Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings
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: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped

National Science Foundation (NSF) had offered $1.5 million to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and the Python Package Index (PyPI), but the Foundation quickly became dispirited with the terms of the grant it would have to follow.

“These terms included affirming the statement that we ‘do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws,’” Crary noted. “This restriction would apply not only to the security work directly funded by the grant, but to any and all activity of the PSF as a whole.”

  • x0x7English
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    6 months ago

    The text actually required them to not violate anti-discrimination laws.

    • cley_fayeEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      What’s the size of the rock you’ve been living under in the past 10 months or so?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Which under the current administration means not annoying the great all-powerful orange one. It certainly has no relation to the actual law.