The Python Software Foundation, earlier this year, successfully obtained a $1.5 million grant from the US National Science Foundation "to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI". The actual grant came with some strings attached though, in the form of a requirement not to pursue diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. So the Foundation has withdrawn the proposal rather than agree to terms that run counter to its own mission.

We're disappointed to have been put in the position where we had to make this decision, because we believe our proposed project would offer invaluable advances to the Python and greater open source community, protecting millions of PyPI users from attempted supply-chain attacks. The proposed project would create new tools for automated proactive review of all packages uploaded to PyPI, rather than the current process of reactive-only review.

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[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If have two brain cells to rub together, would just hold the funds for two years. Then that clause would expire.

Duh! So this clause isn't the show stopper it's being made out to be.

It's about their DEI religion and virtue signaling at our eyes balls expense. In which case, their employees will go back to the husbands and have to tell them they won't be able to afford to attend the demolitions celebrations for nuclear and oil burning power plants.

[–] __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I missed something in the original article, but where are you getting the info that these extra requirements would expire if the PSF held the money for two years?

[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The PSF is a relatively small organization, operating with an annual budget of around $5 million per year, with a staff of just 14. $1.5 million over two years would have been quite a lot of money for us, and easily the largest grant we’d ever received.

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Also thank you mod for censoring all my comments. You must prefer an echo chamber where open debate is stifled. This is also how the PSF operates. If a position cannot stand up to scrutiny, the go to tactic is to censor all opposing voices.

So the comments deleting mod has proven my point beyond any reasonable doubt.

Blockchain solves this!

Group think is a disease. The US gov't is in the right to defund the disease of DEI. And the PSF laughably is cooperating rather than adapting.

i oppose the group think that produced those articles proudly virtue signaling their failure and reframing it as a moral victory.