Sovereign Tech Agency and PSF Security Partnership
We are thrilled to announce that the Sovereign Tech Agency has committed to a €86,000 investment in work to be performed by the Python Software Foundation to...
PSF Code of Conduct Working Group Shares First Transparency Report
The PSF’s Code of Conduct Working Group is a group of volunteers whose purpose is to foster a diverse and inclusive Python community by enforcing the PSF Cod...
Python is for Everyone: Grab PyCharm Pro for 30% off—plus a special bonus!
So far this year’s PSF fundraising campaign has been a truly inspiring demonstration of the Python community's generosity, strength, and solidarity. We set a...
Python is for everyone: Join in the PSF year-end fundraiser & membership drive!
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the charitable organization behind Python, dedicated to advancing, supporting, and protecting the Python programming ...
Connecting the Dots: Understanding the PSF’s Current Financial Outlook
As the PSF heads into our end-of-year fundraiser, we want to share information to help “connect the dots” and show a more complete picture of the PSF’s curre...
Improving security and integrity of Python package archives
Security and integrity of the Python packaging ecosystem is critical, and the smallest unit of a packaging ecosystem is a "package". Python packages use exis...
Open Infrastructure is Not Free: PyPI, the Python Software Foundation, and Sustainability
In September, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) co-signed the Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship Letter publish...
A new PSF Board- Another year of PSF Board Office Hour sessions!
Greetings, Pythonistas- thank you so much for supporting the work of the PSF and the Python community! The newest PSF Board has decided to continue investing...
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosyst...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2025! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its third batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazin...
CPython Core Dev Sprint 2025 at Arm Cambridge: The biggest one yet
Guest blog post authored by Diego Russo, Python Core Developer and Principal Software Engineer at Arm. Sprint overview For one week, Arm’s Cambridge headquar...
Announcing PSF Community Service Award Recipients!
The PSF Community Service Awards (CSA’s) are a formal way for the PSF Board of Directors to offer recognition of work which, in its opinion, significantly im...
Announcing the 2025 PSF Board Election Results!
The 2025 election for the PSF Board created an opportunity for conversations about the PSF's work to serve the global Python community. We appreciate communi...
Sprints are the best part of a conference
When I first started attending Python conferences, my focus was entirely on the talks on the schedule. That's not surprising, there's no conference without t...
The 2025 PSF Board Election is Open!
It’s time to cast your vote! Voting for the 2025 PSF Board Election is open starting today Tuesday, September 2nd, 2:00 pm UTC, through Tuesday, September 16...
pypistats.org is now operated by the Python Software Foundation
For a little over six years pypistats.org has been maintained and operated by Christopher Flynn on a volunteer basis. After a recent extended outage made cle...
The 2024 Python Developer Survey Results are here!
We are excited to share the results of the eighth official annual Python Developers Survey. This survey is done yearly as a collaborative effort between the ...
Announcing the PSF Board Candidates for 2025!
What an exciting list! Please take a look at who is running for the PSF Board this year on the 2025 Nominees page. This year there are 4 seats open on the PS...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2025! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its second batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q2! The following people continue to do amazi...
Unmasking Phantom Dependencies with Software Bill-of-Materials as Ecosystem Neutral Metadata
The Python Software Foundation Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, published a new white paper with Alpha-Omega about the work to solve the "Phanto...
The PSF has paused our Grants Program
TL;DR: Effective August 1st, 2025, the PSF is temporarily pausing our Grants Program after reaching our 2025 grant budget cap earlier than expected. We know ...
PSF Board Election Nominations Opening July 29th
This year’s PSF Board Election nomination period opens next week on Tuesday, July 29th, 2:00 pm UTC and closes on Tuesday, August 12th, 2:00 pm UTC. Who runs...
Affirm Your PSF Membership Voting Status
Every PSF voting-eligible Member (Supporting, Contributing, and Fellow) needs to affirm their membership to vote in this year’s election. If you wish to vote...
Notice of Python Software Foundation Bylaws Change - Effective July 23, 2025
This post serves as notice that the Board of the Python Software Foundation has resolved to amend the Bylaws, effective July 23, 2025, to remove a condition ...
Thinking about running for the PSF Board? Let’s 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...
The PSF's 2024 Annual Impact Report is here!
2024 was another remarkable year of growth for the Python Software Foundation! Python became the most popular language on GitHub, and worldwide community eng...
