2026-05-07 Python Steering Council meeting summary

  • Regular meeting with PSF ED Deb
    • Petr will be coming to PyCon US and will mentor first time core sprinters
    • Deb wrote a nice blog post about the sprints
    • We talked about some more transitional topics now that Łukasz is no longer the DiR
    • Deb also gave the SC an update on some planned growth on the engineering side of the PSF
    • Deb and the SC talked about PyCon travel plans and other PyCon details
    • Deb, Jacob, and Marie from the PSF, and Barry and Pradyun will set up a meeting to plan Packaging Council elections
  • The SC discussed logistics for the upcoming Core Team Sprint at OpenAI
    • The SC will have to make some very difficult decisions due to the limited space available for the sprint
    • There are more requests to attend than the space can physically accommodate
    • What follows is a long discussion about criteria to arrive at a fair and diverse group of invitees
    • Those who cannot be invited will automatically be placed on a waitlist
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