Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q1 2025! 🎉

The PSF is pleased to announce its first batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q1! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:

Aidis Stukas

Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X(Twitter)

Baptiste Mispelon

Website, Mastodon

Charlie Marsh 

X(Twitter), GitHub 

Felipe de Morais

X (Twitter), LinkedIn 

Frank Wiles

Website

Ivy Fung Oi Wei

Jon Banafato 

Website

Julia Duimovich

Leandro Enrique Colombo Viña 

X(Twitter), GitHub, LinkedIn, Instagram

Mike Pirnat

Website, Mastodon

Sage Sharp

Tereza Iofciu 

Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn

Velda Kiara

Website, LinkedIn, X(Twitter), Mastodon, Bluesky, GitHub

Thank you for your continued contributions. We have added you to our Fellows Roster.

The above members help support the Python ecosystem by being phenomenal leaders, sustaining the growth of the Python scientific community, maintaining virtual Python communities, maintaining Python libraries, creating educational material, organizing Python events and conferences, starting Python communities in local regions, 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 recognizing Pythonistas all over the world for their impact on our community. The criteria for Fellow members is available on our PSF Fellow Membership page. If you would like to nominate someone to be a PSF Fellow, please send a description of their Python accomplishments and their email address to psf-fellow at python.org. Quarter 2 nominations will be in review soon. We are accepting nominations for Quarter 2 of 2025 through May 20th, 2025.

Are you a PSF Fellow and want to help the Work Group review nominations? Contact us at psf-fellow at python.org.

Thursday, May 01, 2025

A thank you to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab

The Python Software Foundation has had infrastructure hosted with the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) since 2012. For many years our core infrastructure was hosted there, and to this day the host our x86 benchmark server for CPython that feeds speed.python.org.

We are saddened to hear that The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University has reached a funding crisis point, and want to send our heartfelt gratitude to Lance, the student employees, and teams of volunteers who have provided infrastructure to projects like us since their inception in 2004.