irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programming@programming.dev · 7 days agoThe PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant programpyfound.blogspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1101arrow-down1external-linkThe PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant programpyfound.blogspot.comirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programming@programming.dev · 7 days agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-27 days agoReading the article is wild. They were accepted for the grant. It’s a cybersecurity grant too. Tools like npm will also benefit from it. Great! But then government attached the conditon python foundation stops quote on quote “promoting DEI activities.” And if a lawyer decides some random thing is DEI, Python foundation would possibly owe financial debt to the government Is it even a donation at this point?
minus-squarefruitycoder@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoA loan to be forgiven if every effort is made to be politically favorable to the administration. Its fucking insane.
Reading the article is wild. They were accepted for the grant. It’s a cybersecurity grant too. Tools like npm will also benefit from it. Great!
But then government attached the conditon python foundation stops quote on quote “promoting DEI activities.”
And if a lawyer decides some random thing is DEI, Python foundation would possibly owe financial debt to the government
Is it even a donation at this point?
A loan to be forgiven if every effort is made to be politically favorable to the administration. Its fucking insane.