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PSF Conflict of Interest Policy Each Director, Officer, and Key Employee is expected to sign conflict of interest policy and disclosure of financial interest annually. The documents are managed by the Executive Director and Controller. Python Software Foundation Conflict of Interest Policy for Board of Directors What is a conflicts of interest? A potential conflict of interest occurs anytime you, your friends, family, or an organization you participate in stands to gain from a decision that i...
PSF League of Awesome Having a capable and well supported server infrastructure is critical to the continued ability of the PSF to pursue its mission and to support our other community partners. Each of these companies has very gratiously helped us to run and improve our infrastructure and operations services. XS4ALL provides hosting and network connectivity for legacy.python.org. OSU OSL provides hosting for a few PSF servers and the speed.python.org benchmarking server. PagerDuty provides...
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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...
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Community Stories Packaging People who need to install Python packages get confused a lot. That's not their fault; that's because the volunteers who maintain the packaging tools don't have enough time to get everything organized so that it's clear and easy to use. In the last few years, the PSF has gotten grants and used that money to massively improve packaging. We overhauled PyPI and we're making pip more consistent, with genuine attention to user experience. With more funding, we can finall...
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