Congratulations to Barry Warsaw, Community Service Award Recipient
On Friday, November 15, the board of the Foundation voted for Barry Warsaw to receive a Community Service Award for Q3 2013. Barry's involvement in the Pytho...
Cloud, HPC And Open Technologies Converge To Fuel Research, Innovation
When you put leaders of industry, research, and academia in a room for a day, what do you get? If you were at Argonne National Laboratory last month for the ...
Python Surpasses Standards, Reaches New Levels of Quality
Throughout Python's 20-plus year history, its quality has been in the hands of the volunteers around the world openly contributing to it. Thanks to Coverity,...
Congratulations to Jessica McKellar, O'Reilly Open Source Award Recipient
The Python Software Foundation congratulates Jessica McKellar for winning a 2013 O'Reilly Open Source Award for her contributions to the Python community. Th...
Sponsoring Teen Tech Camp in Durham, NC
The Python Software Foundation is happy to support an upcoming event in the Durham, NC area: Teen Tech Camp 2013! At the end of May, the board voted in favor...
Announcing a Code of Conduct for use by the Python community
On 19 April, 2013, members of the Python Software Foundation voted to approve a Code of Conduct for use by the Python community. That code is now available o...
Welcome Newly Elected Members
The Foundation recently held elections after PyCon 2013, and the results are in! All members of the PSF are nominated by an existing member for their work in...
Congratulations to Fernando Perez, Recipient of FSF’s Advancement of Free Software Award
On Saturday March 23, Dr. Fernando Perez was presented the Free Software Foundation’s annual Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his work on IPyth...
Farewell Malcolm
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While we celebrated the Python community last week at PyCon, we quietly lost one of our own. Malcolm Tredinnick, core Django developer and longtime member of...
Python Software Foundation Reaches Settlement, Ends Trademark Dispute
via Marketwire The Python Software Foundation has reached a settlement in its recent trademark dispute with PO Box Hosting Limited trading as Veber in Euro...
Get ready for Google Summer of Code
Python project contributors and student enthusiasts, mark your calendars: Google Summer of Code applications open soon! Google Summer of Code is an annual, g...
Introducing Electronic Contributor Agreements
We're happy to announce the new way to file a contributor agreement: on the web at http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/. Through the use of Adobe'...
An Update on Our Trademark Issue
A few days ago, we reached out for help to gather evidence about the use of “Python” in Europe. We received an overwhelming response from the community, with...
Asking for civility during our trademark dispute
When we first announced our trademark issues yesterday, we immediately and continually received a great outpouring of support from our community. The number ...
Python trademark at risk in Europe: We need your help!
For a French translation of this post, click here. For anyone who works in a company that has an office in a EU Community member state, we need your hel...
"Software Wars" the movie - featuring Python!
As the Software Wars indiegogo campaign comes to a close in the last 40 hours, did you know Python plays a role in the movie? Creator Keith Curtis wrote to u...
wiki.python.org Compromised
On December 28th, an unknown attacker used a previously unknown remote code exploit on http://wiki.python.org/. The attacker was able to get shell access as ...
A Look Back at the PSF in 2012
2012 year was a good year for Python, and it was especially good for the Python Software Foundation. Here’s a look back at some of the highlights of the foun...