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Thursday, March 19, 2015

PSF Python Job Board relaunched !

Announcing: the brand new PSF Python Job Board

We are happy to announce that we have successfully relaunched the PSF Python Job Board.

After almost one year of development and lots of work by our volunteers and contractors, we are now live with the new Python job board system.

New modern system

The new system is fully integrated into the python.org website. Job submitters can create an account on the system, log in and directly submit their job posting for approval by the PSF Job Board Team.

The team can then review the postings, check them against our submission criteria, possibly fixing some formatting, and then approve or reject the postings directly through a web interface.

No more sending dozens of emails back and forth to get the job template fixed and adding jobs to the website by hand.

Thank you to our volunteers

The new system was a major effort for all of us and I'd like to say thank you from the PSF to everyone who helped make this happen (in alphabetical order):

Reviewers:

Simon Hayward
Melanie Jutras
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Giles Thomas

Developers:

Wiktor Bachnik
James Bennett
Jacob Burch
Jon Clements
Gil Gonçalves
Simon Hayward
Sarah Kuchinsky
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Berker Peksag
Benjamin Peterson
Frank Wiles

Plus everyone I forgot in this list (sorry; mail me and I'll have you added).

We'd also like to thank to Martin Thomas and Chris Withers, who each ran the Python Job Board for several years by email before the job board team was set up.

Job submitters

If you want to submit a job, please visit the how-to page which describes the process.

Submissions are free, but we'd appreciate a thank you in form of a donation to the PSF.

Job seekers

You can click through the jobs on the jobs listing or subscribe to the RSS feed we have for the listings.

Please note that we do not post CVs on the site. You will have to contact the companies directly.

Good luck with finding a new job !

Brand new bugs for free

As with every new system, there are still some bugs left. If you find something, please report it on the Github issue tracker.

More information

More information on the PSF Python Job Board and the relaunch project is available on our project page:

PSF Python Job Board

If you have questions, please write to jobs@python.org.

Enjoy,
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
Director, Python Software Foundation

Monday, January 06, 2014

Support the Python Software Foundation in 2014

Happy New Year from the Python Software Foundation! 2013 was a busy year for our global community, in almost 200 user groups, dozens of regional conferences, and countless open source projects, sprints, online fora, and outreach events.

Please help us continue to invest in and support the community in 2014 with a donation. There are 2 main ways to help:

The Python Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. For US taxpayers, contributions to the PSF are tax-deductible. Your employer may also match your donations!

What will your money support?

Group debugging at a PSF-sponsored Boston Python workshop

The PSF sponsors conferences and community events across the globe, including in 2013 alone: SciPy, PyCon Canada, PyOhio, PyCon Ireland, PyData Boston, PythonBrasil, Kiwi PyCon, PyCon Argentina, PyConDE, RuPy, PyConUK, PyDay Ecuador, PyConZA, and the first ever PyTennessee...whew!

We provide fiscal sponsorship, cover hosting costs, and sponsor workshop for user groups. We invest in the next generation of Python programmers by supporting events like Teen Tech Camp and Raspberry Pi programming in classrooms.

With support from the PSF's Outreach and Education program, Ada Camp came to San Francisco, scientists learned Software Carpentry, librarians learned Python at the ALA Annual Conference, and introductory workshops were run by user groups around the world.

The PSF Grants program enables experimental development on projects like PyPy, and the Sprints program supports development on your favorite open source Python projects. We enforce Python's trademarks, protect Python's intellectual property, keep PyPI running, and are bringing you the next version of python.org.

Help us do all this and more in 2014 and donate today.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Summer pyGames Registration Open

The 2011 Summer pyGames event is now accepting registrations for student teams and volunteer coordinators. Registration will remain open until the competition begins on 11 June at 9:00 AM US Eastern time.

Summer pyGames

The Summer pyGames project is a six-week long competition during which high school students develop open-source educational software and games to be used and distributed to schools in South Carolina. Many of last year's competing teams presented at the FIRST Championship in St Louis. The program has also been showcased at the FIRST Robotics Palmetto Regional, POSSCON and INNOVENTURE Southeast.

Competition Details

The Summer pyGames will begin on June 11th at 9am with the announcement of this year's challenge. Students will have 6 weeks to create a new video game or modify previous games submitted to the competition. Scoring, theme, and rules will be announced at the season kickoff.

Teams may be made up of 1-7 students. The competition is geared for high school age students, high school graduates for 2011 are welcome to participate. Younger students may be admitted to the competition upon request. All teams must have an adult contact who can communicate directly with the Summer pyGames coordinators.

Resources will be available on the Summer pyGames website, and additional forums and chat channels will be made available to registered teams. Volunteers will be available to assist students with questions regarding their projects.

The projects will be graded by professional programmers, graphic artists, audio professionals, teachers, and students.

Saturday, February 07, 2009

Thanks to 2008 Donors

From figures supplied by the Treasurer it appears that the PSF received donations totalling $23,807.65 in 2008. The smallest donation was one cent, and the largest was $2,052. We are grateful for them all. As a non-profit it's important for the Foundation to maintain what's known as the public support ratio, to retain our non-profit status.

I realize that times are hard right now, but if you are feeling at all expansive we really would be grateful to anyone who can make a donation, no matter what the size.

Thanks again to all contributors for your support, and thanks also to those who contributed in other ways by attending conferences, serving on committees and donating their valuable time to help organize PSF activities.