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  • Grants - Frequently Asked Questions

    Grants - Frequently Asked Questions python, grants, psf Considering submitting a grant request to the PSF? Please read this FAQ first. Q. Will the PSF fund swag? A. The PSF does not fund swag production or disbursement. Q. Is there anything I need to know about fund disbursements? A. The PSF offers various payment methods. If your grant request is approved, specific information will be requested in the email notification. Please see our Payment Options page (https://www.python.org/psf/paymento...

  • Sign up as member

    Sign up as member Membership Read about becoming a member of the PSF on our membership page or learn even more about our types of membership on our membership FAQ page.

  • Grant Types

    Grant Types Sprints These types of dev events are usually 1-4 days long and the goal is to complete a set of objectives for a project. Sprints are usually on the small side and tend to be less than 20 people. Sprints that happen at conferences can have larger turnout though (like [PyCon Sprints](https://us.pycon.org/2017/community/sprints/) for example). [OpenHatch created a helpful in-person event handbook](http://opensource-events.com/) that can help you run a productive dev sprint. User ...

  • Donation Drive

    Donation Drive ThePSF, Python Software Foundation, Python, PSF Invest in our Foundation and better the Python community! Thanks to everyone who helped us exceed our goal of $20,000.00 USD by May 12th! .crm-contribute-widget { font-size:12px; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans; padding:6px; -moz-border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px; -khtml-border-radius: 4px; border-radius: 4px; bor...

  • Community Survey

    Community Survey This survey has concluded. The PSF is committed to ethical principles, transparency, and accountability. One of our goals is to regularly and openly provide our community with information about our mission, activities, finances, accomplishments, and decision-making processes. We want to be open about how we can improve transparency, provide the community with opportunities to interact with us, and be responsive to raised suggestions. To help us do this, we've created a short s...

  • python.org email policy

    python.org email policy Use of @python.org email addresses represents the Python Software Foundation. The PSF maintains an email policy to help users understand the expectations for usage of their @python.org address. @python.org emails can be assigned to the following: Python Software Foundation staff Python Software Foundation board members and officers Python core developers Python community mailing lists and fiscal sponsorees Significant contributors to Python infrastructure a...

  • Pesquisa de Satisfação da Comunidade da PSF

    Pesquisa de Satisfação da Comunidade da PSF This survey has concluded.

  • Encuesta comunitaria de la PSF

    Encuesta comunitaria de la PSF This survey has concluded.

  • PSF Community Survey - Chinese (Traditional)

    PSF Community Survey - Chinese (Traditional) This survey has concluded.

  • PSF Community Survey - Chinese (Simplified)

    PSF Community Survey - Chinese (Simplified) This survey has concluded.

  • Recurring Giving Campaign

    Recurring Giving Campaign Help us raise $30,000 USD by November 27th! #countdown-wrap { width: 70%; padding: 10px; font-family: arial; max-width: 650px; margin: 10px auto 50px; } #goal { font-size: 36px; text-align: center; color: #888; @media only screen and (max-width : 640px) { text-align: center; } } #glass { width: 100%; height: 20px; background: #c7c7c7; border-radius: 10px; float: left; overflow: hidden; } #progress { float: left; width: 0...

  • PSF Newsletter Signup

    PSF Newsletter Signup Sign up for our approximately quarterly newsletter to receive important community news. You can view past issues here. Follow @ThePSF on Mastodon or X (Twitter) for the latest information. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own Mailchimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML...

  • Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation

    Archive 2018: Executive Summary: The Python Software Foundation Written by Stephan Deibel, Chairman of the Board, Python Software Foundation. A version of this article was originally published in The Python Papers volume 2, issue 4. Last updated March 2008 Introduction “The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers.” The Python Soft...

  • Building the PSF: the Q2 2019 Fundraiser

    Building the PSF: the Q2 2019 Fundraiser Help us raise $60,000 USD by June 30th! #countdown-wrap { width: 70%; padding: 10px; font-family: arial; max-width: 650px; margin: 10px auto 50px; } #goal { font-size: 36px; text-align: center; color: #888; @media only screen and (max-width : 640px) { text-align: center; } } #glass { width: 100%; height: 20px; background: #c7c7c7; border-radius: 10px; float: left; overflow: hidden; } #progress { float: left;...

  • 2018 PSF Annual Report

    2018 PSF Annual Report #wrapper { overflow: hidden; position: relative; } .resize-active * { -webkit-transition: none; transition: none; } h1, .h1 { line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 27px; } h2, .h2 { color: #3776ab; line-height: 26px; display: block; } p, blockquote, time, em { line-height: 28px; } time { font-style: italic; } p { margin-bottom: 24px; text-align: justify; } a { -webkit-transition: color .3s ease-in-out; transiti...

  • Help Fund Python Development and Maintenance

    Help Fund Python Development and Maintenance Donate to Python Development and Maintenance The Python Software Foundation's goal is to increase the support we provide for Python development and maintenance. Through the donation button above, you can financially contribute to this cause. The PSF will use Python development fundraising to support CPython development and maintenance. Additionally, the funds will be used for mission-related sprints, such as the annual core dev...

  • Python Software Foundation GitHub Organization

    Python Software Foundation GitHub Organization Purpose The Python Software Foundation exists to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, to fulfill that mission we have created a GitHub organization, @psf, to support and protect projects that have outgrown ownership by their original author. What is offered Repositories may be transferred to the @psf organization under the following criteria: The repository is relevant to the Python ecosystem at large and has broad inter...

  • 👋 Hey Community Members!

    👋 Hey Community Members! More than 20 ways to get involved & stay informed! Watch any of these talks given about the PSF (most recent one is about PyPI presented by Ee, our Director of Infrastructure!) Want to financially support the PSF? Donate! Read our blog Sign up to receive our quarterly newsletter Follow us on Twitter or Mastodon Become a Basic member If you are already a Basic member, consider becoming a Contributing, Managing, and/or Supporting member. If you want to be a PSF Boar...

  • Fiscal Sponsorees

    Fiscal Sponsorees At this time, the Python Software Foundation is not accepting new fiscal sponsoree requests. The Python Software Foundation promotes, protects, and advances the Python programming language and supports and facilitates the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. Part of that mission includes acting as a fiscal sponsor to mission-related Python events, groups, and projects. The PSF provides 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to fiscal sponsorees and man...

  • Sunsetting Python 2

    Sunsetting Python 2 sunset python2 eol endoflife sunsetting We are volunteers who make and take care of the Python programming language. We have decided that January 1, 2020, was the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. Why are you doing this? We needed to sunset Python 2 so we can help Python users by improving Python faster. We released Pyth...

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