Financial Aid applications for EuroPython 2026 are open! 💚

If you want to join us in Kraków, but money is in the way, let us know. We might be able to cover your ticket, and perhaps help with your travel and accommodation too.

We really want to make sure that everyone has a chance to be with us in July, so please don’t hesitate to pop your application in. ✉️

The first round of applications closes on Thursday, 9th April.

Full details and eligibility: https://ep2026.europython.eu/finaid/

Calling all creative, artsy, and all-around wonderful Python folks! 🐍✨

We’re inviting you to donate an item to the PyLadies Charity Auction at #PyConUS 2026. It’s a great way to support PyLadies, share your creativity, and show the community what you’ve got.

Have something fun or unique to contribute? Donate today and help make the auction amazing! #python #PyLadies

👉 https://pycon.blogspot.com/2026/03/support-pyladies-donate-to-pyladies.html

Is anyone interested in helping to bring the #Drupal credits system to the broader open source community?

https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/marketplace/contribution-credit-weight-and-impact-on-ranking

The idea of the credits system is to give credit to individuals/organizations for their code and non-code contributions to Drupal. Their system is, however, open source and reasonably extensible (f.e. to plug in other code and issue solutions).

The end goal is to create transparency to help steer customers towards organizations doing meaningful work with upstream.

reading docs is helpful -- during today's short look at #Python docs, I discovered that as of 3.14 functools.partial() may take placeholders: this makes it possible to pre-fill any positional argument with a call to partial(); without Placeholder, only the chosen number of leading positional arguments can be pre-filled.

#Python #TIL

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.Placeholder

Following on from yesterday's blog post about the new design for profiles coming in Mastodon 4.6... here is the video of @imanijoy recent talk at @fossdesign where they discuss the challenges and detailed thought that goes into the design of new features (and the redesign of existing ones). 🖌️

#FOSSBack #Mastodon #OpenSourceDesign #UX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxpTvbTy54

This is peak malicious compliance and I love it

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/

Edit : the blog author is on the fediverse if you want to follow him here, and he maintains a follow page on his site with many options!

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/116295954823604410

In which I tell people that they should come hang out with us, and you know, stay for the community.

Wow, thanks @hugovk for making my "import datetime as dt" recommendation official in the Python docs, with a link to my blog!

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d3b6faf9758dce236d45c708a450437cdc3e97cd#diff-591e6aa401ebcd90f71f28b517b3d4437ba293920787df9ed06e037af0b07175

#Python