Releasing pip 20.3, featuring new dependency resolver
On behalf of the Python Packaging Authority and the pip team, I am pleased to announce that we have just released pip 20.3, a new version of pip. You can ins...
The Python Software Foundation re-opens its Grants Program!
The Python Software Foundation is excited to announce the re-opening of its Grants Program! The pandemic negatively affected the PSF’s finances with the canc...
Answer these surveys to improve pip's usability
The pip team has been working on improving the usability of pip since the start of this year. We've been carrying this work out remotely - by interviewing pi...
Pip team midyear report
The grant-funded team working on improvements to pip in 2020 has now passed the halfway mark. Here's an update on where are so far and what's next. Funding a...
Announcing the PSF Project Funding Working Group
For the past 3 years, the PSF has been working on grant funded projects to improve our internal systems and platforms. This work has been done with the Packa...
New pip resolver to roll out this year
The developers of pip are in the process of developing a new resolver for pip (as we announced on the PSF blog last year). We aim to roll it out later this y...
Mozilla and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support pip
The Python Software Foundation is receiving $407,000 USD to support work on pip in 2020. Thank you to Mozilla (through its Mozilla Open Source Support Awards...
CubaConf, Day 1
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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...
Grants to Assist Kivy, NLTK in Porting to Python 3
From time to time, the Python Software Foundation receives grant requests for projects wishing to receive assistance to complete some task. In the past, gran...
Summer pyGames Registration Open
The 2011 Summer pyGames event is now accepting registrations for student teams and volunteer coordinators. Registration will remain open until the competitor...
Montréal-Python Packaging Sprint
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...
PSF Sponsored Sprints
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...
More PyCon 2010 Conference Grants
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...
PyCon 2010 Conference Grants
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 ...
Regional Conference Grants
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...
Grants Update: Jython Project
In 2004, the PSF selected three grant proposals to fund. One of them, "Moving Jython Forward", was only partially completed by Brian Zimmer due to a job chan...