The Python Language Summit 2025: Fearless Concurrency
Tobias Wrigstad, Matthew Parkinson, and Fridtjof Stoldt attended their first Python Language Summit to talk about some new concurrency concepts with core dev...
The Python Language Summit 2025: Challenges of the Steering Council
Eric Snow opened his presentation about the Python Steering Council with an appreciation of current and former Steering Council members and all their hard wo...
The Python Language Summit 2025: Lightning Talks
In memoriam: Michael Foord Larry Hastings led a moment of silence to remember former core developer Michael Foord, who passed away earlier this year. Michael...
The Python Language Summit 2025: Python on Mobile - Next Steps
Russell Keith-Magee and Malcolm Smith were at the Language Summit this year to announce the status of mobile support for Python: “After many years, this year...
The Python Language Summit 2025: State of Free-Threaded Python
“Does it make sense to move to the next phase of PEP 703?”, core developer Matt Page opened his presentation to the Language Summit. Free-Threaded Python has...
The Python Language Summit 2025: Packaging Governance Process (PEP 772)
PEP 772 proposes a Packaging Governance Process through a new Python Packaging Council of 5 members (similar to the Python Steering Council). The entire proj...
The Python Language Summit 2025: An Uncontentious Talk about Contention
An Uncontentious Talk about Contention Mark Shannon presented to the Language Summit a talk about contention, noting that the talk had been upgraded from a l...
The Python Language Summit 2025: Updates from the Python Docs Editorial Board
Core developer and Python Docs Editorial Board member Mariatta presented an update on the Python Docs Editorial Board to the Language Summit. Mariatta credit...
The Python Language Summit 2025
The Python Language Summit 2025 occurred on May 14th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Core developers and special guests from around the world gathered in one ro...
The Python Language Summit 2025: What do core developers want from Rust?
What do Python core developers want from future Rust support? “This talk is very timely, Rust turns 10 years old tomorrow”. David Hewitt is the maintainer of...
The Python Language Summit 2025: How can we make Breaking Changes Less Painful?
The first talk of the Python Language Summit was delivered by Itamar Oren. Itamar has plenty of experience at Meta deploying massive amounts of Python code t...
The Python Language Summit 2025: Upstreaming the Pyodide JS FFI
The final talk presented at the Language Summit was given by Hood Chatham, who maintains the Pyodide project and is trying to make fetch() happen for Python ...
2025 PSF Board Election Schedule
The PSF Board elections are a chance for the community to choose representatives to help the Python Software Foundation create a vision for and build the fut...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q1 2025! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its first batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q1! The following people continue to do amazin...
Python Software Foundation Names New Deputy Executive Director
As the Python programming language continues to grow in popularity, our work here at PSF is also growing and evolving. To support our ongoing success, the Py...
A thank you to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab
The Python Software Foundation has had infrastructure hosted with the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) since 2012. For many years our core in...
2025 PSF Board Election Schedule Change
Starting this year, the PSF Board Election will be held a couple of months later in the year than in years prior. The nomination period through the end of th...
PSF Grants Program 2024 Transparency Report
The PSF’s Grants Program is a key plank in our charitable mission to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language and to support and facilit...
PSF Distinguished Service Award Granted to Thomas Wouters
Thomas Wouters, a longtime member of the PSF Board, has been recognized with the PSF’s Distinguished Service Award. Over the last 25 years, Thomas has been a...
PSF Distinguished Service Award Granted to Van Lindberg
Van Lindberg, a longtime member of the PSF Board, has been recognized with the PSF’s Distinguished Service Award. Van was the co-chair and then Chair of PyCo...
PSF Distinguished Service Award Granted to Ewa Jodlowska
Ewa Jodlowska, former PSF Executive Director and Board Member, has been recognized with the PSF’s Distinguished Service Award. For over a decade, Ewa played ...
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q4 2024! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its fourth batch of PSF Fellows for 2024! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q4! The following people continue to do amazi...
Where is the PSF? 2025 Edition
Where to Find the PSF Online One of the main ways we reach people for news and information about the PSF and Python is on social media. There’s been a lot of...
Powering Python together in 2025, thanks to our community!
We are so very grateful for each of you who donated or became new members during our end-of-year fundraiser and membership drive. We raised $30,000 through t...