PyPy is on Open Collective

Hi all,

PyPy is now a member of Open Collective, a fiscal host. We have been thinking about switching to this organization for a couple of years; we like it for various reasons, like the budget transparency and the lightweight touch. We can now officially announce our membership!

With this, we are now again free to use PyPy for all financial issues, like receiving funds professionally, paying parts of sprint budgets as we like, and so on. We will shortly be reintroducing buttons that link to Open Collective from the PyPy web site.

Although the old donation buttons were removed last year, we believe that there are still a few people that send regularly money to the SFC, the not-for-profit charity we were affiliated with. If you do, please stop doing it now (and, if you like to do so, please set up an equivalent donation to PyPy on Open Collective).

And by the way, sorry for all of you who were getting mixed feelings from the previous blog post (co-written with the SFC). PyPy is committed to continue being Open Source just like before. This was never in question. What these two blog posts mean is only that we switched to a different organization for our internal finances.

We're looking forward to how this new relationship will go!

Armin Rigo, for the PyPy team

A new chapter for PyPy

PyPy winds down its membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy

Conservancy and PyPy's great work together

PyPy joined Conservancy in the second half of 2010, shortly after the release of PyPy 1.2, the first version to contain a fully functional JIT. In 2013, PyPy started supporting ARM, bringing its just-in-time speediness to many more devices and began working toward supporting NumPy to help scientists crunch their numbers faster. Together, PyPy and Conservancy ran successful fundraising drives and facilitated payment and oversight for contractors and code sprints.

Conservancy supported PyPy's impressive growth as it expanded support for different hardware platforms, greatly improved the performance of C extensions, and added support for Python 3 as the language itself evolved.

The road ahead

Conservancy provides a fiscal and organizational home for projects that find the freedoms and guardrails that come along with a charitable home advantageous for their community goals. While this framework was a great fit for the early PyPy community, times change and all good things must come to an end.

PyPy will remain a free and open source project, but the community's structure and organizational underpinnings will be changing and the PyPy community will be exploring options outside of the charitable realm for its next phase of growth ("charitable" in the legal sense -- PyPy will remain a community project).

During the last year PyPy and Conservancy have worked together to properly utilise the generous donations made by stalwart PyPy enthusiats over the years and to wrap up PyPy's remaining charitable obligations. PyPy is grateful for the Conservancy's help in shepherding the project toward its next chapter.

Thank yous

From Conservancy:

"We are happy that Conservancy was able to help PyPy bring important software for the public good during a critical time in its history. We wish the community well and look forward to seeing it develop and succeed in new ways."

— Karen Sandler, Conservancy's Executive Director

From PyPy:

"PyPy would like to thank Conservancy for their decade long support in building the community and wishes Conservancy continued success in their journey promoting, improving, developing and defending free and open source sofware."

— Simon Cross & Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick, on behalf of PyPy.

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PyPy is a multi-layer python interpreter with a built-in JIT compiler that runs Python quickly across different computing environments. Software Freedom Conservancy (Conservancy) is a charity that provides a home to over forty free and open source software projects.