One Year In: Insights and Inspiration from my PSF Journey
summary
One-year account of working at the PSF gives concrete details: a staff of ~12–13 managing a ~$5M budget, $3 million in grants distributed historically and $697,000 in 2023 to 52 countries, Fastly serving 9 petabytes and 134 billion requests in March, and a home‑grown GitOps setup plus a PaaS called cabotage deploys itself that now hosts PyLadies. It mentions outages including briefly breaking python.org and describes on‑call, build bots, PyPI scale, and volunteer triage pathways.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45What the PSF is
- 3:33PyCon US and fiscal sponsorship
- 5:19Staff roles and volunteers
- 7:28Infrastructure scale and partnerships
- 9:15Automation and Cabotage
- 10:39Onboarding and outage challenges
- 12:03Daily operations and board insights
- 13:48GitHub Universe experience
- 14:50Joining CPython triage
- 15:53PyCon US and EuroPython plans
- 16:14Key lessons learned
- 17:19Volunteer invitation
- 18:21Work groups and opportunities
- 20:45Regional conferences growth
- 22:11Advancing PSF mission
- 22:52PyCon US future plans
- 23:37Closing and Q&A
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