better serve the large and ever-expanding Pyt...

The 2011 Summer pyGames event is now accepting registrations for student teams and volunteer coordinators. Registration will remain open until the competitor...

The Python Software Foundation is pleased to announce that 36 applications from students wishing to participate in the Google Summer of Code program have bee...

The early bird deadline for registering to attend EuroPython 2011 is midnight 12 May. The discount for registering early is €60 for standard tickets, so rese...

The Python Software Foundation is happy welcome Uniblue as a sponsor member. Uniblue is a software company with products designed to improve the speed and st...

The next official meeting for members of the Python Software Foundation will be held Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:30 CEST (local time) at EuroPython in Florence,...

The Python Software Foundation is happy to welcome Online Degree Reviews as a sponsor member. The Online Degree Reviews website allows students to review and...

The Python Software Foundation is pleased to welcome Zimbio as a new sponsor member. Zimbio is the online magazine publisher behind pop culture websites http...

The Python Software Foundation is pleased to announce the roster of new nominated members chosen during the most recent round of elections. Nominated members...

The members of the Python Software Foundation have re-elected all 13 members of the current Board of Directors to another term. - Raymond Hettinger - Ste...

The EuroPython 2011 organizers are accepting proposals for talks. They are looking for presentations on every aspect of Python, including programming from no...

Students who want to participate in the Google Summer of Code project this year should apply online now! The deadline for applications is April 8, but the lo...

The minutes for the members' meeting at PyCon on March 11, 2011 are now available online.

The Python development team has launched a new blog. > Python Insider is the official blog of the Python core development team. It will provide a way for peo...

The PSF Board of Directors has awarded a $1500 USD grant to sponsor PyCon AU. Date and Location PyCon Australia 2011 will be held in Sydney on the weekend of...

The PSF Sprints Committee has sent out a call for applications from groups who want funding to host sprints on Python-related development work. Sprints Commi...

The PSF is preparing its submission to participate in the Google Summer of Code again this year. The first step in that process is to solicit applications fr...

The site for PyCon 2014 and 2015 has not been set, yet. If you want your city to be considered, attend the Site Selection Meeting in the Dunwoody room at PyC...

The PSF Board has awarded a grant of USD $840 to the Read the Docs project for twelve months of hosting fees. Read the Docs Created by Eric Holscher, Charles...

The Python Software Foundation will hold a meeting for current and nominated members on March 11, 2011, from 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm local, in Atlanta, Georgia, ...

The PyCon Organizing Committee will have a planning meeting at PyCon 2011 to begin the process of selecting the location for the 2014 and 2015 conferences. A...

Do you belong to a local or regional Python users' group? Is your group included in the list on the Python.org wiki? Sign your group up today so new members ...

Vern Ceder's Canterbury High School students are learning to program in Python by making robots play music, find objects in the room, and perform other chall...

The 2010 Frank Willison Memorial Award for Services to the Python Community has been awarded to Christian Tismer. Christian's contributions to the technology...

This summary was written by Tim Golden. Before the main events of EuroPython 2010 a Python Language Summit took place at the Conference venue in Birmingham. ...

The PSF Board has offered a grant of $1,000 organizers of the PyCon India 2010 conference to fund the travel expenses of one foreign delegate from the U.S. o...

The PSF Board has offered a $2,000 grant to the organizers of EuroPython 2010 to fund sprints and the travel expenses of selected sepakers who could not other...

David Mertz has been appointed Chair of the PSF's Trademarks Committee for 2010-2011. The use of all trademarks is governed by specific legal requirements. T...

The PSF Board has approved the appointment of Sean Reifschneider as chair of the Infrastructure Committee for 2010-2011. Prior to this, Sean has served as a ...

The Montréal-Python user group is holding a sprint to work on the Python packaging system Monday July 5, 2010. Montréal-Python has been sprinting together si...

One purpose of this blog is to deliver news from the PSF to the Python Community. But the broader goal is to deliver information, even if it isn't new. With ...

The PyCon organizing committee has started making plans for PyCon US 2011, to be held in Atlanta, GA on March 9-17 of next year. One of the first steps is en...

If your Python user group, conference, or major project has a Twitter account, send a message to @ThePSF so we can follow you and help spread your news. Upda...

The 2010-2011 Board of Directors for the PSF has appointed officers to oversee activities of the Foundation. Returning Officers Guido van Rossum returns as P...

The Python Software Foundation now has a page for sharing news through Facebook. If you're a Facebook user, follow us at http://www.facebook.com/pythonlang f...

The PSF is organizing a second members' meeting this year, and the first ever held outside of the United States. In the past, official meetings of the member...

At their May 10 meeting, the PSF Board create a new Sprint Committee to organize a series of sprints for working on Python. Jesse Noller is the committee cha...

At their May 10 meeting, the PSF Board approved grants for two PyCon conferences. PyCon Ukraine PyCamp Kyiv, held in January 2010, attracted over 200 attende...

A key aspect of the Python Software Foundation's mission is managing the intellectual property for the Python language. This includes the source code for the...

The members of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) have elected a new Board of Directors, consisting of 13 members: - Raymond Hettinger - Steve Holden -...

At their April 12 meeting, the PSF Board approved grants for two PyCon conferences. PyCon Italia PyCon Italia Quattro is scheduled for May 7-9 in in the old ...

The Python Software Foundation is soliciting nominations for the second quarter 2010 community awards. The PSF Community Awards are a way for the PSF Board o...

October 1, the deadline for submitting PyCon talk proposals, is now just under a week away. If you're planning to present, you should submit your outline now...

We should all give Brandon Rhodes a hearty "Thanks!" for doing a great job representing Python at the Atlanta Linux Fest on September 19th. You can read Bran...

As part of ongoing preparations for GHOP, Titus Brown and the other organizers are soliciting feedback about what modules in the standard library need more d...

October 1, the deadline for submitting PyCon talk proposals, is now just under a month away. Start thinking about your outline now! See the proposal instruct...

The Google Highly Open Participation contest ('GHOP') is going to run again this year in December starting around Dec 7th. Closer to December we will start t...

The period to submit proposals for PyCon 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) is now open and will close on October 18. Tutorials are 3-hour long classes on a spec...

Submission Due date: October 1st, 2009 Want to showcase your skills as a Python Hacker? Want to have hundreds of people see your talk on the subject of your ...

The PSF is looking for information about successful uses of Python in order to create an updated list of success stories and find organizations that might be...

As part of the ongoing work to make Python conferences more widely accessible, the PSF Board has awarded grants to two regional conferences to help with thei...