EuroPython Society announces the ‘Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant’ program to honor Python core developers

EuroPython Society (EPS) announced a new grant program yesterday for ‘Python core developers’ in place for the future EuroPython conferences, named “Guido Van Rossum Core Developer Grant”. The program has been named after Guido Van Rossum, Python Chief, in recognition of his dedication towards leading the team for almost 20 years, before he stepped down from his position as the ‘Benevolent dictator for life’ (BDFL), back in July last year.

It has been designed to honor the ‘Python core developers’ who work in a small group, and work countless hours (even in free time), often coming close to burnout as not many new core developers join the team.

Under the developer grant program, all core Python developers will be awarded a free entry to the future EuroPython conferences, starting with EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, that takes place between 9th to 14th July every year. This, in turn, will help grow the team and will give them a place to meet, where they can demonstrate their work and invite new developers.

Who are ‘Python Core Developers’?

As far as eligibility is concerned, EPS states that developers falling under the term “Python Core Developer” are eligible. Python core developers are those who have been granted the commit rights to the CPython repository. Even if you give up the commit rights or go inactive, you still keep the status of a ‘Python core developer’.

EPS has also provided the links to “Github Python core group members”, Python-Dev Guide Log, and Python Dev Guide Experts Index, where you can check your eligibility for the grant program. However, in case you are not listed on one of these but have contributed to the CPython repository, you can provide links to those patches to the Society.

Also, EPS mentions that it reserves all the rights to remove the grant eligibility (despite him/her falling under the above-mentioned lists) of a developer in case he/she acts ‘without good faith’ or goes against the EPS Code of Conduct.

“We all love Python..(and) believe it is important to give something back to the main team of developers who have contributed lots of their time and energy to make Python happen: the Python Core Developers”, states EPS.

For complete information, check out the official Core Developer Grant website.

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