Hey friends:

We’re settling into fall and getting ready for the Holiday Season. Here are some amazing things going on in BPD!

Welcome Temporal as our latest corporate sponsor

Temporal has agreed to support Black Python Devs. Temporal is the durable runtime platform that ensures your applications can survive crashes, rate limits, and more,

We’re encouraged by several Temporal employees across org levels sharing their support. These partnerships happen only when there are champions internally to encourage it.

This partnership is encouraging as we plan to do more than ever to host first party events and partner with amazing organizations around the world.

Corporate sponsors get promotion at our first party events, the ability to present in the BPD Discord, direct access to our leadership council, and more. Learn more at https://blackpythondevs.org/corporate-sponsorships/

Join us in Austin for another Python Community Leadership Summit

We plan to invest in more first-party events, alongside our partners and friends. Our next Python Community Leadership Summit will be 16 April 2027 at PyTexas.

The Python Community Leadership Summit is for Python open-source maintainers, community event leaders, authors, teachers, instructors, podcasters, and leaders in the community. It's also welcome to anyone wanting to grow in community leadership.

Our CFP is now open! All selected speakers receive up to $500 in reimbursement for their travel as well as a free ticket on us to PyTexas. General Admission is free with the purchase of a PyTexas ticket.

The plan long-term is to engage local leadership and get them more involved in local events. We're already thinking about how we can be more involved in projects like Black Tech Week, Blacks in Tech Conference, and many other events and organizations to build stronger relationships between them and the Python Community.

We got a new website!

So if you have been to our website lately, you may have seen some new links to Become a Member or Login.

This is a part of our new website running on Django! The plan is to have better reporting for our sponsors and community partners, and bring more value to our members and allies. We are currently working on some things like a job board that integrates with our corporate sponsors as well as a notification center that can send you REGIONALIZED UPDATES on events, promotions, and more.

This move also gives us more flexibility in our processes and reduces much of our infrastructure costs. We recently ran our Executor Elections using our system!

I (Jay) will be sharing some of these changes at The Cost of Good Enough, hosted by Refactr.Tech in Atlanta.

You can create your account today - https://blackpythondevs.org. More things that we’re doing will require a BPD account.

That's it for this one. As always we appreciate your support.