What does the PSF do?
• Holds the copyright for Python and Jython
• both the code and the trademark
• Manages python.org servers (at OSU)
• www
• pypi
• bugs (Roundup tracker)
• hg.python.org (Mercurial repository)
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What does the PSF do?
• Runs PyCon US
• Employs an event coordinator
• Provides financial backing
• March 15-17 2013 in Santa Clara CA
• 2014, 2015: Montreal, Québec
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What does the PSF do?
• Supports conferences w/ monetary grants:
• PyArkansas, PyOhio, PyTexas
• SciPy
• EuroPython
• PyCon:
• India, Germany, Poland
• UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada
• South Africa, Brazil
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What does the PSF do?
• Helping fund groups:
• Local meetups
• PyLadies
• Community service awards
• 2012 Q3: Simon Cross for PyCon ZA,
Cape Town user group, Genshi maintainer.
• Kenneth Gonsalves for organizing PyCon India.
• Distinguished Service Award:
• John Hunter for matplotlib
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What does the PSF do?
• Grants:
• $5K to PyPy for STM development
• $5K to Kivy for porting to Python 3
• To readthedocs.org for hosting costs
• An upcoming redesign of www.python.org
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How can you help?
• Have your company become a PSF sponsor
member ($2K/5K/10K/20K levels)
• Become an associate member for $99
• http://www.psfmember.org
• Make a one-time donation
• http://www.python.org/psf/donations
• http://www.python.org/psf/ for more info