CubaConf, Day 1
This is the second in a series of posts on my trip in April to Havana, Cuba to attend CubaConf, an International Conference on Free Software. Day one of Cuba...
This is the second in a series of posts on my trip in April to Havana, Cuba to attend CubaConf, an International Conference on Free Software. Day one of Cuba...
"We wouldn't have Python on the micro:bit if he hadn't made it work, to put it simply," Nicholas Tollervey says. He's talking about Damien George, the physic...
Today, March 22nd, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begin to deliver 1 million small programmable devices to the UK's 11 and 12 year old children. ...
Today I’d like to report on some of the progress that has been made as a result of last years' controversy over an April 1st joke post about a (fictional) Py...
At the latest PSF Board of Directors' meeting, it was decided that a 4th quarter Community Service Award will go to Terri Oda for her work as the Python Coor...
As we all know, one of the PSF’s main purposes is to educate and advocate for the use of Python. What makes us so successful in this area is the enthusiasm w...
One of the greatest joys of being part of the PSF is to hear the success stories our members. Back in July, the PSF sponsored a small Django Girls workshop i...
As you may recall, there have been a couple of previous posts to this blog about the BBC’s micro:bit project (also see PSF newsblog). The micro:bit is a small...
July 7, 2015 BBC Microbit Last March, I wrote about a terrific educational project taking place in the UK, with which the PSF is proud to be involved (see PS...
The PSF is happy to report that the third annual PyCon Singapore took place June 17 to 19, 2015. This event, organized by the Python User Group Singapore, is...
As many of you know, the use of Python in education has grown tremendously in the past several years (see PSF Newsblog). The Python community celebrates this...
As you may recall, I previously posted about a wonderful project in South America that has been funded in part by the PSF. That first blog post described the...
Last week at PyCon, I had the pleasure of talking with Katie Cunningham at a dinner party hosted by O'Reilly. Katie is well-known in the Python community. Th...