Pyfound.blogspot.com Website Review

happy new year from the psf! we’d like to highlight some of our activities from 2018 and update the community on the initiatives we pycon 2018 was held in cleveland, ohio, us. the conference brought together 3,389 attendees from 41 countries. we awarded $118,543 in financial aid to 143 attendees. in addition to financial aid, the conference continues to offer childcare for attendees, a newcomer we initiated a python software foundation meetups pro network at the end of the year, which supports 37 meetups in 8 countries and further expansion planned. the sponsorship model allows the psf to invite existing groups to the meetup pro network. the organizers no longer pay for the meetup subscription once they become part of the psf network. this initiative will save approximately 32 hours of psf staff time and 21 hours of meetup organizer time. to help with transparency, the psf launched its first newsletter in this year we formalized our fiscal sponsorship program to better support mission related projects. the psf has signed fiscal sponsorship agreements with 8 groups including pallets (flask), phillypug, puppy, pycascades, pyhawaii, pymntos, pyarkansas, and the python san diego user group. through this effort, the psf is able to support these projects by handling their accounting and admin work so if you are interested in what the packaging group is currently working on, check out their rfp for security and accessibility the python ambas*ador program helps further the psf's mission with the help of local pythonistas.  the goal is to perform local outreach and introduce python to areas where it may not exist yet. in march 2018, the board approved expanding our python ambas*ador program to include east africa. kato joshua and the afrodjango initiative have been doing great outreach in universities in uganda, rwanda, and in a general overview, $324,000 was paid in grants last year to recipients in 51 different countries. we awarded $59,804 more in