Improvements to the PSF Grants program

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) board has announcedimprovements to its grants program that have been enacted as aresponse to "concerns and frustrations" with the program:

The PSF Board takes the open letter from the pan-African delegationseriously, and we began to draft a plan to address everything in theletter. We also set up improved two-way communications so that we cancontinue the conversation with the community. The writers of the openletter have now met several times with members of the PSF board. Weare thankful for their insight and guidance on how we can worktogether and be thoroughly and consistently supportive of thepan-African Python community.

So far the PSF has set up officehours to improve communications, publisheda retrospective on the DjangoCon Africa review, and put out a transparencyreport on grants from the past two years. The PSF board has alsovoted to "use the same criteria for all grant requests, no mattertheir country of origin".