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• Python Software Foundation Sponsors

  Python Software Foundation Sponsors The PSF would not be possible without the generous financial help of the following sponsors. While the PSF thanks these sponsors for their support, we don't necessarily endorse nor promote any specific activity of any of its sponsors. Interested in becoming a sponsor? Check out our sponsor application. Visionary Sponsors Googl...

• Python Core Mentorship

  Python Core Mentorship Introduction The Python Core Mentorship Program is predicated on the idea that Python core, and Python as a whole would be served by further lowering the barrier to entry of contribution to Python core (original proposal) The mission of the Python Core Mentor Program is to provide an open and welcoming place to connect students, programmers – and anyone interested in contributing to the Python core development. This project is based on the idea that the best way to welc...

• Forums

  Forums The official Python Community forums are hosted at discuss.python.org. If you're looking for additional forums or forums in your native language, please check out the local user groups page at the Python Wiki. Python Forum (English) Python-Forum.de (German) r/Python (English) r/learnpython (English)

• PSF Fellow Membership

  PSF Fellow Membership psf fellow members The deadline to nominate someone for Quarter 3 consideration is 11:59 p.m. UTC, August 20, 2025. Please send your nomination to: psf-fellow@python.org Your nomination should include: The name of the person you are nominating. Why you think they meet the Fellow criteria, i.e. how they have served the Python community. Please also include an email address for the person you are nominating. Example nomination: I, Marcia Nominator, propose that Marvi...

• Donation Drive

  Donation Drive ThePSF, Python Software Foundation, Python, PSF Support the PSF to further the development and adoption of Python .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; border:1px solid #96C0E7; width:200px; } .crm-contribute-...

• Python Software Foundation Policies

  Python Software Foundation Policies conflict of interest, whistleblower, policy Conflict of Interest Policy Whistleblower Policy Python.org Email Policy

• PSF Whistleblower Protection Policy

  PSF Whistleblower Protection Policy General The PSF requires directors, other volunteers, contractors, and employees to observe high standards of business and personal ethics in the conduct of their duties and responsibilities. Employees and representatives of the organization must practice honesty and integrity in fulfilling their responsibilities and comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Application This Whistleblower Protection Policy applies to all of the Organization’s staff...

• PSF Conflict of Interest Policy

  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...

• Python Software Foundation Staff

  Python Software Foundation Staff Deb Nicholson Executive Director Deb Nicholson joined the PSF in April 2022. She is an experienced non-profit professional and passionate open source community builder who has worked at the Open Source Initiative, Software Freedom Conservancy and the Open Invention Network. She is also a founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to the free software community. She'l...

• PSF League of Awesome

  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...

• 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.

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