The 2025 PSF Board Election is Open!

It’s time to cast your vote! Voting for the 2025 PSF Board Election is open starting today Tuesday, September 2nd, 2:00 pm UTC, through Tuesday, September 16th, 2:00 pm UTC. 

How to Vote

If you are a voting member of the PSF who affirmed your intention to participate in this year’s election or you voted in last year’s election, you will receive an email today from “OpaVote Voting Link <noreply@opavote.com>” with a link to your ballot. The subject line will read “Python Software Foundation Board of Directors Election 2025”. If you haven’t seen your ballot by Wednesday, please first check your spam folder for a message from “noreply@opavote.com”. If you can’t find the ballot email from OpaVote please get in touch by emailing psf-elections@pyfound.org so we can look into your account and make sure we have the most up-to-date email for you.

Four seats on the board are open, but you can vote to approve as many of the 13 candidates as you like. We’re delighted by how many of you are willing to contribute to the Python community by serving on the PSF Board! Make sure you take some time to look at all the nominee statements and choose your candidates carefully. 

ATTN: Choose carefully before you press the big green vote button. Once your vote is cast, it cannot be changed.

Who can vote? 

You need to be a Contributing, Supporting, or Fellow member and have affirmed your voting intention by August 26th, 2:00 pm UTC, to vote in this election. Per last year’s Bylaw change that allows for simplifying the voter affirmation process by treating past voting activity as intent to continue voting, if you voted last year, you have been automatically added to the 2025 voter roll. Please note: If you removed or changed your email on psfmember.org, you may not automatically be added to this year's voter roll. 

Reminder that if you were formerly a Managing member, your membership has been updated to Contributing as of June 25th, 2025, per last year’s Bylaw change that merged Managing and Contributing memberships. 

If you’d like to learn more or sign up as a PSF Member, check out our membership types. You can check your membership status on your User Information page on psfmember.org (you will need to be logged in). If you have questions about your membership or the election please email psf-elections@pyfound.org

pypistats.org is now operated by the Python Software Foundation

For a little over six years pypistats.org has been maintained and operated by Christopher Flynn on a volunteer basis. After a recent extended outage made clear the importance of this service to the Python community, and in coordination with Christopher, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) has adopted the project into our GitHub organization and migrated the service to run from our infrastructure.

So what has changed? As far as the day-to-day operations of the service goes the PSF Infrastructure Team will now make sure that pypistats.org’s backing infrastructure, costs, and domain registration are all maintained. Otherwise, there is no material change to the service. The project remains open source and community maintained. We are appreciative that Christopher has stated his intention to stay on as maintainer of the project and we welcome the community to get involved.

We're also grateful to Christopher for his long-term volunteer contribution maintaining this service! As an organization, we are excited to have the opportunity to support pypistats.org and ensure it remains available to the community. Stories like this –under-resourced, but highly depended upon services– are not a new story for the open source community, and we are glad that this story had a positive outcome.

The PSF’s Infrastructure Team is excited to be in a place to adopt services like these into our burgeoning community infrastructure along with services like the PyLadiesCon Portal and memory.python.org. This new community infrastructure, supported by AWS Open Source via their credits program, is backed by the same tooling that delivers pypi.org, python.org, and us.pycon.org along with many other PSF hosted services. We look forward to sharing more in the coming months– not only what we're up to but also how you can get involved!