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.”

  • elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    19 hours ago

    the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have violated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds

    So even if they didn’t violate the anti-DEI, whoever controls the US gov could just decide to claw back money PSF already spent…

    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      13 hours ago

      Yeah, this is one of those terrible ideas even if you thought that, in theory, you were onboard with ‘anti-DEI’.

      Out of the blue the wrong person gets randomly pissed at you and invokes the highly subjective clause and suddenly you owe them $1.5M…