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The Python Software Foundation Board Committee for Python in Education wants to hear how the PSF can help members of our community increase the presence of Python in education. Our first goal is to gather ideas from the community on ways the PSF can fund work to improve Python in education. We want to collect a broad spectrum of ideas and projects at all levels and in all disciplines. After the ideas phase, we will use the ideas provided to guide our request for proposals. Timeline Here’s the full timeline: January 23- February 18, 2019: Request for Ideas phase February 18 - March 31, 2019: Request for Proposals phase April 1-17, 2019: Review process April 18, 2019: Notify the accepted proposals June-August of 2019: Accepted proposal work begins Scope The scope of the “request for ideas” phase is vague on purpose. We do not want to steer the ideas brought forth and want to see a wide variety of pitches. Think small. If you had $100 USD what would you do? Think BIG! If you had $10,000,0...

It's a new year and we are happy to announce our newest PSF Fellow Members! Elana Hashman  Github , Twitter , Blog Alexander Hendorf  Zachary Ware  Github Jeff Triplett Github , Twitter , Website Congratulations! Thank you for your continued contributions. We have added you to our Fellow roster online . The above members have contributed to the Python ecosystem by maintaining popular libraries/tools, organizing Python events, contributing to CPython, and overall being great mentors in our community. Each of them continues to help make Python more accessible around the world. To learn more about the new Fellow members, check out their links above. Let's continue to recognize Pythonistas all over the world for their impact on our community. Here's the criteria our Work Group uses to review nominations: For those who have served the Python community by creating and/or maintaining various engineering/design contributions, the following statement should be true: Nominated Pers...

Happy New Year from the PSF! We’d like to highlight some of our activities from 2018 and update the community on the initiatives we are working on. PyCon 2018 PyCon 2018 was held in Cleveland, Ohio, US. The conference brought together 3,389 attendees from 41 countries. We awarded $118,543 in financial aid to 143 attendees. In addition to financial aid, the conference continues to offer childcare for attendees, a newcomer orientation, a PyLadies lunch, and many more events. Registration is now open for PyCon 2019:  https://pycon.blogspot.com/2018/11/pycon-2019-registration-is-open.html  . Community Support We initiated a Python Software Foundation Meetups Pro network at the end of the year, which supports 37 meetups in 8 countries and further expansion planned. The Sponsorship model allows the PSF to invite existing groups to the Meetup Pro network. The organizers no longer pay for the meetup subscription once they become part of the PSF network. This initiative will save appr...