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 So the Foundation has withdrawn the proposal rather than agree to terms that run counter to its own mission.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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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

The EU should be stepping in. The entire economic region is dependent on python and even introduced some supply chain security requirements, so this would help resolve those.

[–] __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am glad that PSF is not bowing to these requirements in order to get the grant.

[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

The PSF can subsist on DEI virtue signaling alone. They don't need actual funding to pay coders.

[–] Stizzah@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good decision, but the statement should end with "... and those people at USNSF can shove their requirements and their money up their asses."

[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

Burn the witch!

Remember that Monty Python skit?

Sticking with principles pushed down upon us from some Ivy tower is silly, it's not our principles. In which case, we might as well continue all the other principles that we've moved on from.

Witch burning is the same as DEI. Both promoted by priests.

Grow up and move on ... nah .. so then we are back to, Burn the witch!

[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.