tl;dr: nsf requested that python software foundation affirms that they “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws”.
the psf has withdrawn the proposal instead.
I deeply appreciate that PSF is keeping to their values on this. It must have been an extremely difficult decision but I think it is the right one.
As a daily python user of about 20 years, this has prompted me to to do something I should have done long ago; join PSF and see what I can do to help.
Honestly I’m not even sure it was necessarily a difficult decision. A painful one, perhaps, but I can see that, for the right kind of people, it would also be an obvious and easy one.