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We are happy to announce our 2018 2nd Quarter Python Software Foundation Fellow Members: Anthony Shaw Twitter , GitHub , Website Christian Barra Twitter , GitHub , Website Jeff Reback Twitter , GitHub Joris Van den Bossche Twitter , Github , Website Katie McLaughlin Twitter , GitHub , Website Marc Garcia Twitter , LinkedIn , GitHub Rizky Ariestiyansyah Twitter ,  GitHub Tom Augspurger Website Wes McKinney Twitter , GitHub , Website Yury Selivanov Twitter , GitHub , 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, organizing Python events, hosting Python meet ups, teaching classes, 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. If you would lik...

Dr. Russell Keith-Magee known name in the Python community having developed with Python since the late 1990s starting with Python version 1.5. Russell started his career coding with Perl but was confused with it’s design philosophy of TMTOWTDI ("There’s More Than One Way To Do It”). This ultimately led Russell to Python. With its minimal use of symbols in it’s syntax - preferring keywords instead - and mandated indentation, Python was “a breath of fresh air”. Russell recalls, “I found myself wanting to use Python for more and more as time went by”. Contrasting Perl’s TMTOWTDI philosophy to Python’s “there should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it” philosophy was a much welcomed change Russell was elated to discover Python’s broad range of use cases. As he describes, Python “is used for systems integration, to run websites, to statistical data analysis, to predict astronomical phenomena, i t's used  for educating people who are just learning to program, a...

I am happy to announce that on June 1, 2018, Ernest W. Durbin III joined the Python Software Foundation team as the Director of Infrastructure. Ernest is a long time volunteer contributor to the PSF's Infrastructure Work Group,  PyPI, and most recently PyCon US. Through his past experiences, Ernest has gained the insight needed to best guide the PSF forward. Ernest's responsibilities in the role will include: evaluating and strengthening internal systems  supporting and improving community infrastructure   outreach and mentorship for our volunteers that contribute to the PSF's infrastructure developing programs that benefit the Python community world wide Ernest is very excited to take our infrastructure to the next level and through that better support our community. The PSF Staff and Directors are thrilled to have Ernest on board. Prior to this, the role was held by Mark Mangoba as a part-time position. We thank Mark for his dedication to the PSF for the last two y...