Re: New packaging security funding & NYU

This is awesome! Congratulations!

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:30 PM Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Good news!
>
> New York University -- specifically Professor Justin Cappos -- and I
> have successfully asked the US National Science Foundation for a grant
> to improve Python packaging security. The NSF is awarding NYU $800,000
> over two years -- from mid-2021 to mid-2023 -- to further improve the
> pip dependency resolver and to integrate The Update Framework further
> into the packaging toolchain.
>
> https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2054692&HistoricalAwards=false
>
> For what we're planning to do, what this means in the short term, an
> explanation of why NYU and the NSF are involved, and thank-yous, please
> see https://discuss.python.org/t/new-packaging-security-funding-nyu/7792 .
>
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> Sumana Harihareswara
> Changeset Consulting
> https://changeset.nyc
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